Autechre: Classic or Dud?

damn "move of ten" is really good

h8 planes

holy shit "move of ten" is like really wowing me, yay

there are no bad autechre albums, just autechre albums you love immediately and autechre albums that click for you years after you buy them

and el-event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHo6qWxoDOQ

and el-event.

― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, May 17, 2018 4:29 AM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol. latter category for me, or so I predict. but "M39 Diffan" is great

L-Event ain't bad, just a bit unnecessary

Move of 10 is indeed great. a few tracks you forget you're listening to Autechre.

Listening to this straight through while marking exams today. The ghost choir on xflood seems to be mourning this particular student's poor performance.

I didn't remember e0, which is lovely.

Finally got to nts4 this morning. <3

(following on, loosely, from my question about how successful autechre are, here's a list of their plays on the bbc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/410c9baf-5469-44f6-9852-826524b80c61

there has been one (1) play of four-of-seven on Benji B's show last week but nothing else from the new releases. and about 8 plays of other things so far this year.)

I finally cranked the volume way up on "Overand" and wow I didn't know there was such a complex rhythm underpinning the whole thing

kinda wonder what else I'm missing by not listening to Autechre at ear-splitting volumes

OK I know you've all been champing at the bit for me to reveal my edited-down NTS playlist so here you go:

bqbqbq
debris_funk
carefree counter dronal
gonk steady one
four of seven
xflood
gonk tuf hi
dummy casual pt2
violvoic
e0
9 chr0
clustro casual
tt1pd
fLh
glos ceramic
nineFly
icari
frane casual
mirrage
column thirteen

I think editing this down defeats the purpose tbh. Go hard or go home.

Oh, I've gone plenty hard. I've listened to little else these past few weeks. I like everything on it. But I made this mix is for those times when I want four hours of Ae instead of eight. It took me a lot of deep listening to arrive at this playlist. And yes I take Ae too seriously.

also I suspect you're trolling the Ae fanboy here but I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt because I know you're probably listening to "all end" as we speak

did you just try listening to whatever you want and stopping after four hours

says a person who has clearly never experienced the buzzkill of running to "shimripl air"

no love for "l3 ctrl" ?

13 ctrl is my fav right now, this release keeps on giving though

during the last two minutes of "dummy casual pt 2" there is a vocal sample, and accompanying the vocal sample is a snippet of what i swear is the sound an iphone makes when you send / receive an sms. this sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o9Prx-V9s0 has anyone else almost checked their phone while listening to this?

NTS pick 4 songs: l3 ctrl, e0, icari, column thirteen

These four alone would have made a pretty amazing single CD album.

Some of these tracks are pretty similar to the 2014/15 live sessions, north spiral is one in particular.

"l3 ctrl" is good but seems like a bit of a retread relative to the rest of this. I was having drill-y flashbacks for the first half of it. Just didn't find it exceptional, I guess, but I plan to listen to it a thousand more times anyway

l3 ctrl just has an frenetic uptempo energy to it I haven't heard from them since the LP5/EP7 days. Makes a really sweet opening track too.

The transitions of the four above are really spot on up until column thirteen. Might need to rethink that. Either way, one of the advantages of pumping out so many fairly high quality tunes is it makes for an intriguing exercise to create some easily digestible cross segments.

i had a fairly uptempo selection from elseq i got attached to for running:

chimer 1-5-1
pendulu hv moda
latentcall
freulaeux

fLh - Ae covers NIN

Has Autechre ever remixed NIN? Aphex did of course. And Autechre remixed, er, Tortoise.

Skinny puppy maybe the closest they came. Not one of their greatest, although it's pretty out there.

So elseq 1 is the last release of theirs on spotify, just noticed (while wondering what to spend my gdpr sign up thankyou 20% discount on) that it's the last available on bleep as well. were elseq 2-5 and the nts sessions all self released?

hmmm, on the bleepstore i still see NTS sessions at the very top, available for pre-order and streaming: https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

unless bleep is separate from autechre.bleepstores.com? i've never ordered from them, i'm not sure

yeah i meant bleep not bleepstores, i don't know what their corporate governance structure is but that stuff isn't on bleep.

well i don't know what's going on with bleep.com since you can get all of elseq and nts on warp.net. but post nts, this elseq era interview is interesting re: the idea behind and their plans for autechre.bleepstores.com:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756

The elseq "buy" link on warp.net goes to the autechre shop

says a person who has clearly never experienced the buzzkill of running to "shimripl air"

feeling this

quaristice is super weird isn't it. i like it but it has a lot of outliers for them i think.

'acid mwan idle' is also pretty different for them in a similar way maybe. i don't know wtf is going on with it but i've kind of connected with it.

yeh, acid mwan idle is really distinct from anything else they've done - love it though

i have a hunch violvoic is based on IO from quaristice although i haven't bothered to find the parts that make me think that. anyone noticed any other bits that suggest the NTS tracks could be descendants (or at least relatives) of tracks from other releases?

upthread:
- "all end" ... the bulk (the surface, at least) of it, is from the outro to "bladelores" (Exai)
- “violvoic” is obviously using a “voice” from Confield’s uviol when you listen to it
- "clustro casual" from nts 3 sounds a lot like "teartear"
- "four of seven" sounds lifted straight out of the Amber era too
- noticed the pads from "Altibzz" creeping in at the end of "debris_funk"

autechre will eat itself

also as noted upthread north spiral is straight outta the 2014/15 live sets.

tbf this is like taking a shot at Bach for using the same 'cello sounds in ALL of the 'cello concertos

yea Ae recycling stuff is pretty exciting, tbh

carefree counter dronal sounds a looooot like some early parts of pendulu hv moda and maybe another track in the elseq set I'm forgetting.

Definitely seems like they're recycling instruments or "parts" to generate new tracks. While I do like this, I hope they change their palette up a bit for their next release. It's been fairly consistent and refined since Exai. One of my favorite things about their post Confield explorations in organized chaos and musical entropy has been the consistent changeup in sounds between albums.

i don't see it as necessarily good or bad, just an interesting observation. it makes sense that they'd build on max patches over time (rather than constantly creating new ones from scratch) and I think the recent releases are snapshots of these patches at that point in time

resident advisor just did an autechre piece (jo3 muggs) and i couldn't get more than two paragraphs into it, really cringey, like most of ra these days. made me appreciate the pitchfork nts review that much more, just for being thoughtful and coherent.

link to article?

i'd still rather listen to tri repeate, untilted, oversteps than any of their recent work..controp maybe

xpost they did a review a few weeks ago, but it wasn't by jo3 muggs: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/22429

the last jo3 muggs thing with autechre at RA was this, but it was a couple years ago: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756

btw i don't know who jo3 muggs is

he reviews the electronic music in The Wire.

oops i didn't look at the date on that piece, fucking facebook