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for the most part i've loved every autechre record from the get go. and most of them at one time or another became albums that just grew and grew on me and still reveal new sounds and info all the time. things i didnt hear even after listening for years etc.
draft 7.30 was one that i listened to for a while then put away then one day put on and it sounded just amazing to me.
today i had that same experience w/confield. i appreciated it when i first got it but never jelled with it. today, now, i feel like i can finally "hear" the record and it's awesome. it's like a new release i get to enjoy when there is no new autechre record out. 
there aren't too many other artists i have this kind of experience with but it makes me question my initial impressions of music. what if i really like happy hardcore and just don't know it yet? just kidding of course but you know what i mean.
you people have similar experiences w/any other records? i know there's more music like this.. some jazz and out there stuff... but a lot of that i know that i like right away or i just totally hate it w/every atom in my body. | |
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astroid
i've had this experience bigtime with autechre. i listened to them for so long and hated it-it sounded like boring boring beats repeated ad nauseum. and then BBOOOOOM loved it. ariel had the same thing with autechre-and i successfully predicted her curve with it. I said "you'll think it's boring and repetetive, but then you'll look out the window at some buildings, and it'll make lots of sense"
same thing with confield. hated it, listened a bunch, loved it. wonderful.
some other music that's been like that for me-
coltrane & dolphy- "live at the village vanguard" played with this for years before it clicked but damn
cecil taylor- "unit structures" kinda similar to my experience with autechre
fell- both albums- thought it was boring and then got walloped with sound design
elliot smith- "either or" thought it was whiney then had a broken heart
and big big time
2nd viennese school string works
schoenberg, berg, webern- not easy music, but once you absorb it, it tickles the nads like no other. took me three or four years to enjoy it.
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jdg
that fell guy just uses acid loops FYI.
i still dont get Æ.
i hear it, but i haven't heard it.
i try and try. nada.
uh.. what else.
i dunno.. maybe i'm different... the things i listen to that i like.. i've always liked.
im very quick to judge and hold grudge.
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bleen
Æ music takes me longer to get into the longer they've been around. "incunabula" was instantaneous for me, as was "tri repetae". after those two their disc took me longer and longer to get into. i'm still waiting for that moment with 7.30 and i haven't bought "untilted" yet...
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utofbu
I had a hard time warming up to Brian Eno and David Byrne "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
I got it from Tom and listened to it once and went.. "neat" and then didnt pay attention to it for awhile and then I found myself hearing track 3 in my head one morning and I put it on and made some coffe and then I started the cd back and listened straight through, now it is just impulsive for me to start my day with it.
also Steve Reich "Different Trains" was hard for me at first but now it makes me cry
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ignatius
untilted is awesome. i loved that one right away.
i'm quick to judge to... and very picky. i just really enjoy the process of maybe not quite getting something at first then at some point it clicks and i see/hear the beauty or whatever is in it... or understand a part of it or something...
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jdg
see, i think i have no patience... so fuck 'em.
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astroid
my standards are admittedly low.
i listen to kroq and power all the time. i listen to reggeaton and think "is that what an ms2000 sounds like?"
so jdg i wedge your stuff in somewhere between
and
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jdg
LOLOLOL
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jdg
man, i love his profile.
i wish i can have his nose.
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astroid
i want that forehead vein!
that's from thinking too hard!
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frnortnr
air- 10,000 hertz legend. at first i was like wtf? then i was singing along to every tune.
and ladytron's last couple of albums have been like that.......
i still don't see the confield thing, but the old maeng has seen the light so i will try again. he says the key is headphones.
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bodo
funny thing is hat 'confield' was the first autechre record that i liked straight away
wasn't into their earlier stuff, felt that they somehow matured with that record
now i'm loving the older more than the newer, tough 'untitled' has its moments
lately i'm getting into very old scratchy folk records from my dad, whom i used to dismiss as 'old-fart-music'
coltrane & dolphy, yeah that one is just mind-blowing!
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everamzah
i never have a problem with autechre.i've always loved them. i love them just to fucking love them. like, even if i think for a SECOND that i dont like the music, i just turn it up and then remind myself: they - are - authechre!
i do the same thing with afx... and believe me, with analord, it was difficult... but it had to be done. i dunno, wierd right? i grew up with afx, and hold him as an artist in to high a regard to ever not like his music. same with ae... i remember i had this great dream about rdj... he fucking... what was it? i was walking down a river stream, and i met him... he was in a wetsuit. then he took me to his bedroom (wink wink) and showed me some things about his speakers... but he was upset cause i wasn't "getting it"... i think maybe he was upset cause i wasn't up to par yet you know? me and him, though, we're tight
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astroid
lol!
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daswesen
I think every so complex piece of music you can "get" into. Like record your harddrive, mash it through pluggo plugins, and listen to it, and after like 30 times you will get it. And in some way, that's beautiful. And when the stuff has humane thought behind it, the "getting it" becomes really illuminating, and I think it becomes "worth" spending the time getting into it.
Coltrane put so much thought and practice into his music, and so much soul too, that it is immediately accessible on one level, and then when you write the stuff down and look at it you're just like "wow, wow, WOW, OMG WTF!?", just like looking at JSBach's stuff. And in some way with autechre too, I really got into their early "accessible" stuff, I think that their later music is "worth" getting into. When I hear Amber and Incunabula I'm like immediately transfixed, and now after lsitening to confield a lot I really dig this music so much I get crazy adrenaline rushes when I hear it.
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