Autechre - NTS 1-4 - reviews

Saw these on Twitter, that box set does look pretty sweet

wrong thread m8

the intrepid jd done posted those exact pics a few days ago

but you are very correct in that it looks pretty sweet 

  On 7/25/2018 at 7:28 AM, Chabraendeky said:

He has done it:

https://youtu.be/Y1Bee1WY-vQ

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/arts/music/playlist-boygenius-disclosure-kim-petras.html

Xflood mentioned by NYT.

well, well...

"Whereas Aphex Twin has said all the things he had ever have to say nearly two decades ago, Autechre seems to stay in touch with the evolution of [their] sound. On the other hand, even as they push the envelope outside defined boundaries, Autechre appear to water only the plants grown in their very own garden, rarely harvesting a new technique which some modern electronic musicians develop and embrace. "

https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2018/08/28/autechre-nts-sessions-warp/

  On 9/1/2018 at 12:11 AM, wredny said:

well, well...

 

"Whereas Aphex Twin has said all the things he had ever have to say nearly two decades ago, Autechre seems to stay in touch with the evolution of [their] sound. On the other hand, even as they push the envelope outside defined boundaries, Autechre appear to water only the plants grown in their very own garden, rarely harvesting a new technique which some modern electronic musicians develop and embrace. "

 

https://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2018/08/28/autechre-nts-sessions-warp/

"Take a listen to a new offering from the God of modular synthesis, Richard Devine, and see what I mean when I speak of sound design."

Ouch.

Also:

??

These reviews are nice and all, but I'm just holding out for the G Starostin review. If there's ever been a man who fully "got" Autechre....... it's him.

Lol

  On 5/17/2018 at 4:16 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

lol @werp for running with that quote

 

sorry susan and roberta, it were the computer wot made it, not you two! 

tbh this is the best Autechre review I've ever read in a mainstream publication, and one of the best period. It's one of those "talk about anything but the music at hand" type reviews that watmmers hate, but the author seems to really "get" the boys in a way I haven't seen before (not even memeing this time)

this part is particularly great:

Hell even the part about Stockhausen, which seemed like a bit of a stretch when I first read it, is almost exactly what Sean says in a recent interview.

A Boomcat review: 

https://boomkat.com/products/nts-sessions

https://not.neroeditions.com/autechre-nts-sessions/

Nice review. This part rings very true for me

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  On 10/4/2018 at 2:25 PM, hello spiral said:

 

Nice review. This part rings very true for me

 

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Tsugi (franch interview)

  On 10/4/2018 at 4:26 PM, AE35unit said:

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https://www.tsugi.fr/autechre-en-couv-de-tsugi-116-en-kiosque-mardi-9-octobre/

  On 10/4/2018 at 8:05 PM, AE35unit said:

Tsugi (franch interview)

  On 10/4/2018 at 4:26 PM, AE35unit said:

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https://www.tsugi.fr/autechre-en-couv-de-tsugi-116-en-kiosque-mardi-9-octobre/

New portion of "influences" by Sean (he likes to vary it lately), aside from Eno & h3o of course

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SB: Des morceaux longs, j’en écoute depuis la fin des années 1980, d’abord Eno et l’ambient, puis Bernhard Günter et les gens du label Selektion, The Hafler Trio, Kevin Drumm, Daniel Menche, Roland Kayn… Pourquoi serions‐nous plus radicaux que ces gens?

  On 10/4/2018 at 2:25 PM, hello spiral said:

 

Nice review. This part rings very true for me

 

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A little bit derivative TBH. Dime a dozen copy paste internet opinions. Give me Anthony Fantano any day

flol I remember that movie. I was so obsessed with that first Fat Boys album.

The Wire has finally weighted on NTS and it's their's no 8 in the 2018 Rewind! 

Autechre NTS Sessions 1–4 Warp 8xCD/DL/12xLP Autechre’s NTS Sessions 1–4 is an eight hour opus of endurance. Its 36 tracks are cut from recordings performed at London’s NTS Radio throughout April 2018, which came in four heroic instalments that were then played on loop over the week before broadcasting the next one. The result is overwhelming, with tracks with titles like “elyc9 7hres”, “violvoic” and “e0” running past the ten and 15 minute mark, while incrementally growing longer to conclude on the epic “all end”. The latter’s fine and textured ambience runs on a shimmering swell, clocking in just shy of an hour.

The process behind the production on NTS Sessions is unclear, with Rob Brown and Sean Booth’s developing, career-long collaboration with software being a distinct but unsubstantiated possibility. Without it, the mind boggles to imagine the mindfulness and stamina to maintain this meditative trance of maximal composition. As vast as this recording is, it’s even more astounding to imagine its position within Autechre’s 30-plus year career. Producing countless live and studio albums and EPs, they’ve rarely deviated from releasing via Warp, with its members only occasionally working outside the project. In light of that, the release is less an exercise in excess and redundancy (where at a certain point an artist can pretty much do what they want) and more an exploration of constancy without repetition.

Perhaps it makes sense to zoom out from the microscopic dissection of sound of NTS Sessions to the build and resolution of an entire oeuvre that spans decades. The build and resolve of this particular episode starts at the more beat-driven probe of Session 1 and ends on the transcendental atmospherics of Session 4. Where that sits in relation to 1994’s Anti EP, for example, is as the logical conclusion of an ever shifting post-human project that subverts and evades the authoritarian limitations of language. NTS Sessions is yet another lofty signpost on that journey to escape. Steph Kretowicz

facepalm emoji

Noisey has it up at 64 on their albums of the year list. https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/7xyex4/the-100-best-albums-of-2018

A fucking travesty, should have been 63.

Uh, that Wire review reads like a skim of Wikipedia and existing publication reviews. Once again, doubt lingers as to whether they actually listened to it.

New York Times: The 28 (?) Best Albums of 2018

10. Autechre, ‘NTS Sessions 1-4’