The cover photograph depicts mountain formations from CapPOLLdocia -- Autechre :: Amber :: LP2
― Cliff Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Kalpol Introl was the first Autechre track I ever heard, via the Pi soundtrack. I remember listening to it on headphones at night on a train platform in college and thinking "Wow, electronic music can be DEEP and SOULFUL"
― your favorite homoerotic savior imagery (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
still come back to this one. Best Autechre record.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
I just listened to it again yesterday! Despite Ae's reputation as a flagship IDM act I feel like this is the only release that really fit into that scene. There's actually a pretty standard house breakdown bit on "Doctrine" that is so weirdly unlike them. I mean as messed up as bits of this album are, in retrospect it's only been a springboard to the whacked out things they'd try later.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
So, the 'jazz piano' bit in Lowride is a sample from DJ Premier's In Deep Concentration by Gang Starr. Which is itself, according to contributors to whosampled dot com, a combination of a replayed phrase from The Awakening by Ahmad Jamal Trio (this seems like speculation) and a sample from Summer Madness by Kool & The Gang.
The Autechres wearing their Gang Starr fandom on their sleeves there, I guess. Still, it does whiff strongly of that era of Mo' Wax ersatz jazziness, and of course it was included on one of those Headzzz compilations. I like to think of James Lavelle taking the blame / credit for that sample.
Also, is this the only song they've released with identifiable TR-808 sounds (if that's what they are)?
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
sorry, you don’t like trip hop?
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
what’s not to like about trip hop?
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
autechre were big early supporters of mo’wax
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1k_BrA8CI
― linee, Friday, 31 August 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
Finally an answer to what links Miles Davis, Autechre, and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, 31 August 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
apart from their collab “Sahara Dance (So Wicked) turbile casual” of course
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 31 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
um mowax rules sorry
― brimstead, Friday, 31 August 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
true
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
'ersatz jazziness' is jazziness
― macropuente (map), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
ftw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnGd4Jv5hxM
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
the shame is that there isn't more Ae in that vein.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
yep
― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
this lp was 30 years old on 29th November
― koogs, Saturday, 9 December 2023 20:39 (five months ago) link