From David J. Gebhart Sent Tue, Jul 28th 1998, 18:33
From David J. Gebhart Sent Tue, Jul 28th 1998, 18:33
greetings. noticing the number Ae related posts as of late, it's high time I poke through the aether and add to the mix. in terms of the "missing gap" between amber and anvil vapre, mike answers his own question in confessing his unfamiliarity with sean&rob's work in between. I think that if he were to add the anti ep and especially the garbage ep to his collection, he might better see the migration/evolution that sean&rob underwent in between. further light would be shed were one able to hear the remixes and misc tracks for compilations, etc., that were done in this period as well. this is one reason that my entire Ae collection is arranged chronologically, to the best of my and our collective knowlegde. (if you think this is somewhat sick, well, you're right, but it's my life, and wait, it gets worse.) btw, in stating the preceeding I do not wish to start the "one can only appreciate ae if they have followed since day one" argument, which is bullocks - you can still appreciate them, it just adds perspective. being the complete ae 'spotter, I'll have to confess that I have every track ever properly released by the boyz, save for the first cavity job ep (of course), and their lamb and silvania remixes (save for mp3, that is). my point in all this is to simply state that, thanks to the perspective afforded by having a majority of their work, there is in fact a clear evolution of sean&rob's style and that missing gap isn't a broad as it may seem. while there is indeed a clear stylistic shift between the two pieces mike references, I believe that it is a function of sean&rob rapidly working their way up the learning curve in terms of the gear they were using and had just acquired at the time . as much as I love amber, I can understand why sean&rob have disowned it as farty knob-twiddling. they have stated that they simply got too carried away with the latest piece of gear they had acquired and have come the regret it with perspective of time and further knowledge. and anvil vapre and especially tri repetae were a response to that, with sean&rob utilizing an extended array of gear and a larger vocabulary of sounds and approaches. at least that's my quick-response-over-lunch take on it. now, how to get peanut butter out of a keyboard... and for those of you searching for ae releases, if you're not fixated (for some reason?) on buying used, to hell with your local stores and also the Towers and cdnows, go straight to warpmart (www.warprecords.com or www.warp-net.com) and buy direct. even with shipping and the exchange rate, I generally come out even here in the States when ordering direct as opposed to buying locally. and at least that way ALL the profit goes to label and artist without any middleman taking a cut. now, if warp is out of stock, then get back to me and I'll point ya elsewhere... for those of you looking for ae rarities, well, I'm not selling and I'm not trading. this shit is gonna be buried with me. however, I do intend to compile the b-sides, remixes, comp appearances, promos, Gescom etc. once I secure a decent cdrecorder. then we can talk trade. if you'd like to speed up the process, donations - in new, non-sequential bills (US currency only) - are greatly appreciated... props to cim for the reviews. thanks, mate. and nice work on the halfpipe. where are you finding decent snow these days? down under? heh. and I fully endorse all postings re: LSG, particularly the Hooj Choons releases. beautiful melodies and structures that do not bore, rather energize. trance at its best! hail Herr Lieb. laterz, DGeb david j gebhart >Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:50:27 -0600 (MDT) >From: xxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx (Mike Baugh) >Subject: Re: (idm) Ae 'the grey album' > >heya, > >>Apropos their _sound_ changing, I feel there is a "missing gap" somewhere >>after Amber and Anvil Vapre; for me Anvil Vapre is kind of a starting >>point of the more "crunchy" Autechre (although I have little knowledge >>of tracks released between these two works) and the difference in sound >>from Amber and Anvil Vapre is greater than say Chiastic Slide and LP5. >>Viewpoints? >Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:53:02 -0000 >From: "Frimann Freyr Bjornsson" <xx.xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xx> >Subject: (idm) Autechre rarities > >I´m looking for old Autechre rarities....remixes and such. Does anyone wana >sell/trade? > >Best Regards >Frímann Freyr Björnsson > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com