Alright, I'm disappointed. I'll admit it. Now I'll go off on a rant.
<OPINION>
As far as the melodic qualities of each track go, I'm entirely
unimpressed. There's not much to be said about that. It either seems to be
not there, not enough, or nothing new. Minimalism at it's most boring.
Personally, I like the ass-shaking Autechre. This new album is most
definately devoid of ass-shaking beatage. the 'Beats that might sound
cool if they weren't so horribly fucked' aren't doing it for me. The
tracks that do have some kind of coherent rhythm sound like they were
programmed by a 3 year old with brain damage. Also, the oh-so-unsubtle and
ridiculous timing/tempo changes on some of the tracks, uhm ... not slick,
jack.
I'm both amused and disturbed by how close the fakes I made ended up
sounding like the actual tracks. I thought to myself, "What would AE sound
like if they crawled a bit too far up their own asses", and proceeded to
make tracks in 5 minutes that could probably quite easily fit in on
Confield. Scary.
Perhaps AE decided to get a laugh out of releasing a terrible record and
getting every idm jagoff to say that it's fresh. Sadly, I don't think
that's the case. The next step in hip hop from the Nth dimension?
Perhaps, but I'm not sure if it's a step in the right direction.
My advice? Invest in some of the more impressive up-and-comers before
buying this album -- Boulderdash, Chris Clark, and Crunch.
</OPINION>
-- -
Nintari Man
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mark wrote:
quoted 58 lines Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:27:12 -0700
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:27:12 -0700
> From: Mark <mef@ecst.csuchico.edu>
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] on discussing autechre on the list
>
> So now, trying to get off this roller coaster, what do people think of
> the album? Supposedly it's released out in Japan, and i've seen it on
> napster now, so I know some of you have it. Out with it! No more of
> this rhetorical discussion on discussion BS. Let's have the meat of the
> matter.
>
> -mark
>
> rw wrote:
>
> > The people who wrote this message have been sacked.
> >
> > rw
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "sarah ellenberger" <djdesada@hotmail.com>
> > To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:56 PM
> > Subject: [idm] on discussing autechre on the list
> >
> >
> >> dear fellow idmers
> >>
> >> it has come to my attention that perhaps we should not discuss whether or
> >> not to discuss the new autechre album. perhaps that would be against the
> >> consensus of the list. perhaps we should elect a senate to decide whether
> >> or not we should be discussing whether or not we should discuss the new
> >> autechre album... and then elect a different senate (composed of different
> >> members) to discuss whether or not to discuss whether or not we should
> >> discuss the new squarepusher release.
> >>
> >> perhaps? let me know what you all think.
> >>
> >> perhaps we should call Jerry Springer.
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