yeah quite beautiful
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they pack lite! nice
Getting into them for the first time- just listened to Amber, moving onto Incunabula then Tri Repetae. Absolutely loving it so far! I canāt believe how good it sounds, I like it better than 90% of the electronic music I hear these days.
Iām relatively new to this kind of music in general, maybe 5 years in. Itās fascinating getting to listen to this stuff for the first time in 2022, really enjoying it!
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Strap in for the later stuff!
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Lucky bugger.
Hearing Confield for the first time was one of the best days of my life. Iād love to do it again.
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im jealousā¦id love to start over again. It was so much fun finding them back in the day. I was on the hunt for 808state UTD 90ā¦and stumbled on Incunubula. my listening trajectory took a whole new path.
have fun edit āpersonā ! Ae are something else. [dont forget to do the Gescom stuff in tandem, date wise]
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LP5 was my first. Heard it playing in a record store. Then Confield. Have been addicted ever since.
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early 2001, had a great hash spliff outside college and went upto the computer room onto warp.net, a mad flash Confield graphic with exclusive web version of VI Scose Poise came through my headphones. mind was totally transported, has really stuck with me that moment and would love to hear that version of the track again. (but think itās lost foreverā¦?)
warp interview from that time: autechre qa 2001 - Pastebin.com
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This is oddly similar to my own experience.
I wish theyād put more space between the lines. I could still read several sentences before having to scroll.
Made a point of listening to this on the ride home from work yesterday. The first track (VI Scose Poise) blew my mind. It sounded like a mosquito composing music, it was sublime.
From my limited exposure to them, this is the most āchallengingā and ādifficultā track Iāve heard yet, and I loved it.
Again, blown away that itās 2001 and sounds better and more unique than so much other music I hear today. Canāt wait to listen to more.
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I once played Bine off of Confield at a house party when I was at University. It was great because it let me know in an instant who the interesting people to talk to were.
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Welp I know what Iām listening to next!
If I was in your luxurious position, I would take them all in order, including the EPs (which are some of their tightest, most enjoyable work imo). You wonāt get a second chance at this, ever!
Just note that each one takes a lot of listens to hear all the nuances. Hell, Iām still finding new sounds in stuff Iāve heard 100s of times.
And I donāt know if others do this, but I often listen to a track and focus on one thing (like a hi-hat) and try to follow its changes throughout a track. They are fucking masters of modulation.
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Yup. Takes me many, many listens to penetrate their albums, too. Thatās one of the things I love about their work. Have only just made a dent in Sign. NTS Sessions is a long ways off yet.
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I havenāt touched anything (or barely anything) of the four-hour-long stuff. Right now and for the last year or so, Sign is the business for me. Iām content to hang there until I fancy something different.
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The closest comparable thing Iāve found in terms of a listening experience is Miles Davis. Around that Bitches Brew period and forwards.
If Iām not alone in this - which would be fair as theyāre not sonically similar - these 4 x 1970 shows where he opened for the Dead are my current go-to when I take a pause from Autechre: 4.9 ā 4.12.1970 Fillmore West ā the Heat Warps
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70s Miles, free jazz or Autechre make up pretty much 80% of my workout soundtrack. There are a lot of parallels to make, though Ive seen Ae shrug-off the comparison. The more intense the better because if I stop to think about how much I loathe working out, Iāll quit then and there.
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Maybe thatās my remedy for working out. I pretty much hate it. Only biking I can stand.
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@iamconsume @xidnpnlss ae, miles and freejazz share things thatās for sure
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found this, apparently it was called: VI CODE SPOILSE
https://web.archive.org/web/20010301195857/http://www.warprecords.com/
think it threw me that i forgot it was warprecords.com back then
can anyone with internet archaeology skills (and flash use) access this anywhere?
doing my own archaeology resulted in this, still after that really low quality mp3 tho, that will probably end up being really underwhelming. if anyone gets in on the next AMA ask for HQ versions of the promo vid and VI Code Spoilse please.
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