nat hawks wrote:
quoted 11 lines my bleep download of a zip just ended with this...> my bleep download of a zip just ended with this...
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> "Couldn't execute query:
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> SELECT don_zip FROM digimart_order_number WHERE don_order_id = 236709;.
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> 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)"
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> anyone know what-what this means?
It means the web application powering their store could not make a
connection to their database server, in this case, MySQL, which means
it's probably melting under the load of so many people downloading the
new Autechre album.
My initial thoughts about it are that, like most Autechre albums since
Amber, it's going to take a while to sink in. I listened to it once
today and there were some parts that immediately jumped out at me,
unexpected melodic ambient bits, that I found quite pleasing and accessible.
There's a lot more rhythmic structure and the algorithmic-y sounding
bits of past albums seem mostly gone. It's like they're moving back
towards writing songs than creating environments.
It's gonna take repeated listening in various environments before I'm
able to really decide how I feel. "Promising" is how I would
characterize my immediate feelings.
Given how essential Autechre has been to IDM, I think there's gonna be
an impulse in some folks to dismiss this early on, as they finally feel
like it's OK to express their disappointment with more recent past
efforts. I say, give this release a chance on it's own first before
trying to put it in the context of everything else.
It's not easy, accessible eye-dee-emm music that you can throw down in
your DJ set and make the girls think you're cool, but none of us were
really expecting that, right?
It's deep and complex and defies immediate characterization. I also
think it needs to be *listened* to and not "worked" to.
cheers
w
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