Autechre - SIGN 16.10.20

Nnnhhhggg, this hasn't clicked with me yet, at all.

I enjoyed the stream because it was a communal thing and I was bouncing ideas off other people.

But since then i've listened twice and struggled to engage with it.  Maybe its because im super busy at work and downtime is at a minimum.  Or maybe it's because i've been listening to loads of noise music lately!

I dunno. Im sure there will be a time and a place for me and SIGN to get netflix & chill 2geva

  On 9/7/2020 at 4:07 AM, sine nomine said:

Maybe he's (Charlie Kaufman) a fan of autechre? I didn't get the movie (i'm thinking of ending things)

Kaufman explain :

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/charlie-kaufman-explains-im-thinking-of-ending-things-1234584492/

Kaufman explain

Beautifully written

Does anything on this album sound like Krib, Silverside or Eutow?

"but whatever our expectations or hopes for new Autechre music were, this album feels like the record we need in 2020, after the year that it’s been"

not it isn't. 2020, best year evah. i want my money back!!!

  On 10/19/2020 at 7:45 PM, Plum said:

Does anything on this album sound like Krib, Silverside or Eutow?

Nope, Nope and mostly Nope.

  On 10/19/2020 at 7:45 PM, Plum said:

Does anything on this album sound like Krib, Silverside or Eutow?

Yeah. This record has “Krib 2,” “Silverside part 2” and “Eutow (mix 2)” fyi

  On 10/19/2020 at 7:45 PM, Plum said:

Does anything on this album sound like Krib, Silverside or Eutow?

there are twinkly synths and pads so honestly kind of yes

My vinyl copy was just delivered. In the evening. By bike messenger. Very hipster of you, Warp.

The inner sleeves are *extremely* orange.

Very Dutch of you, Warp.

Now that you mention it, some of those pads *do* have a bit of a Dutch trance sound to them.

  On 10/19/2020 at 5:17 PM, Draft78 said:

if this had been someone else's album

If this had been someone else's album, I still would have lost my shit over Metaz form8, at the very least.

If this had been someone else’s album, I would’ve skipped it. But then I never like ae albums the first few times I hear them.

Unfair for Eric Elektrontwiddler’s two hour long set of Rytm noodling? Maybe. Guess benefit of the doubt is something that has to be earned.

  On 10/19/2020 at 8:44 PM, Alcofribas said:

Yeah. This record has “Krib 2,” “Silverside part 2” and “Eutow (mix 2)” fyi

Half of the album is just Rob saying “fish, fried rice, chips” tbh. 

  On 10/19/2020 at 2:50 PM, dingformung said:

They only do that if you let that happen. You can mess around with the tempo track and time signatures, it's not hard to do

There are actually limits to what a DAW can do, though.  I don't think you can have a sequencer rhythm that's manipulated by an envelope follower coming from a different track, or if you can then it's probably extremely weird and difficult.  In something like Max it's simple and easy and you can go far beyond that without any restriction.  It's also very difficult to make tracks that use unconventional tonalities like non-octaviating scales in Ableton Live.

  On 10/19/2020 at 7:45 PM, Plum said:

Does anything on this album sound like Krib, Silverside or Eutow?

Well to be honest, Silverside sprung to mind when I listened to SIGN the first time - but in a good way ! The whole album brings me back to Christmas 11 years ago when I bought the Quaristice / Amber double pack and started discovering Autechre.

Amber especially has been strongly associated in my mind to a winter vibe that I'm feeling right now, so to me this album sounds more like Amber's true heir than Oversteps offspring !

(also : Metaz form8 is Piezo 2.0)

  On 10/19/2020 at 10:46 PM, drillkicker said:

There are actually limits to what a DAW can do, though.  I don't think you can have a sequencer rhythm that's manipulated by an envelope follower coming from a different track, or if you can then it's probably extremely weird and difficult.  In something like Max it's simple and easy and you can go far beyond that without any restriction.  It's also very difficult to make tracks that use unconventional tonalities like non-octaviating scales in Ableton Live.

Of course Max is freer than a DAW, if you know how to use it. My point basically was that a DAW doesn't fixate you onto a certain time signature and tempo, as someone  has suggested

  On 10/19/2020 at 10:33 PM, rhmilo said:

If this had been someone else’s album, I would’ve skipped it. But then I never like ae albums the first few times I hear them.

Unfair for Eric Elektrontwiddler’s two hour long set of Rytm noodling? Maybe. Guess benefit of the doubt is something that has to be earned.

Really? You never like AE albums from the first listen on?

That's a phenomenon that I have often heard of but never experienced. Usually I perceive an AE album the same way after 5 years of listening as compared to the first day of listening, roughly.
Of course certain details come out only after a while you have been with the album, but generally, the album doesn't change and therefore my perception doesn't change much.

Things are as they are and that's all there is to them. And that's congruent with my perception.

vinyl showed up in one piece. anyone want this download code

4:17 @ sch.mefd 2

no matter how many times i listen to this album i dont get burned out on it.  its too hefty

  On 10/19/2020 at 11:05 PM, dingformung said:

Really? You never like AE albums from the first listen on?

That's a phenomenon that I have often heard of but never experienced. Usually I perceive an AE album the same way after 5 years of listening as compared to the first day of listening, roughly.
Of course certain details come out only after a while you have been with the album, but generally, the album doesn't change and therefore my perception doesn't change much.

Things are as they are and that's all there is to them. And that's congruent with my perception.

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Maybe I’m just slow

But maybe it’s a matter of taste. Autechre’s broad strokes always seem bland and flat, and, in the case of this specific album, too obvious. Their music really needs the details to give it depth and meaning.

  On 10/19/2020 at 10:53 PM, Stock said:

Well to be honest, Silverside sprung to mind when I listened to SIGN the first time - but in a good way ! The whole album brings me back to Christmas 11 years ago when I bought the Quaristice / Amber double pack and started discovering Autechre.

Amber especially has been strongly associated in my mind to a winter vibe that I'm feeling right now, so to me this album sounds more like Amber's true heir than Oversteps offspring !

 

(also : Metaz form8 is Piezo 2.0)

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I didn't know a Quaristice / Amber pack was thing? What was that about?

  On 10/19/2020 at 11:05 PM, dingformung said:

Really? You never like AE albums from the first listen on?

That's a phenomenon that I have often heard of but never experienced. Usually I perceive an AE album the same way after 5 years of listening as compared to the first day of listening, roughly.
Of course certain details come out only after a while you have been with the album, but generally, the album doesn't change and therefore my perception doesn't change much.

Things are as they are and that's all there is to them. And that's congruent with my perception.

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Oversteps and Untilted needed time to grow on me. Quaristice never really did although I love the live stuff from the period. Most of the others (beginning with ep7, for me) have clicked hard right away.