Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

  On 10/14/2020 at 7:59 PM, tailings said:

Not that it's super important, but you do realize my comment was in reference to a specific critique of my earlier perception of the album and >not< a statement about COVID denial.

oh of course yeah, wasn’t meaning it towards you. was referencing a certain other major IDM producer WATMM is a fan of that is a COVID denier apparently.

  On 10/14/2020 at 8:21 PM, Lianne said:

Unfortunately tinnitus also provides “surface noise” for all listening...but usually not if the soft-vinyl variety!

at least you can listen to tri rep without having to own a turntable for the "complete" experience 

  On 10/14/2020 at 8:21 PM, Lianne said:

Unfortunately tinnitus also provides “surface noise” for all listening...but usually not if the soft-vinyl variety!

You know what's great to have a tinnitus? Ventolin becomes just a pleasent listening...

  On 10/14/2020 at 8:44 PM, Chabraendeky said:

You know what's great to have a tinnitus? Ventolin becomes just a pleasent listening...

Then am I odd for enjoying Ventolin though I don't have tinnitus?  

second listen in (now w/ headphones) - the album makes much more sense and is far more pleasant, diametrically

i only listen to music in scientific environments. the first thing i do is request that the mayor shut down the city, so as to eliminate the intrusive sounds from my surroundings. next i assassinate the local wildlife as they are known to produce unwanted sounds. then i go into my anechoic chamber where i have my cloud and drive set up so that i can listen to "digital vinyls," a medium so flawless christ himself is like "hey dad send me down there again i want to check out digitals." in this way i experience the most proper, efficient, convenient, superior, immaculate hearings and receivings of sound.

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:06 PM, Alcofribas said:

i only listen to music in scientific environments. the first thing i do is request that the mayor shut down the city, so as to eliminate the intrusive sounds from my surroundings. next i assassinate the local wildlife as they are known to produce unwanted sounds. then i go into my anechoic chamber where i have my cloud and drive set up so that i can listen to "digital vinyls," a medium so flawless christ himself is like "hey dad send me down there again i want to check out digitals." in this way i experience the most proper, efficient, convenient, superior, immaculate hearings and receivings of sound.

is your copy of digi-vinylz ok tho?

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:07 PM, eclipsis said:

is your copy of digi-vinylz ok tho?

it plays perfectly from my iPhone 6 internal speaker 

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:21 PM, Alcofribas said:

it plays perfectly from my iPhone 6 internal speaker 

good, that's the proper way to listen to music, i've seen many kids doing that, it's cool

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:21 PM, Alcofribas said:

it plays perfectly from my iPhone 6 internal speaker 

Incomplete otherwise.

  On 10/14/2020 at 9:40 PM, tailings said:

Incomplete otherwise.

incomplete without smartphone speaker lowcut

  On 10/14/2020 at 8:16 PM, natios said:

"initialization: the preparation of a computer or similar device for operation, in which diagnostic tests are run and the operating system is loaded" so a sign of things to come, rob just doesnt want to tell what is coming...

Or he just meant to say "acronym" or "initialism" instead and had a mental blank..

  On 10/14/2020 at 8:18 PM, eclipsis said:

to me it's an artefact, a physical representation of the music, i enjoy the ritual of sitting back and putting the needle on the record and listen, (to me) it's a very different experience than mp3/flac/whatever due to those reasons... still, i do listen to digital maybe 95 % of the time because of the convenience

then there's a collector mentality, as i music nerd, i just like to have them and look at them i guess

This is it for me. Also I have some fantasy in my head that the records will wear down a bit and start to sound like a well played 70s/80s synth album or something lol. Then again, I had that fantasy with Oversteps and I've only played it once.

Could always flip it on discogs for 4x the price in a couple of years..

why do I buy vinyl? BIG ART

but I ordered the CD for this because I'm on a budget and I think this is one I'll play a lot in the car

third listen - i'm falling hard for this record

vinyl arrived today, evening schedule set.

  On 10/14/2020 at 10:53 PM, cloud capture said:

vinyl arrived today, evening schedule set.

let me know if you have any issues with the pressing pls

i've checked the discs again and i don't see a single scratch, that's actually not a good sign (lol)

Ironically enough my vinyl copy of Tri Rep is probably the cleanest sounding LP I own.  
 

I got a dispatch notice on SIGN a couple days back but it’s still showing as “preshipment” on the tracking info, which puts it on the other side of the North American continent.  Bleep/Warp are always shit at logistics. 

I got a confirmation that my LP had been shipped and I had forgotten I even ordered it. Nice surprise.

  On 10/14/2020 at 11:10 PM, eclipsis said:

let me know if you have any issues with the pressing pls

i've checked the discs again and i don't see a single scratch, that's actually not a good sign (lol)

Send a mail to Blerp, customer support is on point.

  On 10/14/2020 at 10:58 AM, phudoshin said:

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How it started ^

How it ended v

Your parcel is due for delivery Tuesday.

Great, paid extra for tracked & couriered so I would definitely have it tomorrow

review on The Quietus

review on Allmusic

whenever i read the word "approachable" for an Ae release, i want to vomit...

"Of course, it can take a bit of work and some deep listening to get there. But what if those layers were to be peeled back? What if we didn’t have to wade through hours of fractal rough to uncover those hidden gems of pure machine-funk beauty? What if the melody on Confield’s ‘Pen Expers’ wasn’t obscured by what sounds like coins being sucked into a giant vacuum cleaner? What if ‘6IE.CR’ on Draft7.30 were just the pads and not the cyborgs?"

~ my problem with SIGN exactly ~