Autechre: Classic or Dud?

lfo mentioned them in a song but i never got into them for some reason and as i can see they really only had one charted single basscadet which is ok so i will pass on them as a dud for now!

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I have been waiting for this for a very very very long time

so one cool thing when you keep listening to the elseq-NTS-AE_LIVE thing is recognizing one melody or pattern manifest itself in another track. for example I just noticed that "7th slip" uses the melody from "chimer 1-5-1" though it's such a different sound it escaped me the first 20 listens

FYI just got notification that the LP5 vinyl reissue has been delayed

Chiastic Slide still on schedule though

I got LP5 (and slide) through the post today - so some are out there

oh weird. Maybe just US then? Email came from Ochre

looks like they were both delayed, but only a week

Anyone else's Acroyear2 audibly skipping? Everything else sounds fab

is this your first Autechre album?

(sorry couldn't resist)

Hehe I was surprised I could even tell it was skipping tbh

Anyone else's Acroyear2 audibly skipping? Everything else sounds fab

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, November 19, 2021 1:47 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

looking on Discogs & WATMM a few people have had this issue. one said "Rae" (B1) had that issue too so maybe some of the records got warped. I wonder if adjusting your tonearm weight would work.

just out of curiosity, does it skip the whole way or does it start when the drums kick in?

I reported the issue with Rae. Was not a warping thing - sounded like the master. Audio was literally cut weird or glitched in a way that vinyl doesn't produce.

It's been a hard Acroyear for everyone

I got a replacement copy from Bleep and it did the same thing on both my turntables. Nothing wrong with any of the other tracks.

I had a bunch of Micronauts toys as kid. I think they all disappered at some point, not been able to find any of it. Really cool and bizarre stuff like Transformers on mushrooms.

micronautechre?

https://www.lulu-berlu.com/upload/image/micronauts---acroyear-ii--rouge----mego-gig-p-image-304581-moyenne.jpg

oh wow!

Yep, I was very gobsmacked when someone gave me a Micronauts comic book and I saw that name

Lol cool didn't know that

I reported the issue with Rae. Was not a warping thing - sounded like the master. Audio was literally cut weird or glitched in a way that vinyl doesn't produce.

― octobeard, Friday, January 7, 2022 10:03 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's interesting, is it something subtle that maybe I'm just not noticing? my copy plays fine and it would be really strange if there were different masters - I've had vinyl with actual glitches in it but it's stuff that everyone reports.

wonder if maybe its something with the packaging. those cardboard inner sleeves are awfully tight and sometimes stuff with unconventional packaging like that will have some debris in the grooves. like little bits of cardboard or whatever that you can't see. maybe a cleaning would help. I guess you'd just have to watch the needle and see what happens. I have heard that if music is too loud and fills up too much of the spectrum it can cause skipping on some equipment, but I've never seen that myself. if any album did it I suppose it would be LP5.

i wondered about that - the little cut out part of the outer sleeve might somehow be exposing the outer tracks to damage? I doubt it.

I wish they'd also rereleased EP7 along with these two - would have made sense to do them as a three

idk but some Discogs comments indicate that a good cleaning fixes it which implies that something may be getting stuck in there. but I kinda have my doubts on that too since it's the same part of the record for everyone.

I'm curious what future plans hold - the ones I'm really hoping for are Untilted, Quaristice, and Exai. maybe they plan to do the EPs after that? or release 'em all as some big ol' set like they did on CD a while back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbGkm3ESy0A

= someone (with a lot of time on their hands) recombined bits & fragments from AE_LIVE recordings into full "unreleased tracks"

playlist https://www.youtube . com/watch?v=wbGkm3ESy0A&list=PLKzUHzIm0LgbZXLHSqh67LBaon7EhlCXR

part two https://www.youtube . com/watch?v=KmUhKp1f4WM&list=PLKzUHzIm0LgYmjnEtP61XpLyBv0mjBSnR

oh, is this old knowledge? sorry then - part of it is here too https://archive.org/details/AE_ONESIX

https://autechre.warp.net/twentytwentytwo

my birthday weekend. do i want to spend any of it in the barbican carpark in the dark?

Imagine my relief that it's just a few 2022 live dates and not another new album already!

do i want to spend any of it in the barbican carpark in the dark?

you jest of course but just to be sure, it's probably in the auditorium as the divine comedy's show has exactly the same capacity. but maybe they're playing in the car park too.

my birthday weekend too. sehr tempted

A week (and a half) before my birthday weekend. Definitely going even though I didn't really love the 2016 show.

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Announcing Autechre’s latest masterpiece, an album that is over 2000 hours long...

on sale, going fast!

I was in my morning meeting when the tickets went on sale, if I hadn't been looking at twitter at the same time I'd have had no idea, thanks warp and autechre mailing lists! I got in the queue and as soon as I got to the front my name was called in the meeting. 'Er, just buying tickets for my favourite band!' - 'Is it autechre?' - 'Yes' - 'Oh I was going to get some!' - 'Me too!'. We all got some but too late for stalls or mid circle.

Oh to work in an office where people even now who autechre is, let alone being fans. You lead a charmed life, ledge!

I was a bit surprised but we're all developers and some make their own music so kind of the target demographic!

They're all a lot younger than me so it's good to know that it's not just an old man's game. And I get to boast that I've seen ae live seven times already.

Let us know when they're hiring!

I ordered the Chiastic/LP5 reissues at my local shop and wound up realizing that I've actually never said their name out loud before

Ha, that's actually fascinating to consider. I imagine the vast majority of Autechre discourse is online, lol, but assuming a bunch of Autechre fans ever got together to talk Autechre in real life, how would they even go about doing it when half the tracks are unpronounceable?

There's some discussion of pronunciation, inevitably, on Gonkcast.

I wonder if people at Autechre shows ever shout requests.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK"

They just spell out the titles in Unicode glyph numbers and everyone’s down with it