Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

Can Bleep please tell us in some way whether this is fake or not. I'm losing my patience. :P

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:40 AM, futureimage said:

Can Bleep please tell us in some way whether this is fake or not. I'm losing my patience. :P

I second this. But like I've said some post earlier, if this latest leak turns out to be the real stuff (the more I listen, the more I'm convinced it is) then Bleep will put the downloads up real soon now. They need to counter the illegal downloading.

 

If they don't put up the album this week, I think it's a fake one we've been listening to. I just can't comprehend if they allow ppl downloading the full album like this without doing jack shit.

maybe the warp team was more on top of it business wise during the leading up to Quaristice. Bleep especially seems to have made many unsuccessful updates in the past year.

 

this has as far as i can tell leaked long before any official reviews or full interviews. I seem to remember us being well into the Quaristice promotional campaign by the time it leaked. Maybe the timing was off this time around and they didn't coordinate things as tightly as last time.

Edited February 8, 2010 by Awepittance

i decided to take a pause till spring, because of some strange and scary mental transformations. it throws me into mental area of lp5, but i cant adapt myself to it, similar to "shotted way too much acid" situations — emotionaly similar feeling

 

anyway, epic album

and it's not fake

i don't think it's a fake personally but i think we're missing at least one track. has that been established so far?

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:54 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

if they put it up this week I think I'll download it, I don't want to grab some big m4a file and find out it's fake.

 

ffs, it´s not a fake. don´t listen to the stupid people.

Like most Ae, the damn thing is growing on me. >_>

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:05 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:57 AM, panz0r said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:54 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

if they put it up this week I think I'll download it, I don't want to grab some big m4a file and find out it's fake.

 

ffs, it´s not a fake. don´t listen to the stupid people.

how do you know?

and don't just say "because I know ae when I hear it"

 

Well it sounds like Amber/Incunabula/LP5 had some sort of child together.

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:09 AM, ataraxy2 said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:05 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:57 AM, panz0r said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:54 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

if they put it up this week I think I'll download it, I don't want to grab some big m4a file and find out it's fake.

 

ffs, it´s not a fake. don´t listen to the stupid people.

how do you know?

and don't just say "because I know ae when I hear it"

 

Well it sounds like Amber/Incunabula/LP5 had some sort of child together.

 

Hardly, it sounds like amateurish garbage, (and I don't mean the ep)

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:09 AM, ataraxy2 said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:05 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:57 AM, panz0r said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:54 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

if they put it up this week I think I'll download it, I don't want to grab some big m4a file and find out it's fake.

 

ffs, it´s not a fake. don´t listen to the stupid people.

how do you know?

and don't just say "because I know ae when I hear it"

 

Well it sounds like Amber/Incunabula/LP5 had some sort of child together.

 

wow, pretty exact definition

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:10 AM, lithgow said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:09 AM, ataraxy2 said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:05 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:57 AM, panz0r said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:54 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

if they put it up this week I think I'll download it, I don't want to grab some big m4a file and find out it's fake.

 

ffs, it´s not a fake. don´t listen to the stupid people.

how do you know?

and don't just say "because I know ae when I hear it"

 

Well it sounds like Amber/Incunabula/LP5 had some sort of child together.

 

Hardly, it sounds like amateurish garbage, (and I don't mean the ep)

 

I never actually said it sounds good. >_>

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:25 AM, panz0r said:

i cannot believe people think this is a fake. every second (exept for the shitty guitarpart on the third track, and the awesome choir at ~50:00) of this leak is so autechre-like it almost hurts. i mean seriously, the last ~minute of treale? how is that NOT ae?

 

You people are going to look soooooooooooooooooo friggin dumb, I can't wait

those radio tracks are real though? and this leak sounds in the same vein as that, so I think its real.

Having now listened to the leak I must say i´m surprised. Oversteps surely lives up to its name... The opening track is wonderful, the rest is crammed with surprises and a few repitions of the back catalogue.

 

The record hasn´t quite sunk in yet, I believe this one requires SERIOUS listening become familiar with. Quaristice was so much easier to get to grips with.

 

I do believe that this is authentic. Yes, it could be another fake and the musical direction of the records isn´t one typical of Ae. Yet the production and the sudden shift away from the norm, while yet retaining links to Quaristice, LP5 and so forth, convinces me that this is the real McCoy.

lets wait what Rook will say

evidence it's not a fake:

-there are some trademark sounds in here, machinedrum is being used on several parts

-the hints in the preinterview about maxmsp generative patches and FM synths rings very true on most of this album, all of the miid range or bass synth lines sound like some gnarly yamaha obscure FM products, they actually listed 2 models that i can't remember. this stuff is littered all over the place.

-a lot of the melodies especially on the track from 35-39 minutes in sound very generative but could be using any multitude of different generative software, it doesn't sound like their other generative max/msp work like on confield or EP7 (licfili) If i didn't know AE any better i'd say they were using Reaktor or Numerology to make some of these generative sounding tracks

-It's also very beatless, which goes in line with what Sean booth said in the interview. We only maybe have 5 tracks with drums in them.

-it utilizing physical modeling synthesis on over 6 songs, most of the higher pitched bell work and subtle metallic like high pitched pads sound modeled to me. If you have used the Reaktor patch Metallo or Steampipe you would know what im talking about. Even Tassman or Logic's Sculpture.

The reason this proves to me this is AE is because i predicted this in another thread mainly judging by the songs on Quaristice "SonDEremawe" "SonDEre-ix" and "Simmm" (this one sounds almost FM though but don't know what they are using)

This album is terrible. 2-3 tracks are good though, such as ilanders or treale. The melodic/beatless tracks are just shite: melody for retarded idm teenagers. I want the LP5 melody work. I want the altibzz melody work. I want the confield melody work.

I am so disapointed. The beats, except ilanders, are boring. It's been since untilted that every AE release is partly disapointing.

The only positive thing I can say about this album is about the production, which is better than Untilted or Quaristice.

 

Dear AE, stop being lazy and go back to the era where we could hear you spending days and days on a single track. Please go back to the era where an ae track was synonymous with constant surprises, after repeated listenings.

 

Oh and just one thing: IDM MUSICIANS - PLEASE STOP WITH THESE ACID SOUNDS _ WE HAD ENOUGH ALREADY. IT?S GETTING RETARDED NOW.

 

Best Track: Ilanders

Worst track (ever?): the one with guitars

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:12 AM, lithgow said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 10:25 AM, panz0r said:

i cannot believe people think this is a fake. every second (exept for the shitty guitarpart on the third track, and the awesome choir at ~50:00) of this leak is so autechre-like it almost hurts. i mean seriously, the last ~minute of treale? how is that NOT ae?

 

You people are going to look soooooooooooooooooo friggin dumb, I can't wait

 

haha, we will see.

If this really is the new Autechre album then I’m not disappointed. We should all be well used to the fact that every record marks a departure point for the group and expecting them to stay in any one direction too long is unrealistic. The version of Oversteps that’s currently circulating carries only the sparkling synth tones that graced parts of Quaristice and melds it with the swimming ambience that the group usually hide a lot lower in the mix. The ensuing blends is at once glittering and cloudy, like city lights through fog.

 

Opener ‘r ess’ glides in surrounded by thick swathes of revberb, a buzzing synthline pushed to one side and its cavernous reflections on the other. A trademarked stuttering beat comes in and the soundscape is puncuated by the occasional synth bursts that characterized the editing of Quaristice. Autechre’s love of cutting tapes extends to their manipulation of digital audio and it seems as though they frequently print their reverbs and slice them to give a more stilted effect.

 

There is a hint of Coil circa Worhsip the Glitch in the ambience that takes ‘r ess’ into ‘ilanders’, and it continues beneath the maze of synth vs beat interplay. The beats are striking in that they’re less clearly defined than any Autechre have committed to record in recent years. Whilst not exactly a return to the Industrial snap of Anvil Vapre, the dirty overdrive smears the attack and renders the hits almost more decorative than percussive. The high and bass synths weave Autechre’s trademarked meandering melodies through and around said beats with their usual chromatic slipperiness, refusing to fall into any recognizable pattern whilst also neatly avoiding monotonality.

 

‘known(1)’ is something of a surprise, given just how much it resembles the work of Coil. Autechre aren’t usually so keen to tread this closely to tribute, but the track is good enough to withstand criticism for lack of orinigality. Taking the deliberately yuck sounding MIDI guitar sound that Sleaze was (and is) so fond of, they weave dark, olde-English sounding melodies around a bell-like synth that remains remarkably staid in its diatonicism. Skirting about these elements is a melting, flanged synth sound that recalls the more perverted manipulations of Love’s Scret Domain and, particularly, The Remote Viewer,

 

Warm, lush and far less demented is ‘pt2ph8’, a misty and inviting soundscape of almost Gamelan-like melodies, clopping conga-ish percussion and synthetic pan-pipe sounds that fuse with the shining synth textures of Autechre’s recent ambient work. It all blends a lot better than one may expect from that description, and this piece is still my favourite of the record.

 

Fans waiting for their fix of unhinged percussive programming are given their first real treat with the dicey edits of ‘qplay’, which seems to develop on from the ‘The Plc’. The ocean of reverb is still present and is thickened by a haze of warm synths, their top end shaved off to allow the beats more snap.

 

The synths regain their top end for the glittering arpeggios that announce ‘see on see’, waves of ambience rolling over the interweaving melodies. Whilst still retaining the characteristic meandering vibe, the melodies are less polytonal than usual and touch lightly on the olde-English diatonicism, though with colour tones brought in to lend a futuristic feel to the proceedings.

 

Things get colder with ‘treale’, the gritty buzzing of widely panned synths lending an electrical vibe through which numerous contrasting lines are fed. There’s the vague Gamelan vibe again, a more troubled sounding synth that acts as equal parts a melodic and percussive tool and a smooth, liquid lead synth that whirls about. A steady groove enters and ties the melee together, rarely deviating from solid rhythm. Again, the disparate elements fuse together beautifully and the overall vibe is less troubling than inviting, despite the presence of the more unhinged synths adding a touch of madness.

 

In contrast to that dense soundscape, ‘os viex3’ strips things back to sharp, neat percussion atop a light ambient bed and a low, mechanical synth that adds rhythmic counterpoint to the changing beats. A curious, gleaming lead synth enters the picture but stays in the shadows, only occasionally stepping into the foreground as the washing pads beneath grow more melodic and begin to introduce harmonic movement to the piece.

 

Colourful and warm, ‘o=O’ rises up in steady rhythm, building for a moment before giving way to the Gamelan-styled programming that by this point has come to be a key characteristic of the record. There is a moment of unrest as the tonality changes and old-school Nintendo-sounding programming fused with dry percussion provides backing to a morphing lead synth that glides from speaker to speaker. The arrangement builds back up again briefly before sinking back down into the ambience that each track ends with.

 

Harkening back to Incunabula, the spritely synthline of ‘d-sho qub’ bounces gleefully around a crunchy locked groove. The soundscape is soon emblazoned with thick, distorted textures that swell to partly obscure other components of the song. Things grow spare after a while, the beat re-entering with more of a loping slant to it, the grimey synths punctuating what is now an increasingly messy field.

 

A low synth pulse and manipulated choir (which reminds me of Draft’s ‘Now Now’) introduce ‘st epreo’, the choir swelling until the sound field is dashed by a smattering of dirty beats and grime-laden synths. There’s an unsettling psychedelia to the warm, reverberant synth that sits behind the crunchier elements, it’s modulating melodic lines providing a softness to what is otherwise quite a gritty sounding track.

 

‘redfall’ brings back some of the digital fuckery of the Confield tour that had been absent from Oversteps until this point. It provides a rather less comfortable element to what is otherwise a fairly pleasant and melodic track.

 

The glittering melodic vibe that permeates the rest of the album is given unabated dominance of ‘krylon’, which remains warm and inviting from start to finish. Synths swirl about in a haze, sharper, shinier ones rolling atop the thick soup laid down by the warmer ones beneath. The cascading of notes between one synth and another creates a gorgeous, shifting field of sound that provides both melodic and spacial movement.

 

Closer ‘yuop’ capitalizes on the grimey distortion particular to Oversteps, growing increasingly dirtier as it progresses. A gorgeous sea of ambience rises and falls from beneath the increasingly complex clouds of dirt that slowly take over the sound field. Pads attempt to shimmer but instead grow to resemble a sandstorm beneath the drive they’re coated with. The dust clouds soften and things get somewhat more relaxed for a moment, the dirty synths morphing to a crackle that draws the record to a close.

  On 2/7/2010 at 8:10 PM, texan whip said:

could someone pm the link plz, preferably not a dead one.

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/53205-do-not-post-or-ask-for-leaks/

who's track times are we going by, i've seen variations so far , can some repost the track times

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The big shot magazine reviewer got this listed on his last.fm :

r ess (5:12)

ilanders (5:32)

known(1) ??

pt2ph8 (4:09)

qplay (4:38)

see on see (4:37)

Treale (6:05)

os veix3 (4:37)

O=0 (4:52)

d-sho qub (6:26)

st epreo (1:43)

redfall (3:48)

krYlon (6:08)

if this isn't ae, then i'm really impressed because this is the ae album i've been wanting to listen to since confield

since we know that ilanders plays twice on this leak (correct?) then has someone made a revised tracklist reflecting this