squarepusher Oversteps - Initial Reactions (for real this time)

srsly guys O=0 will not leave my head wtf

yeah it's catchy as fuck

one of my favourites from the album

If it's any help help, I started enjoying this album once I stopped analyzing it and approaching it with a judgmental, 'this-is-the-next-Autechre-album! It must be amazing!' mentality. I'm not saying that's how those who dislike it are coming to it - it might just not have the sort of sounds you like - but I know I was. I was worrying about how it was pushing boundaries, how detailed it was, how it lived up to prior Autechre works. Once I just listened to it as I would any other album by any other artist, I found it most enjoyable.

Don't understand the hate (inevitable I suppose). I'm absolutely loving Oversteps.

This morning I woke up with st epreo stuck in my head... and im not even kidding. That track has a way of slipping into your subconscious, then snapping you back ever so briefly with the THWACK of the snare

  On 3/5/2010 at 9:38 AM, xxx said:

  On 3/4/2010 at 4:24 PM, mafted said:

  On 2/26/2010 at 8:31 AM, vamos scorcho said:

i don't understand why you all love this album. to me it's quite boring compared to quaristice.

i think they're just trying really hard to like it. a lot of the responses don't make much sense considering how different this album is. i like a few tracks so far but i can't get past the new age -type vibe to a lot of it.

 

 

  On 3/4/2010 at 4:39 PM, Obel said:

  On 3/4/2010 at 4:24 PM, mafted said:

  On 2/26/2010 at 8:31 AM, vamos scorcho said:

i don't understand why you all love this album. to me it's quite boring compared to quaristice.

i think they're just trying really hard to like it.

Douchebag.

 

Here it is...and it's a fellatio metaphor again, I can't help myself. Quaristice was the one when, red-faced and a heart rate of 200 BPM, you talked your first girlfriend into a blowjob and you could see her tremor because she didn't know what the fuck she was doing either. So, it's a trainwreck--"Altibizz" is a great run down the head to mid shift nice and smooth, "ThePlc" starts solid, she gets a rhythm but some teeth start coming in and your like "SHEEEIT" in your mind but you don't let on. She's totally lost her rhythm on "Perlence" and keeps shuffling aimlessly through shaft strokes-tongue tickles-ball sucks-Dale Earnhardt, JR. speed throating...

"Notwo" is that pensive, silent moment where you've came. The previously gelatinous semen is slipping into a liquid form and sliding onto her sheets. She doesn't know what the fuck to say. Now you're not sure about this whole oral sex thing at all. 2 years later, you're still iffy.

 

Enter "Oversteps." This is a woman in her 30's who takes your pants off super-slow with "r_ess" and it feels surreal but you don't know where it's going except that it's not really a place you've been. By the time you get to "d-sho_qub", you realize that you've entered into a zone of a complete blowjob experience that you're not sure anyone else could replicate. If you'll notice, I didn't have as many straight-up head comparisons in the "Oversteps" portion--that's because she just rocked your world under your own radar and there was nothing forced about it, trust and believe. Unlike "Notwo", "Yuop" is something of a post-climactic reverie where you don't go immediately flaccid; you've still got some pulses and pearls of semen going like you could use more. So, you take it back to "r_ess"

I think you're just trying too hard to like blowjobs.

I think Oversteps hit a good nerve with a lot of us. There is something honest and unpretentious about this release that brings out the same qualities found in a lot of the mid 90s techno. So it feels nostalgic without actually being a retrospective release.

Autechre almost specialized in ignoring current trends and release stuff that nobody expects, so among all the ironic disco/funk, blazing prog-hop, chaotic Wonky music and gut wrenching minimal releases, Oversteps feels quite fresh and genuine.

It is quite new age for sure, but it still got Autechre level of production quality, depth and complexity to make it more than just beautiful harmonies.

You see how hard im trying?

  On 3/5/2010 at 11:11 AM, frits said:

I think Oversteps hit a good nerve with a lot of us. There is something honest and unpretentious about this release that brings out the same qualities found in a lot of the mid 90s techno. So it feels nostalgic without actually being a retrospective release.

Autechre almost specialized in ignoring current trends and release stuff that nobody expects, so among all the ironic disco/funk, blazing prog-hop, chaotic Wonky music and gut wrenching minimal releases, Oversteps feels quite fresh and genuine.

It is quite new age for sure, but it still got Autechre level of production quality, depth and complexity to make it more than just beautiful harmonies.

 

You see how hard im trying?

disagree the retro trend is ubiquitous currently see the analords for example

Wow that sentence was a tricky one!

Analord was recorded more than 5 years ago so its ancient already

Oversteps sure has retrospective elements, but its hardly a retrospective release like Dam Funk - Toeachitsown or Boards of Canada - Beautiful Place EP.

  On 3/5/2010 at 11:48 AM, frits said:

Wow that sentence was a tricky one!

Analord was recorded more than 5 years ago so its ancient already

 

Oversteps sure has retrospective elements, but its hardly a retrospective release like Dam Funk - Toeachitsown or Boards of Canada - Beautiful Place EP.

beautiful place was "retrospective"? lol

I think BoC has retro and nostalgia written all over their scruffy Scottish faces.

  On 3/5/2010 at 2:03 PM, frits said:

I think BoC has retro and nostalgia written all over their scruffy Scottish faces.

this

to the point that i can't listen to boc anymore without thinking i'd rather listen to cluster. ie. cluster's song 'hollywood' being reminiscent of a certain boc song that i can't quite put my finger on.

Ya BoC definitely ripped off that song goooood! Prefer the BoC version though.

Krautrock influence can be found all over Autechre as well.

This album is total Krautrock

this album reminds me of a 90s movie soundtrack at times.

  On 3/5/2010 at 2:38 PM, frits said:

Krautrock influence can be found all over Autechre as well.

  On 3/5/2010 at 3:00 PM, six said:

This album is total Krautrock

yes definitely

that's why i love oversteps so much. it is totally like the 70s german electronic bands eg. cluster, harmonia, etc, but with updates to the synthesis techniques and melodic programming. actually is this entire album synthesised? it sounds like the whole thing is fm synthesis, even the drums.

the redfall - krYlon - yuop trio is destroying me with awesome

  On 3/5/2010 at 11:48 AM, frits said:

Wow that sentence was a tricky one!

Analord was recorded more than 5 years ago so its ancient already

 

Oversteps sure has retrospective elements, but its hardly a retrospective release like Dam Funk - Toeachitsown or Boards of Canada - Beautiful Place EP.

I props'd Dâm-Funk during his performance last night. I love this guy.

  On 3/6/2010 at 5:30 PM, Enter a new display name said:

  On 3/5/2010 at 11:48 AM, frits said:

Wow that sentence was a tricky one!

Analord was recorded more than 5 years ago so its ancient already

 

Oversteps sure has retrospective elements, but its hardly a retrospective release like Dam Funk - Toeachitsown or Boards of Canada - Beautiful Place EP.

I props'd Dâm-Funk during his performance last night. I love this guy.

I feel the same way and I did this at his Toronto show.

BTW, it's gone now, but for the first little while after listening to Oversteps obsessively, I would sometimes hear r ess playing in my head and it tripped me the fuck out. That sort of thing had never happened with any other Ae for me, except for some of the percussion on LCC.

This is the first time since Confield that I've really enjoyed an Autechre album. I didn't think much of the album when I listened to the leak but now I've been listening to the proper album all week.

It's not like anything else they've done before, and I still miss the good ol' days (the sound design on this album sounds so raw and synthy, tri rep-confield felt like it was made from the sounds of real machines and robots spazzing out) but this satisfies me in a different way.

I don't listen to as much electronic music as I used to but the hype and release of this album has at least rekindled my love of Autechre <3

@vproc Ya had the exact same problem with the beat in LCC, kept getting stuck in my brain!!!

I kept drumming on everything what humming - dum,dumadum dum POW POW POW

It was not a healthy time. I got off the AE, but now Oversteps got me back on it. FUCK!

you guys think ae listen to wisp?

I just reading Ender's Game comics and Oversteps is making perfect background.

Ae should make the movie soundtrack!

ender's game is a fantastic book!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WTW7M14P

2001 - kruton - smallfish pa. track 2 (autechre remix)

this is one of the most krautrocky things i've found of ae, and it has parts that slightly resemble oversteps structures