POLL Radii -- Autechre :: Untilted :: LP8

I haven’t heard this one in a while!

Does anyone have this on vinyl? I've read that at least some of the tracks are mixed differently than on the CD, and I've been so enamored of this album recently that I'm considering pulling the too-expensive trigger on a vinyl copy.

I've always been wary of getting Ae releases on vinyl because of the ultra-digital nature of the music, but I think that prejudice might be changing. I'm also eyeing Cichlisuite similarly...

the band has confirmed that more vinyl reissues are coming, guessing Untilted won't be in the next round but I would guess it'll be out eventually

LP5 plsplsplsplsplsplspslsplsplsplspslspl

xxp I looked at the track times on the LP and it looks like about half the tracks have 8-12 seconds shaved off, so the different mixes might just be fades to permit better sounding sides.

If they're going by groups of three (since the last reissue was their first three LPs), then would seem Chiastic/LP5/Confield are next. Would love to see the EPs also get repressed, I'd snatch up Envane and Chichlisuite in a heartbeat.

I have half of Cichlisuite on vinyl. Not sure if the whole thing is out there

Wasn’t it 3x12”? I have Yeesland b/w Pencha somewhere

i just got it out and it's a promo. Characi on one side, Krib and Tilapia on the other

Also, CD reissues would be dope.

WAP88 in digital pls. Also a remixes comp would be nice.

is wap88 different from the cd version?

Of Keynell? Yes, two completely different versions. Really good ones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8bxSiq2QnU

This one's good too, from the Skam This 12".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTc9zYFi4Kw

What

https://i.imgur.com/28ramQr.jpeg

Hang on, all the tracks on Untilted have bizarro Spotify lyrics

https://www.google.com/search?q=fermium+lyrics

I love our talk, over these threads lately, about the band and it’s catalogue. After I’ve crushed the deadline that’s staring me in the face right now it may be time for a two week run through everything.

tough one to call given it's hands down one of my favourite albums alongside confield - what if Kurtis Mantronik locked himself in a bunker for 10 years and come out with this. Ipacial Section though is otherworldly, proper cyborg gamelan.

Theses lyrics are good, really changes how I think about the tracks

There We Were
Alone Naked Rusty IERA Tonight...
Tonight... (x4)
Alone Naked Rusty IERA
There We Stood
Alone Naked Rusty IERA Tonight...
Tonight... (x8)
IERA Again Tonight My Love

I'm loving the fact these (by now) classic albums are being re-released. I'm a little disappointed EP7 didn't come out alongside Chiastic and LP5; also that this one didn't get reissued at the same time as Confield and Draft7.30.

My headcanon thinks of Confield, Draft and Untilted as a trilogy and a very specific era of Autechre. Draft and Untilted, especially work as two sides of a coin: up until then the most percussion-driven stuff they'd done with subtle layers of melody and harmony just bubbling under, barely noticeable on the first few listens.

They're also both extremely funky albums. It's interesting to go back to these and listen to them in the context of all that's happened in club music since, and to hear significant parts of these tracks as genuine dancefloor bops

where are you seeing this got reissued

My CD copy skips on some players (a couple minutes into "Sublimit," little spurts of start to play repeatedly and indefinitely). So I am probably in the audience for the vinyl reissue when it eventually comes out... though it's such a clean sounding album that I'm not sure CD isn't the better format for it.

Xp it wasn't reissued but Confield and Draft were, so I'm slightly sad Untilted wasn't at the same time as I tend to think of Draft and Untilted as sibling albums

Vinyl might not be the best way to listen to these, but getting them is a nice way for me to rediscover then. And if there's one thing I know about Autechre's music, it is always rewarded with a revisit and a bit of hindsight

My headcanon thinks of Confield, Draft and Untilted as a trilogy and a very specific era of Autechre

Yeah I've mentioned about that here before, I've heard it called the "Mechanized Trilogy" which totally works for me as a label for it. When they came out they split the fanbase, and I was, for many years, disappointed and skeptical, but I probably have listened to these three the most until Exai, which I feel is their definitive career statement (despite how much NTS feels to be it - there's something so iconic about nearly every tune on Exai)

Untilted very much my favorite of the three. Confield is incredible but it also feels like it's putting my brain in a vice - Draft is too abstract even for an Autechre freak like myself. Untilted on the other hand is like sticking your head into a pinball machine. It's like the 3-D version of Chiastic Slide.

Agree with you on Exai by the way, NTS is definitely their grandest by some measure but it is also uh....really fucking long. Exai is so killer start to finish, I really hope they don't chicken out reissuing it cuz it's a 4xLP

I'm rereading my post from 13 years ago upthread where I mention that I don't really like this album and I guess it just took me a really long time (over 10 years) to finally "get" this album.

I've now totally come around on Untilted, I think I would now place it in top tier autechre (along with NTS, Exai, Confield and Chiastic Slide).

xp thankfully I grabbed Exai and the lovely L-event EP on wax when they dropped

Draft is my fav of this trilogy fwiw. Untilted definitely took the longest for me to get into of any of their records, but I love it so much now, it's got an upbeat energy and ... "sense of humor"? that is more subdued or lacking in their prior albums to that point outside of Envane maybe

Yeah I've mentioned about that here before, I've heard it called the "Mechanized Trilogy" which totally works for me as a label for it. When they came out they split the fanbase, and I was, for many years, disappointed and skeptical, but I probably have listened to these three the most until Exai, which I feel is their definitive career statement (despite how much NTS feels to be it - there's something so iconic about nearly every tune on Exai)

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Yeah I was thrown by all three and I still have difficulty with Confield despite going back to it quite a lot - it's a very "settle down Beavis" album to me - like, if they'd just changed the velocity of some of the sounds on Cfern and Pen Expers and allowed the undercurrents to breathe a little more they'd potentially be my faves, but the timbre of some of those percussion sounds hurt my head. They're overtly heavy and claustrophobic and I just have a hard time enjoying them.

Exai is one I really need to go back to. Elseq too. I'm not sure how or where they sit in my mind, if only because each release from Exai onwards felt like a LOT of material to sift through and subsequently eclipsed the last one in terms of scale. It can take years, even decades, for me to fully grasp what an Autechre album is doing, so when a long album is succeeded by an even longer one it can be pretty exhausting trying to keep up.

My headcanon thinks of Confield, Draft and Untilted as a trilogy and a very specific era of Autechre. Draft and Untilted, especially work as two sides of a coin: up until then the most percussion-driven stuff they'd done with subtle layers of melody and harmony just bubbling under, barely noticeable on the first few listens.

This is exactly why I struggled with Draft and Untilted when they came out despite loving Confield right away. Confield is definitely challenging; each track is like a puzzle to be solved, but it has more overt harmonically beautiful content (e.g. the synths in the second half of "Pen Expers" and all over "Uviol"). That kind of stuff is present on Draft and Untilted but it's harder to dig out. I love them all equally now though.

Untilted definitely took the longest for me to get into of any of their records, but I love it so much now, it's got an upbeat energy and ... "sense of humor"? that is more subdued or lacking in their prior albums to that point outside of Envane maybe

OTM, though I get some perverse humor from Draft as well; "Theme of Sudden Roundabout" is basically built out of fart sounds.

They solved music with "Surripere" and "Augmatic Disport"

LOL, never heard that in Theme Of Sudden Roundabout. Those 'farty' sounds remind me a bit of the VERY HEAVY kick-type drums on Cfern (which I feel are too loud and intrusive)