Ahem

Posted a week ago. I ain't listening to it yet, gonna go for the long haul and wait for the album.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/index.php?page=ar...amp;article=522

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Woah, nice find! Will check this when I get home from work.

oh wow serious debacle here. Do I listen now, or wait until full cd quality release?

im gonna have aquick listen when i get in i reckon no harm in that, thats what its there for. A wee taster of whats to come. nice

I listened to the first bit. Sounds cool, but I don't really think it is worth listening to at all. The quality is absolutely terrible and you can hardly hear it. 40 kbps I believe. *deletes file*

  Rook said:

oh wow serious debacle here. Do I listen now, or wait until full cd quality release?

Even though the soundquality is utterly shit, I should give it a try. Sounds very, very, very promising to my ears.

  Quoth said:

  Rook said:

oh wow serious debacle here. Do I listen now, or wait until full cd quality release?

Even though the soundquality is utterly shit, I should give it a try. Sounds very, very, very promising to my ears.

Yeah, Tankakern pwns! :laughing: Sound like abstract ambient music.

I am resisting the urge to listen. I will wait thank you.

i love these tracks, the whole quaristice must be superb!

autechre comes on at 25:19

Tankakern has a really early vibe to it, and the vibe seems to be even more eerie than Untilted...but this is interesting, the rhythm is totally disectable...sounds allot like their live stuff.

Rale is also strange and unsettling, but still very old sounding...

And both are very slow....intriguing...

there is a third track - at 74:30

Listening for the first time now... Immediate thought is that the low bitrate makes it difficult to discern what are interesting FM sounds and what is distortion tinge ear poo.

Tankakem - Hypnotic. There certainly will be more going on here than what this low b/r mp3 can give. Weird melodies in the background (I think). This is a very steady dark ambient crawler. Reminds me of some of Draft's slower moments. It kind of cuts off at the end though.

Rale - Dark. Almost sounds like early era Autechre. Reverb out the ass. Slow and dirty, and I'm hearing muffled vocals in here too. Things come in and out through the song. Like the previous song, I think there is more going on than able to hear in this crap mp3. This is a short track that kind of dies off at the end as well.

WNSN - Awwwwwweeetechre! True to form. We get that typical weird structure sound towards the beginning, then it sounds like it reverses and eats itself up, then turns into a 4/4 type groove with fucked up pads. This song really builds up some tension.

Final thoughts:

There's a real good chance The Wire chose more of the slower tracks to play in this mix. All three songs are pretty much very repetitive, dark, slow builders. It's interesting how the endings of each of these songs just dies out or cuts off. It's can't be the DJ doing that, I think it's intended tbh. FWIW, we get a very quick snippet of the track that follows WNSN. It kind of kicks right in, so I am hoping it will be a face puncher. Sounds like lera in a way, but I'm going off of a one second snippet.

Here's the tracks cut out of the audio - BTW, it's 64kbps mono, not 41kbps mono (I think that was for the streaming version).

I am really, really excited by Rale - best AE track I've heard in 10 years.

I'll extract and post the third track in a moment.

Autechre___Tankakem___Rale.mp3Fetching info...

Here's WNSN:

Autechre___WNSN.mp3Fetching info...

yes, i like this. will sound awesomer once the disc is out.

Really really like these, can't wait to get this when it comes out. Can't fucking wait to see them live in a couple months.

wooooow....AWESOME!!!

WOW. nice!

I wasn't so impatient for the album to come, but now I've listened to this...

Damnit, I have sinned, I can't wait now!

yea, it's gonna be a long month and a half.

After listening to these I'm on the verge of a huge tantrum at the thought of having to wait until March.

These last 2 posts have left me confused and scared.

fuck. yes.

badass !

(thanks joyrex for the shortcuts)