Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

*starts working on leak for the next AE album (after oversteps)*

  On 1/26/2010 at 7:21 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 1:36 PM, IRARI said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 12:44 PM, modey said:

i hope oversteps is a hiphop album with guest MCs

 

or better yet. a post-rock album

 

i don't think i would like to hear either of those... all autechre albums are hip-hop albums, lol

People always seem to throw around the guest-mc idea, which sounds great in principle, but has it ever been properly executed? I look at an album like dabrye's 2/3 and think ugh, what a mess. shit, even hiphop producer albums built around guest mcs suck 9 times out of 10.

 

That said, a whole album in the style of Adverse Camber would be awesome

yea, dabrye failed miserably with that as did prefuse imo. isnt flylo trying that too? sigh.

no mc's for ae please. just some beats, some ambience and some robot farts. thanks

An album with guest MC's is like a compilation album. No flow or cohesion. Wouldn't really work with AE I don't think. A single guest MC maybe.

Leak yet? Bleep yet? Jizz yet? Jazz yet? Waiting is SO twentieth century

In before page 40--AH SHIT!!

  On 1/26/2010 at 7:40 PM, jules said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 7:21 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

People always seem to throw around the guest-mc idea, which sounds great in principle, but has it ever been properly executed? I look at an album like dabrye's 2/3 and think ugh, what a mess. shit, even hiphop producer albums built around guest mcs suck 9 times out of 10.

 

That said, a whole album in the style of Adverse Camber would be awesome

 

yea, dabrye failed miserably with that as did prefuse imo. isnt flylo trying that too? sigh.

 

no mc's for ae please. just some beats, some ambience and some robot farts. thanks

  On 1/26/2010 at 7:53 PM, Obel said:

An album with guest MC's is like a compilation album. No flow or cohesion. Wouldn't really work with AE I don't think. A single guest MC maybe.

Yeah, I agree. I would not like to hear a multi-guest MC album from Autechre. Even a single MC...might sound good in theory but listen to Shadow Huntaz, they're pretty meh. Maybe it just takes the right combination. But it could easily become a failed experiment. I might prefer to not even go there. Vocals tend to ruin most electronic music.

I agree that Dabrye's was a mess, Prefuse's was a little bit less of a mess but not great, and Flylo is supposedly keeping the vocals pretty limited...would be a shame otherwise if he didn't learn from history.

Re: autechre + overt hiphop. Isn't this what Dual Purpose and/or Gescom is for?

  On 1/26/2010 at 6:32 PM, futureimage said:

Was just about to post lack of Autechre in the playlist...

 

Oh well, at least I heard that new Underworld track... pretty different to their old output, not really my kinda thing either :(

that wasn't an underworld track, it was by aybee... that playlist suffers from fail in the form of erroneous "song title - artist" nomenclature

  On 1/26/2010 at 8:25 PM, gl0tch said:

Re: autechre + overt hiphop. Isn't this what Dual Purpose and/or Gescom is for?

Let me check my Autechre reference guide...

no

Autechre would never do an album with a hip hop guest vocalist or something. Just wouldn't, doesn't fit their sound at all and I'm sure they know that. Most of their new stuff is cluttered enough as it is without words overtop.

i have not heard a single electronic artist do a 'guest mc' album that is anything but derivative scenster shit

mochipet, amon tobin, machinedrum, etc they've all made one of these horrible black marks in their discography

I'm pretty sure Ae is pretentious and smart enough to avoid this idea completely.

And if they did, smart enough to not file it under Ae.

  On 1/26/2010 at 8:47 PM, IRARI said:

  On 1/26/2010 at 6:32 PM, futureimage said:

Was just about to post lack of Autechre in the playlist...

 

Oh well, at least I heard that new Underworld track... pretty different to their old output, not really my kinda thing either :(

 

that wasn't an underworld track, it was by aybee... that playlist suffers from fail in the form of erroneous "song title - artist" nomenclature

Ah that's good then.

Total speculation, but the London date is going to be announced on Feb 1st. Perhaps something in the way of samples or maybe even the digital download will be released then?

  On 1/26/2010 at 9:37 PM, Awepittance said:

i have not heard a single electronic artist do a 'guest mc' album that is anything but derivative scenster shit

mochipet, amon tobin, machinedrum, etc they've all made one of these horrible black marks in their discography

Daedelus's Exquisite Corpse (though not his best album) does some what pull it off. Though half of the featured artists aren't MC's, but probably half of all the tracks ft. another artist. Though yeah not his best album so not a very strong argument.

well, for me, the (tiny) black mark in Ae's discography is the voice on that japanese (hip pop) remix... the intrumental track is great tho.

  On 1/26/2010 at 9:37 PM, Awepittance said:

i have not heard a single electronic artist do a 'guest mc' album that is anything but derivative scenster shit

mochipet, amon tobin, machinedrum, etc they've all made one of these horrible black marks in their discography

so true. best is just chopped vocals, which has been done a million times, but amon tobin's verbal is just the shit.

  On 1/26/2010 at 10:34 PM, futureimage said:

Total speculation, but the London date is going to be announced on Feb 1st. Perhaps something in the way of samples or maybe even the digital download will be released then?

I doubt it. The Quaristice tour had Londons date unannounced until later, but that was because they got permission to hire out a car park for the night. Also it was an amazing gig around the corner from where I work!

Apparently they liked the venue, so I'm going to hazard a guess that they'll be playing there again.

Hearn St.

Flying Lotus has great guest vocalists

I just don't get why warp does no give away the digital files right now... The are obviously there as there are promos... Maybe they want as much radio plays as possible before everybody gets it

  On 1/27/2010 at 12:37 AM, o00o said:

I just don't get why warp does no give away the digital files right now... The are obviously there as there are promos... Maybe they want as much radio plays as possible before everybody gets it

my guess is it has little to do with Warp and more to do with Ae's personal wishes. Warp has never to my knowledge held back samples this long before a highly anticipated release.

Hudson Mohawke 'Butter' had an album sampler long before it leaked, Totem's Flare did as well. Squarepusher put a full track from JAS on his myspace a half of a year before JAS came out.

re: albums with guest Mcs, i think overall it cheapens what an artist is doing. If you want to do an album with a vocalist, go release it under a different name. because honestly i listen to electronic music for the most part because i don't like vocals in very much of my music. I

this is still 2 months from release. in reality, it does seem relatively early to release a sampler, even if people like us are chomping at the bit. plus those samplers tell basically nothing anyway. i remember being really disappointed by the totems flare samplers and blown away by the album. march will be here before you know it.

  On 1/27/2010 at 1:35 AM, jules said:

march will be here before you know it.

Well I know March is coming, but it's not here yet so what the fuck?

the type of anticipation i'm experiencing right now feels like a mental illness