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Autechre

21:29 / 04.07.02

which albums/singles should i be listening to from these people? i wanna buy an album but have gathered that their later stuff is better.

21:51 / 04.07.02

Most of their stuff sounds more or less the same. I like what they sound like, but if you've heard anything from them and like it, chances are you'll dig almost all of their stuff.

That being said, the self-titled Autechre LP is good, as is last year's Cornfield. The latter is just a bit more warm than everything that preceedes it, but not by a lot. EP7 is also good, falling between the two releases I mentioned above.

I haven't heard anything before Tri Repetae++, but that record is pretty good. It's a little more mechanical than later material, but a good listen. If nothing else it's good value, with two discs for the price of one. That being said, I'd start with either of the first two discs I mentioned.

Matthew Fluxington

22:29 / 04.07.02

I agree with Videodrome, more or less - though there are some stylistic shifts, and the records are indeed different from each other. Some are better than others. I've heard/own about half of the discographie, and I can tell you straight up that EP7 is my favorite. It just is. There's something about that one that all comes together for me, and it has a couple songs (the second and final tracks) that really move me. I wouldn't give LP5, Envane, or Peel Session 2 glowing recommendations (though I wouldn't pan them either), but I do think Tri Repetae, Cichlisuite, and Confield are pretty good.

For a useful critical guide to the Autechre discography, I recommend this website.

23:03 / 04.07.02

Autechre are one of those acts who I keep on meaning to get to know properly, but somehow always forget. I've only got 1994's Amber LP and haven't listened to that in years (due to long-term lack of record player). I do remember liking that immensely. Possibly time to get reacquainted.

23:18 / 04.07.02

thanks people. Flux that website is excellent.

Matthew Fluxington

01:20 / 05.07.02

Hmm. The thought of listening to Autechre on vinyl seems sorta silly to me - the music embraces 1's and 0's so much, I can't imagine it sounding quite *right* except for in pure digital audio.

The Natural Way

07:55 / 05.07.02

I know what you mean, Flux, but loads of Autechre's stuff works really well in a club, so.....

00:29 / 27.06.03

o.k i've listened to lp5 and confield alot now(about two months) and i would have to say 'confield' is very beautiful and for anyone who's interested the album should be sought out asap. what's the new album like?

10:03 / 27.06.03

Autechre are my babies. I have never heard a tune from them that I didn't like.

Anybody heard draft 7.30 yet.

I've got Incunubula and a few singles. All on vinyl. Fucking great records for moving between different styles when your mixing. The gantz graf ep is one of the strangest tunes I've heard. Did anyone ever hear them live. I remember reading in an interview that they do weird stuff with software that generates realtime tunes. That sounds really nice.

10:12 / 27.06.03

I love Chiastic Slide, wonderful, whitenoisey tuneful weirdness. But I do think they sound a bit the same. I brought the next couple of LPs and didn't find 'em different enough to sustain my interest. I didn't feel like i had to own anymore of their records. Should probably give 'em another listen.

The Natural Way

11:13 / 27.06.03

I don't think their stuff's any more samey than anything else. It seems to me that the perceived sameyness is probably borne out of unfamiliarity. I'm sure it'd diminish with repeated listening.

22:07 / 27.06.03

oKAY. For me, Autechre are the tits. They constantly innovate and evolve in a way unlike most other bands. There music seems to change with each release whilst remaining , well, Autechre-y. I usually find myself really understanding an Autechre album about a year after its release; what appeared to be a formless sequence of notes slowly becomes an incredible melody with time. They have so muck sonic depth it's untrue. God, I'm just realising how I hate written descriptions of music, words are inadequate and one just ends up sounding like a ponce.

Anyway,

seen them live a few times. They never seem to play music off the albums, preferring to create something unique. This is a real feat for computer based musicians, most choose to hit play on their sequencer and tweaking a few plug-ins; so long as it's coming out of a laptop with someone hunched over it, that'll do. This is not the case with Autechre. The music I have heared them produce live in recent years has been the most mind bending shit for me. At the Warp Lighthouse party in the London docklands I had to leave the building for part of the set just to calm down. The only way to dance to it was spasmodic. All the lights were off (as is customary), leaving only the thickest and fastest of soundscapes as the listener's environment. Extatically confusing.

*Favourite album at the moment: LP5
*Best for dancing: 'Second Bad Vibl' from the Anvil Vapre EP.
*Best thing they've done: The Grantz Graf DVD. The most amazing piece of abstract art I have ever seen. Can't reccomend it enough.

Autechre: Gold Boyce.