Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding

This album is a classic. I would say that this is the album that got me to start indulging in the tiny details. The melodies are excellent.

This album got me into Autechre.

Vsnares best album, absolutely no contest.

It's the only vsnares album I actually own for a reason, you know.

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:21 PM, vamos scorcho said:

Vsnares best album, absolutely no contest.

I never understood why he never built more like this completely mind-blowing braindance. This is a great fucking album. *puts it on*

Maybe he got lazy?

Maybe his alcoholism got in the way?

who knows.

Fuck this is good shit. Bonvital ftw. Ion Divvy is such a head fuck on decent headphones.

Winter in the Belly of a Snake is my 2nd fave.

I'm trying to listen through this right now and actually the only thing really keeping me listening is the melodies. The beats become so tiring and samey. It sounds like he's just using some sort of generator to automatically make a beat for every song. So it basically comes down to what sounds like generated beats over really excellent melodies.

I like the melody in vida

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:29 PM, vamos scorcho said:

I'm trying to listen through this right now and actually the only thing really keeping me listening is the melodies. The beats become so tiring and samey. It sounds like he's just using some sort of generator to automatically make a beat for every song. So it basically comes down to what sounds like generated beats over really excellent melodies.

Dude are you bi-polar? You started a thread calling this album a classic, then post this?

I need to give Winter in the Belly another listen. I think Vsnares would be amazing if he wasn't so lazy with the beats. He seems like he has this one method that he pretty much never breaks away from. It's like melody and beat are two separate things, rarely really melding into one fluid creation.

That said this is still a great album. Really stream of consciousness.

lol yeah. i'm a bit bipolar. I made this thread after listening to the first three tracks for the first time in a year or three. Then the beats started to sound the same in every track.

It's one of his albums that I've never been able to get into. Just doesn't grab me or excite me somehow. I should give it another spin, I suppose.

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:34 PM, Caretstik said:

It's one of his albums that I've never been able to get into. Just doesn't grab me or excite me somehow. I should give it another spin, I suppose.

I would say it's a bit atypical vsnares for the time. no breakbeats on this shit.

Definitely one of my favorites of his, if not my favorite. I'd also like to hear a whole album of cut up jazz (a la Banana Seat Girl or Badminton) from him. I think when he decides to stray from the usual break sounds and ravey synths then he starts to get more interesting.

IMO the closest Vsnares got to HCCBU in his recent output was Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms.

this is one of my least favorite vsnares albums

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:36 PM, patternoverlap said:

Definitely one of my favorites of his, if not my favorite. I'd also like to hear a whole album of cut up jazz (a la Banana Seat Girl or Badminton) from him. I think when he decides to stray from the usual break sounds and ravey synths then he starts to get more interesting.

Very very true.

Although I am not ashamed to admit i like some of the breaky & ravey shit. I also like it when he sings, like in "Dad".

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:36 PM, Awepittance said:

this is one of my least favorite vsnares albums

which is your fave?

I used to like the breaky stuff more but there is just so much of it, I tired of it pretty quickly. It all starts to run together. I also like the more dub tracks he's done too.

My favorite is this, Giant Alien Force, or Rossz Csillag

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:38 PM, sneaksta303 said:

I am not ashamed to admit i like some of the breaky & ravey shit.

That's what I like most out of his stuff. I admit it does tend to get a bit samey but I don't mind because I love it so much. Feels like I'm the only person who likes his gabba tracks as well.

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:48 PM, Caretstik said:

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:38 PM, sneaksta303 said:

I am not ashamed to admit i like some of the breaky & ravey shit.

That's what I like most out of his stuff. I admit it does tend to get a bit samey but I don't mind because I love it so much. Feels like I'm the only person who likes his gabba tracks as well.

no, i like the gabba ones too.

i could never get into cats though.

Yeah, Cats is a bit too much like hard work, OK in small doses. Chocolate Wheelchair and Winnipeg ftw.

Cadmium Lung Jacket.

I remember hearing a bootleg of him playing this track in NY, about a year before the album came out, and being completely blown away by it.

I'd still love to hear the surround sound mix of this album.

  On 9/1/2009 at 1:16 AM, DNBJerk is for real life said:

I'd still love to hear the surround sound mix of this album.

i didn't know there was one.

I don't have surround right now anyway, but if i did.....

As much as 12.6, Aaron posted it on his forum a while back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huge_Chrome_Cylinder_Box_Unfolding

  On 8/31/2009 at 10:58 PM, Caretstik said:

Yeah, Cats is a bit too much like hard work, OK in small doses. Chocolate Wheelchair and Winnipeg ftw.

Holy fuck that album is amazing.

how did it not come up yet in this thread?

Chocolate Wheelchair!!!!

probably because this was supposed to be a HCCBU thread, but it has evolved, obviously...

We should conduct this thread in a manner similar to the music itself

We cond thre duc oul con con w- w- duct ead itself