Autechre Digital Exclusive Ep
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To sign up for a subscription package, click your user name in the upper right, and choose 'Client Area'. Then, choose a package that suits your needs. This message will be removed once you have signed in. I feel like somebody screwed a tank of nitrous oxide into the intake valve of the Autechre subforum ventilation system. Everybody's on some fluffed, Ae-can-do-no-wrong cloud.
Any criticism is immediately met with STFU!! OMG PLAZ IF U DNT LIEK AWTEKER JUST LEAVE OKAY GOSH WY R PPL SO RUDE?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that these downloads are very lazy and uninspired electronics that any of us would be able to lay down given some Elektrons and reverb petals. And I'm an 18 year fan of Autechre with almost all of their discography as it came out (yes I'm old) so I'm not just a hater stepping in out of nowhere. But, I know I stand alone and 468 n00bs from across the continents are preparing to descend on me so.I'll get my coat. EDIT: Sorry, to answer the point of your thread: I've always loved getting the physical copy and immediately using it in the car and at home but I'm trying to kill that in me since it's a dying system.
In this case, I'm thrilled to bits that they're downloads because I was able to hear the sad programming effort inside without buying (see above). Edited by jcounts, 26 May 2008 - 11:35 PM. Similar background to you, pretty obsessive since about 1997. And a similar conclusion. These reworkings are not great leaps forward in music and I am starting to feel a little milked. BUT - this year they have also given me a 12-hour, eclectic, cool DJ set. The album was pretty excellent.
And their overall impact on my experience of music has been immense. I can afford it and I don't begrudge giving money to artists who have been significant in my life, but with multiple rehashes they are diluting their significance a bit. I read somewhere in an old autechre interview that they were pretty fond of how some acts such as mantronix back in the 80's would release a song then a week later you could get a 12 inch vinyl with about 5 better versions of that same song.
I think their trying to do something similar, even back with cichlisuite (which was awesome). Automower 220 ac software update. I don't see the tracks as autechre milking people, their just giving people the option to hear more of something they already enjoyed albiet expanded and more 'behind the scenes'. Edited by musicforairports, 27 May 2008 - 01:51 AM. Being an old cunt who grew up loving music, without the internet and even remembering when CD was 'new', I don't thnk there'll be any substitute for getting a physical copy of a record on the day of release and playing the fuck out of it without having heard it before (unless I happened to catch it on the radio, which was rare).
I'm enjoying the gradual release of Quadrange and wouldn't knock Autechre for it, but I see it as something of a novelty. I wouldn't want Ae or any of my other fave artists to repeat this too often. Yeah, I'm a nostalgic dinosaur, but it'll be a sad day for me when music is a purely digital medium.
A ridiculous question: i use foobar2000 for converting flac to wav. I plan to burn it on cd coz my little finger tells me that on good set upcd player/ampli it will sounds better than flacs on winamp. But so far, the quadrange (flac or wav) do not sounds as good as other wav trax bought from elsewhere. Is it normal? Well the sound is still pretty decent but hey my quarisitce cds sound better than the flac. i know this question will be totally alien for people who enjoy music via mp3 on their laptop speaker but. A ridiculous question: i use foobar2000 for converting flac to wav.
I plan to burn it on cd coz my little finger tells me that on good set upcd player/ampli it will sounds better than flacs on winamp. But so far, the quadrange (flac or wav) do not sounds as good as other wav trax bought from elsewhere. Is it normal? Well the sound is still pretty decent but hey my quarisitce cds sound better than the flac. i know this question will be totally alien for people who enjoy music via mp3 on their laptop speaker but. You're comparing apples to oranges son.
On the same equipment (with same eq, etc) the flacs/wavs/burned cd are gonna sound exactly the same because they're the exact same pcm audio. Any difference is in your head.
Being an old cunt who grew up loving music, without the internet and even remembering when CD was 'new', I don't thnk there'll be any substitute for getting a physical copy of a record on the day of release and playing the fuck out of it without having heard it before (unless I happened to catch it on the radio, which was rare). I'm enjoying the gradual release of Quadrange and wouldn't knock Autechre for it, but I see it as something of a novelty. I wouldn't want Ae or any of my other fave artists to repeat this too often.
Yeah, I'm a nostalgic dinosaur, but it'll be a sad day for me when music is a purely digital medium. Yeah, i remember sitting down at the only decent record store in town, waiting for ups guy to show up. Every now and then the owner would get a promo tape or something and he'd loan them out to me and my friends, but you wouldn't hear anything of the new releases until you put em in your stereo. I also miss going to record stores in new cities and looking for rare stuff.
Autechre Digital Exclusive Ep
Nowadays it's all just a click away. I miss the old days too. It's been said already, but it's so true. There is a whole ritual to 'new release day'.
After waiting for a long time for the new release, it's a countdown until you get to hear the new music. The day before it officially goes on 'sale' is like waiting for Christmas to come when you're 5 years old. The record store I shop at will sell new releases on Monday night at midnight, right when they close. I would assume most shops do this.
You can bet I was there at 11:55 to pick up Quaristice. The ritual doesn't stop with the purchase. First you get the shrinkwrap and that STUPID sticker off the top. Then you OPEN it, for the first time. The anticipation is mounting, what do you do next? Put it in and listen immediately? Look at the artwork and track names before listening?(that is assuming you haven't looked at every inch of the c.d.
Case already) Or do you listen to it and look at the artwork and such while listening? I would bet that most people follow one of these patterns of new c.d. Purchase almost exclusively.
Something that is instantaneously on your computer and ready for your ears lacks the tactile, physical interaction that makes going to a record store on the day a c.d. Is released and literally 'picking it up' so special. It will never be the same, or better. Back in my day we paid 15 cents for an LP.
Record players had to be wound up by hand, increasing the anticipation, like waiting for an orgasm or something. Kids today with their iPods and Googles and torrents can never understand wading through 15 feet of snow to the nearest record store(usually 5 towns away).
After all, it's not the music that's important, it's the disc of laboratory made vinyl that gives music its soul. Fuck digital downloads. My lawn is pristine and I aims to keep it that way.
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