new Autechre album - Quaristice (early 2008)

that wecast is pretty spectacular. i listened to 3 hours of it at work and never got bored of it.

the ltd. ed. special edition has been delayed for a couple of days:

http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=1383

If whatever I've downloaded here is the new Autechre album, I'm very happy with it - but doesn't it sound different from everything else? Here I was, waiting for another bunch of ever-randomising clunkjams and here is something that's actually a lot of fun!

haha, their myspace site looks totally fucked, but because it's autechre i can't tell if it's intentional or just normal myspace bullshit.

So the london gig was night was in a fucking car park. Roofed but a bit short on walls, only about half a dozen coats were in the cloakroom, it was so cold. And the bar didn't take cash, you had to buy tokens... which were sold in blocks of £10 minimum. Massive cuntitude. And no re-entry, which scuppered my plan of nipping out to a local boozer till they came on at 12.30am.

were they any good, though?

The Guardian wasn't very impressed with their Newcastle show: http://music.guardian.co.uk/live/story/0,,2261916,00.html

haha, their myspace site looks totally fucked, but because it's autechre i can't tell if it's intentional or just normal myspace bullshit.

Blocking the background image helps.

They weren't as headfucky as that review suggests. If you've seen them any time over the last ten years then they were pretty much the same, which is fine if you like that kind of thing. And I do. Really excellent rhythms, it felt like they'd invented half a dozen on the spot, never heard before and never to be heard again. Weird noises and screeches yes, but they rarely destroyed the groove. And definite old-skool ae melodies, strings and glockenspiels, bubbling underneath. Virtually all new as far as I could tell, only recognised a couple of melodic snippets from Quaristice.

Did start to feel a leeeedle bit samey about halfway through though.

LOLs at ADM talk in Guardian review. Welcome to the 90s son.

Also LOLs at "their own music is scrambled and mashed-up beyond recognition. Vaguely danceable rhythms are suddenly destroyed by sonic screeches" coz everyone there was wanting the straight four to the floor of their last few LPs I guess.

Ooops, IDM not ADM. Dunno what ADM is--Autistic Dance Music I suppose.

ah but live cough idm cough, even ae, always has been more four to the floor and danceable than the records (which always led me to wonder exactly what records they were playing and how could i get them. never did figure it out.)

Support from Rob Hall (standard IDM dj set, see above) and SND, who played... just beats. No melodies. Virtually devoid of interesting rhythms, even. It reminded me of the standard complaints about ae - cold, abstract - but this lacked any of their complexity, it was totally transparent. Didn't do it for me at all.

A good gig I think - I was entirely sober and yet completely lost track of time - seemed to last about five minutes, and I don't think I fell asleep. The wall of bass did get a bit much at times - submerged almost everything else. And yes, quite chilly. And a lot of people there could have done with a more recent bath or change of clothes.

Err I was just listening to this morning's Today programme coverage of the US elections, and then Autechre came on afterwards!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/audio/autechre.ram

"ah but live cough idm cough, even ae, always has been more four to the floor and danceable than the records."

Not when I've seen 'em really.

no wai! i set my alarm for an hour later 'cause i needed a bit more sleep after the gig, or i'd have heard that, and probably would have freaked me right out. now i'll have to install realplayer, hmph.

xp. well maybe not four to the floor as such, but more consistent and more danceable. imho i guess.

The .ram file isn't actually what was broadcast, it's an extended version of the interview - the bit on the radio was shorter but had vox pops from last night etc.

"Tell us some of the more unusual sound effects you've used and what happens to them next"

"No"

Not when I've seen 'em really.

There was a fair bit to get down to when I saw them circa the last album, and the new one has some straight passages of electro-y stuff that I don't think people could consider onjectionably undanceable. Also not being a dick but I can't think of when Dave Simpson has ever expressed an interest in dance music (but I don't maintain davesimpson.xls or owt)

The first part of that extended version is awful, just clueless and irrelevant questions. She can't even pronounce the album names right!

xp to koogs yeah that was lol.

If anyone wants to Listen Again to the short-form Ae interview on the Today prog itself, it starts around 7:42am (i.e. 1h42m into the clip).

this is painful!

2nd half gets more interesting.

Some ppl in GB got their ltd. ed metal box thingy! They're having trouble opening it! (lol) Maybe it's in my mail box at home! (next week probably, since I'm in Belgium)

someone posted the tracklist on xltronic:

Altichyre
The PlcCpC
IO(monos)
Phylopn
Perlencer range3
SonDere-ix
Tankraken
fol4
90101-61-01
chenc9-x
nofour

This album is like Amber but way more boring. :(

nutso.

fucking postman took my ltd edition back to the depot in the middle of nowhere.

Any San Francisc0x0rs want to take my ticket off of my hands?

HOW MUCHO

$22.75 (which is what I paid).

I MIGHT

leeeee ATT GeeeeMAIL!

How long have the shows been, from opening to close?

loving this and i haven't liked anything of theirs in a while

-- am0n, Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:38 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

This is how I feel also.

Bah, I don't think I want to go see them tonight.

you have something better to do?

Definitely more enjoyable than listening to them in the dark.

This is great, far less oblique but still very mindfuckingly them. Insiduous and great. Hussar!

Best thing they've done since EP7.

So I heard this for the first time yesterday.

Well, I didn't like it.

I think my Autechre days are well and truly over.

even more remixes on the way:

http://angryape.com/news/2008/05/12/autechre-to-release-13-new-songs-this-month

ha ha oh god the vortex

names of the alt ep versions

The Plc ccc
Perlence range 7
Perlence Suns
90101-51-6
9013-2
Tkakanren
90101-51-19
Perlence subrange 3
chenc9-1dub
9010171-121
Perlence losid 2
notwotwo
Perlence subrange 6-36

compare to the names of the limited edition CD versions

Altichyre
The PlclCpC
IO (mons)
Phylopn
Perlence range3
SonDEre-ix
Tankraken
fol4
90101-61-01
chenc9-x
nofour

I liked bits of the limited edition CD all right, some of the pieces sound better when allowed to wander all over the place to their natural improv endings instead of being clipped off. but there's a lot of overlap & the obvious point of this whole casually-edited pile-of-tracks project is to force us to do our own editing

this band has always made such beautiful albums that I love listening to all the way through, but I shouldn't have even bothered with the physical version of this one, it's inherently an ipod project

First track The Plc ccc up on bleep now.

£8 to subscribe - 1 track a day for the next 13 days

nice & minimal, that first remix

4 days later, 4 tracks downloaded (33 minutes) and at the moment, IMHO:

new remixes >>> versions disc >>> original album

Yeah, I'm listening to the new remixes most too. Track 3 very very dark. A poster noted on WATMM that the first track PLC ccc is a chopped and screwed version of the Quaristice track.

Unfortunately most of the other posters there are sulking that they are not getting a live soundboard recording that they feel they as fans are entitled to, and as a result trashing this release in a fit of pique. Knobbers.

The Plc ccc
Perlence range 7
Perlence Suns
90101-51-6
9013-2
Tkakanren
90101-51-19
Perlence subrange 3
chenc9-1dub
9010171-121
Perlence losid 2
notwotwo
Perlence subrange 6-36

I fear that by opening this thread, I just installed something.

This is great, far less oblique but still very mindfuckingly them. Insiduous and great. Hussar!

I like that... insidious. I could usually hang with the dissonant nervous freaky shit from the last couple of records that would clear out any room, but this is different than that. It's oogy. It makes me feel unwell.

That's praise, btw.