Autechre - classic or dud

hello https://clyp.it/2akno5zg

XD

Oh my, yes

oooooooooohhhhhhhhh

dope track

with headphones it's spectacular, especially around the 3:00 mark when the arse drops away and it gradually sounds like the deepest hole ever. through a macbook speaker it totally sounds like they're taking the piss.

It sounds pretty dope on these Macbook speakers!

it sounds like a couple of blokes taking the cunting arse out of piss

basically my reaction to confield until the 7th play through

it sounds like a couple of blokes taking the cunting arse out of piss

i'm in the clubhouse i heard already, p kewl

i heard thru my sick bose noise cancelling cans

noise cancelling cans

so you heard nothing at all haw see what i did there

lolz

they cancel noise not noize

neway this isn't really noize imo but it's definitely heavy

Not for me.

Autechre does dub

First thoughts: lots of ©æ™® textures. Harks back to Confield era somewhat. Dope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExnKj30jYp4

I would bet the new record is a 'best bits from the past couple tours' thing (though what would be really cool if it drew from whatever soundboards they have from their entire career)

Always wanted a version of 444 with a sax solo so was very stoked to find this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6nz5aymN20

There's an hour-long all-AE show by those guys on YT too, this Cichli is from there

That is fantastic. Thanks for the link!

hey, this is about me

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/14/hear-a-new-autechre-track-feed-1/

what the

https://www.reddit.com/r/autechre/comments/4jet2f/theory_a_new_autechre_album_comes_out_june_24/

obviously this song is glorious

the full 490

seventy sevens indeed sir

lol

ahhh hahh hah that number code/date on the cover, excellent. didn't they already do this with Exai though?

oasis_be-here-now.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/autechre/comments/4jet2f/theory_a_new_autechre_album_comes_out_june_24/

― StanM, Sunday, 15 May 2016 11:32 (4 days ago)

I'm starting to think that theory might be wrong.

I'm starting to think that I'll never listen to autechre ever again.

it wasn't a bad theory as these things go

xp: I don't know, it's like existential, man. (why am I listening to this? is it possible to like or dislike this? what's the meaning of life? is this music and does that even matter?) etc :)

new album out

has it leaked?

Is it washable?

has it leaked?

This is what happens when there are three Autechre threads on SNA that I had nothing to do with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqjbuQ_2UyY

Lentic Catacheesis

I randomly stumbled upon an autechre podcast called gonkcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gonkcast-an-autechre-podcast/id1533479657) and decided to listen a bit. Rather than start from the beginning I decided to start with the Confield episode. I enjoyed the episode.

A couple of remarks:
- These guys were under the impression that what they called autechre's "middle period" (confield to untilted) was the least popular era of autechre, which has not generally been the impression I had from the various message boards I've frequented where autechre was discussed
- I liked the discussion about why this sounds like completely random sounds to some people (something like how it's a bit like freeform jazz or something of the sort except that since the sounds are computer generated, people don't see the human hand that is guiding all of this and just assume that it is computer generated randomness)
- It was fun hearing these track names pronounced: one of the hosts wondering if he should say VEE Scose Poise or 6 Scose Poise, a mention of "el-sec" (in my mind it was always 'else-cue'), at some point one of the hosts starts talking about "drug use" and it took me about 30 seconds to realize he was talking about drukqs

Cool, will give it a try, as long as they don't have annoying podcast voices.

one of the hosts wondering if he should say VEE Scose Poise or 6 Scose Poise

Viscous pwaaz imo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poise_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1

listened to that Gonkcast a bit and while it's an interesting listen I don't always agree with them.
I would agree that that middle period was where they lost me a bit and my interest waned.
I recall the style of music they were making along with other Warp/IDM type stuff was falling out of fashion in general - "Why listen to these bedroom nerds when you can go out and listen to dubstep" was the mindset. Also, while Confield was a big release but it divided a lot of people, so the commercial response for Draft/Untilted was muted.

I agree that that middle period is one where they lost a lot of fans, but for many others (including me) they changed from being one of many Warp artists that they listen to the Warp artist that managed to take things to another level. I don't know, maybe that was just a vocal minority at the time.

How does the podcast handle pronouncing the song titles?

Yeah I feel with earlier fans of Autechre who were all in before Confield, that era was one of lower popularity, but they attracted a bunch of new fans who really appreciated their more experimental leanings to balance things out. Now I think nostalgia and increased experimentalism on numerous tracks that would come later have allowed people to return to this with more rosy fondness.

Seriously, Warp - when the heck are you guys repressing Chiastic -> Untilted already???!

Fun podcast, btw. Enjoying the nerdery.