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quoted 66 lines On Sep 30, 2018, at 11:50 AM, David Newman <dwnewman@clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sep 30, 2018, at 11:50 AM, David Newman <dwnewman@clara.co.uk> wrote: > > Pietro lives by the ‘we are reasonable people’ standards > > and he is! :) > > Best wishes > > David Newman > > www.audiobulb.com <http://www.audiobulb.com/> | exploratory music > www.audiomoves.com <http://www.audiomoves.com/> | ambient music sync specialist > >> On 30 Sep 2018, at 16:39, Pietro <pietrobot@gmail.com <mailto:pietrobot@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Clint, you weren't annoying and I'm glad to read you found FF0000 "pleasing" after all! >> >> If you get a chance to check out exm's track "Meltt" from his Modulus album, you may be doubly pleased! >> >> https://igloomag.com/reviews/exm-modulus-touched-music <https://igloomag.com/reviews/exm-modulus-touched-music> >> >> // >> Pietro >> lgloo Magazine :: igloomag.com <http://igloomag.com/> >> Digital::Nimbus Radio :: digitalnimbus.com <http://digitalnimbus.com/> >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 8:28 AM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com <mailto:clinta@gmail.com>> wrote: >> So Pietro was disarmingly nice to me about my crabby review, and it inspired me to go back and listen to the entire release in more detail. >> >> One thing, for context tho. On Instagram, Twitter and some other social media, I follow tags like #autechre and #aphextwin and stuff, maybe you guys do to. This is great except one thing you can't avoid is hundreds of posts of people posting, I don't know, sometimes it seems like ANY electronic album and saying "this is just like #aphextwin #autechre #squarepusher" and just heaping the tags on it. >> It works, it's a good way to get attention, piggybacking on hugely popular institutions of IDM like the Warp posse. So, it sets me up for a bit of a trigger reaction when I see anything that says "SOUNDS LIKE AUTECHRE" and it isn't IMMEDIATELY sounding like Ae to me. >> Now, to be fair, FF0000 is described as having 'echoes of autechre and richard devine', which it does. But not really, in track 5, which is the track they chose to lead with on the Bandcamp page, and which is 11 minutes long. So, I listened to a long hard dose of what honestly sounded like normal, DAW sequenced, industrial noise (to my ears, at the time) >> And my immediate reaction was, how the hell does this sound like Autechre? >> Which, is really something I experience DAILY it seems like, clicking on random albums described as "AUTECHRE LIKE!" >> >> So anyways, I went back and listened to this album in its entirety and honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed at how utterly wrong I was about it. Starting from track 1, yeah, OK, this sounds dead on like Autechre 'means of production' (i.e., ok, you used a modular and/or max-msp instead of just trying to fake it in your FL Studio) -- but again, like Qebo and some others, manages to have it's own vibe and sensibilities, and is coming from it's own 'heart' and not trying to emulate Autechre's melodies or vibes. >> >> The album, however, really does start to get more and more and more 'subtle' and muddy as it progresses, which I guess, isn't entirely bad, it's almost like it starts out full of energy and maybe a little hyper, and descends into kind of a foggy morass of broken bits. Which makes it a little harder to focus on as it progresses, if you aren't fully 'with it', but is in itself pleasing once you find your way 'into' it. >> >> I dunno I'll probably end up buying it lol. >> >> Anyways, if I ever annoy you, just be really nice to me and it's like kryptonite :) >> >> Clint Anderson >> Systems Engineer >> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 5:11 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com <mailto:clinta@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Sorry, I thought this was very very very bad. >> >> Clint Anderson >> Systems Engineer >> "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 12:10 PM Pietro <pietrobot@gmail.com <mailto:pietrobot@gmail.com>> wrote: >> https://igloomag.com/reviews/exm-mitoma-ff0000-touched-music <https://igloomag.com/reviews/exm-mitoma-ff0000-touched-music> >> >> ...the album every IDM fan didn’t know they were highly anticipating. >> >> // >> Pietro >> lgloo Magazine :: igloomag.com <http://igloomag.com/> >> Digital::Nimbus Radio :: digitalnimbus.com <http://digitalnimbus.com/>