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That is, AUTECHRE killed it in Seattle.

― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard that in Chicago, ae weren't onstage till at least 4am. Also, I don't like the last three records.

― L (Leee), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

should I go see them if I haven't yet caught up on Confield, Draft 7.30 and Untilted?

(I'm probably going to anyway... they must be at least semi-classic then)

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Autechre are not the kind of band that reproduce their album material in a live setting. They improvise. On hardware. And it is as thrilling as experiencing a seasoned free-jazz outfit in their prime.

So not liking the last few albums--or being unfamiliar with them--is almost a moot point.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

2001 show in Oakland: one long 90 minute piece. arrythmic kick drum patterns & high hat sounds, and nightmarish bass line drills. one long evolving texture. very loud: in the back of the room, the kick drums made you feel like you were getting punched in the chest. at the front of the room, it was actually difficult to breathe regularly. 800 people at the beginning of the show whittled down to 200 within about 15 minutes; maybe about 100 people by the end, wild sustained applause from the survivors. made confield seem like a radio playlist. athough there were moments my attention wandered, by the end the sheer duration had totallty won me over, fantastic show.

2005 show last week: absolute 4/4 non-stop dance party, many pieces strict-tempo dj'ed together into one long mix. madly syncopated (seldom straight out four on the floor), but you could tap your foot or dance like a madman at all times. the recent abstract digital sounds of the last three records have been isolated and poured onto the grid, no multiple time-signature experiments. way, way, way more straightforward than untilted, and 100% new material -- absolutely nothing recognizable from any record. No traceable melodies, but tons of layered ambient sections and crescendos. once again, my attention wandered a bit in parts, but the end was rewarding and I sure hope mp3's turn up of this show, or even a release.

still doesn't quite sound like anything they've done before, but definitely way closer to 95/96 than 01/04. liked it.

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw Autechre play in Asheville, NC last night. It was pretty amazing, they just kept notching up the intensity more and more. It was funny seeing people trying to keep up with it. But it was all surprisingly danceable.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i WAS AT THAT oAKLAND SHOW. dhs WAS BETTER.

― L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

they went on at 1 in chicago, l. people were dancing throughout their whole set, too. i thought the 2001 tour was better, but i was far from disappointed with this one - probably the best show for me this year so far. i am glad they continue to push themselves in new directions. snd were far more "hooky" on this tour, but autechre unflinchingly inhabit a world that is their own - mistakes, missteps, and mostly transcendent shit all included (yeah i am a hippie). i think it took about three tracks for them to hit their groove this time around, but when they hit it, they didn't lose it.

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, agreed with Latebloomer. It just kept going up and up, very very intense, very danceable, very beat-oriented. They played in utter darkness.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to see them again!

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Incubulae is great, some decent spots here and there after that but overall, Auteche are a giant Dud!

― biz, Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, its kind of strange, with all this folktronica nonsense of the last few years, that autechre feel more 'folky' than all of them, perhaps not in the use of traditional signifiers, but, in that englishness that is as much a part of them as any electro roots, that pastoral hills by slagheap tops,

the pennines, in other words

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Last chance to see them live for a while (afaik) in England see here: http://www.version.org.uk

I'm going, anyone that wants to say hi email me :)
Check out the rest of that line up! :-O

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i hadnt actually played any autechre stuff in a long while, and have only just got draft 7.30. i was a fan of confield, but it seemed a good place to wrap things up at the time. im in the mood for new stuff from them again now thuogh, but i dont think i like draft 7.30 very much

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

New album is quite nice although I must admit they seem to have hit an artistic rut since the last three albums have been fairly similar.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i found a liveset on slsk, from april this year (i think in, maybe, lyon?) so im intyrigued to hear that, after what has been sdaid here about live material

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I Get a copy via Gmail or on soulseek? I'm doglatin.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

sure, no problem, when i get home

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

is your username still the same g? i'd like it too...

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the new album a lot more than either of the previous two. Seems like they've got a better handle on blending process music with more compositional stuff. Good balance of human and machine is more successful at fucking with/around expectations.

Disclaimer: I am very, very thirsty for quality idm, this may be a mirage.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

No, dammit, it's good, it's really fucking good. PALMS TREES, AND ... A LAKE, FIG TREES....

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, i have really mellowed on the autechre issue. i like bits (most of confeld, some of ep7, and some of lp5) now. not that i listen to them much. actually, maybe i will now.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this is nice. (ep7.)

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was at this show (dragged there by a girl in spite of whatever ratios). I'm not really a fan, I also like confield but haven't been impressed by the last couple albums and don't really care for most "melodic" autechre. But yes this show was a bit different. The focus on hard hitting syncopation was a minor revelation, the timbres of "Drop it like it's Hot" splintering at almost drum and bass tempo without losing a rhythmic anchor (some moments were rather "twitchy droid leg"/graphic offshore style). Tiring a bit what w/ one austere slab after another, but a good deal more than I had anticipated.

One problem was that nearly everybody insisted upon standing around in the dark to watch a couple of guys you couldn't even see. What little dancing there was ranged from antithetical drunken swaying to pillow fight against myself "madman" stuff. Very little rhythm-to-body connectivity but the possibility was there, it wasn't all just twiddly bullshit.

― xcixxorx, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(i have the show now g... hope you got it too!)

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

classic, i just wish more warp bands would play live local to myself.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i havent heard the geneva show yet, but ive played some of untilted now. its...ok, but im not overly into it. i do prefer it to draft 7.30, but confield was the last thing of theirs i really liked.

on my mp3 player this morning, i forgot that i had the autechre at coachella liveset (1999 i think?). this is really good, thuogh i havent recognised anything off it yet. theres an amazing electroey track, which is one of the best things ive heard off them, not sure if they consider stuff like this too 'straightforward' for the lps or not. its pretty warehouseparty

heres an mp3 of it:

Autechre at Coachella, Track 3

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised at the Confield love here. When it came out even the most rabid fans were split about whether it was good or not.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was just a slow but steady grower - even more so than usual that is - and also far removed enough from their usual style to make people scratch their heads and go 'what the...?' for a little while.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

geneva sounded v boring to me this morning :-(

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you've gotta be in the right frame of mind. I have the Geneva set, and the London one queued up in slsk but I've been putting off listening to them till... I dunno. Till I can replicate the same kind of late night, dark, hot, crowded, and above all LOUD atmosphere of the club. Hey maybe we could give it a go in Spain!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot that i had the autechre at coachella liveset (1999 i think?)

I believe I have this somewhere and IIRC, it was the most "conventional" (for lack of a better word) set I've ever heard from them, i.e. songs that sounded like the recorded versions, they weren't trying to pummel the audience, and so on.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i probably wasn't in the right frame of mind (i was marking exams, in fact). what are the filename details for the london one?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Interview with Autechre as part of Paul Morley's Guide To Musical Genres: Glitch. listenagainable here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_musicalgenres.shtml

(web page needs more details. i guess he's saving that for the book)

― koogs, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

Bit of non-seq this:

Tune in to find out everything you ever wanted to know about psych-folk, glitch, twee, post-rock, emo and perfect pop in the company of Lou Reed, Billy Bragg and Bernard Butler amongst others.

― NickB, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

well that was a load of balls. why pretend it's about "glitch" if yer mostly gonna talk about bog standard idm and early electronic music?

― ledge, Thursday, 19 June 2008 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Paul Morley on the new Autechre album Oversteps

― Doran, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:36 (sixteen years ago)

Is that going to be in the sleeve notes? Morley wrote something similar for (the best of) New Order years back.

― Discordian, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:57 (sixteen years ago)

It's a "blog" is the only info I have.

Here are the tour dates etc:

Autechre
announce new album 'Oversteps'

released on CD/Special edition Vinyl / digital on March 22nd
UK + European tour dates also announced

http://www.bangonpr.com/images/ul/gallery_1370_large.jpg

Autechre will release their new album ‘Oversteps’ on March 22nd on Warp Records.
The album will be available on CD, digitally and as a deluxe vinyl edition.
Artwork for all formats is by The Designers Republic.

Deluxe Vinyl Edition (exclusive to independent retailers):
- Double heavyweight 180gram vinyl, each disc packed in its own printed inner and outer card sleeves
- 900mm x 600mm double-sided poster printed on Offenback ultra fine stock, folded within its own card sleeve
- Housed in printed and debossed rigid slipcase

Tracklisting:
01. r ess
02. ilanders
03. known(1)
04. pt2ph8
05. qplay
06. see on see
07. Treale
08. os veix3
09. O=0
10. d-sho qub
11. st epreo
12. redfall
13. krYlon
14. Yuop

The album is available to pre-order now at www.bleep.com/autechre-oversteps , where WAVs and MP3s of the album are included free with all vinyl and CD orders (and will be available on day of release)

In addition, Autechre embark on an extensive UK + European tour in March:

Mar.11 Manchester @ Pure - Ticketline.co.uk / www.boomkat.com
Mar.12 Birmingham @ The Rainbow - www.theticketsellers.co.uk
Mar.13 Minehead @ Bloc Weekender - www.blocweekend.com
Mar.15 Nottingham @ Stealth - www.stealthattack.co.uk
Mar.16 Glasgow @ Sub Club - http://bit.ly/6Wdx36
Mar.17 Leeds @ The Wardrobe – www.wegottickets.com
Mar.18 Brighton @ Pavillion Theatre - www.brightondome.org
Mar.19 Lille @ Tri Postal
Mar.20 Paris @ Locomotive
Mar.21 Nantes @ Olympic - www.olympic.asso.fr
Mar.28 Ljibulana @ Kino Siska - http://www.kinosiska.si
Mar.29 Budapest @ A38 - www.a38.hu
Mar.30 Vienna @ Flex - www.flex.at
Mar.31 Brno @ Fleda - www.fleda.cz
Apr.02 Copenhagen @ Concerthall - www.dr.dk/Koncerthuset
Apr.03 Oslo @ Park Teatre - www.billettservice.no
Apr.04 Gothberg @ Nefertiti - www.nefertiti.se
Apr.05 Aarhus @ Voxhall - www.voxhall.dk
Apr.06 Hamburg @ Uebel & Gefährlich - www.uebelundgefaehrlich.com
Apr.07 Amsterdam @ Melkweg - www.melkweg.nl
Apr.09 Brussels @ AB (Domino Fest) - www.abconcerts.be
Apr.10 London - venue & tickets announced Feb 1st - www.warp.net

― Doran, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:01 (sixteen years ago)

09. O=0

o_0

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, cheers for ignoring the other thread.

― StanM, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

I did a search for Autechre and didn't find anything! What's it called?

― Doran, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

http://clonesound.blogspot.com/2010/01/initial-reflections-autechre-oversteps.html

― Lowell N. Behold (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 18 January 2010 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, cheers for ignoring the other thread.
― StanM, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:31 (5 days ago) Bookmark

^LOL

― jed_, Monday, 18 January 2010 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

OK Ijust heard a "leak" and if what I heard is real... heck who cares... the last two tracks are pretty damn amazing.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:17 (sixteen years ago)

Ambient as all fuck.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:18 (sixteen years ago)

yeah? where you hear this "leak?"

― Lowell N. Behold (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

Dunno, tbh sorry.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

Slsk or something i think.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, it's not them. It's this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompcBQvK65I

― StanM, Saturday, 23 January 2010 10:07 (sixteen years ago)

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