Autechre: Classic or Dud?

clElseq. and dud

"Elsiq or Elsuq"

cool article if you're interested in Ae's art design:

http://artfcity.com/2016/08/05/a-brief-history-of-autechres-album-covers/

thanks frogs!

Not sure I agree with everything in there. For a start, the Tri Repetae 'khaki' cover was just one of several interchangeable inlays that featured the same robot stills as the Anvil Vapre EP. Also the article fails to mention that the Chiastic Slide-era artwork was made from images of famous architectural structures like the Brooklyn Bridge.

I've never been able to discern Brooklyn Bridge there. Falling Water on Envane is easy to see though.

It's easier to see if you tilt it towards the light -the silvery bits render it into something a bit more '3D'.

that Quaristice metal CD looks amazing

I would love to see a really in-depth breakdown of the Ae artwork though. I'd like to know what the Oversteps, Confield and Elseq ones are all about, especially. The Confield artwork is so disappointing, I just wonder what was going on there. Something about millennium-era CD cover design was this obsession with white space, minimalism, but it always made your CDs look horrible the second the screen cracked or got dusty.

A poll based on artwork alone would be interesting.

IDK, it works for me. Seems sort of like a visual representation of the way their music works.

it's the white border that annoys me. and the quality of the graphic within it looks cheap, like a printer running out and also the logo looks naff or not kerned right or something.

they skip the live lps. those triangles >>>>> the elseq circles and squares.

i wish the envane website was still live somewhere - was an interactive version of the sleeve.

Reissues of the first three on the way, with ... a bonus live set? It's unclear (to me).

Wish they'd reissue LP5 ...

I'd love to get Chiastic, LP5 and Draft 7:30 on wax.

yeah I would buy LP5 in a breath. especially if it came in a nice fancy sleeve

xp funny that whole it was seen as such an important mold-breaking album at the time, Confield feels more like a transitional album in the context of their catalogue now. you're right, I'd much rather repurchase Draft.30

... despite really not bring too into it at the time.

Wish they'd reissue LP5 ...

Had no idea it was out pf orint, physically.

Wish they'd reissue LP5 ...

Had no idea it was out pf orint, physically.

Yeah, it's strange - seems to be the only album Warp have let go out of print. I found it impossible to replace my CD copy of it a few years ago; even the standard jewel-case US version was out of print. In the end I got a decent used copy.

https://bleep.com/release/76372-autechre-autechre-repress-bundle

Paging the 'worst music writing ever' thread...

I'm getting a hunch these albums might have been out of print on vinyl since 2001, could be wrong though.

New tracks

https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/jnsn-code-gl16-spl47

from 2016 an 2014 Touched compilations

anD

Was 2016 the anonymous one?

(Touched put it a couple of enormous electronic music compilations a couple of years running, with, I think, 111 tracks the first year and 256 the second. The year after was just 12 anonymous tracks)

Oh oops - new to me? Either way, I was entertained.

2014 https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-two contains spl47
2016 https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-3 has SNSN-CODE-GL16

^ these two are for cancer research, buy these if you want to support the cause (the single isn't, as far as I can tell)

JNSN (man, I can't tpye today)

Ah, there was a third comp with 417 tracks! I don't think I bothered with that one, I probably still hadn't finished the second one...

ok - bleep newsletter: everything Touched releases supports the charity apparently.

"Touched Music For Macmillan Cancer Support release two tracks by Autechre.

JNSN CODE GL16 / spl47

Pressed to 12" vinyl.

One copy per customer.

No more words needed really..."

Speaking of Autechre vinyl, does anyone know if there are plans to reissue Chiastic / LP5 / EP7 any time soon, like they did with the first three albums?

i never know which of the 25 autechre threads to post on. anyway, some news, earthlings

http://www.factmag.com/2017/11/16/sonar-festival-music-space-contact-aliens-autechre/

the should all be merged, in random order.

Haven't those poor aliens suffered enough already? :(

https://www.nts.live/projects/autechre-nts-residency/

an internet radio thing?

So far so great.

yeah sounds like they are still in the zone. highlights at 40m and 75m. i'm leaving in 10 :/ i hope someone pressed play/record.

http://soundcloud.com/lampevening/autechre-nts-radio-05042018

This is wonderful.

Twenty minutes in, just delightful.

I hear quite a bit of reworked older stuff, e.g. Altibzz / Altichyre elements.
Just found out Ae are playing in my tiny city of Hobart, Tasmania in June - woo!

delightful. it just keeps on going

You know it loops after two hours... but three new two hour sets every Thursday for the next three weeks.

yeah, just like "it's gonna rain"

um https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

Lmao, 12xLP

Lucky I'm not into vinyl. Do I need the CDs given that I don't even listen to CDs any more?

Ans: no.

i've not even got the money for the WAVs just at the moment - maybe later in the year

so is this like a new set of live records such as AE_LIVE

might have to plonk down the cash for these then

"Physical version will ship approximately three months after the final show airs"