I have never heard this before until today while browsing youtube for Boards of Canada'a Echo the Sun, which turned out to be an autechre track which led me to this gorgeous track:
sljiva
It's very beautiful, although quite simple (especially compared to its sister track Iambic 9 Poetry - which is one of the masterpieces on Ultravisitor - my favourite album of his).
Zharen
Interesting track. Reminds me of some of the old Aphex Twin tracks in his I Care Because You Do album.
Demoted
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Interesting track. Reminds me of some of the old Aphex Twin tracks in his I Care Because You Do album.
Sorta. The one synth is a BoC synth though. Good track.
d-miurge
My favorite Squarepusher track!
treeboo
beautiful beautiful song. One of my favourite tracks as well...
PSi
hell lets keep this thread going with another gem......the drums...the drums.....THE SNARES...........
anyone drove at exceedingly non legal speeds to this....?
and in the same vein - prob my fav u-ziq production
sljiva
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and in the same vein - prob my fav u-ziq production
Amazing track, not my favourite from him, but definitely one of the better ones on Bilious Paths. Just shows that emulating someone else's sound (he was obviously too much influenced by his label peer VSnares for this one) doesn't always end up as a disaster. µ-Ziq is one of those geniuses who underservedly don't get mentioned enough just because there are people who are even bigger geniuses and do similar stuff in a better way (AFX, Squarepusher, VSnares).
Here are two tracks that sum up µ-Ziq for me:
1. Early phase of his career, techier track that recalls "Intelligent techno" era on Warp around 1992/1993:
2. Later phase, drum&bass-style programming, acid and his trademark warm melodies. Very oldschool, Rephlex-ey kinda tune:
PSi
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Originally posted by sljiva
Amazing track, not my favourite from him, but definitely one of the better ones on Bilious Paths. Just shows that emulating someone else's sound (he was obviously too much influenced by his label peer VSnares for this one) doesn't always end up as a disaster. µ-Ziq is one of those geniuses who underservedly don't get mentioned enough just because there are people who are even bigger geniuses and do similar stuff in a better way (AFX, Squarepusher, VSnares).
Here are two tracks that sum up µ-Ziq for me:
1. Early phase of his career, techier track that recalls "Intelligent techno" era on Warp around 1992/1993:
2. Later phase, drum&bass-style programming, acid and his trademark warm melodies. Very oldschool, Rephlex-ey kinda tune:
Wergle the Proud is very nice - hadn't heard it before, not too keen on the first one but it is very has lush beats and a warm feel to it.
Which autechre tracks do you reccomend - This is probably one of my favourites. My favourite albums being Incunabula and Amber
you can probably tell i really enjoy idm with surreal melodies, i find it tough getting into the likes of Venetian Snares.
Does he have have melodic productions?
DJ Damerchi
wow. I completely forgot about this . Great for meditation, chillin out, doing dome work, etc. MOAR!
sljiva
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Which autechre tracks do you reccomend - This is probably one of my favourites. My favourite albums being Incunabula and Amber
I'm actually more into later Ae, Confield is definitely my favourite album by them, it brought some major innovations that are (badly) copied even these days. I think I've heard more than 300 IDM albums in my lifetime (and I own around 50), and I can safely say that when it comes to creativity and innovation, nothing can top Confield. Untilted and the newest one are also very good. Not that Incunabula or Amber are bad, actually they are both masterpieces (especially when you consider when they were made), but it seems to me that only the serious development of technology that began in the later half of the 90's allowed Ae to utilize their full potential.
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you can probably tell i really enjoy idm with surreal melodies, i find it tough getting into the likes of Venetian Snares.
Does he have have melodic productions?
Snares is most of the times ultra fast and frantic, although he can sometimes branch into other territories such as classical breakcore on Rossz Csillag Alatt Született and My Downfall, which can be kinda mellow but still very crazy. I think the mellowest he went was on Hospitality EP. HERE is his softest track I know of (didn't know how to embed). I'm almost sure you won't like any of his other stuff if you find this too crazy.
PSi
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Originally posted by sljiva
I'm actually more into later Ae, Confield is definitely my favourite album by them, it brought some major innovations that are (badly) copied even these days. I think I've heard more than 300 IDM albums in my lifetime (and I own around 50), and I can safely say that when it comes to creativity and innovation, nothing can top Confield. Untilted and the newest one are also very good. Not that Incunabula or Amber are bad, actually they are both masterpieces (especially when you consider when they were made), but it seems to me that only the serious development of technology that began in the later half of the 90's allowed Ae to utilize their full potential.
Snares is most of the times ultra fast and frantic, although he can sometimes branch into other territories such as classical breakcore on Rossz Csillag Alatt Született and My Downfall, which can be kinda mellow but still very crazy. I think the mellowest he went was on Hospitality EP. HERE is his softest track I know of (didn't know how to embed). I'm almost sure you won't like any of his other stuff if you find this too crazy.
This Venetian Snares track is nice, it has structure and I dont mind the ultra fast snares and beats. Some kind of structure in IDM is important for me but I can see how you could get lost in VS's other works with all the different sounds you could probably listen to one layer each time and it wouldnt get boring
So what your saying is that for melodic structured IDM i need to look at circa 1990-1999. But that being said AFX - Crying in your face is a fantastic example of what i look for in IDM and that is pretty recent...
and this one is nice and mellow:
In fact the Analord series has been very accomodating in the fact that he seems to have verged away from some of his crazyiness, which to some people could be a bad thing.....
