New Autechre album - April 2005

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We are extremely pleased to announce that Autechre will release a new album in 2005. And if that wasn't enough, they will also be playing live in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan. Watch this space for more.

"Untilted" WARP180 released: April 2005

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Despite not having listened to them for ages, I am a bit excited about this. They were ace when I saw them in edinburgh a couple of years ago so I guess that's fun x 2.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Sweet!

I hope it's better than the last one, though.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes. Although I did strangely get that once about 6 months ago and have strangely not listened to it since. One for tonight I believe.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

The question is are they going to keep ploughing the furrow of getting more and more complicated and (arguably) unlistenable as they have done since the beginning?
I'd like to see another dramatic change of style with them since the last couple of releases have been heavy on the crunching havoc and light on melodies/moods.
I'd like to see what they could do melodically - they've already pushed the metal on metal impossible "rhythms" thing as far as they can - any more and it'll sound like sand being sifted through a giant threshing machine.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

those last two records were quite hard to grasp. that was the point, of course, but your head has to be screwed on in a unorthodox way to actually enjoy music that conceptual. but then again, i guess that you're not supposed to enjoy it, but rather to - erm - experience it and ponder about it. well.

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

When I say get I mean understand, rather than obtain.

xpost

I was having a discussion along similar lines the other day. There was an interesting point made that autechre, for all their abstraction, have always had a 'groove' as has Aphex Twin. i.e. it is always, in its heart, dance music.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

dog latin sums up my feelings, pretty much. my favourite autechre stuff is on the first two albums.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, Tri Repetae, LP5, Confield - and all the EPs - are solid gold! Confield took quite a while to get though, and I never got Draft 7.30 - Confield was *highly* textured, if not melodic, but Draft just sounded beat-heavy to me, and not even rhythmical.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

- so yeah, I'd like to hear some melodies again. Or a richer sound at the very least.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I spent the last 18 months waiting for this news so I could start a thread titled, "Come CIPATE the new autechre with me." =(

Also: more melody pls!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

may i be the first to say:
can someone gmail this to me? k, thnx.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I liked Confield a LOT -- at this point I like it more than all of their other eps and lps -- but Draft was just kind of....dull, I guess. Boring.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Agree with Raymond. I still listen to Confield all the time - it's replaced my two previous favorites, LP5 and EP7 - but the best thing about Draft 7.30 is the little cards that come in lieu of a CD booklet.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

(A small percentage of my problem with Draft may have something to do with the fact that when I reviewed it, the label sent a CASSETTE promo, thereby making it more difficult/inconvenient to listen to it the many times one must to fully appreciate an Autechre record. Couple that with a lack of interesting sounds/melodies, and you've got a dud.)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Mmm, I liked that cassette (much better cover than the cd, music wasn't too bad either).

But yeah, although I love all their stuff, I wouldn't mind them ditching the grrr-TSKTSK-WAKwokWAK rhythms for once and just be flat-out melodic/ambient.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

No no, the holy trinity of er IDM = weird noises, fucked up beats, beuatiful melodies. Gotta have 'em all! If you want the flat-out melodic/ambient thing then I gues Fennesz et al are doing that pretty well.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Then again maybe another ambient-esque ae album would be fantastic; but I'd still like it to to be a step forward, rather then going back to Amber (which admittedly is highly unlikely).

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what to expect from this album. On "Draft 7:30" -- for the first time in their career -- it seemed like they were repeating themselves.

If they're going to recycle their old work, I'd prefer a return to the raw beats and repetition of "Chiastic Slide". But who knows what they've got up their sleeve.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Barry OTM. More late-90s ae.

Amber = overrated
Incunabula = underrated.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I agree, more melody. Let's start a petition.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

As usual, Leee, I think you've got the albums right but the opinions are backwards :)

Continuing:

Tri Repetae -- overrated
Chiastic Slide -- ridiculously underrated
LP5 -- overrated
Confield -- underrated

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Actually, "Incunabula" is rated just right. "Amber" is definitely underrated.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

yay! a tour!!!!

― it's tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Peel Sessions 2 - so underrated it's not even rated at all

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only person to much prefer Draft7.30 to Confield? It seemed a lot more listenable whereas Confield just gave me a thumping headache.
LP5 is far and above my favourite - possibly one of my favourite albums of all time.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

peel sesh 2 is great!!

so is the cover artwork!!

i am so excited that they are touring!!

― it's tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Nah I'm with Ray on Draft - sparse and boring. LP5 and Confield share top honours with me. And can I add to the love for Peel Sesh 2 (except for 19 Headaches) (and the Microphone Fiend version of Blifil stomps over the original).

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm all for giving props to Peel Sessions 2 as long as we're clear about:

Peel Sessions 1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peel Sessions 2

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Let's start a petition

Yea. Anyone here who speaks autechrian fluently? You know just write a little note with "more ambient please" and then i'll gladly sign it *Omaer Voltec>

Sigh. I'm always waiting for LP5 to go midprice, and somehow it's always the one that doesn't. Baestards.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I loved Draft 7.30, thought it sounded fantastic, and if you don't hear the melodies you're not listening.

LP5 still my favorite album but my favorite single is probably Grantz Graf.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Yea. Anyone here who speaks autechrian fluently? You know just write a little note with "more ambient please" and then i'll gladly sign it *Omaer Voltec>

Vubwal866, cosinchange od vorbatine elf. Cerliper ransex blid3.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. I'm always waiting for LP5 to go midprice, and somehow it's always the one that doesn't. Baestards.

Record prices can be good indicators of worth sometimes. I love LP5, find Tri Repetae interesting but boring and haven't got much further in my investigations so far.

― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

The melodies are there, just not anything special (particularly in comparison to their other, better work).

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I put Tri Repetae in this weekend after not listening to it for five years and I truly enjoyed it. Makes we want to try all the difficult stuff again, which I've never enjoyed or "got".

― Jinx, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

Tri Repetae took a long time for me to get in to. I see it as their most ambient album. It does have some amazing moments but it's largely a transition from the old style to the mid style.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

If Autechre ever transitioned from one style to another, it was after "Incunabula". For instance, compare Autechre's work when the first Artificial Intelligence comp was released to their work when the second was released. They went from fitting in nicely with Black Dog, B12, etc. to sounding utterly alien to anything else on the label.

Their mid-90's work was more fractured than transitional, as they leaped from style to style literally every six months -- From the lush "Amber" to the harsh "Anvil Vapre" to the hip-hop and electro-laden "Tri Repetae" to the ambient "Garbage", etc.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

We agree on the Peelies, Barry! (Except that PS2 bores.)

Back when Warp's msg board was up, Chiastic seemed the overwhelming favorite, and, I think, on a.m.autechre as well.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

LP5 has that one track that sounds like samples of an aluminum can tab being flicked. I think that was their peak album in a way.

― eman (eman), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Chiastic Slide has held up beautifully; I listened to it just the other day. A perfect record, just so well paced and well designed.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

We agree on the Peelies, Barry! (Except that PS2 bores.)

I'm not too big on PS2 either.

I was under the impression that "Tri Repetae" has been considered their best for years. If opinions are shifting toward "Chiastic Slide" then I couldn't be happier.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

i'd actually love to see them keep the direction they took on that split with the hafler trio.

p.s. fuck all you 'more melody' whiners.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

chiastic slide is their best with confield coming in a very, very close second imo

― t0dd swiss, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

ep7 is underrated on this thread. ep7 > chiastic slide

― rssgnl, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

I hope it's all like 4x4 house shit!

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

or even better, trance.

― bass braille (....), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm happy to see all the Confield > Draft 7.30 opinions.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

I think Confield and Draft 7.30 are two different pies altogether. Can't be compared IMO. That said, I can more easily chill out listening to Draft - Confield requires more of my undivided attention.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

I just never really enjoyed listening to Draft. Confield is abstract, sure, but it always sucked me in.

I agree with the Chiastic lovers, it's amazing. Cichli is genius.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Where was all this "Chiastic Slide" love during the 90's poll?

(I was thinking about nominating it, but other Ae albums were already nominated. There were so many props for "Tri Repetae" and "LP5" floating around, and I think I may have been the only one to comment about the "Chiastic Slide" injustice on those threads.)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

OK, I just checked that thread and "Chiastic Slide" was never mentioned except in a backhanded way by me, when I chewed out the general populace for favouring Boards of Canada >>>>> Ae, Aphex, and everything else on Warp. But TriRep made the top 100 and LP5 nearly did, and I wasn't shocked about that because that was in line with what I believe is the general opinion about their best records.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

But, fuck dude, BoC is something above and beyond almost anything ever.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

I knew you'd say that! (it was my own fault for laying down the bait, however)

I just reviewed some older threads about Autechre ... it's mostly the same handful of people giving props to the same albums (i.e. opinions haven't changed much over the years). "Chiastic Slide" gets respect from this core group, but very little from "ILM at large". Sure, that's a fairly small sample, but that does fit with my perceptions about Autechre over the last ten years.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

On Chiastic, "Calbruc" = underrated. The last remotely dancey tune they've released.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

I always was amazed by that 3-star rating Chiastic Slide got on AMG (followed by this comment in the LP5 review: "1997's Chiastic Slide wasn't considered a true follow-up by the band". I can't remember ever reading this at the time.)

My favourite Ae sort of changes from day tot day between Amber - Tri - Chiastic. Today I'm in a Chiastic mood.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Bottom line: I hope and they move in a new direction, as they've done with every release so far (someone above said Draft was a step backwards - well even going backwards is a new direction, the first time you do it).

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Chiastic Slide is great because it has Cichli on it and that's worth it for the tag price alone. I think the album peters out towards the end though.

Tri Repetae was nice - a very different vibe to any of the other albums in that it had comparatively linear beats and stuff. Definitely not my favourite though.

I'm going to put on Amber again in a mo as I've neglected it for ages.

LP5 is truly gorgeous - melodic, rhythmic, inventive all at the same time. I was never a big fan of the first two tracks which just sound like erratic drill'n'bass rip offs but the rest is so so good!

EP7 is really really good too. Kind of an extension of LP5, the second half is particularly great. Maphive6.1 invoking the sound of battling hoardes and then something that sounds like a cross between a piano and guitar comes in.

Confield? I really don't know. It's my least favourite. Some of the sounds are just too harsh for me to accept. The bass drum beats on Cfern are genuinely horrible and sound like a four year old hitting a touch sensitive keyboard at random. When this came out everyone was saying the stand out tracks were "Pen Expers" and "Eidetic Casein" - the former sounding like someone hoovering up iron nails, and the latter like a bunch of toy keyrings all going off at the same time. I only really like the ambient "Uviol" on this one.

Draft7.30 is actually a really clever album. I always felt that with Confield there was no reference at all - it was just alien music, whereas you could really hear Autechre's influences on this record, so much so I once layered Funkadelic's "Who says funk bands can't play rock?" over VProc. There's a big old-skool influence on this too.
The first track sounds like a giant Dune worm pounding along the ground, and the second track makes me think of being on a creepy old pirate ship. Maybe my third or fourth favourite album of theirs.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

i can unequivocally say that i rate everything they've done.

one of my favorite things about the chiastic period is that they released two great singles off the album. i don't think that's happpened since.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Chiastic is indeed underrated. I initially stayed away from it due to all the reviews/word of mouth, but found it in the used bin and was delighted by it (as much as one can be "delighted" by Autechre.)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

And I still can't help from saying "Oughta-Ker" instead of "Aw-Tek-Rah"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure it's been said befrore but it took me a while to realise "Cichlisuite" should be pronounced "sickly-sweet", and it is one of their sweetest sounding releases. i like that track "Krib" that sounds like it's all samples from an aerosol can.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

chiastic got bad reviews when it came out? how weird (or stupid actually).

i would love if they dropped some 4/4 or trance on us. could you imagine the melodic build ups? holy fuck.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Well there's this remix they did of Various Artists and that's basically banging 4/4 IIRC, it's on Tobias Thomas Fur Dich mixcd. Every time I hear it I can't believe it's them.

Can't remember any bad reviews of Chiastic Slide.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

they did a 4/4 track for the warp 10+3 remixes compilation, too. let's say it's not their best work.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

>i would love if they dropped some 4/4 or trance on us.

try 'slow acid' from the Gescom ISS:SA ep... came out two years ago but the pieces date from LP5/EP7 era.

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

ooh thanks, milton.

i play around with "we r are why" a lot when i am mixing - it's one of the few 4/4-ish tracks i know by them.

i have that warp remix comp, but can't recall the track vahid mentions. must investigate...

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

i think i have that tobias thomas mix around somewhere, too. that track must be from the sub rosa vs. kompakt days.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

my favourites are definitely confield, ep7 and chiastic slide; i never got into draft 7:30, although i remember there being one track with good stereo stuff going on. i'm going to give it another go now, actually; i'm not sure i ever heard anything apart from mp3s ripped from the promo cassette. do warp still do promos on cassettes, btw?

gantz graf was the one i really didn't get - i think i gave it one or maybe two listens before writing it off. i should probably reinvestigate that, too.

i too hope for something new, not necessarily a change of direction but something... unexpected, i guess.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

It's now leaked. It's kinda dark sounding, almost like an industrial album at times sorta, and some of it sounds like you could conceivably dance to it. But I've just given brief listens to the tracks.

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

yikes, what's it called? Are you on slsk right now?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

It's kinda dark sounding, almost like an industrial album at times sorta

OH DARN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

what's it called?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Whats your slsk name?!

― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

gantz graf was the one i really didn't get - i think i gave it one or maybe two listens before writing it off. i should probably reinvestigate that, too.

Gantz Graf is useless until you see the VIDEO!!! OMG! It's like a virtual lift from my head whenever I hear Autechre's music. I just wish someone could use the same engine for say, the whole of EP7!!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

downloading

― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 14 February 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

i would love if they dropped some 4/4 or trance on us. could you imagine the melodic build ups? holy fuck.

yeah remember misery where kathy bates has the author dude trapped and forces him to write a book the way she wants? i would totally do that for an autechre progressive trance 12". sean and rob! oh sweeties! i'm comin for you!

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Apparently it's titled Untilted, not Untitled. Sez so on Warp. I think the magic 8 is in the number of letters. I can get this off of indietorrents.

Btw, the "Gantz Graf" video was useless to me. OOH CGI.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Hah, that was fast. I'm plechazunga on s1sk.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

where is the magic # in confield and chiastic slide??

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

My head's been so far up Incunubula's ass for the past six months, I forgot about this side of Autechre: the rusting ball bearings banging around in a sluice of valve oil and sulphur. That's how I got on the Au-train in the first place, so this whole ten-year track was running a circle?

Luckily ULVER"s Silencing the Singing is great for melodic build-ups. I'll stay there for the rest of tonight.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Confield - "VI Scose Poise"

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Chiastic Slide - "chiastic" relates to a cross or four-pointed shape.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

I am an Autechre-titles geek and once wrote a massive list of theoretical explanations for titles etc including an idea about ep7 being a concept album about security and surveillance.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

What was your take on LP5 then, lots of air travel references - UnderBOAC, 777, Arch Carrier...

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeh! Never got that reference! I thought 777 related to the time signature being 7/7 or something.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

So is anyone here not gonna d/l the leak? I kind of want to wait for the offical release, and besides, it *might* be fake.

Course if I do wait I'll have to stop reading this thread, don't want my judgement coloured before I've heard it.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

this is most definitely NOT a fake.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

I'd rather wait for the release tbh.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

The title "Untilted" makes me think that they might be going for ultra abstraction. And that somehow makes me excited.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

someone sent me an mp3 of "ipacial section" a few days ago; that's all i've heard so far. i was dubious at first but came round to really liking it.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

i haven't got round to liking it yet.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

They should make a return to decent melodies to at least prove they CAN.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Haha moot point obv it's just yes we know you can make abstract drumtracks good one

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Quite right Thames, it's like melodies are beneath them these days but it wouldn't hurt. I always thought the melodies were what they were best at (Garbagemx36, Arch Carrier, Cichli, Krib are all testament to this).

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Thames, dog, you might be interested in track 1, "lcc."

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

777 is a CHMOD ref surely

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Is that change mode? Like for a graphics card or something?

(This record lasted about 20 minutes on my office CD player, which is about for times longer than i thought it would!)

― mei (mei), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

This album is amazing, it's far better than Draft and might be better than Confield (I'll need more time with it). Basically, it IS Confield in that general insanity reigns, but it's less dense/prone to make your ears bleed, and with more of the chunky beats from the Chiastic Slide era.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i will be saving my money and buying drib's new album, "doing well with the drabs". it is like an entire album done in the style of "dropp" from EP7 listen to it at www.ann-aimee.net

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

chmod is a unix command for setting access levels on files. A file with a mode of 777 pretty much means any user or any process can do anything to it.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Well "777" is ae's most mainstream track.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

this album's not that crazy... at least not as compared to the last two. there are steady beats on a lot of it.. and the pads are sometimes gorgeous. i'm impressed, but not overjoyed.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

this new album kicks ass!

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

aagh! slsk username, someone, anyone..?

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

hey, fello utahn. look about 1/5 upthread

― rssgnl, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

― rss, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

oh i guess i could actually read the thread instead of having a conniption.

rssgnl, i think you asked me something a week ago and i didn't answer, so i'm matt, a friend of josh's, and you're in tolchock, repping your own band on ILM, haha. you don't know who i am, but i sit outside your window every night with binocs. oh, and i listen to autechre while i do it. YEAH AUTECHRE.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

THE DRABS PEOPLE
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DRABS

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

any word on the cover art this time?? are they going to do garish or pretentious?? (yeah the early ones are classic up through cichlisuite but right about at LP5 it had become mannerism)

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

re: fauxhemian

nah, i don't play in tolchock, and i don't prop them all that much. my friend ryan does play guitar for tolchoclk though, he post on here as 6335. i'm not sure who josh is. autechre is dope!

― rssgnl, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

hah, oops, nevermind, ignore all. i really liked the cards for the draft sleeve -- they seemed more playful, less cerebral. it'd be cool if they worked with the 'untilted'/untitled pun somehow, but that might be a bit too out of character..

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

i thought it looked real sharp with the black card for the cover, with the clear/green spine. i wasn't too fond of the liquid squiggly graphics. i think i'm queued up but still on hold for some of the new mp3's.

― rssgnl, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

or it was a teal-ish green card, i can't remember

― rssl, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Well "777" is ae's most mainstream track.

Yerwach? It's impenetrable!

Best Autechre art (actually one of the best covers of all time) is Chiastic Slide. Trivia fans: it's actually a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

I liked the Draft artwork. Anyone else think that "Untilted" is a really odd name for an Autechre album?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Listened to Tri Repetae last night for the first time in ages. Ten perfect little steam-punk sonatas. Is it really ten years since that came out?

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

I listened to it too actually. That one took a very long time for me to get into but you're right about the whole "Steam-Punk" thing. There's something reserved and almost Victorian Gothic about tracks like "Overand" which makes me think of early telegram and radio systems for some reason (probably the title).
It's probably their only album that concentrates on a particular mood rather than experimenting with explicit techniques etc. Come to think of it, some of the whole Steam-Punk ethic leaked onto some of the later tracks on Chiastic Slide.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Looking at the packaging last night, I thought that khaki green cover was suggestive of some sort of military hardware. In my head, I was thinking about grubby pistons working away in a production line in a grimy munitions factory somewhere. And those burnt out motors too, hmmm...

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

well, i've heard "untilted" once, on the train up to cambridge this morning. it sounded... i'm not sure. i like it a lot more than i liked confield or draft on first listens, anyway. a lot of the tracks seem to improve dramtically after the first few minutes.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

i listened to "lego feet" last night. god that record is great.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Best Autechre art (actually one of the best covers of all time) is Chiastic Slide.

I've always loved the packaging to this album. I doubt it's the same on CD, but on the vinyl, the artwork is stickers onto white cardboard (or whatever the jacket and sleeves are made of), giving the cover/sleeve a texture that feels neat when you run yr hand over it.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

it's not exactly stickers, it's just that parts of it a gloss laminated while some parts are still matt.

Trivia fans: it's actually a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge!

explain?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I know that the Envane cover is a representation of some Frank Lloyd Wright house.

And FWIW, I forgot to include my sarcasm tag re: "777."

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.electroshot.com/autechre/envane.gif

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/FLWr/fallingwater-pictures/fallingwater-2.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

nice!

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

i still don't get the brooklyn bridge thing though.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

whoaa! I've always liked that cover, now i see it completely differently. someone post a side-by-side chiastic/brooklyn bridge comparison.

― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

tour dates, looks like more american dates tbc:

Autechre European Tour :: April 05

Thu 14 London. SE1 8-3am, + Rob Hall, Mark Broom, Baby Ford
£13.00adv Seetickets, Stargreen
Rough Trade Covent Garden on 0207-240-0105.

FLYER

Fri 15 Glasgow. Arts School ¬
Sat 16 Manchester. Zoo ¬
Sun 17 Nottingham. Stealth ¬
Mon 18 Paris. Point Emphemere
Tue 19 Antwerp. Petrol *
Wed 20 Eindhoven. Effenaar *
Thu 21 TBC *
Fri 22 Berlin. Maria * (+ O.S.T. & Errorsmith)
Sat 23 Mannheim. karlstorbahnhof heidelberg
Sun 24 TBC *
Mon 25 Reims. La Cartonnerie *
Tue 26 Lyon. DV1*
Wed 27 Geneva. L'Usine *
Thu 28 Marseille. La Friche Belle De Mai *
Fri 29 Italy TBC *
Sat 30 Italy TBC *
NB: All dates with DJ Rob Hall
¬ = with DJ Mark Broom
* = with SND(live)

May - USA tour
06 Black Cat Washington DC snd (live), Rob Hall
09 Paradise Boston MA
10 Opera House Toronto ON
18 Neumos Seattle WA snd (live), Rob Hall (dj set)
19 Mezzanine San Francisco CA
21 El Rey Theatre Los Angeles CA snd (live), Rob Hall (dj)

Confirmed Festivals:
July
01 Roskilde. Denmark
08 MS Stubnitz Festival. Newcastle
14 5 Days Off. Amsterdam

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.warprecords.com/pack221/WARP49
http://brooklyn-bridge.visit-new-york-city.com/Brooklyn-Bridge-2.jpg

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

actually i think it's the brooklyn bridge looking towards brooklyn instead of manhattan. my bad...

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

it's kind of spooky, but i found a picture that looks like it could be a match and it's taken from the wtc. the picture is huge though. it's the first photo that comes up if you do a google image search.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

It still don't "see" it. :(

anyway first impression re: Untitled are pretty positive. Sort of slight return to Chiastic Slide, although not as, mmm, sunny? in re. melody (I'm tempted to say this at times (say, The Trees) sounds like their take on Basic Channel dub.)

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

is there a date in april for this?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

this leak is unmastered right? it's very muddy.

― a, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

is this one of those bands that tries to go for the whole "emotionless electronics" thing like kraftwerk?

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

you jest, i hope?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

if you're serious, then technically - yes. although i have been moved to tears before (i was drunk okay?) by tracks like arch carrier and pir.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

But I don't see it as "going for" that aesthetic in the way that Kraftwerk did. It seemed like Kraftwerk really worked to project the cold robotic image, whereas Autechre is sort of electronic and technical, but not necessarily making a point/statement out of it? I'm not intimately familiar with either though, so correct me if I'm wrong.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Top myths about "electronic music"

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

autechre are not a band who are "going for" anything beyond developing their craft, i think you're probably projecting your own ideas about electronic music onto this (as if "electronic" were a genre in itself :-s ) there's no reason to compare Kraftwerk and Autechre and i don't see why anyone would want to.

Listen to "Yulquen" and try telling me that's cold and emotionless.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

erm, if i had to rank bands who worked to project a very specific aesthetic (ie, "go for" something) autechre would be right at the top of the list. i don't think i could easily summarize what that something is, though.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

"erm" maybe you could give it a try then?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

autechre are practically opposite to kraftwerk, in that they provide very little in the way of "textual" information. they're not so much "emotionless" as "wordless" or "discoure-less". i think this is why there's unfortunately a practical limit to what autechre can achieve. yes, sheets of static can marvelously convey a sense postindustrial alienation. but at some point, making those noises increasingly convoluted does not necessarily reward the listener with greater subtlety or whatever.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

i agree with most of what you say - in fact they have become less and less emotionally rewarding as they have gone on and that's a real shame i think.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

How odd, Kraftwerk and Autechre are my two favourite soul groups.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

"autechre are not a band who are "going for" anything beyond developing their craft, i think you're probably projecting your own ideas about electronic music onto this (as if "electronic" were a genre in itself :-s ) there's no reason to compare Kraftwerk and Autechre and i don't see why anyone would want to."

i did not know you were present in the process of making all their albums, and you were involved in the overall vision of the band, or..."lackthereof". it's all opinions and i gave mine but i guess yours is fact.

how do you know what my personal opinion of electronic music is?

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck? i don't!... this: (as if "electronic" were a genre in itself :-s ) was just an aside within a thought and not particularly directed at you. i don't see how this : " i did not know you were present in the process of making all their albums came from what i said.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

The new album is pretty good. Agreed with the above person who sees parallels between this one and Chiastic Slide, although this one is more spastic. It's Autechre; headfuck beats. And to the person saying the sound is muddy, I dunno if this is unmastered, but it does have that mega compressed Autechre sound to it.

vahid said:

think this is why there's unfortunately a practical limit to what autechre can achieve. yes, sheets of static can marvelously convey a sense postindustrial alienation.

Sorry, after having heard LP5 last night after not having done so in a few months, I can't see how you could fathom reducing Autechre's music to mere "sheets of static." In that record especially, there's an almost baroque compositional style underneath the beats, it's truly one of the most heartbreaking records I own. And I honestly don't feel "postindustrial alienation" with it. I hear painful melodies and beautifully structured music.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

it's truly one of the most heartbreaking records I own.

i agree.

music/beauty doesn't need discourse!

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Salvador - I think he was talking about more recent Autechre like Gantz Graf.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Ah, perhaps, then. I mean, I'd truly apply the straw man argument about electronic music being "cold" to, say, Richard Devine---the tech head---whose music to me is just that (save for his track "Anthracite T. Vari," maybe). I find Richard's beats rather pedestrian.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

The above is actually the reason Keith Fullerton Whitman is quite hesitant about releasing stuff under the Hrvatski moniker (which I think is great, however). He wants to make more "academic-leaning music" (in his own words) that is less emotionally limited. The poor thing has the most annoying fanboys in the world. They don't really care about music qua music. All they want to know is what software Keith uses.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I think the difference between say Autechre, Aphex, Plaid et al and, say Richard Devine, Bola, Kid606 is that the first bunch never tried to make "IDM" as we know it, they happened on it by chance whilst trying to make techno whereas the latter bunch are more sure about what they're making is intelligent listening music.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know Hrvatski and KFW were the same person at all!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

well, salvador, i dunno, i mean certainly nobody finds this insulting or reductionist

"While he was with Miles, Coltrane was tagged with the phrase "sheets of sound." Jazz critic Ira Gitler had first used it. These "sheets of sound" were multinote hailstorms of dense textures that sound like a simultaneous series of waterfalls. "His continuous flow of ideas without stopping really hit me," Gitler said. "It was almost superhuman. The amount of energy he was using could have powered a spaceship."

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

so autechre use "hailstorms of dense textures" that happen to sound like static. even on cichlisuite. like the 2nd track, the one that somebody famously compared to "breakdancers on ice". does that sound like anything other than static to you? yes, densely structured static, obv composed, but it still sounds like static, and it still flows in sheets, ok??

so fine, you hear "painful melodies". i hear "alienation", you hear "pain". would you be happier if i said "the painful melancholy of postindustrial alienation"???

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

I didn't find it "insulting." I found the description rather inaccurate is all. I hear alienation, too, esp. in LP5.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

also if am wondering if you are using the term "baroque" in its original usage, ie "excessive and meaningless ornamentation creating an impression of grandiose pomposity"

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

By that I meant highly elaborated and structured.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

i'm not sure how many time changes are enough to make a bad song good.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

( rolls eyes ) You're overreacting and reading too much into what I'm saying. I disagreed with your description and that should be cool. Frankly, I wouldn't be "happy" if you changed your mind on anything (I don't know you), don't flatter yourself.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

omg what are you talking about, we are all flattering ourselves constantly by even bothering to post on ilx

anyway it's been, what, 7 years since chiastic slide?? i keep hearing people say "headfuck beats, headfuck beats" but is there honestly anything new going on, at all?

yeah new songs, new melodies. i remember hearing some glass bells that were nice in "maphive 6.1", lp5 was a little bit faster and instead of big roary synths there were little blippy synths. confield was slower and less tuneful. can it really still be a headfuck, after all this time?

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Texturally, Untilted sounds nothing like Chiastic. Χastic is a lot thinner and spread out, there's more space for the listener in between the SHEETS OF STATIC, whereas Untilted shares more of that dense, compressed production that Salvadore talked about.

Hey dog latin, have you seen this page: Words of Autechre on the insights and meanings into their album/song titles?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 17 February 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

RDB played Fermium last night (about 1:20 in, after the wedding present, if you use the Listen Again thing). less bitty / scratchy / whatever than recent autechre. released April 18th.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

cheers lee - never seen that site.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

There are loads of things that list's missed out. Take EP7 for example:

Netlon Sentinel is a make of security fencing.
A pir is a kind of sensor camera used for surveillance.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I like the way Confield seems to have a swamp/plantlife feeling to it that's reflected in the titles.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Confield is totally fetid, which reminds me of Pavement.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

yerwach?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

how about this: "untilted" = "straight up" = str-"8" up

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

that's pushing it you cryptic fule!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

a news update at Warp, with more dates added:

AUTECHRE: NEW ALBUM, EUROPEAN AND USA DATES CONFIRMED

We are extremely pleased to announce that Autechre will release a new album "Untilted" on April 18th. (April 9th in Japan). Not only that, they will also be playing live in Europe (seebelow) plus the USA and Japan (dates tbc)

"Untilted" WARP180 CD | 2LP

Autechre European Tour :: April 05

Thu 14 London. SE1 + Rob Hall, Mark Broom, Baby Ford
8-3am, £13adv Seetickets, Stargreen
Rough Trade CovGdn 0207-240-0105 FLYER
Fri 15 Glasgow. Arts School ¬ FLYER
Sat 16 Manchester. Zoo ¬ tickets:
skam shop
Boomkat / Pelicanneck
Ticketline /0161 832 1111.

Sun 17 Nottingham. Stealth ¬
Mon 18 Paris. Point Ephemere
Tue 19 Antwerp. Petrol *
Wed 20 Eindhoven. Effenaar *
Thu 21 TBC *
Fri 22 Berlin. Maria * (+ O.S.T. & Errorsmith)
Sat 23 Mannheim. karlstorbahnhof heidelberg
Sun 24 TBC *
Mon 25 Reims. La Cartonnerie *
Tue 26 Lyon. DV1*
Wed 27 Geneva. L'Usine *
Thu 28 Marseille. La Friche Belle De Mai *
Fri 29 Italy TBC *
Sat 30 Italy TBC *
NB: All dates with DJ Rob Hall
¬ = with DJ Mark Broom
* = with SND(live)

Autechre USA Tour May 2005
Fri 06 Washington DC Black Cat
Sat 07 Philadelphia PA Trocadero
Sun 08 NYC Webster Hall
Mon 09 Boston Paradise
Tue 10 Montreal Usine C
Wed 11 Toronto Opera House
Fri 13 Chicago Metro
Sat 14 Minneapolis Ascot Room
Tue 17 Vancouver Commodore Ballroom
Wed 18 Seattle Neumos
Thu 19 Portland Berbatis Pan
Fri 20 San Francisco Mezzanine
Sat 21 Los Angeles El Rey
Sun 22 Tempe AZ Freedom
Tue 24 Dallas TX Trees
Wed 25 Austin TX The Parish
Thu 26 New Orleans Twiropa
Fri 27 Atlanta Variety Playhouse
Sat 28 Asheville NC Orange Peel
(all dates with DJ Rob Hall + SND Live)

Confirmed Festivals:
July
01 Roskilde. Denmark
08 MS Stubnitz Festival. Newcastle
14 5 Days Off. Amsterdam

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Damn.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

sweet, i was hoping the US dates would be with SND.

i wonder if anyone from mutek has been in contact with them. their US tour ends right when mutek starts this year.

― basquiat (disco stu), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

By the way, what's this I'm hearing (from many sources) that the leak of Untilted isn't authentic?

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I'd be surprised if this album wasn't them... but, I could certainly see this not being the absolutely final version

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, as I said, it has that ultra compressed Autechre sound. But yeah, it could be the rough version.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

what I've heard of Autechre I like a lot. I liked the last one. I love "Chiastic Slide" best of all the ones I'm familiar with. I'm just not often in the mood to hear their more disjunct stuff (even more disjunct) stuff, but I think "Chiastic" has the most soul and flow of the ones I know.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Warp's frontpage is streaming most of "Fermium" now...surely someone with the leak could check the two against each other and see if they're the same song? Not truly conclusive, I know, but it'd give the leak a bit of extra credibility...

And besides, Warp's stuff seems to leak awfully early in comparison to other publishers', so this may well be the real thing.

― Telephonething, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone of you heard the Xltronic DJ set from january05. It's seven (!) one hour long sets full of very disparate material (pure noise to aphextwin-like ambient) titled as Section 1-7. I am trying to go trought all of them but it's very time consuming.

― karl76 (karl76), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.warprecords.com/pack221/WARP180

Ugly art!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

After about 5 unfocused listens, this new one hasn't grabbed me. I liked Confield quite a bit, so I'll give it time, but so far so blah.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

That artwork is fantastic!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

email from warp...

- - - - - - - - A U T E C H R E R A D I O - - - - - - - -

Autechre will be streaming a live radio show from the Ae HQ
this Sunday (10th April) from 8pm until late.

You will be able to listen from http://autechre.ws

There may also be intermittent test transmissions before, so
keep checking...

― freaky bitches (disco stu), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

what mindinrewind said - much better artwork than the last 2.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

it's on NOW...

http://autechre.ws/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

it's rather spooky..and interesting

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

this sounds pretty nice actually

― Amon (eman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the reminder! yep, sounds pretty good so far.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

what is the muzik called "drill n bass industrial"?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

now electro..

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

so is any of this their stuff, or are they doing a dj set of other peoples tracks?

― Amon (eman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

now ACIDDDDDDDDD

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

mostly other artists..but they will probably spin a few tracks from the new album

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

somebody id the track thats on right now, please

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

oooh i like this track!!! (post will make no sense in one minute)

haha xpost!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

there. first 40 seconds. should have thought of wiretaping it earlier :\

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

no idea of tracks so far, earlier i think i spotted Public Enemy and germanic trance: Harthouse era

This track playing NOW is very interesting: sort of Modern Classical/ Modern composition with electronics and space music /ambient influences.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

they played company flow as well

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

this music reminds me of electronic artists such as Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Numina and the Hypnos label.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

KLF - uhuh uhuh uhuh uhuh!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

h3o

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

what's this acid/bleep track anyone?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

sounds like Detroit Techno meets "Biorhythms" comp circa 1989/ 1990.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i have various tape comps that sound like this.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

this is bloody good.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

MARK STEWART !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

This takes me back to Peel shows in 1985.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

if only 6 Music could put shows like this together ! instead of playing mediocre trad songs rock

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

haha! nice!

i realise none of my posts will make any sense 3 minutes on....

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

kraftwerk - heimcomputer. xpost

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

is this a new Autechre track now?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

i doubt it

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

the grand old duke of york!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

i just luv electo like this NOW: sharp, crisp, robotic, the vocoder, the clapping sound

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

yep i do too.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

my brain is being eaten by giant insects AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh, oh wait; this MUST be autechre... or else I've swallowed a pinball game.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a broken alarm clock

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

this track sounds like Global Communications, right?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

oooh, now they're playing "teenage lightning" by coil.

― prada robot (disco stu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Yay the Mode!

― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

and now depeche mode..i can't recall the name of this track, but autechre have definitely sampled it.

― prada robot (disco stu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

It's called Now This Is Fun... sampled it eh? Any idea where?

― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

i think it's on a track from lp5, but i'm terrible with autechre titles. it's from the break in the dm track where it goes dum dum dum dum dum...

― prada robot (disco stu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

i didnt know they sampled stuff. not since the early days anyway.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

ok, maybe what i'm thinking of was simply inspired by the break in the dm track...i wish i could remember the title.

― prada robot (disco stu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

they may well do prada that was just my take on things.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Now why can't Untilted sound like this track?

― Léèê (Leee), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

i didn't download the leak, is the album out yet, leee?

― prada robot (disco stu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Next week, it looks like.

― Léèê (Leee), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

leee, ive been thinking all night "why don't they do stuff that sounds more like this...."

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

these guys need to do radio more. like, a lot more

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

reminder:
Underworld live radio special tomorrow at 6pm UK time on dirty radio
http://www.dirty.org/underworld/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

xpost - yeah i was totally done with listening to these guys until i heard this broadcast, they're very good at this.

― Amon (eman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

did anybody record this?

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

it's still going!

― prada robot (disco stu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

it is? wow

― Amon (eman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

i guess they werent kidding about the 'until late' bit

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

mantronix, right now heh

― Amon (eman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

last nights show

http://oirectine.org/use/ae/autechre_-_autechre.ws_live_broadcast.mp3

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

ok that link doesn't work now - ill get on it.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

waeting paetiently

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

i have to wait for my mate to send me the corrected link, have faith!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Um, I did an interview with Sean from Autechre which is up today on Pitchfork- scroll down far enough and you will find it . . .

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

i loved the interview! I liked how you included in the "Five minutes in" chestnut, the obligatory software discussion, and the interview question about interviews. -brian

― brian whitman, Monday, 11 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Drew that interview is more about you than them ;) (it's great)

is sean the shaved head one, Drew? he looks hott.

I was wondering, do you find what you do funny? Because it seems like no one is laughing out there in Autechre Consumption Land. People think what you're doing is very churchy and austere but sometimes it's kind of ridiculous.

Amen to that!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I mean I'm sure there's people that feel that it's not a dub unless you do a wild parametric sweep or something...

Pitchfork: Yeah, but they don't read Pitchfork.

:-)

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

i need to hear that "earth" remix now. good job.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

just read the interview. i love how drew gets into the actual MIDI programming/production stuff. because most of the time i'm just like, HOW did they do that.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

HOW?!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

also this:

Pitchfork: I was listening to "Pro Radii" on my iPod at the gym while doing stretches and that song goes really well with the sound of lesbians boxing in the background. But then I tried to read Shakespeare criticism, ride an exercise bicycle, watch CNN out of the corner of my eye, and listen to Autechre at the same time..

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

ROFFLE!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

great interview, drew! i think that's the first time i've spent more than 5 minutes at pitchfork.

― prada robot (disco stu), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking that that was the best auttechre interview I had ever read and wanted Drew to know so here it is.

Nice One!

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Sean was really nice and generous with his time- we talked until my DAT tape ran out- 65 minutes and counting. I was nervous and giggly.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

haha, the stuff about tape in the interview is illuminating, too. there's a section on a song on ep7 or lp5 where they just crank the tape hiss to 11 and it's glorious. i def. can see the comedic aspects to their music, but it's more like a rebellious comedy (like bill hicks may make your jaw drop, "holy fuck i can't believe he said that!!" and simulataneously make you go, "yeah, otm".

― prada robot (disco stu), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

anybody have a tracklisting of that radio show? i'd even appreciate a vastly incomplete one.

... oh, and more fawning over the interview took place in my head yesterday.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

surely there must be an autechre fanboard where they go all beehive over the tracklist-?

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Drew should interview Aphex next!

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

We work for about a year, usually a bit longer, on an album, and then pick out tracks from what we've done that seem to have a thread, and then put them into an order.

This kind of surprises me; the transitions between tracks have been the highlights of their albums since Confield.

And is the Earth that boothbrown remixed the same Earth that appeared on the ATP3.0 comp?

― Leeenge de Bruijn (Leee), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

this makes no sense to me but apparently this is a torrent of the show?

http://67.100.245.37:6969/torrents/00+-+autechre.ws+Webcast+-+Autechre+-+April+10th-11th,+2005.mp3.torrent?3CBA304F5EA89B47A8B9B9472DB23301C7E40FEB

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

torrent no work.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

try here

http://www.ninjatune.net/forum/

theres some talk of torrent links from page 5 and further on.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

It's working for me.

― Leeenge de Bruijn (Leee), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

all 305 megs of it http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~oyvinto/ae.mp3

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

444:52

gee whiz

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

many thanks, btw

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

444:52

ha!

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Mine's 454:28.

― Leeenge de Bruijn (Leee), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

the Renaldo and the Loaf revival begins NOW

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Hearing that KLF track really makes me wish I had my copy of Chill Out with me right now.

― Leeenge de Bruijn (Leee), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

so who thinks that the last 45 minutes to an hour is a live set?

― prada robot (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

haven't gotten that far yet. skipping through I hear Tod Dockstader until 408:00, then Hecker/Tone, then Dick Raaijmakers running up to about 420:00, then some more acousmatic & FM synthesis stuff I don't know but wouldn't think was them.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

thanks milton! do you know what the absolutely evil track with the laughter is? (my guess now would be hecker/tone)

― prada robot (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Dockstader's 'Luna Park'

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

http://dockstader.info/compositions.php?page=5

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

excellent...after posting my last post, i realized that i was wrong because the dockstader track sounds nothing like what i know hecker to sound like. i haven't heard the tone/hecker collab either...but i imagine that "most highly throttled computer music ever" might be an apt description.

― prada robot (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=55.1941&lon=-3.5724&scale=200000&icon=x

― Ae, Thursday, 14 April 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Ha, must visit there someday. Just got the new CD, gonna fit in as many listens as possible before the gig tonight...

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

That was superb! Was worried it was gonna be too hardcore to listen to, too abstract to dance to, but it was perfectly pitched. My favourite ae gig so far I think.

They didn't come on till midnight though, which meant four hours of sitting around, as we got there at 8, and couldn't be bothered to dance or even listen to the support DJs.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully getting this tomorrow, if Amazon don't fuck up.

I listend to Chiastic for the first time this weekend, my fellow Warp chum told me it wasn't a great album and remarked that it was a bit of a mess musically but I really like it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Sunday, 17 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Got it today and listened to about half of it. It's quite... danceable actually!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Chiastic is great, Cichli is genius.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Whoa! Just listened to it.

Personally, so far, I hate it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to it a lot, which is a good sign. My take on it so far: The progression from Draft to Untilted is probably the most linear since Amber-->Tri Repetae. But also it's like Draft meets Confield, the harsh percussion of the former with the textures of the latter. Basically it's the album Draft should have been...

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 25 April 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I think the progression would have worked better if they'd gone EP7 - Untilted - Draft7.30 - Confield.

Really, I think this is their best and most accessible out of the last few and I'm still trying to understand Confield for some reason. A lot of it is very similar to EP7 as well and there's some really cheeky samples buried deep in there.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 25 April 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

I think Confield would have seemed like a radical break whenever it was released, it just seems to stand out on its own. Whenever I think about it I get textures and images, and the percussion just doesn't feature. I know Cfern and Pen Expers are pretty beat heavy but I don't think they represent the album.

Tell me more about these samples...

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I haven't looked at the tracklisting, just been listening to the cd but there's some interesting stuff going on that makes me smile.

One track has all these 80s breakdance sounds and actually sounds like it's supposed to be played off of an early electro record.

The first track is kind of pumping - it's the danciest thing Autechre have done in ages. I do kind of wish they could do another Arch Carrier again, just for me though.

There is a track with loads of "hooraying" crowd noises and strange human mumbling - and i like that in an autechre track. Not since that BOAC track have I heard any real human samples being used.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

anyone have any u.s. tour reports?? the .microsound list seems to like snd more, but they would. i'm going to see them tonight. the new album seems to be really divisive among fans. i think it's a grower.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

i thought their NYC show started really slow, but turned out quite nice - like one long 90-minute build-up. it took about a half hour to get really interesting. the end bordered on chaos, it was great.

i haven't heard much of the new record yet but i was told they played lots of it.

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

excellent. bring on the chaos.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

i thought both were pretty amazing. they dwarfed the earlier caribou/jr boys/russian futurists show upstairs (they played the bar upstairs w/ bad sound @ 6). autechre and snd played downstairs later.

both autechre and snd were more engaging than most rock acts i've seen. in some ways this wasn't surprising at all.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

i like untilted.

i'm going to see autechre in asheville two weeks from now. i'm stoked!

― latebloomer: the rebel sound of grits and bacon (latebloomer), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

that they were more engaging is not surprising to me either...last time i saw them (the only time i saw them actually), the venue was just dark with no visuals or lighting to speak of, there was just sound and it was utterly engrossing. one of the best shows that i've ever been to. by the end, i'd say about half the audience had left which is pretty classic. i could make some disparaging comments, but i won't because less people made it sound better!

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I saw them on tuesday. I thought it was a really good show. The totally chaotic parts where all these weird sounds were playing at once were the best (this is a pretty awful description, but it's pretty hard to describe).

I was kind of undecided about untilted, but seeing them live made me appreciate it a lot more. I've been listening to it a bunch these last few days.

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah NYC was pitch black as well. it also boasted the highest male-to-female ratio i've ever seen at a show.

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

The show in Toronto was incredible. Autechre started with the harsh, jackhammer beats -- think track 1 on the "Basscadet" ep -- moved on to skittery stuff like the "Draft 7:30" and "Untilted" tracks, and ended with chaos. They played for about 90 minutes in total.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

i bet that the women at the nyc show were the coolest ever. girls be discussing the algorithmic alchemy.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

The Toronto show was indeed great if exhausting. Did you ever find out who the openers were? #2 was pretty damn good.

I enjoyed Untilted quite a bit on first listen. In a weird way it reminds me of listening to things like drum solos or West African drum circles. I might like it more than Draft 7.30 (the only other one I have) but that might just be because it seems to have more straight grooves.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah NYC was pitch black as well. it also boasted the highest male-to-female ratio i've ever seen at a show. -- rajeev
haha you obviously weren't at the squarepusher show in boston - I was shocked.
I have to admit, this definitely puts me off going to some shows if Im not feeling particularly motivated to begin with. I skipped the ae nyc & boston shows cos Im not really feelin the new one enough to justify the drive & $$
anyway yeah, I don't know why there is such poor female attendance at these kind of shows. I can't think of a single good reason for it.

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Did you ever find out who the openers were? #2 was pretty damn good.

According to the schedule on Warp's website, SND are playing all dates on the tour incl. Canada.

I saw SND a couple of years ago and they were similarly awesome. I have no idea why their records are so boring in comparison to their live sets.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Got 'Untilted' prior to seeing them live this weekend, it's alright maybe it will grow on me more (only 2 full listens). I like the first three tracks best, they seem to have a really propulsive broken-groove about them, but without just banging the point home. After those it seems to slip into business as usual, not a huge amount of variation. 'The Trees' seemed to stand out more this time.

But, it does seem to be all about the 'craft' and little else here to me. Doesn't feel like a significant advance in sound compared to the records I know by them (Tri Repetae, Chiastic Slide, LP5) but I do love how smudgy, oily and dark it all feels, it's a very 'live' sounding record. Sublimit' is a bit of an anticlimactic closing track compared to some of their other work though. Doesn't really surpass, or expand my expectations of them as a whole record.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Even at a very reasonable home-listening volume... Untilted is one bastard LOUD record, at least for the first three tracks. I think they might be worth the price I paid for this (cheap promo in card sleeve) alone.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

anybody going to see them in Camden (koko is it?) on september 17? i am tempted to make the journey down but not sure whether it will be worth the large train fare.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

I am feeling too old for this. Doors at 11? C'mon! I need to be tucked up in bed with a mug of steaming Horlicks by 12 at the latest.

Plus getting home from Camden after tubes have finished = a bitch.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Can someone convince me to get Untilted even though I already have Confield and Draft?

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's better than Draft and more enjoyable than Confield.

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

it's okay. i must admit for a band i once thought were infallible i'm really starting to lose my patience with them.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 21 August 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately dog latin is also right.

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 21 August 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

"clipper" c/d?

― and what, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Can't remember, sing it and i'll tell ya...

Oh it's one of the first three off tri repetae, they're all solid gold; the exemplary tracks on an exemplary album.

Wonder what they're up to now.

― ledge, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

anyone know where i can find that webcast?

― funny farm, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

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