Osla for n

  On 10/18/2013 at 1:46 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

 

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Osla For N makes tangible the anxiety of the dentist's waiting room using an impressively limited palette of barked samples and faulty-refridgerator drones.

 

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/records/306020-autechre_levent

 

"now, I don't want you to panic. Just lean back and relax."

:drill:

"ugck ahno arrrgh uhh aurgh eiiiiiigh"

that's what she said ^

runs away from fart cloud

the séance track

let the machines run untended; hide in a duck blind & await glimpses of ghosts

then go fight hallucinated foes with lasers & melodrama

really has that malfunctioning, abandoned spaceship vibe. whoever said that nailed it.

this is a track to space out to...deep shit by ae

That malfunctioning, abandoned spaceship vibe is pretty ubiquitous in the Ae catalog though.

This song either sounds retarded or wonderful. Or both. I choose both wonderful and both.

  On 10/22/2013 at 3:29 AM, disoriental express said:

This song either sounds retarded or wonderful. Or both.

I'm gonna roll with... retarded.

This song is a joke and anyone trying to justify it is delusional. I seriously make this same fucking song every morning before work. It's called an ice scraper on a windshield and it's not original and there is no expert programming or songwriting at work here.

The pads etc towards the end of the song are highly predictable and repetitive.

That being said, everyone has their own opinion. If you enjoy this, all the power to you.

I love the way it starts out rather harsh and abstract then the robo-cough sound gradually becomes part of the more traditional drum beat. I find it to be a really hypnotic and strangely powerful track.

In fact I had it in my head all day the other day...

Man, I hate it when someone on the internet calls you out on your delusional taste in music.

I thought I really liked this track, but now I realise I was just fooling myself to appear cool to all my ae peers.

listen closer, there's a lot of cool sounds in it

i really like it, creepy aliens you can't quite see murmuring things you couldn't possibly understand

it sounds like im on the event horizon when i listen to this track!

Such a neat little track. Sounds like Sean & Rob have gone off for a cup of tea and left the track in its terrarium to evolve by its own accord. The coughing scraping beat does become very hypnotic and natural sounding, opening up for an array of little sounds fading in and out.

It's a nice "natural sounding weirdness" in contrast to the highly controlled and confident Exai. L-Event generally seems more deep, dense and plaintive, in a really good way.

  On 10/22/2013 at 8:10 AM, hello spiral said:

Man, I hate it when someone on the internet calls you out on your delusional taste in music.

 

I thought I really liked this track, but now I realise I was just fooling myself to appear cool to all my ae peers.

lol.

glad you have come to terms with it. =)

Stephen G if you don't like it you aren't listening hard enough.

  On 10/22/2013 at 4:06 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

Stephen G if you don't like it you aren't listening hard enough.

osla for Newb listeners

The stuff 'hidden' behind the main rhythm is phenomenal - so much wild stuff going on:

Reminds me of the vibe in naftwa4 (erm this one, for those - like me - who can never remember names of tracks !):

https://soundcloud.com/marcin-koczot/autechre-naftwa4

finding this track sort of interesting, but mostly tedious. it's a slog compared to the other three, the interesting details don't save it from the overall monotony. feeling a lukewarm Kroger "wheat squares" out of 7 on it.

  On 10/22/2013 at 11:37 AM, AJW said:

Such a neat little track. Sounds like Sean & Rob have gone off for a cup of tea and left the track in its terrarium to evolve by its own accord. The coughing scraping beat does become very hypnotic and natural sounding, opening up for an array of little sounds fading in and out.

It's a nice "natural sounding weirdness" in contrast to the highly controlled and confident Exai. L-Event generally seems more deep, dense and plaintive, in a really good way.

Yes I love the evolving nature of this, deffo my fave from the EP, this is what the 'techre do best, these opinion dividing weird tracks ;)

  On 10/22/2013 at 5:08 PM, Lesley said:

 

  On 10/22/2013 at 11:37 AM, AJW said:

Such a neat little track. Sounds like Sean & Rob have gone off for a cup of tea and left the track in its terrarium to evolve by its own accord. The coughing scraping beat does become very hypnotic and natural sounding, opening up for an array of little sounds fading in and out.

It's a nice "natural sounding weirdness" in contrast to the highly controlled and confident Exai. L-Event generally seems more deep, dense and plaintive, in a really good way.

 

Yes I love the evolving nature of this, deffo my fave from the EP, this is what the 'techre do best, these opinion dividing weird tracks ;)

 

Yep.

I can't help but think of all the other tracks similar to this in their discography that a lot of people immediately wrote off after release date.

It feels nice, after all these years, to still get tracks from them that at first completely stump you.

So, the barking sound is pretty unpredictable and I find that as a result I get excited anticipating that chunk of the pattern where the sound fires three times in quick succession. Maybe I'm crazy but the rhythm of the barking seems to cohere slightly whenever it happens in specifically 3 shot bursts. Even more awesome is the part at 3:22 where it happens thrice quickly, and then after a short break it fires another three times quickly. I'm getting right into the micro details to describe this but this touch makes such a world of difference.

I'm hearing more of a rough chisel on hard fiberglass. Like when you're hastily scraping those troublesome barnacles off of the hull of your sailboat, and it's turning into a transcendent experience. Really getting that movement down.

yes! chisel that boat! fuck you, barnacles!

tracncdntal expirenc

  On 10/22/2013 at 11:22 PM, barbara planar said:

I'm hearing more of a rough chisel on hard fiberglass. Like when you're hastily scraping those troublesome barnacles off of the hull of your sailboat, and it's turning into a transcendent experience. Really getting that movement down.

lol

just sounds like a really weirdly EQd snare to me

reminds me of stuff going on in Steels a bit

anyway this track is one of the deepest they've done in awhile, multiple stages and sound worlds to travel through.. it was my least favorite, now it's my favorite.