EP7 was my first experience. I'd never heard anything like it and was immediately fascinated, given that I could barely process the sounds. Of course, it's downright minimal compared to what they're doing now! Maphive 6.1 and Zeiss Contarex are favorites, the former reminding me of a more otherworldly version of Aphex's Nannou (Windowlicker B-side), and the latter sounding like a mysterious broadcast caught between stations, right on the edge of the range of transmission. Its downtempo, sampled, staticky feel fit right into my Portishead-loving ears at the time. Confield was an immediate favorite. It sounded like the mind of an awakening infant AI. The long, bizarre outro of Lentic Catachresis (best Autechre title ever?!?) felt like its first words. There was a frightening, forbidding feel to Parhelic Triangle and Bine, like this newborn entity might not be so friendly. Like EP7, I'd never heard anything like it before and it blew my brain wide open. Draft 7.30 was initially baffling and even frustrating, but now I find it the richer of the two and it was a favorite of mine for a long time. I'm partial to its minute, intricate construction, with every single detail having a conscious, deliberate purpose in the larger composition. Elements that I initially found counter-intuitive and wrong-sounding now carry tremendous emotional weight. For instance, Xylin Room's muffled, almost anechoic feel and oddly disturbing drop-outs felt like mistakes to me at first, but now they seem like an intentional challenge, setting the stage for the sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes expansive weirdness to follow. Surripere promises a semi-ambient chillout, and then zigs into an absurdly tortured alien bassline that refuses to obey expectations of identifiable hook or melody (until the end, at least). As the track becomes more aggressive, it flirts with some powerful grooves but refuses to settle into any of them, finally winding up with a very strange and fractured repeated motif. Its non sequitur transitions took me awhile to digest but now they carry an intense, visceral and hypnotic tension. Even V-Proc didn't immediately grab me! I actually thought of it as an odd concession to the dance floor at the time, flirting with recognizable genre tropes, albeit in a typically distorted and mutated way. My first reaction was that I wished they would just go for it and make a totally unrestrained banger rather than, again, flirting with the idea only to dart away in unexpected directions. But then I noticed something incredible: the heavily compressed bell-roll that comes in before the beat starts to go wonky with seemingly random shifts to the swing setting ... it's actually there much earlier, hiding out, slowly revealing itself measure by measure until it is unveiled in all its aggressive glory. What I thought was gone all too soon was there all along, leading beautifully into the drunken stumbling jerk of the final bars. Generally speaking, Autechre's music has always felt fractal to me in a literal sense, with every time scale from full albums to the intricacies of the sound design of each instrument carrying equal parts structural and textural meaning. That is, there's no filler anywhere, and nothing is done purely for the sake of form. Whether you're playing it in the background and only noticing the large, obvious changes, or you're tuned in and picking up every nuance, each element informs every other and integrates into a complete whole. The distinctions between foreground and background, rhythm and melody, motif and ornament, theme and variation, beat and fill, and instrument and effect are blurred, often to the point where it's impossible to say where one ends and the next begins. Side-chain compression and abruptly changing reverb become rhythmic elements in their own right, repeating in intricate patterns that one can begin to anticipate upon repeated listens, only to hear them break from those patterns moments later. Motifs slowly emerge from the depths, becoming prominent over several minutes, only capturing our attention once they emerge from the swirling frenzy that surrounds them. But once again, upon repeated listens one can pick them out of the mix earlier and earlier in the track, until they become interwoven with the entire composition rather than being a stand-out element designed to punctuate the climax of the piece. But at the moment I'm most taken with their recent works. AE_LIVE and elseq 1-5 are gargantuan epics, worlds unto themselves. It has been utterly fascinating to hear nine distinct versions of the same album (and more, if you track down fan recordings of their other live shows), as though you had simultaneous access to nine alternate realities. (Yes, I used to fantasize about doing this: hearing unreleased or alternate versions of albums that don't exist in this timeline.) Each one has elements recognizable across all the sets, presented in the same order and with similar motifs, but each is a variation, often mutating in unexpected directions. Although all the sets have similar lengths, the sections get shorter and more compressed in later shows, with new elements appearing at the end. This continues further with the American shows-c7b2 from elseq 2 shows up in their Chicago set. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s9Cd214mPKI.html Even though the motifs are recognizable between different nights, I find it basically impossible to tell what's being generated in the moment and what was decided in advance. The variations seem purposeful enough that I find it difficult to believe they're being created on the fly or at random. But as I said, all the elements blend together so seamlessly that I can't point to anything that seems obviously generative or obviously programmed. Even the familiar, well-conserved elements vary subtly between sets, and sometimes the larger changes make the motifs nearly unrecognizable. I was impressed with them since '99, but I am astounded by how their craft continues to advance year after year. Their sound design is unparalleled. The intricacy and variety in their compositions is staggering. It seems they can take an idea and confine it to a short five minute segment and make it sound totally polished and complete, and then extend the same idea across nearly a half hour and reveal depths and variety that would never have been apparent in the shorter version. It could even be said that they invent whole genres with each album-or even each track-only to abandon them, so eager are they to expand their musical territory. In other words, they're okay, I guess. Just a couple of friends making tunes, messing around with computers. Nothing special, really. It's not as though I listen to them WAY, WAY more than I listen to anyone else, obsessively trying to pick out and memorize every detail. Who would do that? A crazy person, that's who!
I came to your channel when you did the guide on Swans, one of my favorite bands of all time. That guide was great and your subsequent guides have all been superb. Thanks for turning me on to Autechre, now I love them.
Man I love these videos, your channel is fantastic man. It's sad you don't get more views, but I'm so glad there's someone making videos like this. Thanks for the great work
from one total autechre obsessive to (clearly) another: you have done an incredibly admirable job explaining their majesty without sounding like a watmm poster lol
Watching this channel is like walking into a comforting cafe, being greeted by a warm hug, and have someone talk passionately to me for hours, accompanied by a light English Breakfast on the house.
While I love all of Autechre's work, I think it's a shame that my favourite record, Amber, has fallen through the cracks and is seen as a misstep by the band themselves. It's not cheesy at all and it has aged really beautifully, sounding just as timeless as SAW 85-92, just as rhythmic and layered as their later work while retaining that emotional depth through its melodies and tones.
I don't think they see it as a misstep, I have seen them say that it was made during a time where their creative minds were totally different and that's why they'll probably never make anything like it again. But they don't write off their early stuff or anything, if I'm not mistaken Shaun's (baldy) favorite Ae record is Chiastic Slide.
I don't want to be pathetic, but my first contact with Autechre was Chiastic Slide (CD). War in Bosnia stopped few years ago , but somehow we were able to still get, as we used to call it "Bulgarian rip cds", so we were in touch with music. Ok 1997 my sister send me (thanks Jelena) couple vinyls and CD to my, and she knew I like Rave/Techno/House, and in that package was Chiastic Slide, Selected Ambient Works II, U.F.Orb - The best of Orb (Vinyl was Jeff Mills - Vanishing Act (PM 006) and Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission vol 3 (Tresor25) ). I went far away... Ok first time I put "original" CD in my relative new CD player, and when those hard hip hop beat started, and then that melancholic melody - everything made sense, so Cipater will always remind me of that moment of sun lights through curtain. Something when you take E or acid (bad example 8-) ) or you get that feeling of connection and that everything has purpose. I still get goosebumps!!! For the rest of album it was nothing I have heard so dysfunctional on bring of falling apart, but somehow all clicks again together (ok later there will be drill'n'bass scene). I was begging my friends to record for them the tape of Chiastic Slide (sorry Warp). Thanks @deep cuts, and I must say, I really like your channel and your passion for music... and all those "A Guide to..." actually presents bands and musician I personally like, and fortunate to have almost all of their discography. I like also cause you mention fantastic AE_Live, that is great record material. One that mutate in your mind and senses If I may suggest next a guide to, cause I see you pick bands/artists that have long carrier span, and they are almost a mainstream, but their contribution to modern culture is enormous... so suggestion is: Sonic Youth or John Cale. or maybe guide to musique Concrete and modern minimalist composers like Philip Glass, John Cage, Xenakis, Stockhauzen, Pierre Shaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani (my favorite tape/avant-garde/music concrete album is De Natura Sonorum), etc... Keep on!!
@@fucklchn that makes 2 of us. Chiastic Slide is just SOOOO good and their most well balanced album melody wise and rhythm wise that it's my #1 recommendation to anyone new to Autechre.
Anthony is Ok, but I guess he has a broad audiance to cater too. and lets be honest most people struggle, I mean it took me 5 years to 'get' Confeld. However he was so so so wrong about Tommorow's Harvest.......
Never heard Autechre before, but I typically like all of the artists you talk about, so I thought I might as well try them out. Heard you say Chiastic Slide is the weirdest, and I like weird, so I decided to listen to it first. Really like it; great recommendation, and I hope you keep making vids. Love your stuff and keep it up!
it's not really clear why such content (verbiage) is made - but it's clear words fail to encapsulate, least explain electronic music. Not just here, across the dominant culture. This is at best idol worship or call it celebrity cult worship.
@@AudioPervert1 I think you´re absolutely right and do not see any issues with that. Why not idolize the music that shattered peoples view on what music could or should be. 🤷♂️
Giant Alien Force CD MAXI 3" - fifteen minutes that changed lives. For better or for worse, it's impossible to say. But I will never forget the slam bang on the brizod, if you get my craggy gypsy slang, and if you do, you know that it still sheds little spreadable butter baby.
There was this time I had a fever and I was watching the movie Pi. I'd just taken a Calpol for the fever and I had no idea Kalpol Introl was in the movie. I thought I was having an auditory hallucination thanks to my hyperassociative mind. Good times.
I first came to Autechre through Amber. Although a little quirky I thought Amber was really just cool downtempo truly old school electronica like Larry Fast or even Tangerine Dream. I had no idea the duo was going to blossom into the mind boggling experimental artists that they soon became. I only have six of their full length albums, Incunabula, Amber, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Cornfield and Oversteps, but I'm an enthusiastic collector and will eventually get them all. My favorite piece is probably Gantz Graf even though I don't have that EP. I love the video. By the way I am 63 years old. I hope that doesn't make AE uncool for anyone. Thank you for this in depth guide. You are very articulate.
@@fleaship6134 maybe have some room in your mind for autocorrect? OP, your age doesn’t matter Music connects so many different people - but if if did it’d make cooler
I'm big on BoC, Aphex Twin and a host of other electronic wizards. Strange then that i never really dived into Autechre. Your enthusiasm inspired me... gonna do a deep dive.
@@Broformist Throwback to when I didn't get Autechre's music. A month has passed and I do now. My fav albums from them are Untilted, Amber, and Exai. Only Autechre albums I haven't listened to yet are Chiastic Slide, Quaristice, the NTS Sessions, and Sign and Plus. Still trying to process Oversteps and elseq. It's been an awesome musical journey.
@@mayabartolabac Right on man, I myself only managed to get into their post Confield phase only about half a year ago thanks to Exai. I've been listening to their 90s stuff for about 20 years though, Amber was my first album of theirs. It's funny how fast the rest of their stuff got unlocked for me after giving Exai few good spins and learning to like most tracks on it. Amber, Exai, Untilted are also in my top favorites of theirs at the moment, along with LP5 , Confield and Elseq. I would like to have Tri Repetae on there as good tracks on it are sooo good, but unfortunately I find some other stuff on there just kind of boring. And in case you didn't check out their EPs - don't miss them. Lots of great stuff there.
first get a hair cut like this. Then in order to fix your hair like that use a brush to lay them in this direction while you're drying your hair after washing (in his case to the back left side) and add more volume to the front by grabbing your hair with a brush and pointing upwards while drying with very warm air ofcourse. After drying apply your hair product firstly on back and sides you don't want a lot of it in the front because it'll get flat especially if you have fine hair. Comb them (with a comb, not brush) to the back right or left side (whichever side you choosed before). At the end spray it a bit with hair spray. Trust me I have basically the same haircut only on the other side and with widow's peak so I know cause I do it everyday. Oh and the most important, by hair product I mean POMADE, only pomade works for this sort of haircut. Hair gel would only work for like 2 hours and it would pull out your hair because of its stickiness and the fact that it glue your hair together when it dries out.
Oh my god same here found Autechre and Aphex Twin through that movie's soundtrack, in fact it might be responsible for turning me onto music and changing my whole life
I just want to let you know Mr.Deepcuts, because of this video I have started listening to Autechre. I’ve been wanting to getting into them but when I tried to, I didn’t know where to start. The final ten mins of “Ska001 Part 3” hit me hard. Got very emotional. I also listened to “Confield” and it was three in the morning and I came home from a long night at work and day at school. That album put me in a head space where I felt free. I was in a different world. That album really makes you feel like you weigh nothing. Absolutely a masterpiece. Thank you for this.
Autechre is actually the type of band or music that has opened doors or been to places no one has ever been. I've never heard more complex rhythms, melodies, voices, sounds and a great detail in perfection other than AE. It's almost like their fascination in music lies in trying to make the impossible possible... and every album that gets released goes up a gear.
Elseq 1-5 is one of the greatest achievements in music. There is so much beauty all over it. 'Spaces How V' is like a slice of heaven in my ears. I feel like i'm travelling through worlds every moment of it. Another STUNNING video.
Had an amazing experience on the highway one night with that playing and no other cars on the road, just me and the streetlamps zooming past. It was transcendent.
Autechre To Release Box Set Of New Music with new material from their NTS residency: This month sees Autechre hold down a residency on online radio station NTS, broadcasting two hours of music each Thursday, and they have now confirmed that each show is made up of entirely new and original music from the duo. The music will be made available physically and digitally following the residency, with pre-orders now live via Autechre's Bleep store. Those who've pre-ordered will receive a download of the music from each NTS residency show after it has aired. The music will be made available physically in two complete box sets, made up either of 8xLP or 12xCD, while individual sessions will be available across 3xLP. They are described as one-time pressings, and will be released this summer.
I agree that Amber is evocative, some of it deeply emotional, Piezo makes me cry with what sounds like a million computers dieing. But Oversteps just clinches it with tracks like r ess or Treale sounding like music that should of been on the last Bladerunner film. Its all great although it took me about 5 years to really appreciate Confeld....
Yes! More love for Amber! It's been one of my all-time favourite albums for years but "Piezo" from it is particularly brilliant. That song means so much for me.
Since the release of this lovely video, our friends @ autechre have released AE_LIVE2016/2018, NTS Session 1-4, as well as PLUS and SIGN, totalling (if I'm not mistaken) roughly 17 hours of new Autechre content...!
It's art. It's different. Their art sounds are asymmetrical but there is a structure like a song. I found Sign by logging onto iTune Music. It was on the top row in the middle. Do they have any competition? I want to make my own art sounds. I call it art sounds because its not music but it's music like in certain sounds and mental shapes.
Just watched the entire guide- being an Ae fan since 1999, this was truly entertaining and interesting, thank you and good job! I really liked your metaphorical ways of describing the tracks, and I found myself smiling and nodding my head in agreement with basically everything you had to say. My entry point was EP7, since that was the year I started listening to them, but my favourite release always seems to be their latest one. I basically stopped listening to other music at all- everything just fades in comparison, where the lack of details and originality just bores me to hell- they kind of ruined all other music for me, hehe.. Autechre is such a blessing to have in this world, and I'm a happier and richer person thanks to them.
I reckon Chiastic Slide is their strongest, most balanced, and most timeless album to date. Seminal classic. I am really happy it got a proper repress at last because my original copy is pretty worn out already. ;) The album is also a massive grower! And what a wonderful narrative it has! It took me some time to get into it, while LP5 or Tri Rep, or even Confield opened up pretty much right on the first listen. But now, this is probably my most favourive album of all time along with Selected Ambient Works Vol.II by youknowwho.
my boss from the feminist indie industrial record label I worked for introduced to Autechre. She was crazy as the this music, like an emobodiementof theses dimensions thy capturemomentsof. my boss dosed me on LSD. some of their music really does remind me of the more complex graffiti art ive seen, I can see music in my imagination after taking LSD at a rave.
I was mid way through learning Autechre, when i decided to give Exai a go... On acid... im glad i was prepared for it, saddened that i can never debut it again in that state of mind, an experience i will never forget. Nice guide btw :)
your enthusiastic description of elseq 1-5 encouraged me to give that record another listen after a long break. great vid, very well researched and produced
To me, that's definitely a contender for best in the discography. For me, it's between Tri Repetae and LP5 for their 90s stuff, at least. And I probably lean towards LP5.
I have actually heard a few times that LP5 is a fave and even more times suggested to others who may like this kind of music as it has that balance of their older sound and the later “weirder”. My fav is Tri Repetae but LP5 is close.
I can't find the Ae's 99 Coachella show on youtube anymore but the first track from that show is actually an early version of Pen Expers (the beats) where the melody is actually Vangelis' Theme from Cosmos. It's amazing.
I have a soft spot for ep7. I really didn't like it on the first few listens, but after playing it in the background while needing to do something one night, it really clicked with me. Favourite albums are Amber, Tri Repetae and Oversteps. Really don't much like anything from Confield onwards. Never made any sense to me.
Gonkcast is a great podcast that delves into one or two albums per episode, if anyone is interested. It says a lot about Autechre that their music inspires such detailed analysis.
OH YES. Here's my least to most favourite AE albums (I've not listened to Chiastic and Exai by the way) : 10. Incunabula (1993) - Unfortunately had to put this last. Never really had much attachment to it and kinda sounds dated to me. 9. Draft 7.30 (2003) - Again, never clicked with me, but I confess that I don't think I've given it enough dedicated time to listen. 8. Confield (2001) - Please don't get mad lol. I listened to this really late, like in 2015. Heard everyone saying it was the best AE album by far, came in with too high expectations. 7. Tri Repetae (1995) - Another case of me not giving enough time to listen. Dael is insane and I've listened to that track a ton but now that I look back I don't actually think I moved on from it and I've only probably listened to the rest of the album once lmao. 6. LP5 (1998) - Holy shit. 6th sounds super low to me now that I think about it. 5. Oversteps (2010) - Genuinely loved it. Quite astonishing how much people hated it. I think the combo of moving back to the ambient moods of their early albums and the new technology of the late 2000s really clicked with me. 4. elseq 1-5 (2016) - 4 hour experience. Maybe the most unique album I've ever heard. 3 and 4 are heart pounding. I can't say much about it, it's something you have to go through yourself. 3. Amber (1994) - While I don't think it's their 3rd best work, it's my 3rd favourite simply because I have the most attachment to it. It was the first album I listened to in full and was what made me fall in love with AE. Maybe less complex than their newer work and less thought provoking, but so emotional for me. Piezo, by the way, is probably my favourite AE song. 2. Quaristice (2008) - Yeah, I know, near to no one likes this album much, but I genuinely enjoyed this change from their previous works. Really quirky, jam-like beats, and Altibzz and Perlence are killer. Among my favourite AE songs. 1. Untilted (2005) - Far and away my favourite AE album. There's just something so fucking satisfying about it, hearing these extremely complex rhythmic structures get torn down and rebuilt within each structure. Incredible. Hardest album to get into for me and took multiple listens to click but by far the most rewarding. Would love to hear your worst to best AE albums too
I am not sure if you can really rank anything by them, what ever the taste setters say. I know guys who love Amber and it stops there. I think Tri repete/Garbage/Anvil Vapre is the peak, but I love Move of 10. Other guys really like Draft 7.30. It changes all the time as well, one minute I am obsessed with Envane, next L-Event, etc For me it comes down to mood although Second Peng remains my favorite track as it sounds like Chain Reaction/ Basic Channel track or something like Pole or Monolake would do.
I think that when you listen to Gantz graph you must watch the visual as well, and I think that's the recipe for this track. I can't recall a single time Ive listened to it without watching the video. Its a drug like experience.
I got into Autechre when I saw the LP5 CD in the racks at my local Virgin Megastore in the late 90s. It was the all black plastic edition. I'd heard none of their music at that time, but I bought it on the strength of its case. I remember thinking that any album with a design concept like that had to be worth a listen! I have to agree that Amber has become my favourite Autechre record. It's such a cohesive and satisfying listening experience.
Pen Expers IS incredible. Blew my mind the first time I heard it - I love how the heart breaking melody almost clambers out from the beat programming - like they're fighting.
I believe they're using heavy side-chain compression so that the beat actually suppresses the synth-it's like the melody has to peek around the beat, filling in the spaces where it's absent. Also I've read that the beat was composed on a minidisc on random! It was the only format at the time that had zero latency between shuffled tracks so you could make each track the length of a measure and then put them seamlessly into any order without using a DAW.
Love the channel! This is so great that there are people on youtube who can talk about Autechre for almost an hour on camera. Thank you so much for that, deep cuts! My way of entering Autechre was purely chronological, so my first studio album was Incunabula. Before Autechre I was quite familiar with Aphex, Orb, FSOL and Boards of Canada and other major and obscure artists, I would listen to loads of ambient techno at the time so I loved the album. Yet this ambient techno was so different from anything I'd heard before. It was layered and really 'clever', I found myself loving everything about the tracks - from rhythms to bass and melody - as you said, 'idiosyncratic beats'. You could hear that AE struggled in that club techno format. Early ae had what rappers might call 'flow' - a nifty and stylish yet very robust articulation and form, every track was like a heavy train moving forward. Then I heard Amber and it was phenomenal. Everything I liked about Incunabula was given so much more depth and imagery, every track evoked a different scenery in my poor head. That 'Foil' opener hit me really hard. I was blown to shreds. A techno that you can study, revisit, rediscover with each new listen, a true 90s recording. After listening most of AE I would say this is my favourite album to date. Then I would greedily listen to any EP they had at the time. I loved Garbage and its crisp and crunchy sound and Anti with its fast sonic repetitionless journeys. After enjoying the sounds of Tri Repetae I came across Chiastic Slide which introduced me to a very new kind of music. At first this 'dance of the machines' repulsed me but then I started hearing so much in it I couldn't stop listening to this album. I never thought I would like something like this in my life. Confield and Draft 7.30 were tough nuts, I made it through and it was worth the effort. Even after listening to EP7 it was hard to instantly like these recordings. It turnet to be one of the finest noise music I've ever heard. Untilted was like a distilled version of Confield for me, loved it as well. I love the dark aura on those recordings. Often times dark ambient(-like) albums are edgy and hard to listen to, they make me go paranoic, make me expect to hear some cheap jumpscare. Autechre's darkness is much more sober, calculated and scientific, makes you want to study it, all its vertices and sides as you submerge in it. I used to think most of the tracks from this period are hysterical and schizophrenic, but now relistening to them I realize I was wrong. I can't agree on your rant about Gantz Graf EP. Well yes, I've listened to it quite a few times but it totally paid off. After a while you can hear a neat melody through these noises in Gantz Graf, it's quite a hysteric and dramatic track actually. And for my money, Cap.IV I think is one of the best pieces of music ae has ever created. Keep up, deep cuts, so glad I found this channel! Love from Russia :)
I tried putting the Autechre and Hafler Trio albums on RU-vid once. Stayed up for a few hours until it got taken down. Since Andrew McKenzie, the guy behind The Hafler Trio, was reportedly hunting down and taking down any trace of his music on the internet actively, I don't have much reason to doubt he was the one who got to my video. Also gave me a strike too, which was demoralizing. There was æ³o & h³æ from 2003, æo³ & ³hæ from 2005, and ah³eo & ha³oe from 2011. All of them are drone. æ³o & h³æ in particular is formless, cold, emotionless drone. More emotionless and even darker than anything Autechre ever put out. It's the type of music to play in total darkness so to let it wash over you and let your mind wander. æo³ & ³hæ is a bit more interesting, with the first track mainly consisting of erratic, glitched clips of noise and clicks. The second track has more drone, although with sound clips of what sounds like cupboards and doors opening and closing shut rapidly, rushing in and out of the audio. Pop, click, pop pop CLACK pop. Sounds like these fuck with your left and right audio channels if you listen to them on stereo headphones. They don't last long. These releases are something you could recommend only to sound engineers or sound artists or audiophiles or anyone just way too curious. The third release, ah³eo & ha³oe, I could not get ahold of. You could still buy it, though it is region-locked to PAL, which wouldn't work for me. What's interesting was it was limited to 1,000 copies, and was only on DVD-V. It had two discs, one was 5.1 surround DVD-quality sound (better than CD by a long shot), and the other was simply a stereo mix. I don't know what the music itself is like. Probably not much different from both previous releases. Except it's *fucking three hours and 47 minutes long (one track being exactly two hours and the other being an hour and 47 minutes, which was probably why it's on DVD).* And it's ambient drone, not Elseq 1-5...
I have the DVD and though I'm not really familiar with the first two installments, it sounds as though it continues in much the same vein. I haven't listened to it in awhile as it's very long and I don't have a surround setup at the moment. Like your description, there are a lot of long, sustained drones and soundscapes that change so slowly that it's barely perceptible. There's also a track with an egg timer that goes off with an ear-shattering ring at the end!
The Hafler Trio and Autechre collaboration sound really intriguing. Although admittedly I have not yet heard the EP's because I cannot locate it on the Internet. Could you please provide a link so I can listen to it. I like Perlence Subrange 6-36 a lot (so much so that I purchased the WAV file) so if the Hafler Trio/Autechre EP's are anything like that I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
Oliver, you are amazing! I have to admit, of all the discographies you’ve done so far, this is the one I am least familiar with, though I am not unfamiliar with it. It’s mostly the early stuff that I know and love quite well (1993-1999 era), while I’d say I’m somewhat familiar with the most recent (2010-2018) stuff, which I’ve still had yet to completely wrap my head around, and I’m just barely familiar with the 2000s work (I’ve at least listened to every album one time). It’s really those first 3 albums that I love the most, though I quite enjoy the later 90s stuff, and have been slowly warming to the most recent albums as I wrap my head around them. “Amber” is likely my favorite, though only by a hair over “Tri-Repeta”. I guess it’s bc it was the album that started my journey with them, and also my most listened to album. I don’t think it’s cheesy at all, and frankly, I love the 90s sound. I don’t get how this “falls through the cracks” for most Autechre fans, but then I don’t personally know anyone else that likes their music, unfortunately. If what you say it true, that’s pretty ridiculous to me, frankly. I think it’s fucking brilliant, and up there with SAW 85-92 and Music Has The Right To Children. Anyway, I could go on and on about my opinions, but I’ll keep my comments “short” for once. I definitely appreciate your perspective on all of this. This has definitely inspired me to dig back into their albums, especially those albums in the 2000s that you lumped to much praise on, and that I honestly think I’ve only listened to once, maybe twice (not that I didn’t like them, it’s just that I’ve only been listening to these guys for like 3-4 years or so, and haven’t given all of the discography the time it deserves). Thanks as always, mate! ✌🏼
it's weird i never could get into Autechre....too much glitch not enough atmosphere for me....im sure plenty of you will disagree....love Tracks like "Bike" though for example....
The greatest producers bar none! A fantastic review that showcases the lads. Personally I came in around Amber but for me the real gems are the EPs. Anvil Vapre, Anti, Garbage, EP 7....but I really enjoy everything. A challenging act but well worth diving into.
