elseq 1-5

  On 6/1/2016 at 11:13 PM, auxien said:

Also, chimer 1-5-1 is weird time-sig wise. It's in 5/4, but then the measures change up it seems.

 

it's 4/4 at 151.0 bpm

elseq plays like a stretched out beats tape, and I'm loving every minute I've heard. Stellar release and the consistent percussion makes it easy to get into. future hiphop etc.

Edited June 2, 2016 by Rpeg

artov chain, take me back to your home planet

  On 6/2/2016 at 1:07 AM, crono3 said:

 

  On 6/2/2016 at 12:47 AM, ScaldedBorneo said:

 

  On 6/2/2016 at 12:01 AM, Bubba69 said:

I like autechre tracks that are longer and more jammy than the cut down 3-5 minute tracks. I prefer the quaristice companion releases to the actual album.

I way prefer Quaristice over Quadrange.

Same here. I love Quaristice and I never really understood all the love for Quadrange...

I enjoy both differently

  On 6/2/2016 at 1:12 AM, IOS said:

 

  On 6/1/2016 at 11:13 PM, auxien said:

Also, chimer 1-5-1 is weird time-sig wise. It's in 5/4, but then the measures change up it seems.

 

it's 4/4 at 151.0 bpm

 

 

You are very correct.

 

It's the same 4/4 masquerading as 5/4 trick that they use on runrepik (I remember having a discussion about this at some point last year on here). I'm guessing the beats are probably built essentially the same, or maybe using a modification of the same loop. Either way, listening to loops of both tracks for the past 5 minutes has made me not just not-enjoy both tracks, but actually hate them, so I'm going to investigate no further.

I know precisely what you mean. During the broadcast of feed1 I couldn't tell where the beat was for the entire track. It took three auditions to realise the bass drums really mostly stay in the same positions throughout the track.

 

runrepik is now much easier to follow rhythmically. The one that's still tricky is spl9.

Edited June 2, 2016 by IOS

spl9 seems straightforward to me...brutal af but straightforward

just bought a new hi res digital audio player to play these 24 bit wav ae files i've been getting.
anyways. i've finally been able to give the entire elseq 1-5 a proper listen. several times each. more familiar with the first 3, but 4 and 5 are coming along.
here are some of my initial thoughts…

i had some cannabyss last night and went out walking listening to elseq 1… visions of surrealistic, futuristic, alien, apocolyptic landscapes. ominous, dark and foreboding, but also extremeley visual and viceral and exotic. some of it serene. one track (c16 deep tread) ended like an atomic bomb and the feeling was that of despair. the emptyness swallowed me. it was fitting cos i came to a clearing in the road and it was dark and i had a view of the lake michigan ocean and things were vast and desolate. the sonic palatte created and presented is emmaculate. i am in complete au. i later laid in bed and listened to more (elseq 2,3) with my eyes closed. extremely visual. layers of multi dimensinal planes appeared to form and shape shift in my minds eye. listened to 4 and 5 walking to and from work during the day. made for a very super-natural walk. it really is a night time album though. overall the scope of this album, in terms of length and range of different sounds is enormous. quite spiritual. god-like almost. while this can be applied to the whole thing, with elseq 5 in particular… i am reminded of the scene in Tarkovsky's Solaris at the end where Kris is on his knees in the pouring rain on the surface of the planet solaris, before his father, he is on his knees kissing his hands in a prostrating state. i would compare the sounds to that of the surface of the planet Solaris. a largely unexplored world, where all basic laws of human knowledge are all but non-existant. we can only speculate as to what is going on beneath the surface. it is the AU that has come to TECH the ER.

  On 6/2/2016 at 2:43 AM, auxien said:

Either way, listening to loops of both tracks for the past 5 minutes has made me not just not-enjoy both tracks, but actually hate them, so I'm going to investigate no further.

Oh man you just Jev'd yourself.

  On 6/2/2016 at 4:13 AM, donotseemecricket said:

overall the scope of this album, in terms of length and range of different sounds is enormous. quite spiritual. god-like almost.

I wouldn't have put it exactly this way but I think I know what you mean. There's a distinct shift in mood with AE_LIVE and elseq. They're mostly dark, apocalyptic and relentless, and there's really chilling moments where I feel like I'm gazing into the abyss. Even when it's playful, it's heavy.

 

It makes me wonder what's been going through their minds that led to this change. We focus a lot on the tools and process when we talk about what they do, and surely that's a major factor, but it seems like there's more to the changes in taste and decisions.

  On 6/1/2016 at 11:13 PM, auxien said:

Guys, I just figured it out. This is their Earth (the band, not the planet you fucking hippies) period.

 

Earth albums often revolve around one new instrument or idea, and this set of EPs (yeah I'm calling them that until Sean pops in to say I'm wrong) is seemingly all made on one basic set of software (the AE_LIVE Max/whatever setup), so that counts....and then the songs are mostly long and slightly changing jam-style stuff that is often pretty but often dark/melancholy.

 

Okay I'm mostly joking but the comparison struck me as slightly relevant.

I got that sense too especially from the sound of eastre. its the same 3 droning chords for the entire song, but with an engrossing AE take on the style that earth has executed so well. ive loved playing eastre loud as fuck in the same way id listen to earth. Also it just sounds the "earthiest", while the rest of the album has mostly evoked for me scenes of space

Edited June 2, 2016 by nappanapples

spth reminds me of parhelic triangle

I just want to add that ever since I laid eyes on the elseq1 'cover' it has always looked like butt + dingleberry to me. gj TDR.

 

edit: I will paypal beer money to the person who can animate it like a butt shaking off a dingleberry

Edited June 2, 2016 by usagi

  On 6/2/2016 at 10:01 AM, usagi said:

I just want to add that ever since I laid eyes on the elseq1 'cover' it has always looked like butt + dingleberry to me. gj TDR.

 

edit: I will paypal beer money to the person who can animate it like a butt shaking off a dingleberry

that cover just like the track is some lush fartporn

Just started playing this on a 5.1 system and the 'coder is doing something to generate rear surround channels for me and it's incredible. Full elseq immersion.

Working late tonight. Got all of it on 5 CDrs here. Currently blasting feed1 out of one of these

 

 

Bass pulsing through my balls, good taemes.

wow! ghettoblaster from aliens! // the ''get away from her you bitch'' edition

ok...i no you're gonna kill me but...

 

i love actress but waaaat

 

are you listening on cellphone speakers

heh

 

To me 13x0 step sounds a lot like FSOL. I mean the Dead Cities/ISDN era.

  On 6/2/2016 at 4:13 AM, donotseemecricket said:

just bought a new hi res digital audio player to play these 24 bit wav ae files i've been getting.

anyways. i've finally been able to give the entire elseq 1-5 a proper listen. several times each. more familiar with the first 3, but 4 and 5 are coming along.

here are some of my initial thoughts…

 

i had some cannabyss last night and went out walking listening to elseq 1… visions of surrealistic, futuristic, alien, apocolyptic landscapes. ominous, dark and foreboding, but also extremeley visual and viceral and exotic. some of it serene. one track (c16 deep tread) ended like an atomic bomb and the feeling was that of despair. the emptyness swallowed me. it was fitting cos i came to a clearing in the road and it was dark and i had a view of the lake michigan ocean and things were vast and desolate. the sonic palatte created and presented is emmaculate. i am in complete au. i later laid in bed and listened to more (elseq 2,3) with my eyes closed. extremely visual. layers of multi dimensinal planes appeared to form and shape shift in my minds eye. listened to 4 and 5 walking to and from work during the day. made for a very super-natural walk. it really is a night time album though. overall the scope of this album, in terms of length and range of different sounds is enormous. quite spiritual. god-like almost. while this can be applied to the whole thing, with elseq 5 in particular… i am reminded of the scene in Tarkovsky's Solaris at the end where Kris is on his knees in the pouring rain on the surface of the planet solaris, before his father, he is on his knees kissing his hands in a prostrating state. i would compare the sounds to that of the surface of the planet Solaris. a largely unexplored world, where all basic laws of human knowledge are all but non-existant. we can only speculate as to what is going on beneath the surface. it is the AU that has come to TECH the ER.

 

 

 

Donot thats my favourite post so far, but i think the entity of Solaris enjoyes more ambient music then the harsh enviroment of elseq. I imagine Solaris to be more of an Oversteps, Amber listener. For me Elseq sounds more like an glitched A.I. mind some sort of huge building that folds and unfolds itself all the time with sharp metallic geometry . In general it sounds very architectural to me.

 

 

  On 6/2/2016 at 7:50 PM, xox said:

ok...i no you're gonna kill me but...

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easter sounds like a track actress would do, on a bad day...and TBM2 on a good day

 

Haha! Eastre is fast becoming one of my favourite tracks. TBM2 Is nice and reminds me of 90's Ae but overall is prob one of the weakest tracks for me at the moment

 

Neither of them remind me of actress.. Eastre gives me Coil type vibes if anything

So there I was trying to feed1 curvcaten but the wind wouldn't let up on my pendulu hv moda. Thus I was forced to take the c16 deep tread back to base. And just when I place a 13x0 step in the doorframe this chimer 1-5-1 motherfucker has the gall to mesh my cinereaL. I'd get the bastard later, I thought. I had a few c7b2s saved up, slide one right under his nose when he's not looking. Teach him a lesson in elyc6. The 0nset slow, like eastre it just creeps up on you and before you know it you've been pulled right off the artov chain. I eventually forgot about the incident and decided to foldfree a casual. The 7th slip this week. Too bad they only come in oneum these days. I remember back when I first joined the base, freulaeux would sell some kinda spTh that'd make your latentcall look like a great golden frog. TBM2 I think they called it. I laid in my bunk for awhile until I started to get the pendulu casuals. "Shit, I didn't close the spaces between how V and IV back at the pod," I thought. Needless to say I sprang forth from my elseq and made my way acdwn2 the ship, where to my relief I found my au reunited with its techre, once and for all.

Okay, this is disturbing me. I've been listening to Elseq 1-5 on and off since release. It's highly addictive.

 

The references people here have been making to the AE_Live albums got me curious. I was originally as put off by the samples of the AE_Live albums as I was by those for Elseq 1-5 so I never actually bought them. I was wrong about Elseq 1-5 so I went back and skimmed through the AE_Live previes on the Ae Store again.

 

In the Krakow, Brussels and Utretcht albums alone I've heard the live equivalents of a pretty good chunk of the material on Elseq 1-5, so was this basically them touring new material prior to honing it down for these EPs?

 

More worryingly, can we expect Elseq 6-10 sometime soon do you think? It's just too much to process! :)

Edited June 3, 2016 by Jamesqdot