i didn't understand this album at first. then got absurdly high on mushrooms and decided to give it a go. that was when i really connected with it, although it still seemed that the album understood me better than i understood it.

the best tracks are the ones that come progressively more unglued as they go on. the sounds fall out of character, the samples get mangled, and yet it never once becomes obscure or chaotic--it's very deliberate and stylized, it obeys certain rules and follows a certain progression...

i think as an album it is highly conscious of the listener. when we listen, we deconstruct, we unpack, we focus in on the so called "separable" parts of a song and follow their development. autechre respond to this by inserting this very act within the songs themselves. and they do it better than anyone else.

it's process music; excruciatingly formal and just barely aesthetic enough to be listenable. i like what it does and says more than how it sounds. that said, some of the sounds are just brilliant. nothing wrong with it, in my books.  

you don't get it because you suck.



Wait, what was the question again?  

also, I think my hearing range is too big to enjoy Ae. I can't stand those high pitched noises. hurt my teeth.

And yes, it's all processing. which I can't stand. I think that most of the people at this site have that exact problem. Just cause you did this and that. doesn't mean it sounds good.

edited: 15 Dec 2004   

"All judgments are final."


sorry sorry my last words.

THIS SHIT IS DATED  

what don't you feel like you connect more with when your on hallucinogenics?

music shouldn't need intoxication to be appreciated.

edited: 15 Dec 2004   

frank zappa once said that the future of music wasn't in melody, harmony & rhythm, it was in timbre. in that sense, draft 7:30 may just be the fulfillment of his prophesy.

music, in general, is magical because it allows the listener to take a short leave from the mundane, a brief mental vacation. while most musicians transport you to a neighbourhood just slightly different from the one you currently live in, autechre drop you in the middle of nowhere on uranus (pun intended) and leave it up to you to figure out how to get back home.

whether or not the album is good or bad, the world needs stuff like this going on at the fringes. elements of the music will likely eventually filter down into a consumer-friendly form as more & more people start getting it (many prominent hip-hop producers love them, from what i hear). some say evolve or parish. i've even heard that change is good.

btw, there's something seriously funky about tunes like 61e.CR & Theme of Sudden Roundabout, but it's the kind of funk that has no parallels in the funk world, so there you go.

are my 300 words up yet?  

I think the Residents fulfilled that prophecy. And much better I might add. All of AE's timbre's are the same.

damn, I said I'd shut up.

Bach is Dead  

yup; i appreciate autechre when sober too. i can't think of any music that can only be appreciated while intoxicated, with the obvious exception of Phish  

I have only one autechre album and that is Chiastic Slide. I actually was listening to it today. I could never listen to it, but recently, it’s sort of just... clicked. And as I sit here listening to the clips of this album on the warp site, having to push play every 30 seconds to restart the song, I really haven’t heard anything unlistenable. But instead, intriguing. It’s like a painting, the sounds and texture sound so tangible and real it really entrances me. The rhythms are always slightly changing and spaced out. They sort of tell a story. Yes, it is totally wanky, but it's also kind of beautiful. It just... makes sense. I think I want this album now because I find it so interesting. Its certainly not music to play at a party, or hear on TV. I would just love to lay around listening to this and just think about things. Or throw it on when im doing my homework. What i've heard so far doesn’t have such a "classic" structure, but it really isn’t aimless. Its more listenable then Chiastic Slide, and I think its great. I really liked what room said too. Awesome. Just the combination of sounds and the sounds they create. I also wonder if people who don’t make music could appreciate what they are doing. Listen to V-PROC. That is just a badass track!  

hahahaha. none of you all understand the real emotion of ae! see what i mean: listen to the clips on amg:

link  

sorry. that was me.  

wtf are you kidding me? i'm calling you on that even though i think you're just trying to get me riled up.  

i dunno. I bought it and haven't really ever listened to it much. And for some reason the last track wouldn't import off the CD into mp3. Sorry, can't defend it.  

man, am i the only person that liked confield and draft 7.30 the first time i heard them?

okay, draft 7.30. sonicly, texturally, it is very interesting. for the most part i think that the rhythms are fairly straight forward, there are just lots of incidental drum hits that make it more complex. plus i always like miami bass music more in theory than in practice and i like what autechre have done with it. the only thing that disapointed me with draft 7.30 was it felt like a step back from the progression from confield to gantz_graf. i would have really like if they took gantz_graf a step further.

but whatever. i really like math.  

Bach is Dead