Thanks, I will make this my first time listening to live AE!
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Monday, 28 August 2023 20:37 (eight months ago) link
complete 180 from the abstraction of the last decade
I don't believe you but I'm happy you had such a good time!
(downloading now)
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:22 (eight months ago) link
you weren't lying
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:32 (eight months ago) link
hehI think I made an immortalised WOO around the 22 minute mark
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:47 (eight months ago) link
Loving the emphasis on hip hop beats on the Sydney set. Damn. Will be in Sydney next week so maybe I can hear some faint echoes of the show reverberating off random buildings in the CBD or something while I'm there.
― octobeard, Monday, 28 August 2023 21:48 (eight months ago) link
Whoever posted that 2023 set, thank you, finally listened to it today and it is bleakly gorgeous
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 23 September 2023 21:53 (seven months ago) link
There is a lossless version on archive.org now by the way
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 23 September 2023 21:54 (seven months ago) link
https://archive.org/details/Autechre2023-08-27
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 23 September 2023 23:09 (seven months ago) link
I don't know if anyone ever mentioned these (I was surprised to find them) - here's two shows from 94 & 95 :
https://www.mixcloud.com/oscillate_sound_system/autechre-live-oscillate-1494/
https://www.mixcloud.com/oscillate_sound_system/autechre-oscillate-21295/
― StanM, Friday, 13 October 2023 08:38 (six months ago) link
noice
― behold the thump (ledge), Friday, 13 October 2023 09:29 (six months ago) link
The 95 set is superb.
― behold the thump (ledge), Friday, 13 October 2023 10:49 (six months ago) link
it really is
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:00 (six months ago) link
https://nialler9.com/autechre-conversation-about-music-art-funk-and-emotion-interview/
― just sayin, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 09:21 (six months ago) link
what i'm getting from that is that they only really like people called Mark.
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 09:58 (six months ago) link
Autechre actually popped up in the novel i'm reading at the moment, Ian Rankin's 'A Question Of Blood' (2003):
'You're going to tell me you've never smoked or had a drink?'
But of course he wasn't going to say that. Doctors had higher stress levels than cops. One thing she had done - her own initiative - was trying to get into ambient music. Lemon Jelly, Oldsolar, Boards of Canada. Some hadn't worked - Aphex Twin and Autechre; not enough meat on their bones.
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 11:34 (six months ago) link
I enjoyed that interview, some interesting links/tracks to check out later.
― behold the thump (ledge), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:07 (six months ago) link
lmao
Sean: Yeah, I mean, Rae was written in a really emotional state as well. I remember exactly what I was doing, where I was and everything when I did thatDroid: It’s funereal, it’s just absolutely stunning.Sean: Yeah, it was a hangover (laughs) It wasn’t even real sadness, I wasn’t even going through anything. I was just, I was just feeling really fragile that day.
Droid: It’s funereal, it’s just absolutely stunning.
Sean: Yeah, it was a hangover (laughs) It wasn’t even real sadness, I wasn’t even going through anything. I was just, I was just feeling really fragile that day.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:09 (six months ago) link
I love these guys so much
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 17:10 (six months ago) link
OMG "Rae" confirmed Sean solo track??
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:23 (six months ago) link
article got me to go listen to one of the 2014 live sets, which I haven't done since 2016. at the time it all seemed like too much, impenetrable. listening to it now of course, it just sounds like prime lucid stuff.
I guess it would make sense that an Autechre album released at time t+1 would prepare you for the live set appearing at time t. Autechre's music only really legible to time travelers, to the displaced.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:35 (six months ago) link
I love the 90’s stuff all the way through, but even since then, I often find the emotion in your music to be almost unbearable – going back to tunes like, Yulquen, Overand, Nonima, and some of the stuff on SIGN. I almost can’t listen to it. I can’t even describe the emotion; It’s like a kind of ache, you know, this kind of mix of yearning and joy and loss. And even the happy songs like, Keynell 4 or Chicli seem to be touched with sadness.
This statement by droid nails it for me too. Sean's response was spot on - really touches on the emotional connection both those bands share in terms of that melancholy and sense of longing. The other emotions I'd attribute to Ae are menace and swagger, too. Not enough is written about that.
What a great interview!
― octobeard, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:43 (six months ago) link
Also, humble brag on that hand written letter from Thom Yorke haha
I found the bit about how their focus has shifted to the live dumps to be kinda fascinating but also a bummer, because I really don't like those. I just don't have time to listen to an hour of slowly shifting Autechre at a single sitting. I want an album I can pull individual tracks from as time permits, and occasionally listen to front to back.
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:54 (six months ago) link
Agreed.
I think it would be different if they released these live sets in smaller bunches, or like one every month or two - but 5-25 at once (or whatever) is just kinda psychically overwhelming.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:58 (six months ago) link
agreed but the live stuff feeds into the studio albums now right? like every time a new album comes out I feel like people are going "oh this is that bit from last year's live set", etc
but yeah I agree great interview, I love how even after 30 years they both come off as very creative and questioning individuals who still don't claim to know the right or wrong way to do anything. I thought it was cool they brought up Lynch so much, they're similar in that their work is also emotional in very hard to describe ways
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:06 (six months ago) link
I guess this means their next album is going to SLAP
― octobeard, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:13 (six months ago) link
was pretty amused that was the one topic where they just went "nope, not gonna talk about it". dont look now but we're coming up on 3 full years since PLUS by the end of the month, the longest gap between Ae releases yet. not that they don't deserve the break!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:18 (six months ago) link
Good lord is 3 years the longest gap? Could have sworn it was longer but now that I look, 3 years was the gap between LP5 and Confield as well as Exai and Elseq.
Given they're actively touring and releasing recordings, it's all good - not like they're hinting at retiring just yet (thank goodness). Just hit up Cali soon please!
― octobeard, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:24 (six months ago) link
I wouldn't mind if they only did live sets from now on, the only thing I would like is that they split them up into smaller tracks rather than just one long hour+ track. I don't always have the one hour to listen to this stuff and sometimes I want to listen to one specific thing from the live sets and not the whole thing.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:28 (six months ago) link
yeah a studio album culled from live sets would be really cool. similar to what King Crimson used to do. there's a fanmade one called "elseq 6-10" and it works pretty well
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:31 (six months ago) link
yeah, there's also one for the 2016/2018 sets: https://archive.org/details/AE_ONESIX
Both are pretty good, but I wish we didn't have to wait for fan made versions of these things, plus I still would love to have every set they release split up like this
― silverfish, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 19:58 (six months ago) link
lmaoSean: Yeah, I mean, Rae was written in a really emotional state as well. I remember exactly what I was doing, where I was and everything when I did thatDroid: It’s funereal, it’s just absolutely stunning.Sean: Yeah, it was a hangover (laughs) It wasn’t even real sadness, I wasn’t even going through anything. I was just, I was just feeling really fragile that day.
Sean: Yeah, I mean, Rae was written in a really emotional state as well. I remember exactly what I was doing, where I was and everything when I did thatDroid: It’s funereal, it’s just absolutely stunning.
Ha, yeah, I was laughing over that one.
― droid, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 20:29 (six months ago) link
Funny, Rae is my absolute favorite track by them ever.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:11 (six months ago) link
It's a killer, I always have to stop what I'm doing and pay attention to that one.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 22:40 (six months ago) link
Dragging thru old soundboard releases à propos of the interview above (which is great), I put on the Miami 2015 set and damn, it's really hitting today. Familiar elements from all the other sets on that tour but they lock in a bit tighter and go deeper.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 19 October 2023 02:01 (six months ago) link
The Helsinki set is excellent.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:14 (six months ago) link
(From 2022, the one they released as part of the set.)
turns out that autechre remixed the black dog.available via a limited freebie thing on bandcamp.
― mark e, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:57 (five months ago) link
Appearing at The Hague
(and other places in Europe)
https://autechre.warp.net/shows
― organ doner (ledge), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 11:19 (four months ago) link