Autechre - classic or dud

I am no jess

i think this is a joke or a taking of my piss. i hope to god it is.

(and gareth, if you must know, it's sometimes lurker/poster/troll dr. funk - my first critic! - who apparently (to read his blog) thinks i'm dumber than pigshit, although he's yet to have the guts to say it on the board.)

but when it comes out, the press (Wire specifically) will be heralding it as the new-sound... blah blah blah blah...

all signs point to a new ep, as they need to keep their name out here after their tour, i guess.

http://www.absorb.org/reviews/eps_10.html

i've listened to it a few times through already. it's ok enough i suppose. i can't tell if it's supposed to be a joke or not.

Silverside, Slip, Piezo, Pen Expers, Uviol, Maphive6.1, Zeiss Contarex, Pir, Rae, Fold4 Wrap5, Arch Carrier, Cichli, Garbagemx, Leterel.

Then come back, change your above comments about Autechre and go out and buy their entire back catalogue ;-)

destroy: euro-english newspeak.

New Autechre album - April 2005

In short: they've been amazing on this tour.

it also boasted the highest male-to-female ratio i've ever seen at a show.

i totally forgot about this aspect. think i'll save my money then.

however, i wouldn't write them off; i think they will come up with the goods again one day.

(I'm probably going to anyway... they must be at least semi-classic then)

So not liking the last few albums--or being unfamiliar with them--is almost a moot point.

2005 show last week: absolute 4/4 non-stop dance party, many pieces strict-tempo dj'ed together into one long mix. madly syncopated (seldom straight out four on the floor), but you could tap your foot or dance like a madman at all times. the recent abstract digital sounds of the last three records have been isolated and poured onto the grid, no multiple time-signature experiments. way, way, way more straightforward than untilted, and 100% new material -- absolutely nothing recognizable from any record. No traceable melodies, but tons of layered ambient sections and crescendos. once again, my attention wandered a bit in parts, but the end was rewarding and I sure hope mp3's turn up of this show, or even a release.

still doesn't quite sound like anything they've done before, but definitely way closer to 95/96 than 01/04. liked it.

the thing with ae is that they're at their best now. neil young peaked in the 70s.

Agreed - and I love Tri Rep but it's not exactly demonstrative of where they've been for most of their career (Chiastic Slide maybe more so)

I rank Tri Rep near the bottom too though a lot of that has to do with how much it just hurts my ears

I'd always heard that referred to as their best so I tried it over and over again, decided to give Chiastic a shot just to see if I should give up on them or not, and wound up liking it way more. no reason this kind of music can't groove.

Tri Rep my fave by a wide distance - guess people look for different things in Ae

i really like tri rep but it took me a while, like frogbs is saying, lots of weird high end and the rest is kinda still comparatively. chiastic slide and garbage are my favs from the 90s.

I'll occasionally put on one of the first three autechre albums which I do enjoy a lot, but yeah, Chiastic Slide to me is the one where they actually start becoming the autechre I love and if I wanted someone to get into them, I would probably not pick something from the early-early albums

If I had to pick some tracks, I would go with the tracks on each of the albums which initially hooked me, something like:

Cipater
Archcarrier
Ccec
Drane
Eidetic Casein
Gantz Graf (the video)
Surripere
Perlence
known(1)
bladelores
c16 deep tread
gonk steady one
au14

Funnily enough I actually made a "one track from each release playlist a while ago:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I4DcXrTiNjhcBw9Y5vNM3?si=c8b42457b6924f46

Not sure how satisfactory it is in being a "best of", since there are albums where I prefer multiple tracks over those on other releases, but it's:

Lowride
Slip
Garbagemx
Second Bad Vilbel
Eutow
Cichli
Laughing Quarter
Krib
Rae
Maphive6.1
Gantz Graf
Cfern
6IE.CR
Augmatic Disport
Simmm
d-sho qub
iris was a pupil
bladelores
c16 deep tread
violvoic
gr4
ecol4

Said it before but I would really love to hear some updated mixes/remasters of Tri-Rep and Amber. The former especially could use some mixing adjustments and more prominent bass and sub bass. At times it's almost 80's-ish in its sonic presentation.

some things that haven't been mentioned yet (I think? these song titles, man...) that I would personally include:

the egg (from the first artificial intelligence lp)
under BOAC
sublimit
ylm0
cap.IV
lentic catachresis

under BOAC is spectacular. That would make a good starter track if you knew they were ready for a wild ride

under BOAC was the first autechre I truly got obsessed with