Oversteps

  On 8/9/2011 at 7:09 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 8/9/2011 at 8:21 AM, Awepittance said:

sometimes i wish i had a turntable that let me pitch down 33 1/3 rpm cut records far more than normal. Can somebody recommend a turntable to make ultra chopped and screwed live remixes of 33 1/3rd rpm records ?

Um, just resample it. If you're afraid of digital for some reason, get a reel to reel or a 4-track with multiple motor speeds (e.g. Tascam 424). Or you could modify the motor in your turntable like Sean Booth did to his.

what about that winamp pitch plugin?

um...i literaly only want to do it with a turntable so i can casually at my whim decide to pitch down a record i'm listening to on a record player. So no go on a turntable that can do this well? im surprised watmm

  On 8/9/2011 at 11:43 AM, feltcher said:

I have some Numark TT-100s that allows +/- 20% and you can also run at 78rpm and in reverse. Very versatile, but a bit worn now (12 years old). Good fun.

oh yeah? -/+ 20% is good enough, i have a numark tt200 that only goes +/- 10%, almost good enough but not quite

I just said you could modify the internal motor. So you can do it. In fact, it's probably just a matter of adding a pot... well as long as you're not too concerned about quality. Also watch out for AC power, it's a killer.

Anyway, not quite as fun, but if you want something prefab with a ridiculous pitch range, this'll give you +/- 50% http://www.numark.com/ttx

Been meaning to get some magic herb and spin those Overstep vinyl frisbees, as it's been a while. Have a proper session.

Oversteps hasn't blown me away tbh. But with Autechre that means nothing as it can take me aeons to really get into their stuff. I am always immersing myself with something AE. They have so music to listen to, that new albums might lay dormant for a while.

modey, 'snot the first time I heard someone call d-sho qub Depeche Mode on acid... I think we should accept the fact that Oversteps just plain different than their other stuff.

  On 8/17/2011 at 2:49 AM, vproc said:

modey, 'snot the first time I heard someone call d-sho qub Depeche Mode on acid...

It was probably me the first time, hah!

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  On 2/9/2010 at 11:26 AM, modey said:

fuck, i'm loving d-sho qub. holy shit, it's like depeche mode on acid or something lol.

  On 4/7/2010 at 1:03 AM, modey said:

d-sho qub = depeche mode on acid

  On 8/17/2011 at 4:56 AM, modey said:

  On 8/17/2011 at 2:49 AM, vproc said:

modey, 'snot the first time I heard someone call d-sho qub Depeche Mode on acid...

It was probably me the first time, hah!

 

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  On 2/9/2010 at 11:26 AM, modey said:

fuck, i'm loving d-sho qub. holy shit, it's like depeche mode on acid or something lol.

 

  On 4/7/2010 at 1:03 AM, modey said:

d-sho qub = depeche mode on acid

flol. If I could sigquote the above, I would. Thanks for that.

Yeah I said it a lot. I just wanted to get my point across!

Well I love how it's produced. The sounds are all very polished and the sound / mix in general is very nice. The atmosphere is what's most important to me, and the small details and changes in tracks like ilanders and os veix3 are amazing. It's a new place to go and I appreciate that. I kind of just like to put it on and zone out to it, whatever the atmosphere / place is I can't describe it, but like someone else said it feels like it's always been there and I dunno how they manage to make it sound so different to anything else. I feel the same with MoT but to me it feels more like a selection of individual tracks without the focus of Oversteps - and I like both ways of doing it. I don't think I've worn it out yet, but I do find taking a pause of a couple months or more helps bring back the freshness for ANY album. I try not to listen to anything ad nauseam in this way

  On 8/18/2011 at 9:39 PM, coax said:

Well I love how it's produced. The sounds are all very polished and the sound / mix in general is very nice. The atmosphere is what's most important to me, and the small details and changes in tracks like ilanders and os veix3 are amazing. It's a new place to go and I appreciate that. I kind of just like to put it on and zone out to it, whatever the atmosphere / place is I can't describe it, but like someone else said it feels like it's always been there and I dunno how they manage to make it sound so different to anything else. I feel the same with MoT but to me it feels more like a selection of individual tracks without the focus of Oversteps - and I like both ways of doing it. I don't think I've worn it out yet, but I do find taking a pause of a couple months or more helps bring back the freshness for ANY album. I try not to listen to anything ad nauseam in this way

I'd agree with that.

I began listening to Oversteps around spring time 2010. And as with most Ae it just gets better and better. Known(1) sticks out like a sore thumb, but still it makes sense and feels like the crystalline pinnacle of ilanders. And r ess .. wow .. surely one of their best opening tracks!

My favourite tracks on Oversteps are the ones with focus on concise, dense and twisted arrangements such as ilanders osveix3 and st epreo as opposed to the more meandering ambient tracks like O=0 and krylon, which are lovely but in lack of better words, not intense enough.

  On 9/8/2011 at 2:15 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

etchogon pushes the whole "mathematically sequenced" side of ae a bit too far into randomness for my ears (it just sounds ridiculously out of time/sync)

Etchogon-S is one of the few Ae tracks that I can only appreciate whilst super blazed. It's almost as though it's 'unlocked' or something after some green consumption. Actually the entirety of MoT is pretty stoner-y, especially nth Dafuseder.b, that 'flute' sound, fuck.

To spice up the argumentation here, my favorite tracks off Oversteps is krYlon. Is this one of the noodly pieces you mention?

I think it has the best use of their new 'reverb'y sound, chords seem to melt out of the foreground and become the background, so I can never quite tell what is what. It's the perfect length to space out to. It also has a great arc- the key change just after 3:28 throws me for a trip when i'm paying close attention. But thats my favorite part about this track - you can go from close attentive listening to just spacing out to the beautiful sounds and there is always something great for your brain to follow

MoT still comes across as a somewhat unfocused and rushed album to me, especially in compariso to Oversteps. maybe I need to give it some time though.

  On 9/8/2011 at 8:24 PM, Xenblake said:

MoT still comes across as a somewhat unfocused and rushed album to me, especially in compariso to Oversteps. maybe I need to give it some time though.

move of ten is an ep, no?

  On 9/9/2011 at 2:35 PM, yek said:

move of ten is an ep, no?

Exactly!

Ok. an unfocused and rushed EP then ...

yep it's definitely an EP

Having said that I have not listened to MoT yet whilst blazed... But doesn't all music generally sound better when you're high?

  On 9/9/2011 at 9:27 PM, Xenblake said:

Ok. an unfocused and rushed EP then ...

don't let the anal retentiveness of AE fans phase you, because Ae's 'eps' like EP7 and Moves of Ten are practically album length, so i would throw around 'album' as well without giving it a second thought.

I think the whole point of them calling those EPs is to point out that they don't consider them the A-List musical statements from the time period. But they're either cut from the same cloth as the previous album or transitional.

Ae is so on top of things that some of their EPs are album length, that's all.

  On 9/11/2011 at 11:56 PM, Candiru said:

I think the whole point of them calling those EPs is to point out that they don't consider them the A-List musical statements from the time period. But they're either cut from the same cloth as the previous album or transitional.

 

Ae is so on top of things that some of their EPs are album length, that's all.

Yeah, never really looked at it that way before. EP7 also bears trace of tracks being kind of thrown in there.

I haven't played Oversteps at all during summer, but as Autumn is just round the corner and the air is changing I keep thinking about Oversteps.

Funny how albums are seasonal. Autechre probably more so.

Can we say the EPs are either dessert or starter and the album is the main course?

Listen to Oversteps for the first time in months yesterday... great album! When Move of Ten was released I remember thinking it was better than Oversteps, but I don't think so anymore (though it's still great).