AE_2022－

London B was great, but not as multi-layered as the other sets so far* (i'm listening in order). it made for a more immediate experience, and the voices being sampled/scratched almost always goes a long way at making elusive and complex electronic music seem more human/connectable, in general...one of the later bits with voice samples struck me for a split second as familiar. def was a good to have a bit of a sidestep amongst the others...but that said, these have been surprisingly different so far. the 14/15 sets follow pretty regular paths for the 1st half or so and often in the 2nd half for bits and more. these (other than London B) have a lot in common of course, but feel a lot more...live. alive? expressive? amorphous? surprising? strong stuff. i liked a lot of the onesix sets but they were difficult to fall into, from a home listening perspective. 

makes me super curious on which version they'll elaborate this year... if any rly: didn't sean say they're stitting on 6 hours worth of live set stuff or something?

also is it just me or is his visualizer tune sprinkled in these here n there? i mean this one:

been really busy at work with the school year starting up and haven't had time to dig into these too deep yet but I had a really wonderful experience listening to London B. Helsinki never fully clicked with me but I'm excited to dip into the rest asap. I always take it slow with the live sets, I can't handle binging them.

The thing I've found challenging but also really exciting about these ones is just how flexible they are. Even more than the onesix sets which were really fluid, these just feel like they're bending and twisting and defying expectation all over the place. Hitting a sick groove then just stopping. Beat just disappears. Comes back. Disappears again? Incredible drills! But the tempo is drifting or something? And some weird pads glide in contrasting with the tuned percussion and the key seems like it's changed but maybe that's another layer I hadn't noticed before coming to the fore and revealing a microtonal depth that had been lurking beneath the surface all along? Wild shit, absolutely never sitting still.

MILAN : 

ATHENS : 

HELSINKI : 

LONDON A :

LONDON B :

BERGEN :

TURIN :

  On 8/17/2023 at 1:26 AM, jaderpansen said:

makes me super curious on which version they'll elaborate this year... if any rly: didn't sean say they're stitting on 6 hours worth of live set stuff or something?

also is it just me or is his visualizer tune sprinkled in these here n there? i mean this one:

 

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oh, thank god for the "visualizer" tune. how many times I've let it just play endlessly, particularly when I'm not in the mood to listen to "music"

Now that I think about it I haven't listened to ae in forever. My music tastes have been more conventional as of late I guess. Time to pick up these sets!

  On 8/17/2023 at 10:45 AM, thumbass said:

Now that I think about it I haven't listened to ae in forever. My music tastes have been more conventional as of late I guess. Time to pick up these sets!

London B 00:21:00 be like….

Dilankex, Acdwn2, l3ctrl, London B 00:21:00 - iterative, slowly mutating, and full of fudge

edit: Rob shit, basically 

  On 8/17/2023 at 7:45 AM, digit said:

 

MILAN : 

 

ATHENS : 

 

HELSINKI : 

 

LONDON A :

 

LONDON B :

 

BERGEN :

 

TURIN :

 

 

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holy fucking lol

how do i stop the chickens from pecking one another?

I’m old now and not sure if I can trust my critical faculties any more.  Is ae live relevant? Being unsure, I bribed a gen z person, who called themself Kayden-Ligma, and made them listen to Athens in a small room. I watched them from a corner, not breaking eye contact the whole time to ensure that they were not distracted by the TikTok.  At the end they just said “yeah bro it’s bussin.”

I don’t know how to interpret that. 

I'm almost finished with the Athens set but so far it's the only one I've listened to. Can't say much atm because it's too early. But I'm also grateful for new Ae release, even if it's more live sets.

Guess I'll save the London sets for last, based on what's been posted so far.

  On 8/16/2023 at 10:47 PM, danshoebridge said:

That section from 27m to 46m in Helsinki for example is just 'difficult' on so many levels - atonal, aggressive, with very little to cling on to as it just keeps battering away.

I really like this section.

  On 8/18/2023 at 9:45 AM, Pirtek said:

I really like this section.

yeah especially the first 10 minutes are among my fav. and those are really all but atonal, you gotta concentrate on those subdued female choirs humming somewhere in da bg, it's harmonically laid out yo. apart from that the groove fucks with a running start.

don't know if that has been discussed yet, but the batch being labeled as AE_LIVE 2022- (instead of just 2022), and the individual files being all numbered as -01- does somewhat suggest there might be more sets added later, maybe?

ngl i was really bummed when it turned out the one that they played on my birthday (AE_LIVE_BARCELONA_030622) wasnt in the batch because im really annoying about shit like that but then again they did say that the recording was fucked so eh what can you do

  On 8/17/2023 at 1:26 AM, jaderpansen said:

makes me super curious on which version they'll elaborate this year... if any rly: didn't sean say they're stitting on 6 hours worth of live set stuff or something?

also is it just me or is his visualizer tune sprinkled in these here n there? i mean this one:

 

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Thanks for reminding me about this, I really enjoy it and haven't revisited it since Sign was released. I don't specifically hear it in these sets, but there does seem to be a connection, and that makes sense because it was during some of the Twitch stream chats in the spring of 2020 that Sean said he and Rob had been working on the live material as their recent focus.

It's likely contemporaneous. It seems to share some attributes with ecol4 as well, which also has its DNA in a lot of the live material (including London B, seemingly).

The last two minutes of the Turin set sound like this has fallen into the Ae machines:

Loving Athens and the two London sets atmosphere. I haven't been able to check out the rest 

These sets seem way more nervous and manic than the onesix batch, I like that!

The lady that did the other AELIVE edits has done them for 22.  Looking forward to giving them a listen for sure.

Thank you, individual!

  On 8/20/2023 at 12:15 PM, thejewk said:

 

The lady that did the other AELIVE edits has done them for 22.  Looking forward to giving them a listen for sure.

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Thanks! I guess I missed those other edits. Currently downloading, but if someone cares to comment on what I can expect, I'm all ears. I mean, does she copy paste different parts from different sets into tracks? Or just one long file? Seems like the file could be chopped into individual tracks. And I guess she just named the tracks herself?

  On 8/20/2023 at 1:35 PM, Satans Little Helper said:

Thanks! I guess I missed those other edits. Currently downloading, but if someone cares to comment on what I can expect, I'm all ears. I mean, does she copy paste different parts from different sets into tracks? Or just one long file? Seems like the file could be chopped into individual tracks. And I guess she just named the tracks herself?

  On 8/20/2023 at 12:15 PM, thejewk said:

 

The lady that did the other AELIVE edits has done them for 22.  Looking forward to giving them a listen for sure.

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yeah, i loved the 2016 edits, cheers!

unfortunately dls don't seem to work? or is it just me?

sweet alien jazz. very gourd