Autechre Draft 7.30 / Gantz Graf EP

  On 11/5/2009 at 11:08 PM, Dr Clitterhaus said:

You're a noob.

Just as i thought

I can say I love the album and that it's my favourite Ae release if you'd prefer.

Autechre released Confield, Gatz Graf, Draft 7:30 and then Untilted.

after which it's as though they had over exerted themselves to the degree that

they had to release something like Quaristice just to take a breath

for a bit. This next 10th full length album of theirs i believe is going

to change things forever. I think Quaristice may have been the

trimming of the fat from this 'new creature'.

i can't wait!

i do love some ep7 as well though, i find that i like ep7 more then most

people seem to get excited by it.

Draft 7:30 is fucking huge all the way down to the Roman-numerals.

I don't think Ae will make another great album, but I'd love to be proven wrong. Yes I know this is a troll, but the Quaristice version diarrhea broke my confidence in the band's precision and self-control. Sean Booth looks like a big softie these days, and I feel (projecting here of course) that that lack of intensity and focus is present in the music, too. Not that I feel any differently about BoC or Aphex...

Oh, Draft is a good album. Some of the most interesting production and analoguey goodness of their career, love the sonic palette on the album. On a musical level I'm not so into it, but that holds true for all post EP7 releases. Still I respect the amount of effort that went into the album and as with Confield, sometimes I'm in the mood for nothing else. I think it marks a turning point in their music, as it's the first of their "non serious" albums - the b-boy elements seem very lighthearted and playful, the same thing crops up in Untilted on Sublimit.

I think Gantz Graf is overrated, both the track and ep. However gantz graf plus the rutterford video are amazing together.

Draft is the most immediate album of AE's I've heard, I fell in love with it instantly. I don't understand the love/hate of this album really.

I'll give this album another listen this week but so far I really can't get into it besides Surripere and V-Proc (all time favourites)

I've never smoked weed. I wonder how I'd perceive AE...

  On 11/6/2009 at 1:14 PM, Obel said:

I've never smoked weed. I wonder how I'd perceive AE...

Nor have I Obel. I'm under the impression that may be a rarity on this forum.

Certainly seems that way. I just hate smoking really, so I don't plan to try or anything.

  On 11/6/2009 at 1:14 PM, Obel said:

I've never smoked weed. I wonder how I'd perceive AE...

AE is one of my drug's of choice. music is a powerful enough intoxicant

on it's own. sound is one of the many ways we can engage our built in reserves

of performance enhancing chemicals and stimulate new production.

let us all just be aware that there are different qualities of sound that

produce different effects on the human brain, some better then

others.

Neurotransmitter systems

With few exceptions, each neuron in the brain consistently releases the same chemical neurotransmitter,

or set of neurotransmitters, at all of the synaptic connections it makes with other neurons.[60] Thus,

a neuron can be characterized by the neurotransmitters it releases. The two neurotransmitters that

appear most frequently are glutamate, which is almost always excitatory, and gamma-aminobutyric

acid (GABA), which is almost always inhibitory. Neurons using these transmitters can be found in

nearly every part of the brain, making up a large percentage of the brain's pool of synapses.[61]

Nevertheless, the great majority of psychoactive drugs exert their effects by altering neurotransmitter

systems not directly involving glutamatergic or GABAergic transmission.[62] Drugs such as caffeine,

nicotine, heroin, cocaine, Prozac, Thorazine, etc., act on other neurotransmitters. Many of these other

transmitters come from neurons that are localized in particular parts of the brain. Serotonin, for

example—the primary target of antidepressant drugs and many dietary aids—comes exclusively from

a small brainstem area called the Raphe nuclei. Norepinephrine, which is involved in arousal, comes

exclusively from a nearby small area called the locus ceruleus. Histamine, as a neurotransmitter,

comes from a tiny part of the hypothalamus called the tuberomammilary nucleus (histamine also

has non-CNS functions, but the neurotransmitter function is what causes antihistamines to have

sedative effects). Other neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine and dopamine have multiple

sources in the brain, but are not as ubiquitously distributed as glutamate and GABA.

Brain energy consumption

Although the human brain represents only 2% of the body weight, it receives 15% of the cardiac output,

20% of total body oxygen consumption, and 25% of total body glucose utilization.[79] The need to limit

body weight in order, for example, to fly, has led to selection for a reduction of brain size in some species,

such as bats.[80] The brain mostly utilizes glucose for energy, and deprivation of glucose, as can happen

in hypoglycemia, can result in loss of consciousness. The energy consumption of the brain does not vary

greatly over time, but active regions of the cortex consume somewhat more energy than inactive regions:

this fact forms the basis for the functional brain imaging methods PET and fMRI.[81] These are nuclear

medicine imaging techniques which produce a three-dimensional image of metabolic activity.

+13

Don't talk to me you useless cunt.

  On 11/6/2009 at 4:52 PM, Obel said:

Don't talk to me you useless cunt.

okay, the troon hate can stop. i don't think his post was that bad.

Don't talk to me you useless cunt.

  On 11/6/2009 at 5:33 PM, Calx Sherbet said:

okay, the troon hate can stop. i don't think his post was that bad.

Calx is a twin

music has a strong effect on us, why not talk about it and understand it?

why not look at what it does and how it works?

DRAFT 7.30 feeds my brain and moves my heart.

that's some hippy shit.

and i used to have dreadlocks.

also, is troon's avatar michael jackson in... whiteface?

  On 11/6/2009 at 5:48 PM, Obel said:

Don't talk to me you useless cunt.

it's okay man, we're all friends here

Xylin Room is a really awesome opener to the album, although it is not a very good track the first time you hear it (in my case, anyways) and it actually begins to get irritating unless you listen a few times and hear what the whole thing is about. Great use of farting bass and stuff to warm us up for the cascade of bowel movements to follow

IV VV IV VV VIII is indigestion on an album about flatulence. The stuttering beat is one of the coolest and original they had done to date, and towards the end it gets to the point where I can follow the beat but I can't for the life of me try to figure out what the timing is.

61E.cR is a very accessable one, and it was my original fav off of the album along with V-Proc until I "got" Surripere. Really twitchy and spastic but meticulously designed beats that eventually degress to seriously grating glitchyness and then it all breaks away into one of the most pleasant and emotional bits on the album. Keeping with the bowel movement theme, I think this track represents one of those insanely hard shits that you try to coax calmly at first, and then get to the point where your face is red and then the poop plops out (just like that blaaahhh bluuhhhhh really farty glitch out right before the chords come in and everything drops away) and it feels like god because that turd has finally been taken care of and twinkles of melody surround you as blood rushes back into your ears and brain.

Tapr is a really tough track to get into. I like the ideas going on with the melody here, and how everything flows together but I can't really say much supporting this track other than its a good spacer between 61E.cR and surripere. Maybe one day I will enjoy this one

Surripere is my all time fav ae track. I could probably go on for a long time about this one, but I'll try not to ramble. The intro is fantastically reminiscent of tri-repetae and the atmosphere, emotion and space created with the pads is so god damn sci-fi and interesting and almost daunting. The little chord diddly that comes in at around 3:20 is fucking flawless and at this point you are kind of thinking that is the climax of the track but you are fucking WRONG!!! The beats come in and the track proceeds to weave one of the most epic and intense and intricate rhythms that has ever existed in music (for reals). Every melodic piece in the track fits so perfectly and adds so much to the track as a whole. Check at 5:47 where the pad/chords play at the end of each measure giving such a nice spice on what is already an amazing piece. The moaning cries of the 3rd quarter of the track are a great way to trick you into thinking everything is dying down, and it breaks things up until the last quarter when at about 8:44 the single greatest Ae melody comes sneaking in and kind of seems to be creeping through the muck and popping its head up from time to time to take a peak. It fucking kills me to listen to that little bit, and this whole track and really this whole album. Now that this track review has deteriorated into fanboy-jizzm I will proceed

Theme of Sudden Roundabout is a great follow up to surripere as everything has broken down now and is slowly building itself up on shoddy legs and crawling and building and breaking. I don't really know how they managed to write such an interesting melody with the farty synth without actually hitting any legible notes. The atmosphere for this track is dark and creepy and it only gets darker and creepier, and the way the rhythm skips and shuffles around gives it a really awesome groove. Also this track is diharrhea, I guess assuming that surripere was the flu or some shit.

VL AL 5 is one of my favs on the album. This track is one of the most layered pieces of music I have ever heard. It has such excellent spaceyness and calmness while still maintaining a nice rhythm and what really boggles me is that the track almost seems like an ambient/semi-ambient piece, although there is more going on than on any other track on this album I think. The chords that burst through from time to time are fantastically emotional, I really enjoy this track.

P.:Ntil is another one of my favs. It does some incredibly interesting things with melody. You really need to listen to this track after you figure out the rhythm and listen to all of the crazy wondrous things that the melody does throughout the track. I don't really know what else to say about this track besides the fact that I love how fucking annoying it is because it doesn't bother me but I can see people looking weirdly at me on the bus when I have it cranked.

V-Proc is one of the first Ae tracks I fell in love with but upon re-listen it is not as good as I used to feel. It has a great opener, and the rhythm is fantastic but it kind of just drags on too long and becomes just a huge melting pot of crazy bangs and computer generated noise. Some Ae tracks that I love fit this description, but still this one sort of just bugs me after the first 2 or 3 mins

Reniform Puls is, again, a fucking phenomenal album closer. The beginning of the track with the growling bass sounds so fucking good and visceral on a really loud sound system, and the contrast between the heavy beats and the tip-toe shyness of the melody gives the track a really nice character. The whole atmosphere of this track is great, weaves a great closing and summarizing type of sound to the track. When it degrades in to the filtered drum beat resonating at that same tone for the rest of the track, my brain melts. I fucking love it, its so energetic and quirky. The ending is brilliant too, with that strange stuttering distortion sound that lasts some time after everything else is finished.

So all in all I would say Draft 7.30 is my fav Ae album overall, simply because it contains all of the elements that I love about Ae in healthy and equal servings. Great album flow, Great melodic and emotional pieces, and great brooding creepy pieces, great energetic and spastic beats, fucking GREAT attention to detail, I can't really say much against this album save for the few weak points that really don't seem all that weak in terms of the album structure and story, but more that there are a few points that depart from the idea of music alltogether and they can be difficult - but incredibly rewarding - to listen to. I'll toss up a Gantz Graf review some time in the next few days.

Calx is a twin

Cow cud is a twin

Calx is a load of Cow Cud

long car ride tomorrow, i'm gonna get my Draft listening session going during that!

P.:Ntil is incredible, the chords that start at 1:21 really MAKE this track for me. Takes it to the next level

also LOL my roommate (college dorm) just walked in as I was blasting Surripere and he started dancing when he heard it. Outsider reactions to ae are always hilarious

  On 11/2/2009 at 5:46 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

i find with confield and draft, they both work as full albums rather than a set of songs. each one adds up to the overall artistic statement being made, so I can't say I dislike a song on either. each track on confield and draft is always changing around, so it would be ignorant to say something like "this track sucks", when there's so many parts to a single track. I used to dislike tapr and uviol. but then i realised that without those tracks, the albums would not be complete, so i went back and listened to them with that in mind and realised how well they work as parts of the album. now i listen to them all the time.

 

basically to me, confield and draft are flawless for what they are. There's not a damn thing i'd change about them. both take you on different journeys and set a variety of moods which are perfectly executed with extreme precision and detail. of course this is not music for everyone, some would even struggle to call it music; there are very few clear melodies, erratic and constantly evolving rhythmic elements and no song follows a traditional or simple structure by any means. nearly every sound you hear on draft is something completely abstract and foreign.

 

top stuff

+1 ......nicely said.

  On 11/7/2009 at 3:29 AM, AJW said:

Calx is a twin

 

Cow cud is a twin

:smile:

thehauntingsoul did a play by play lexicon of the whole Draft 7.30 album.

you are an inspiration.

thehauntingsoul is a 'twin'

edit: he's not the only one, wow what an inspired thread, thnx soul

lol no problem troon, there is tons of good content in this weeks thread, I'm actually a bit choked up that today is the last day until untilted. That play-by-play you're talking about was with me and capsaicin and we synced the albums up to start at the same time and just transcribed what we heard to each other over msn lol

  On 11/7/2009 at 9:43 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

lol no problem troon, there is tons of good content in this weeks thread, I'm actually a bit choked up that today is the last day until untilted. That play-by-play you're talking about was with me and capsaicin and we synced the albums up to start at the same time and just transcribed what we heard to each other over msn lol

Woe, thats really interesting. i will spend more time reading it later

as i am about to pass out from Wisp all night action and workday combination.

Thats a very interesting way to interact with an album together,

i like it.