― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
It sounds like someone dragging a large metal chain across a vibrating radiator. But then again, I find Autechre have got consistently duller ever since Chiastic Slide or therabouts... I think they're stuck in a kind of creative cul-de-sac where the only place they can think of to go is to get more complex, more pernickity, more intense, more extreme, less melodic, and really it strikes me as a substitute for any actualy new ideas.
The annoying thing is that so many of their fans will blindly accept any old dross they put out, with relatively few people willing to say "look, the emperor is naked". Someone recently described Confield to me as being "so brilliant it's unlistenable"... I mean, WTF? Why don't you just admit you don't like it?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The new video, however, is fantastic...it represents the music so tightly and perfectly that I can hardly seperate out the visuals when I just listen to the cd.
― drake, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Karl J Kretzschmar, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JoB, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brains, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the hegemon, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I don't know if I would say they got consistently better or worse with time, for me they got great and then remained very compelling. And I agree with Mark about Confield.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dog latin, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
And I keep meaning to order GG -- I've given cap.iv quite a few listens, and it is as most of you say fantastic. Though I do get a bit wistful for Amber-era ae, though interestingly enough I don't much like Amber itself. What I mean is that the directions they went towards on AeP and AeG; on the one hand, dancefloor fare with an uncanny sense of beat/melody, and on the other, melody they could've mined for ages.
And re: Incunabula, there can never be enough Black Dogism IMO.
― Leee, Sunday, 18 August 2002 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
gescom: A1-D1.
http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=SKA028D
heard one track on MAH and, er, didn't understand it.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just wondering the other day what had happened to them!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
MAH?
― lukas, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
mary anne hobbs, probably the only place on (uk) national radio that you'd hear this stuff these days.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
What a depressing truism.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=28426
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
horrible cardboard sleeves inside - scratch-me-do. lovely looking though.
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
already own all but... one of these? ;_;
cool packaging
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe radiohead are trying to steal their thunder.
― djh, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Autechre: Classic or Dud?
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
new track on this http://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-two , a 255(!) track compilation with proceeds going to MacMillan Cancer Trust
― koogs, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
wow
― cheeseburger, Friday, 28 November 2014 12:03 (nine years ago) link
YEEEESSSSS. Well... sounds less massive than spl9. Definitely not 5.2222 times as massive.
― Kelly Gang Carey and the Mantels (ledge), Friday, 28 November 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link