Autechre Rpeg

I could have resurrected an ep7 thread, but I want to praise this song specifically.

It is:

• hands down, my favorite Autechre track

• The best album opener out of any of Autechre's

• The first bit always makes me think of Baba O'Reily, making it even more epic

• Easily one of the funkiest Autechre tunes

• Ridiculously awesome textural mashing

• It leads into the rest of the album, which is all fucking golden

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also one of my very bestests

an excellent track.

I like the baba o'riley comparison. does that mean dropp = behind blue eyes? maphive 6.1 = won't get fooled again?

Abso-fucking-lutely.

In my top 5 for sure.

  The Pod said:

Abso-fucking-lutely.

 

In my top 5 for sure.

right on, brother

great fucking track fo sho, but I definitely do not understand the "baba" comparison. where do u get that from?

  Salvatorin said:

i know the song, i just don't see the comparison! You be graspin straws here nigga!

  sneaksta303 said:

  Salvatorin said:

 

i know the song, i just don't see the comparison! You be graspin straws here nigga!

nah, i hear it.

besides, im pretty my brain has made much more ridiculous assocations between two songs in the past.

EP7 in general is awesome.

Baba O'Reily... I've always wanted to know what the name of that song was... it's an awesome intro.

BUT

Rpeg has probably one of the greatest intros to any album I think. The only thing that I think beats it is Orbital's Girl with the Sun In Her Head.

I like a lot of EP7... it feels less cohessive and epic to me than most of their albums but I wonder if that's because it technically is two ep's? I was never sure if it was actually intended to be an album or an ep.

I love this track. I used to play this track every morning after waking up.

first ae track I ever heard that really got me good

  sneaksta303 said:

i know the song, i just don't see the comparison! You be graspin straws here nigga!

both songs start out with a brittle sounding synthesizer arpegiating on a major fifth and octave, rpeg doesn't do it in the exact same way, but the effect of both intros are very similar to me.

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Baba O'Reily... I've always wanted to know what the name of that song was... it's an awesome intro.

It's a reference to Terry Riley and Meher Baba.

  Salvatorin said:

  sneaksta303 said:

i know the song, i just don't see the comparison! You be graspin straws here nigga!

 

both songs start out with a brittle sounding synthesizer arpegiating on a major fifth and octave, rpeg doesn't do it in the exact same way, but the effect of both intros are very similar to me.

their theory knowledge always blows me away

  Springymajig said:

Rpeg has probably one of the greatest intros to any album I think. The only thing that I think beats it is Orbital's Girl with the Sun In Her Head.

well put. i love orbital, and agree with salvatorin - best opener tune of an autechre album.

aye

wa wa wa , wa wa wa wa WA

Possibly the best track on ep7

When I was young, I listened to this track on amazon.com, became hypnotized, bought the cd, and loved it.

Its digital form lives with me today, and now. I have mad undying love for Rpeg.

nope

I dunno, I don't like it that much, I'm just not a big fan of meandering/random notes going up and down a scale (see also Dial). Also there are so many other album/EP openers that are better than this, Cipater, GantzGraf, Acroyear2, heck, even Kalpol Introl.

random?

Nah probably not truly random but definitely generative in some fashion.  Isn't there evidence that a lot of EP7 was done on software? (see Awepittance's leaked max/msp patch)

Even then you can achieve the same thing on pretty much any sequencer, just randomly arpeggiate within a chord/scale.

i'm just surprised that you'd say rpeg is a good example of generative Ae, when it seems extremely straight forward to me. but i really have no idea how they made that main synth line sound. i fucking love it though.