Autechre: Classic or Dud?

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.

Wish they'd reissue LP5 ...

Had no idea it was out pf orint, physically.

Wish they'd reissue LP5 ...

Had no idea it was out pf orint, physically.

Yeah, it's strange - seems to be the only album Warp have let go out of print. I found it impossible to replace my CD copy of it a few years ago; even the standard jewel-case US version was out of print. In the end I got a decent used copy.

https://bleep.com/release/76372-autechre-autechre-repress-bundle

Paging the 'worst music writing ever' thread...

I'm getting a hunch these albums might have been out of print on vinyl since 2001, could be wrong though.

New tracks

https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/jnsn-code-gl16-spl47

from 2016 an 2014 Touched compilations

anD

Was 2016 the anonymous one?

(Touched put it a couple of enormous electronic music compilations a couple of years running, with, I think, 111 tracks the first year and 256 the second. The year after was just 12 anonymous tracks)

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