new Autechre album - Quaristice (early 2008)

yeah after three albums in a row mostly featuring 5-7 minute long gradually evolving tracks, just fausting together 60 minutes worth of snippets seems like a good way to go

the board recording mp3 of the 2005 glasgow show is great. basically the same set I saw in SF at mezzanine, far more straightforward & clubby than anything they put on albums (though the acid numbers on this new one come close)

ledge - thanks for the upload.

that clash interview is great. i think im gonna have a full on comfy chair/dark room/studio speakers/LOUD first listen to this.

Excellent interview by Mark Richardson on Pfork today:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/48520-interview-autechre

I'd like to be an alternate universe where that last para gets picked up by the tabloids.

"Sean Booth Slams R&B! 'It's holding everything back', claims electronic music pioneer"

^ er i mean rob brown of course :/

To those still hoping for a return to the old Autechre sound:

I have just settled down and listened to Incunabula and Amber and realized, in retrospect, how cheesy they were, and how contrasted our newer ideas are. Even though I might still think we're still banging out big riffs and big beats and whatever sort of cinematic, cheesy moments, you just realize that you're too close.

I tend to agree with his assessment, although I'm sure many people would think him loony for saying such a thing.

skimmed thru this on bleep. first track is nice, simm begins really well but loses it a bit for me. the only other thing i like is bnc castl - the temptation to stick a massive kickdrum under it is proving great.

reminder:

Radio show = tomorrow (Saturday 23 February, 20 GMT) on http://www.autechre.ws

cool.

Still figuring out this album. May take some time. One thought: bnc castl reminds me of Are People People - the insane Adrian Sherwood "mix" of People are People by Depeche Mode.

there's a mix for MAH on Radio 1 tuesday night too.

12 hours!?

Autechre - 2008-02-23 - Autechre.ws webcast.mp3
File Size : 495MB (519 728 107 bytes)
Duration : 12:00:37.421 (1906770287 samples)

I only listened to the first hour or two, which was pretty much solid hip-hip/electro. Tuned in a while later to hear the somewhat obscure early Depeche Mode b-side "Now This Is Fun", which they also played on their 2005 webcast.

fausting

lol

attempted playlist for that 12 hour stream thing:

http://5-against-4.blogspot.com/2008/02/autechre-playlist.html

whole album is on their myspace page. I like it more than their last few so far.

loving this and i haven't liked anything of theirs in a while

that wecast is pretty spectacular. i listened to 3 hours of it at work and never got bored of it.

the ltd. ed. special edition has been delayed for a couple of days:

http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=1383

If whatever I've downloaded here is the new Autechre album, I'm very happy with it - but doesn't it sound different from everything else? Here I was, waiting for another bunch of ever-randomising clunkjams and here is something that's actually a lot of fun!

haha, their myspace site looks totally fucked, but because it's autechre i can't tell if it's intentional or just normal myspace bullshit.

So the london gig was night was in a fucking car park. Roofed but a bit short on walls, only about half a dozen coats were in the cloakroom, it was so cold. And the bar didn't take cash, you had to buy tokens... which were sold in blocks of £10 minimum. Massive cuntitude. And no re-entry, which scuppered my plan of nipping out to a local boozer till they came on at 12.30am.

were they any good, though?

The Guardian wasn't very impressed with their Newcastle show: http://music.guardian.co.uk/live/story/0,,2261916,00.html

haha, their myspace site looks totally fucked, but because it's autechre i can't tell if it's intentional or just normal myspace bullshit.

Blocking the background image helps.

They weren't as headfucky as that review suggests. If you've seen them any time over the last ten years then they were pretty much the same, which is fine if you like that kind of thing. And I do. Really excellent rhythms, it felt like they'd invented half a dozen on the spot, never heard before and never to be heard again. Weird noises and screeches yes, but they rarely destroyed the groove. And definite old-skool ae melodies, strings and glockenspiels, bubbling underneath. Virtually all new as far as I could tell, only recognised a couple of melodic snippets from Quaristice.

Did start to feel a leeeedle bit samey about halfway through though.

LOLs at ADM talk in Guardian review. Welcome to the 90s son.

Also LOLs at "their own music is scrambled and mashed-up beyond recognition. Vaguely danceable rhythms are suddenly destroyed by sonic screeches" coz everyone there was wanting the straight four to the floor of their last few LPs I guess.

Ooops, IDM not ADM. Dunno what ADM is--Autistic Dance Music I suppose.

ah but live cough idm cough, even ae, always has been more four to the floor and danceable than the records (which always led me to wonder exactly what records they were playing and how could i get them. never did figure it out.)

Support from Rob Hall (standard IDM dj set, see above) and SND, who played... just beats. No melodies. Virtually devoid of interesting rhythms, even. It reminded me of the standard complaints about ae - cold, abstract - but this lacked any of their complexity, it was totally transparent. Didn't do it for me at all.

A good gig I think - I was entirely sober and yet completely lost track of time - seemed to last about five minutes, and I don't think I fell asleep. The wall of bass did get a bit much at times - submerged almost everything else. And yes, quite chilly. And a lot of people there could have done with a more recent bath or change of clothes.

Err I was just listening to this morning's Today programme coverage of the US elections, and then Autechre came on afterwards!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/audio/autechre.ram

"ah but live cough idm cough, even ae, always has been more four to the floor and danceable than the records."

Not when I've seen 'em really.

no wai! i set my alarm for an hour later 'cause i needed a bit more sleep after the gig, or i'd have heard that, and probably would have freaked me right out. now i'll have to install realplayer, hmph.

xp. well maybe not four to the floor as such, but more consistent and more danceable. imho i guess.

The .ram file isn't actually what was broadcast, it's an extended version of the interview - the bit on the radio was shorter but had vox pops from last night etc.

"Tell us some of the more unusual sound effects you've used and what happens to them next"

"No"

Not when I've seen 'em really.

There was a fair bit to get down to when I saw them circa the last album, and the new one has some straight passages of electro-y stuff that I don't think people could consider onjectionably undanceable. Also not being a dick but I can't think of when Dave Simpson has ever expressed an interest in dance music (but I don't maintain davesimpson.xls or owt)

The first part of that extended version is awful, just clueless and irrelevant questions. She can't even pronounce the album names right!

xp to koogs yeah that was lol.

If anyone wants to Listen Again to the short-form Ae interview on the Today prog itself, it starts around 7:42am (i.e. 1h42m into the clip).

this is painful!

2nd half gets more interesting.

Some ppl in GB got their ltd. ed metal box thingy! They're having trouble opening it! (lol) Maybe it's in my mail box at home! (next week probably, since I'm in Belgium)

someone posted the tracklist on xltronic:

Altichyre
The PlcCpC
IO(monos)
Phylopn
Perlencer range3
SonDere-ix
Tankraken
fol4
90101-61-01
chenc9-x
nofour

This album is like Amber but way more boring. :(

nutso.

fucking postman took my ltd edition back to the depot in the middle of nowhere.

Any San Francisc0x0rs want to take my ticket off of my hands?

HOW MUCHO

$22.75 (which is what I paid).

I MIGHT

leeeee ATT GeeeeMAIL!

How long have the shows been, from opening to close?

loving this and i haven't liked anything of theirs in a while

-- am0n, Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:38 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

This is how I feel also.