Specific Awesome Moments/Things in Move Of Ten

Yeah, so please tell me where the cool shit (tracks, transitions, specific times, etc.) in MoT is and in what way they are cool. I want to like it, I really do. Help me see the light.

I liked the whole album(EP). I dunno what else to say. First need to know why didnt you like it?

For the most part it felt sloppy, simplistic, underdeveloped, too much like half-assed remixes (especially when you consider the typical Autechre remix treatment!), monotonous, uninspired, and just plain old boring. On the plus side it did have more clarity than a lot of other Autechre, but this is just the other side of the simplistic coin.

At this point I like the first track the best because it's audaciously ridiculous while still being pretty cohesive and it's definitely not boring. And that anxious reverbed out chirps are pretty sweet. I thought it was the dumbest thing they'd ever done when I first heard it.

^^ basically this is how I feel about it too, first track is great and also I like y7 because of the sounds, but even that lacks the transitions/awesomeness of most other ae stuff

other than that I have to say its the weakest ae album ever, ep or not

I think you nailed it with simplicity and I dont think MoT was suppose to be anything else but that. That IS why I like it. MoT is just a small collection of small tracks and I dig that. Did you dislike Oversteps too?

  On 12/21/2011 at 5:42 AM, DotRR said:

Did you dislike Oversteps too?

It definitely wasn't my favorite, but I wouldn't say I disliked it. It's obviously carved from the same stuff as most of MoT, it's the same aesthetic territory. Put simply, I didn't love Oversteps but I I felt like I got it, and I appreciated a lot of the ideas even if the end product wasn't as easy to wrap my arms around as anything released prior to it.

I don't feel that way about MoT. It starts with a bang, descends into wank territory pretty quickly, and basically stays there right up until the end.

That video really does make M62 shine lol

Standout tracks for me are rew(1) and cep_puiqMX. Contrary to the others they're beefy, and don't sound like discarded Oversteps tracks (no border, ylm0, iris was a pupil) though the latter is actually Oversteps worthy IMO.

The others just sound awkward and, like many have mentioned before, downright boring (pce freeze 28i, nth Dafuseder)

But yeah, rew(1) and cep_puiqMX are my favs of MoT.

Thank god because I would have posted that if you hadn't.

That video is a good metaphor for why MoT sucks.

i loop nth.d on hours.

I can't get on with nth dafuseder at all, it's those off-key flutes - for me it's one of the only ae tracks I find genuinely unlistenable.

There are some good tracks on MoT, but I agree it sounds like a bit of an afterthought. Cep Puiqmx is probably a favourite, but it doesn't seem to have anything in common with the other tracks on the EP as far as a I can tell.

  On 12/21/2011 at 4:45 PM, danshoebridge said:

Cep Puiqmx is probably a favourite, but it doesn't seem to have anything in common with the other tracks on the EP as far as a I can tell.

Some months ago someone posted a video of these guys doing some really abstract pop and lock type dancing while walking down the street with this playing in the background. It really brought out something special in that track I hadn't heard before, almost made it feel like one of those massive, mind-bending Kubrick scenes. I haven't been able to find this video since and when I listen to the track without the video, it really falls short of that feeling :/

  On 12/21/2011 at 12:11 PM, Xenblake said:

But yeah, rew(1) and cep_puiqMX are my favs of MoT.

This.

Rew(1) is one of those tracks I like to play very, very loud. It's the dirtiest, futuristic hip-hop tune Autechre ever put out.

cep_puiqMX on the other hand is to me an introduction to r ess - I don't know why but I always felt like MoT was meant to be played before Oversteps.

Then...M62 is like a recreation. Some beautiful tracks up there too - thinking of ylm0 and iris was a pupil.

But again, it just doesn't work as a whole to me...

I love MoT. I think it's better than Oversteps.

  On 12/21/2011 at 5:30 AM, sweepstakes said:

For the most part it felt sloppy, simplistic, underdeveloped, too much like half-assed remixes (especially when you consider the typical Autechre remix treatment!), monotonous, uninspired, and just plain old boring.

funny, but that sounds like you're describing quaristice, not move of ten.

theres nothing half assed about quaristice, quaristice gets right everything that MoT gets wrong. quaristice is constantly changing and creative and funky and always exploring different sounds, while MoT largely repeats the same sounds and in a boring-as-hell way. You may not like quaristice but don't tell me you are bored by it

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Rew(1) is one of those tracks I like to play very, very loud. It's the dirtiest, futuristic hip-hop tune Autechre ever put out.

when i listen to ae i want something thats dirty and funky but also changes into something else 5 times by the end of the track. I could list at least 30 other ae tracks that are dirtier and more futuristic

  On 12/21/2011 at 7:19 PM, khurmookum said:

  On 12/21/2011 at 5:30 AM, sweepstakes said:

For the most part it felt sloppy, simplistic, underdeveloped, too much like half-assed remixes (especially when you consider the typical Autechre remix treatment!), monotonous, uninspired, and just plain old boring.

funny, but that sounds like you're describing quaristice, not move of ten.

Quaristice did feel very off-the-cuff and improvised. But on that token I felt like there was a sincerity to that, which was replaced by a restraint that sometimes bordered on pretense in Oversteps. Like the rugged noisy edges were replaced by twinkly filigree, the following alleys, doorways, and tunnels to see where they lead was replaced by this sometimes solipsistic fantasizing of an imaginary world.

I often really like these feminine types of sounds but it was alienating for me coming from them. I didn't hear a lot of muscle from the 2010 releases, neither in the rugged sense nor the hand-wrought imperfection sense of the word.

  On 12/21/2011 at 6:04 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 12/21/2011 at 4:45 PM, danshoebridge said:

Cep Puiqmx is probably a favourite, but it doesn't seem to have anything in common with the other tracks on the EP as far as a I can tell.

Some months ago someone posted a video of these guys doing some really abstract pop and lock type dancing while walking down the street with this playing in the background. It really brought out something special in that track I hadn't heard before, almost made it feel like one of those massive, mind-bending Kubrick scenes. I haven't been able to find this video since and when I listen to the track without the video, it really falls short of that feeling :/

This one?

  On 12/21/2011 at 10:46 PM, Xenblake said:

This one?

Yup! :) Thanks!

as a collection of songs Moves of Ten is great. however songs like "Ylm0' and 'iris was a pupil' to me just sound like outtakes from Oversteps and totally destroy the flow of what could an otherwise very cohesive AE album/ep.

edit: i forgot No Border also sounds like a very sega genesis infused Overstep outtake as well

edit2: for my money fi they cut all of those songs out it would be a better album than Oversteps

  On 12/21/2011 at 5:54 AM, sweepstakes said:

It starts with a bang, descends into wank territory pretty quickly, and basically stays there right up until the end.

i can kind of get on board with that, the opening track is my favorite of MOT so i can see it heightening the intensity a little too soon only to have it drop off as the albums fades into more of a hybrid between what MOT could have been and an oversteps overflow

wat?

tell you what's so good about it so you can like it?

is this pitchfork now?

W A T M M

WATMMoment, oscillik, I want to make sure I'm not missing anything. Besides you are the one who's so sure that everyone who thinks it sucks is going to love it by the time the next thing comes out which we will then be whinging about. Whinge Whinge Whinge