New Autechre album - April 2005

They didn't come on till midnight though, which meant four hours of sitting around, as we got there at 8, and couldn't be bothered to dance or even listen to the support DJs.

I listend to Chiastic for the first time this weekend, my fellow Warp chum told me it wasn't a great album and remarked that it was a bit of a mess musically but I really like it.

Personally, so far, I hate it.

Really, I think this is their best and most accessible out of the last few and I'm still trying to understand Confield for some reason. A lot of it is very similar to EP7 as well and there's some really cheeky samples buried deep in there.

Tell me more about these samples...

One track has all these 80s breakdance sounds and actually sounds like it's supposed to be played off of an early electro record.

The first track is kind of pumping - it's the danciest thing Autechre have done in ages. I do kind of wish they could do another Arch Carrier again, just for me though.

There is a track with loads of "hooraying" crowd noises and strange human mumbling - and i like that in an autechre track. Not since that BOAC track have I heard any real human samples being used.

i haven't heard much of the new record yet but i was told they played lots of it.

both autechre and snd were more engaging than most rock acts i've seen. in some ways this wasn't surprising at all.

i'm going to see autechre in asheville two weeks from now. i'm stoked!

I was kind of undecided about untilted, but seeing them live made me appreciate it a lot more. I've been listening to it a bunch these last few days.

I enjoyed Untilted quite a bit on first listen. In a weird way it reminds me of listening to things like drum solos or West African drum circles. I might like it more than Draft 7.30 (the only other one I have) but that might just be because it seems to have more straight grooves.

According to the schedule on Warp's website, SND are playing all dates on the tour incl. Canada.

I saw SND a couple of years ago and they were similarly awesome. I have no idea why their records are so boring in comparison to their live sets.

But, it does seem to be all about the 'craft' and little else here to me. Doesn't feel like a significant advance in sound compared to the records I know by them (Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5) but I do love how smudgy, oily and dark it all feels, it's a very 'live' sounding record. Sublimit' is a bit of an anticlimactic closing track compared to some of their other work though. Doesn't really surpass, or expand my expectations of them as a whole record.

Plus getting home from Camden after tubes have finished = a bitch.