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
//
Pietro
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 8:28 AM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 70 lines So Pietro was disarmingly nice to me about my crabby review, and it
> 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> 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> wrote:
>>
>>> https://igloomag.com/reviews/exm-mitoma-ff0000-touched-music
>>>
>>> ...the album every IDM fan didn’t know they were highly anticipating.
>>>
>>> //
>>> Pietro
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>>>
>>