How does elseq fit in with the album number reference game?

  On 2/10/2018 at 1:43 AM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 2/9/2018 at 11:16 PM, span said:

btw how do confield, untilted, quaristice and oversteps fit?

Those are a bit more of a stretch, but from what I understand:

Confild has VI scose poise. VI=6

Untilted has 8 letters and 8 tracks

Quaristice had a catalog number of WARP333. 333=9

 

Like I said, it’s a tenuous thread but at least there’s something

 

But I’ve got nothing to rationalize/connect oversteps. Just move of ten

IIRC, someone found a very obscure link to quaristice and the number 9 which goes like this: if you make a grid of nine squares, it would leave four empty spaces around the inner corners. "stice" is kind of a root word for an empty space, so "quaristice" could apparently mean "four spaces". tbh i don't think the B brothers were thinking this at the time, altho the minimal square artwork makes (a bit) more sense in this context.

  On 2/10/2018 at 6:22 PM, Amen Lare said:

there's a shitload of 9s in quadrange tracklist and Gantz Graf has some numeric association to Confield (WARP128 and WARP256), though i'm not sure where's 8 in there.

i never noticed that before! do you think the use of '90101' in the titles is just a reference to the ninth album, like "Draft 7.30" being a title? that is much simpler. perhaps "90101" was a vague, almost unnamed track that kept getting remixed and modified.

  On 2/17/2018 at 5:59 PM, Rhombix said:

 

  On 2/10/2018 at 6:22 PM, Amen Lare said:

there's a shitload of 9s in quadrange tracklist and Gantz Graf has some numeric association to Confield (WARP128 and WARP256), though i'm not sure where's 8 in there.

i never noticed that before! do you think the use of '90101' in the titles is just a reference to the ninth album, like "Draft 7.30" being a title? that is much simpler. perhaps "90101" was a vague, almost unnamed track that kept getting remixed and modified.

 

It was just a quick throw-away argument, there are other 9s in Quaristice and its posse anyway - chenc9, Outh9X. Quadrange also is a 9-letter title (unlike Quaristice) and the catalogue number is the same 333 with letters, so 9 just isn't obscure in this case.

Where's 8 in Gantz Graf though? The Japanese edition on Beat Records actually has an 8 as catalogue number (BRE8), you could also call Warp's 256 as 2⁸ i guess, but both of these are kinda weak.

what if the next album doesnt reference numbers 12 nor 13... but 14

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/et_seq.

  On 2/18/2018 at 3:05 PM, span said:

what if the next album doesnt reference numbers 12 nor 13... but 14

I’m starting to believe they skipped 13 like a floor in the building.

I’m cereal guise, someone mentioned it in the big NTS thread but got ignored. Sam and Bob are up to something with their numerological tricks again.

  On 5/4/2018 at 2:48 AM, webby said:

I’m cereal guise, someone mentioned it in the big NTS thread but got ignored. Sam and Bob are up to something with their numerological tricks again.

https://forum.watmm.com/topic/94971-autechre-nts-residency-o/?p=2629244

I like to imagine that elseq was the new ae take on the EP, a "mini-album" relative to the "loooooongplay". Therefore the way is paved for NTS1-4 to be twelb, a worth-the-wait follow-up to Exai.

That would be cool, but the catalogue number indicates, that it's an album: it's WARP512 not WAP512.

I guess I should re-emphasize "I like to imagine" (fully aware of their catalogue numbering system). I just find the concept of elseq as a mere EP-length by their current standards amusing, in reality it would be ridiculous.

If you take the average length per volume wich is around 47 minutes, perhaps it isn't so ridiculous. So I agree.

elseq -> elsa -> frozen -> disney animation studio's 13th academy award for best song -> 13th autechre album

ae_live -> alive -> johnny 5 is alive -> johnny 5 12 alive -> 12 -> the 12th autechre album is ae_live

elseq isn't real number 11, it's a 'segue' from it, except it's a q not a g.... FUCK

If the Peel Sessions aren't numbered EPs, perhaps the NTS Sessions aren't a numbered LP either...

  On 2/18/2018 at 12:13 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

 

 

 

Where's 8 in Gantz Graf though? The Japanese edition on Beat Records actually has an 8 as catalogue number (BRE8), you could also call Warp's 256 as 2⁸ i guess, but both of these are kinda weak.

 

always thought the æ on its side was the 8

  On 7/3/2018 at 11:14 AM, italiceyeball said:

 

  On 2/18/2018 at 12:13 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

 

 

 

Where's 8 in Gantz Graf though? The Japanese edition on Beat Records actually has an 8 as catalogue number (BRE8), you could also call Warp's 256 as 2⁸ i guess, but both of these are kinda weak.

 

 

always thought the æ on its side was the 8

 

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haha wow. First the C on Confield and now this!

is there in thread that compiles all this knowledge? I def can’t remember all these

like wtf is the confield c, Jules?

I forget who pointed it out. Maybe Modey? On the cover of Confield, the white space makes a big letter C

  On 7/3/2018 at 8:50 PM, Alcofribas said:

is there in thread that compiles all this knowledge? I def can’t remember all these

 

like wtf is the confield c, Jules?

  On 7/3/2018 at 11:07 PM, jules said:

I forget who pointed it out. Maybe Modey? On the cover of Confield, the white space makes a big letter C

woah yeah, gd I never noticed that

wtf ae are so good at naming stuff

my original hypothesis way back was that they only ref the album order inthe odd numbered releases. but then Quarisitice came out and that kind of fell apart (though Exai brought it back), and now NTS Sessions 1-4, if we're to consider that 13, doesn't fit either.

everything else seems like a big stretch, if we're just to consider album titles

The stylised 4 in the NTS art caught my eye straight away.  why should the 4 be different? 

or.. is the word 'sessions' to be treated like the Peel Session EPs in the numbering game?