Autechre: Classic or Dud?

I liked them a lot because they felt more focused and refined than the various sprawling releases that preceded them, they could be a nice cap on that era.

xxxposts - there's a 7CD "autechre remixes" compilation by someone called Laxir but it's not official obv

Live date in Dublin in October. Maybe new tunes?

huh. silence from the warp & ae mailing lists.

nothing from songkick either even though i'm tracking them ffs. how did you hear about it?

https://thethinair.net/2023/05/autechre-set-for-dublin-return/

https://www.songkick.com/artists/49992-autechre has it too?

yeah, it's not local to me so they didn't notify me, fair enough I guess. I don't know if there's a setting to widen the search, I'm not going to visit a different country to see them so it doesn't matter.

Nearest concert to you (in Mechelen, Belgium) : Dublin

(ok ok, I suppose in the USA that would be kinda 1 state away but us Europeans aren't used to that kind of distance)

i honestly don't know what "direction" they could go in that would be more interesting than what they did on PLUS other than .. deeper into the wilderness i guess, whatever that means, they always seem to realize what that is pretty convincingly. like i don't see them backing out of just making things really unstable in a hundred ways plus some strong emotional undercurrents.

I mean that video Sean shared of a Max patch sounded sick as hell and some interesting directions separate from PLUS/SIGN

I recently posted in the SIGN thread I think that album is more interesting than I gave it credit for, in fact i think a lot of it could be given orchestral arrangements the same way people have tried with Aphex Twin. if it was a new Boards of Canada album I think people would be really fascinated by it

Yeah I can see that. In retrospect I'm not as keen on those "orchestral" tracks, but they would work really well played on live instruments

Imagine F7 being played as a violin concerto

Man, listening back to this album is giving me... there must be a weird German word for the type of trauma-nostalgia that comes with being suddenly reminded of living in the lockdown era

It looks like there’s …. Something out on August 10?!?

But I can’t tell if it’s a new live album or tickets to new tour dates or what

I think it's 2022 live recordings

It’s live albums

Apologies for formatting

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fuyc8s0j1zwgb1.jpg

Thanks. The link in the AE email I received didn’t offer any clarity.

(By which I mean, probably ridiculously, resolving for me that maybe, just maybe, CD versions of these live sets might be available instead of digital files)

*feverishly hits refresh*

i actually dreamt last night that this was out, alongside an announcement of a new album called nononononono, and a remix of a pavement live concert!

this came this morning. but i'm not quite sure what it is. the track listing includes "autechre - jnsn code gl16 - remixed by YAGE"

https://touched.bandcamp.com/merch/fsoldigital-presents-mind-maps-4-limited-cd

touched are interesting - they did those three cancer charity compilations on consecutive christmasses, the last of which had ~256 tracks in it. there were also a few compilations of anonymous tracks some of which are probably autechre (the track titles are a clue). the mind maps thing though, is physical only, no digital.

(by "i'm not quite sure what it is" i mean is it a compilation of YAGE remixes (although 3 aren't marked as remixes) or a mix cd or somewhere between the two. it also features humanoid, isan, fsol, scanner...)

here's the original of that ae track - https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/jnsn-code-gl16-spl47

FSOLs mind map mix series is amazing fwiw. Can't wait to check this new one

(actually the orignals of those two autechre tracks on that 12" were the 2nd and 3rd touched compilations, which had 254 and 417 tracks respectively)

so Ae and Actress are playing in Sydney in two weeks, and I will be there, but a dinner had been organised preventing me from going. I found out today the dinner has been moved to the following night. And of course the show is sold out now.

Interesting that suddenly all the live Autechre records of the last few years are no longer on Apple Music.

they're still on spotify (uk), gathered under two albums now (14-15 and 16-18 sets).

still furiously refreshing ae_store.

up now (under ae_live). download only (no cd).

it wouldn't let me download the big set of live releases (got a refund) but now they've added the ones i already have and bumped the price up so i'm slightly reluctant to retry. i will get around to 16-18 eventually.

(actually, looking now, the price has dropped £11 (iirc) for the big set)

so all their 2022 shows except Primavera ( https://www.setlist.fm/search?query=autechre+2022 <- doesn't have Milan listed at the moment)

(can someone let me know how big the files are please?)

I paid for the wavs but have only downloaded the mp3s, they're 140-190mb each.

flacs are 330-460 mb. don't think you can download individually actually so 700mb for all mp3s, 2.7gb for flacs.

doesn't releasing these things usually signal they're gonna drop new material soon

I sure hope so

My order for the 2022 sets arrived with a link to download the 2016/8 sets, which I have previously bought. I don't think I could have put that in my cart by accident because I didn't visit the release page for that set. Hoping they will sort it out for me.

Starting with Milan (eventually I will buy the set but for now just luxuriating in a stream)

London B is amazing, I find it hard not to just listen to it on repeat for hours.

got a ticket for the Sydney show on late release, row 3 so in the pitch dark I will be able to hear them move sliders and clear their throats

I need some time alone in a dark room to fully appreciate these.

couldn't get into it myself, but i don't think techno is really for me

I don't know why but I cannot get myself excited about live Ae recordings... Maybe I should change that

I don't know why but I cannot get myself excited about live Ae recordings... Maybe I should change that

― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Tuesday, August 15, 2023 7:04 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same, and I love Ae more than life itself

maybe try the Athens one, they seemed to shake off the abstract urge a little there.

Same, I've never checked out an AE live recording.

Thought this was an interesting comment:

Also, I've noticed less interaction between elements in these sets. I can hear separate machines/layers running more or less independently of each other.

I feel like their older material had more cross-modulation and interaction between sounds. (Which I prefer.)

— William Fields (@williamfieldsy) August 14, 2023

I love Ae, but I think they broke my brain with the NTS Sessions. That was like my capacity point; anything else that gets poured into the full bucket just spills right back out again.

Yeah, I haven't really been able to get excited about being tasked to find the August 27, 1972 Veneta, Oregon "Dark Star" in 42 different versions of "c16 deep tread"