Autechre: Classic or Dud?

ooh, they've split the EP7s across two discs. Bad show.

(closes eyes, mutters 'i do not need or want expensive box-sets, i do not need or want expensive box sets...')

('I have all these tracks already, i have all these tracks already')

Seems a little odd not to include the Seefeel or Beaumont Hannant mixes of Basscadet, but maybe that can be justified. Putting "Anvil Vapre" before "Garbage" seems like flat-out bad sequencing.

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Tracks 1 – 4 originally released as Garbage (p)1995 Warp Records Limited.
Tracks 5 – 8 originally released as Anvil Vapre (p) 1995 Warp Records Limited.

ah, my mistake!

This is disappointing. At least include all vinyl-only tracks, not only Cavity Job.

I don't feel this is worth the double-dip.

Sorry boothbrown, I already have all the original releases.

only own the Anti EP but not sure what I would do with this package - EP collections on several CDs just seem so impractical

This is disappointing. At least include all vinyl-only tracks, not only Cavity Job.

I don't feel this is worth the double-dip.

OTM.

Better to have the original Anti and break the seal on it to show what bollicks the Criminal Justice Thingy is.

http://thequietus.com/articles/10978-autechre-new-album-details-exai

I couldn't decide which C or D thread to pick so I made a new one

Autechre Exai

http://youtu.be/lC7LGzCZ-q0

classic

track at 18:00 is pretty sick

that whole video is rad, oh man that brings back memories, esp. the whistles and the whole dudes-with-long-fringe-swept-back-w-headbands thing, damn haven't seen that look in a minute

http://ge.tt/9ZkPRWw/v/0

more ore

http://p.autechre.ws/proxy?lnk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discogs.com%2Fartist%2F41-Autechre

Currently doing...something...on Alaskan radio:

http://www.ksuaradio.com/listen/

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/18/autechre-alaskan-radio-appearance/

https://twitter.com/warprecords/status/732995434352873472

the one playing now is good

Man, I can't get this stream going to save my life

Me neither.

here ya go

with public radio PSAs :P

that SC bit is just a variation on what already exists in the 2nd half of most of the 'official' live sets..

Yeah this might be the first record that I don't preorder instantly

5 new, EPs, I guess? just landed:

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

xxxpost: saved as Autechre ft. Paul Stanley, thanks

three tracks over 20 minutes? my god

over four hours! 4:07:38

separate thread for this?

yeah, this is more like 5 lps than 5 eps.

but i wasn't taken by the sample.

Dedicated thread up:

Autechre: Elseq

Autechre: Elseq (www.ilxor.com)

clElseq. and dud

clElseq. and dud

"Elsiq or Elsuq"

cool article if you're interested in Ae's art design:

http://artfcity.com/2016/08/05/a-brief-history-of-autechres-album-covers/

thanks frogs!

Not sure I agree with everything in there. For a start, the Tri Repetae 'khaki' cover was just one of several interchangeable inlays that featured the same robot stills as the Anvil Vapre EP. Also the article fails to mention that the Chiastic Slide-era artwork was made from images of famous architectural structures like the Brooklyn Bridge.

I've never been able to discern Brooklyn Bridge there. Falling Water on Envane is easy to see though.

It's easier to see if you tilt it towards the light -the silvery bits render it into something a bit more '3D'.

that Quaristice metal CD looks amazing

I would love to see a really in-depth breakdown of the Ae artwork though. I'd like to know what the Oversteps, Confield and Elseq ones are all about, especially. The Confield artwork is so disappointing, I just wonder what was going on there. Something about millennium-era CD cover design was this obsession with white space, minimalism, but it always made your CDs look horrible the second the screen cracked or got dusty.

A poll based on artwork alone would be interesting.

IDK, it works for me. Seems sort of like a visual representation of the way their music works.

it's the white border that annoys me. and the quality of the graphic within it looks cheap, like a printer running out and also the logo looks naff or not kerned right or something.

they skip the live lps. those triangles >>>>> the elseq circles and squares.

i wish the envane website was still live somewhere - was an interactive version of the sleeve.

Reissues of the first three on the way, with ... a bonus live set? It's unclear (to me).

Wish they'd reissue LP5 ...

I'd love to get Chiastic, LP5 and Draft 7:30 on wax.

yeah I would buy LP5 in a breath. especially if it came in a nice fancy sleeve

xp funny that whole it was seen as such an important mold-breaking album at the time, Confield feels more like a transitional album in the context of their catalogue now. you're right, I'd much rather repurchase Draft.30

... despite really not bring too into it at the time.

I also thoroughly enjoy the live set drops. nice for late nite listening paired with your drug of choice.

My job lets me listen to music while I work but it's frequently interrupted by calls, or having to stop and listen to audio. Also Ae is best listened to with full focus rather than as background noise. I should go on more walks this year and listen to some of these live ones

paired with your drug of choice

Yeah, this is where we part company (and that's fine! live your life!).

(Bill Hicks voice): “caffeine is a drug!”

precisely! “of choice,” babyyy

anyway, just a pairing that i enjoy with these live sets, the music is also cool, so certainly not required

my way into the live sets was to go on runs with them playing. they're just about the right length for it. i'm sure hiking or just walking somewhere would be comparable. one of them, can't remember which, has a tempo that just matches my pace when i'm pushing myself, and i swear it very slowly increases through the whole thing, so by the end i'm zooming.

but it's been the same story for me with their studio releases. nts and elseq were great to just dump into a single gigantic playlist and cycle through over weeks of runs. i've done a lot of running to autechre lol. i find it a lot easier to focus on music when i'm moving at this point. i usually take a little thc gummy before i run so being a little altered does still factor in haha.

on the 'music for robots by robots' thing.. i hear that. i also get the 'alien music' thing. i like how unperson writes about the structure of the tracks. they don't really build or anything. they just kinda drift, then change with varying degrees of abruptness, a handful of times until they end.

i think i've gone on about this before but the one thing that feels human to me about their music is how funky it is. it's disgustingly funky. tumbling down a muddy ravine funky. the robots or aliens or whatever they are getting down.

OTM. And yes just finished reading unperson's excellent piece about Elseq and it's making me look forward to diving back into some of the tracks mentioned.

they’re totally funky. you can even nod your head to some of the more nightmarish trax like “lentic catachrrsis” - a funky nightmare

elseq rocks ya

yeah, I've been relistening to elseq as the gonkcast podcast is slowly going through elseq currently one elseq at a time. After 10 years and then hearing them talk about it for almost an hour I feel like I finally get elyc6 0nset.

what do people make of the gonkcast thing? it's a great idea and they come across as nice people but i don't always feel like i get a great deal out of the discourse. i liked theior interview with Shane Parish though

you know what they say, talking about Autechre is like dancing about Autechre

I like gonkcast, I wouldn't say that the discourse is necessarily that insightful overall but just listening to them go through every track on a release makes me take some time to focus on specific aspects I wouldn't have gotten to by myself. I also just find it useful to put into words a lot of what I find interesting about autechre. I've always had a hard time explaining why I think autechre is so great.

For me it’s often the tension between the sharp precision of the sounds and the raw instinctual feel of the composition / groove. Their whole career has been wrestling with the tools to achieve free expression. It’s why I find the early records less interesting, they began to break free around Chiastic.

also just find it useful to put into words a lot of what I find interesting about autechre

my one autechre-fan friend and i call this autechre poetry