#gonk.

[helcathelcat]

i like it when the gonk droid from the starred war says "gonk"

[screenviolense-a]

fuck it. gonk.

[blindrapture]

Autechre, thirteenth album (part 1), 2018

NTS Session 1: ABSOLUTE DISTORTION, MONSTROUS AND DOPE. [deep sigh. So. Autechre had done a residency on NTS Radio before, where they played a bunch of existing music for two-hour spots. And one day, NTS contacted them about doing another one. Autechre refused. But a little later, they reconsidered-- but they weren’t gonna play existing music, they were gonna debut new material. A lot of new material. And so, for four weeks in April 2018, NTS Radio broadcasted Autechre’s brand-new unannounced album, playing two hours on a loop every week and then playing the next two hours for the next week. There were four Sessions in all, and the whole eight-hour experience is the album. Sound-wise, it’s the dirty filthy nasty synths and beats of elseq but mixed even better, pushed even further. Structure-wise, these.. these songs are long and they freaking flow. I had been hyping this album up for myself ever since I first heard about it, and I even spent some time getting used to the first couple songs so I wouldn’t be totally unaccustomed. And, just. It. It met the hype, somehow. I absolutely recommend, if you do listen to it, do nothing else and just listen to it. At least for your first listen. It goes places, and some of those places are subtle, some of those places are outrageous. This is.. just.. such a freaking good album so far?]

[LINK TO WHOLE ALBUM] track 1 (t1a1) intro: massive machine starting up. 1:16 onwards: smooth slow simple beat, mixed to wub wub wurrrb perfection + warpy noises. 2:55 cat. then no noises just the wub wub beat. then ambience comes in. 6:00 beat is slightly syncopated. 6:57 beat is normal again. 7:30 DEEP BASS SEXY. VRAAARRRB. 11:10 deep deep bass sustains. 12:59 CUT TO SILENCE AND 13:00 DROP, NEW SECTION: simple drum + distorted bass rhythm + soft harmonic synth sustains. 15:46 bass rhythm prominent and electrical + strange harmonies around rhythm. 17 min bass gets real playful. then end. track 2 (bqbqbq) syncopated stop-and-start shrill telephone-noise + drum fugue. ghostly chords fade in. you do get kinda used to this. 5:25 a new tone joins in! 6 min ghostly chords get more pretty tones too! 7:52 it stops stopping, continuous fugue now. 8:32 stops again. reprise of earlier tone. 9 min the same ghostly chord over and over, tension. 9:30 catharsis. track 3 (debris_funk) BRRAMMM, BRRAAAAAMMM, BRRRRRMMMMM. 0:46 FUCKING NASTY BEAT + BRAP RIFFS. there are slight variations in beat + tone over 10 minutes but it's mainly THIS SICK RIFF. 7 min beat stops, leaving only the horns from hell. track 4 (l3 ctrl) intro: gentle elpiano pad ambience. 0:26 DROP, frantic beat + distorted synth riff. 1 min reverb ambience turns into high synth harmonies. 3:48 cool bass-y noises. 4:48 now just bass + beat + reverb. 5:40 higher distorted tones. 6 min interesting bass countermelody. 7:50 breakdown, dramatic synth tones. 8:50 tension! 9:32 beat breaks down + synth chaos riff. reverb noise gradually builds. 12:59 synth breaks through into chaos. spooky ambient tones. 13:56 higher distorted elpiano tones. 14:18 basssss. climactic riff. 16:04 end tones. track 5 (carefree counter dronal) trance synths going kinda nuts for five minutes. track 6 (north spiral) nice bass riff + frantic tech-drums. 0:50 groooove. 1:46 bass warps. still grooooove. 3:07 NEW NOISES + more intense drums. 4 min yeah man this is still a groove. 4:36 faint glitchy synth riffs. 4:58 drop: glassy synth tones + wub wub bass riff + sick beat. 5:48 jamming. 7:08 rifffff. 7:25 drums stop, just riff. then drums return. 7:54 tonal rhythmic noises add onto glassy synth. 8:41 tonal rhythms stop. drums stop. drums return. still on the sweet riff. 9:51 glitchy synth marks new riff. 11:36 glassy synth returns, glitch synth stops. 12 min fucking riff. 12:46 THAT DROP, slow drum + bass riff. 13:30 no bass, just drum + glitch. 13:40 look man just.. these noises. chaos. what a song. track 7 (gonk steady one) chaotic glitch-drum. 0:19 HARD BASS DRUM. 0:28 HARD BASS SYNTH. high synth riffs. I think the bass synth is the gonk? 2:00 high synth is going nuts, yet the beat gonks on. 3:55 THE GONK HAS MULTIPLE TONES?? 4:30 ambient sounds. no more gonk. 4:50 ambient synth pad. ope, there's the gonk. 6:00 this is just.. this is just awesome. 6:38 GONK REVERB. 7:00 just high synth riff + light drum + ambience. 7:25 bass drum. ...GONK SOLO. 8:23 DROP, back to the familiar elements. 9 min ambience spaced me out a bit there. 10:24 DRUM RIFF. 10:45 ambient sustains over steady drum riff. 11 min okay gonk ambience spaced me out. 11:44 I just.. it sounds so good. 12:00 faint high melody. 12:24 ambient synth pads coming in, drums coming out! 12:40 snare BEP. BEP. BEP. BEP. bass drum BOOM. BOMBOMBOMBOOM. 14 min old elements returning one by one, ambient tones still droning. 15:00 ELPIANO and SHRILL TONES. bep. bep. bep. bep. 16:00 OH MAN THE BEPS ARE GETTING LOUDER. 17:26 that elpiano is getting distorted enough to sound SICK. 18:00 I'm officially lost, this is hitting everything right. drums getting focus. distorted elpiano getting focus. the beps. 18:46 oh no it's FIRING UP AGAIN. 19:30 the BEPS are ECHOING 19:50 and GLITCHING 20:18 and there's that distorted elpiano again!!! 21:35 high melody again. 22:10 and it's glitching into an end. track 8 (four of seven) SEXY TECHNO OSTINATO RIFF + descending/ascending trance bass. sounds shift and warp. mood shifts with ambience. proper trance. 10:26 piano plays gorgeous riff as trance fades out. bass stings are WONDERFUL. this is.. this is heavenly. 12:50 ambient end. track 9 (31a_reflected) wet ambience. droning noises to left/right. synth provides occasional notes. gives me a chance to remember where I am.

[oldeytancragg]

if i was a character in star wars i would be the gonk droid