Autechre. NTS Residency. (_O_)

Sesh 3 sounds like a completely different entity on earphones, it almost takes on a new form. That's been the case for all of these. With MAX Ae are doing very strange things with music to make one listen sound alien to the next.

Session 3 is legendary. 2 hours just flew by with so many standout wtf moments.

A new golden era

  On 4/21/2018 at 10:33 PM, hello spiral said:

Yeah 3 is having the classic aeffect© on me. Found a lot of the tracks inscrutable and now they're slowly showing themselves to me after a few listens.

 

Today glos ceramic clicked hard and I started to make progress with nineFLY and clustro casual. Loving it!

Entire thing just takes such a drastic turn into something really special all the way through to the end.

Great stuff.

=D

I kind of clicked with splesh last night, and I've been digging it more and more throughout the day. But fLh hit me earlier today while I was cooking, that track is so crazy good, I'm crushin on it pretty hard.

=P

I was on board with fLh from first listen.

Herr Jan and I were discussing in chat during the stream how it resembled trout mask replica era Beefheart. When they have two guitars playing slightly differing phrases parallel to each other, dancing around each other.

NTS3 is great, but I still think NTS2 is better. Golden AEGe

for all the peeps having trouble with the sound of the NTS sessions on headphones, i highly recommend getting a listening app that has a crossfeed feature.

The best app i've found so far (for iOS) is "CanOpener". it has made a HUGE difference in the sound quality of these tracks for me on headphones. that flat, brittle quality is gone. everything opens up spatially and the sounds have much more weight & presence. all the tracks that use to annoy me now got me like

unfortuantely, the CanOpener app is abandonware since it is no longer being developed but it still runs flawlessly on my iphone iOS 9. your mileage may vary but hey it's a free app so nothing to lose. Another option is the app "Neutron" which has a million options but the crossfeed feature itself is not as tweakable as the one in CanOpener.

lol at everyone EQing brand new Autechre tracks

i cant wait to hear what the next non-session, non-live release will sound like, cause im not feeling this release as much as id like, as much as i normally do. somethings wrong...

also, the well known narative side of ae is missing here. majority of tracks sound like they pressed record button while prototyping

Booooo

  On 4/22/2018 at 2:51 AM, Nenlow66 said:

Booooo

hey! i said ''majority'' 

  On 4/22/2018 at 2:54 AM, xox said:

 

  On 4/22/2018 at 2:51 AM, Nenlow66 said:

Booooo

hey! i said ''majority''

Splesh does; beyond that, I like (most) improvisational aspects.

i think i'm going to spend a lot of time shuffling through NTS 1-4

AE_LIVE + elseq 1-5 on shuffle was great go-to play list

combining all 3 will be 22 hours

this bleepstore sure has worked out well. the catalog is one of the coolest things in music history

  On 4/22/2018 at 2:07 AM, auxien said:

lol at everyone EQing brand new Autechre tracks

 

multiple people have commented that the tracks sound flat or are lacking bass. never had that reaction to an autechre release myself before nor did i read it. maybe there's something to it? like they can do no wrong? they're human.

Maybe they want it

  On 4/22/2018 at 4:47 AM, lastrushup10 said:

multiple people have commented that the tracks sound flat or are lacking bass. never had that reaction to an autechre release myself before nor did i read it.

*cough*untilted*cough*

  On 4/22/2018 at 12:34 AM, digit said:

for all the peeps having trouble with the sound of the NTS sessions on headphones, i highly recommend getting a listening app that has a crossfeed feature.

 

The best app i've found so far (for iOS) is "CanOpener". it has made a HUGE difference in the sound quality of these tracks for me on headphones. that flat, brittle quality is gone. everything opens up spatially and the sounds have much more weight & presence. all the tracks that use to annoy me now got me like

I don't understand your terminology because when I use a crossfeed (still on my old Sandisk Sansa + Rockbox) it is to flatten the extreme stereo image and emulate the loudspeaker situation. Weight and presence (and character?!) are not terms in my audio world. Do you use golden cables for better sound?

I always use crossfeed when on headphones but I rarely listen on headphones... On Android, I guess Poweramp offers crossfeed, maybe fb2k for Android as well.

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:33 AM, jaderpansen said:

 

  On 4/22/2018 at 4:47 AM, lastrushup10 said:

multiple people have commented that the tracks sound flat or are lacking bass. never had that reaction to an autechre release myself before nor did i read it.

 

*cough*untilted*cough*

cough(2) Oberman Knocks Remix

EDIT: Wanted to put this quote and comment into above posting. I am too stupid for this forum software, copy/paste a quote into an edit window does not work.

What you all on about dissing the sound quality of new Ae. It's crisp as fuck and insane stereo imaging. It breathes. Don't mind the less low-end, it's still there, at least when I am on headphones with my DAP (that might have some bass-boostEQ going on, granted). 

S'all good.

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:33 AM, jaderpansen said:

 

  On 4/22/2018 at 4:47 AM, lastrushup10 said:

multiple people have commented that the tracks sound flat or are lacking bass. never had that reaction to an autechre release myself before nor did i read it.

*cough*untilted*cough*

hmm ... i'm fine with untilted but i can see what you mean.

aenyway, bass boosts for this release it is, i guess

Blessed Rob visits every eq'ing autechre fan in their sleep and sprinkles lushness dust upon them

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:57 AM, Wurstwasser said:

cough(2) Oberman Knocks Remix

Real talk though, I remember when this first came out I said I wished they did more shit like this. I sure got my wish granted.

I think with their old stuff, there's more modes of listening available. You can be kind of absentminded about it, or you can hone in and it still works. With the new stuff, it's like free jazz, you really have to be dialed into it to get the full effect. But if you are, boy are you rewarded for the effort.

  On 4/22/2018 at 2:07 AM, auxien said:

lol at everyone EQing brand new Autechre tracks

 

Flol this x 1000

  On 4/22/2018 at 2:07 AM, auxien said:

lol at everyone EQing brand new Autechre tracks

 

I have to say tho, at first I agreed with the comment about the lack of bass. But then I realized the bass of my speakers was turned to zero.

Well session 3 opened to me a bit more after I had that figured out tbh

lol