Gescom - Minidisc

 

yeah, ..very cryptic,

 

indeed, yes.

 

..,

  nacmat said:

oh thanks, yeah that was my doubt

 

so ae were not alone in this one either... interesting

 

Don't think it was the whole crew but Russell Haswell/Satanstornade definitely worked on this album, and I suspect were a large reason for the change in sound.

from the label:

 

This Gescom Production, assembled by Sean Booth and Rob Brown [Autechre] and Russell Haswell, has conquered the technological restrictions inherent in the MiniDisc format.

 

http://touchshop.org/product_info.php?products_id=110

 

-& its on haswell label OR, a Touch sublabel-

Been so frustrated lately and dissatisfied with all music and I realize that MINIDISC is exactly what I wanna hear. What a great record or whatever the fuck it is. Probably the most "raw" thing they ever put out. So many vestigial samples and prototypes of ideas that appeared elsewhere too. Tastyyyyyy

I have this on MD. I had recently bought "Viral" on 12" in 98' and was looking forward to something in a similar style... I listened to it once and then tried to forget about it all. Such a total waste of money, I can play my own sample library instead of these random soundfiles...

  On 3/9/2017 at 1:14 PM, entropi said:

I have this on MD. I had recently bought "Viral" on 12" in 98' and was looking forward to something in a similar style... I listened to it once and then tried to forget about it all. Such a total waste of money, I can play my own sample library instead of these random soundfiles...

How well did the shuffle feature actually work on that album - My MD used to take time to seek between non-adjacent tracks, so did you get considerable moments of silence if you [for example] jumped between track 1 and 88 ?

  On 3/9/2017 at 1:28 PM, mcbpete said:

How well did the shuffle feature actually work on that album - My MD used to take time to seek between non-adjacent tracks, so did you get considerable moments of silence if you [for example] jumped between track 1 and 88 ?

ISTR reading that the tracks were arranged non-sequentially on the disc, so even if you played them in order the player would still have to jump around.

 

Is We is fantastic.

  On 3/9/2017 at 1:28 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/9/2017 at 1:14 PM, entropi said:

I have this on MD. I had recently bought "Viral" on 12" in 98' and was looking forward to something in a similar style... I listened to it once and then tried to forget about it all. Such a total waste of money, I can play my own sample library instead of these random soundfiles...

How well did the shuffle feature actually work on that album - My MD used to take time to seek between non-adjacent tracks, so did you get considerable moments of silence if you [for example] jumped between track 1 and 88 ?

It worked beautifully, especially on the "suites" like le shark, it was totally seamless. My MD player would whir about 5 seconds before the end of the track as it was queuing up the next random track and that whirring always felt like part of the Minidisc experience to me.

  On 3/9/2017 at 3:11 PM, sweepstakes said:

My MD player would whir about 5 seconds before the end of the track as it was queuing up the next random track

Ah gotcha, so it pre-buffers the next track into ... well a buffer ! I never know minidiscs could do that :)

  On 3/9/2017 at 3:23 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/9/2017 at 3:11 PM, sweepstakes said:

My MD player would whir about 5 seconds before the end of the track as it was queuing up the next random track

Ah gotcha, so it pre-buffers the next track into ... well a buffer ! I never know minidiscs could do that :)

 

Yeah! Well, the format's heyday was around the time when discman manufacturers started adding those "skip protection" buffers. So I wonder if that's something they actually borrowed from their implementations of the MD spec.

Would there be a definitive Gescom Minidisc shuffle order? Someone should come up with one.

 

I had a dream once with 'Is We' as a soundtrack (from memory, cause it wasn't playing or anything). It was trippy, might make a short film of it one day.

Have this too, shuffle function did work seamlessly. Don't recall ever listening to it linearly from track 1 to 88.

 

I wonder if minidiscs will have a resurgeance, like tapes and vinyl? Some of those discs came in purty colours.

I've always found that this album was better played in order rather than shuffle. It's a cool idea, but the tracks are too varied and imo it doesn't make much sense. 

^def

 

This track <3

 

 

99% certain it's Haswell

Yeah it's complete bollocks so it must be.

  On 3/28/2017 at 9:27 AM, Obel said:

Yeah it's complete bollocks so it must be.

smdh

  On 3/28/2017 at 6:52 PM, hello spiral said:

smdh

That's what I did during the Haswell's set while pressing my earplugs deeper into my brain.

  On 3/28/2017 at 8:33 PM, eclipsis said:

 

  On 3/28/2017 at 6:52 PM, hello spiral said:

smdh

That's what I did during the Haswell's set while pressing my earplugs deeper into my brain.

 

 

and i had to leave the room. pushing my fingers into my ears didnt help

I only heard Haswell live once (this February), it was exceptionally pleasant to my ears. I was more neutral towards him before, thought it could be heavy on the ears on a pretty loud system but it was the opposite. Dunno maybe the set was less harsh than usual.

 

This track i don't particularly enjoy, though it has very nice voice-like modulations (particularly noticeable from 0:48), it's actually autechr-ish sounding to me.

could never get into the Minidisc. Revisited it last month for the first time in years (after having a good moment with "ISS:SA")

but still the same to me.

Yeah shapethrower is probably the worst track on there. But the title leads me to believe that it wasn't intended to be listened to.

  On 4/6/2017 at 6:09 AM, sweepstakes said:

Yeah shapethrower is probably the worst track on there.

 

Wrong

 

  On 4/6/2017 at 6:09 AM, sweepstakes said:

But the title leads me to believe that it wasn't intended to be listened to.

 

Half wrong

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1UiIvgRKFY&index=4

Some Hollywood to add to that

 

Edited April 6, 2017 by Amen Lare

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