Autechre - [new album in March 2010]

source: they're playing in the AB in Brussels in April. Announcement.

Contains: "Their tenth album will be released in March 2010. True to tradition, everyone is behaving superfluously secretive about it, right up until the very last minute."

Hooray! Haven't really cared for their last three but I think I will always be hopeful that they can make me love them again.

i doubt it

'Quaristice' was superb, looking forward to this.

I am cipating this one.

Wow, I forgot Quaristice even existed. I kinda lost interest after Confield.

Untilted is a contender for my favorite Autechre album, period! I've loved almost every step of their career, but Quaristice felt a bit too..hmm..uneven to me. It was good, but I didn't care much for the leftovers feel of it. Untilted, though, is endlessly replayable and I for one don't really want them to 'go back' to any previous sound.

I expect they will continue to be great; looking forward to this!

I for one don't really want them to 'go back' to any previous sound.

Oh I don't want them to go back. I just hope they go in a direction that interests me again, whatever that might be.

I'm not casting aspersions on anyone in particular, but I know personally I didn't get into Untilted or Quaristice at first because I wasn't willing to invest any time in getting to know them. So they sounded like lame versions of Autechre songs I'd already heard. They're not. Quaristice is uneven, yeah, but both of those albums have killer killer tracks.

In all seriousness, I recognize that some people can process stuff faster than I can. (One of the reasons I'm not a critic.) Just a personal report.

I think that's a fair point. I definitely put a lot of unrewarded effort into Draft 7.30, perhaps that unfairly reflected onto how I dealt with Untilted. And a big problem with Quaristice was, double albums can be hard at the best of times, and what with the alternate versions LP and EPs - it was just too much! I should go back and reconsider. I probably say that on all ae threads...

Booth/Vainio/Matsunaga collab thingy:
http://www.spun.com/music/product-detail.jsp?id=2903852

http://i46.tinypic.com/zl4u4z.png

x-post

yeah, draft 7.30 sucks.

I like Quaristice a lot.

Both Untilted and Draft 7.30 is really funky, playful albums, to a much larger degree than any of their other stuff. Autechre jamming.

are*** (started out with just 'Draft 7.30 is..')

Sigh.

so anyway i've preordered already.

just received an email from warp:

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=23072

Autechre (Warp)

Autechre will release their new album ‘Oversteps’ on March 22nd on Warp Records.

The album will be available on CD, and deluxe vinyl edition - both including a free super high quality download version.

Made in The Designers Republic.

(THIS ITEM WILL BE SHIPPED FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 22ND)

Are 24 bit wav files the SACD of the online world?

Interesting to see the ressurrected TDR doing graphic design duties, but it looks kind of boring and a definite departure from the previous style.

look how quickly the info spreads on twitter, from the warp email going out on 12:47, and then gets cascaded via re-tweets

Autechre - Oversteps
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=autechre+oversteps

Guys I found a leak of a new album track, but someone is disguising it as ice sounds:

http://silentlistening.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/dispersion-of-sound-waves-in-ice-sheets/

fucking dope, would buy

I just heard a rumor that one of the guys in Autechre is autistic and makes all the raw material, and the other guy just edits it into something presentable. autistic + tech = Autechre?

I heard that half of Autechre is an automobile and the other half is a man who edits automobile noises into musical structures

I heard that one of the guys is australian and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

you mean, ozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

anyway, ive decided to buy this w/o any sort of pre-listening.

yeah? any thoughts on the album?

Guys I found a leak of a new album track, but someone is disguising it as ice sounds:

been listening to this CD a lot since ordering it last month:
http://kalerne.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=138&Itemid=115

this one also outstanding and recommended to all autechre fans
http://kalerne.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=120

i hear that one of the guys from autechre is made of gold...

anyway, it's all previewable on bleep

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=23072

and a little bird tells me that those that pre-ordered it from them can now download their digital copies.

this is really great though i'd say that about nearly anything they release

At the risk of jumping the gun... a few tracks in and this is really sounding like the ever-anticipated or feared but never expected "return". pt2ph8 is well Amber.

nice, special offer on their back catalogue as well: http://bleep.com/index.php?page=artist_details&artistid=71

xp I think that's definitely what they *wanted* it to be, but I'm not sure how successful it is. There's not much substance to a lot of it and it remains quite vapidly pretty throughout.

"Know(1)" is definitely the highlight for me.

Meh, I'd love to preorder a physical copy, but I've had some shipping issues from the bleep store lately. I had an order that I made around Jan 1 that never arrived, and they shipped it again around the end of January and I still haven't seen it.

Gripes aside, those audio samples sound great.

chimes all the way through this thing.

yeah so i did jump the gun; still trying to tease some feelings out of this but overall it feels much more like late period ae - less choons, more sound design/'tone poems'. but not as epic as confield.

also, via warp: "12-hour Radio Broadcast from Autechre.ws Tuesday 2nd March: 6PM - 6AM GMT. This will be epic."

This sounds nothing like late period ae.. it's a total change from the last four albums, and definitely ALL about choons.

Anyone listening to the radio show? Streaming here: http://autechre.ws/

ehh. i'm gonna try and detect some tunes on the album instead.

do you see anything below the radio widget tho? I get:

Connecting ...
You are banned [autechre]

and a spinny doodad.

Amiga-tastic!

(only just tuned in, digging so far)

thanks for posting the radio show, this is great.

oversteps hasn't really clicked with me yet, and i'm def no hater of later ae (confield on i suppose), but hearing them play this kind of stuff really makes me wish they'd give some danceable beats a shot again one of these days. been rockin that old lego feet thing lately and there's some fuckin jams on there.

btw this is disgusting

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/liz_cheney_attacks_defense_attorneys_for_represent.php?ref=fpa

oh whoops

well autechre fans will surely find that disgusting, too

OH SO GOOD

Excited for Oversteps now.

I hate all yall who get to see them.

Def enjoying the radio show, wish I didn't have to get up so early tomorrow...

Ugh, it's ready for me to leave work but I don't to go because that will mean turning off this radio show.

come on, dance with me.

OMG what is this song right now???

I think I have this but I can't recall what it is. The accordion-sounding bit

Was that LFO or early 808 State or KLF or something?

I hope someone, somewhere, someday, will provide a tracklist for this.

i didn't know it xp

haha!

omg this is fun

"your son is dead"

you heartless bastard

;_;

bi-coastal rave up: my internship office and wherever jed is

I'm sure someone is recording this.

and minneapolis!
;_;

meet you half way stevieD

hey hey heeyy

someone will be recording it but isn't it 12 hours long?

srsly wish ppl would spin stuff like this in the US. I mean, I am right by NYC--i'm sure it's happening SOMEWHERE, I just have no clue where. And yeah it is but I'm sure it'll be broken down into manageable 2 hour segments or somethign

omg omg omg

mmmm pacific state i've missed you

<3

OMG OMG OMG OMG

all time jam

PACIFIC!!! I AM LOVING THIS SO FUCKING HARD

haHAAAA

if they play "Voodoo Ray" before I leave I just... might... explode...

this thread is gong to be incomprehensible tomorrow

What is this???

this thread is gong to be incomprehensible tomorrow by the time I get home in about 2 or 3 hours

i don't know this thing they mixed into pacific

i mean i wish i did

What's this "pacific" thing I don't even know that is so good?

pacific by 808 state was the thing with the sax

oh ok thanks!

shit just got real

serious boo-hoos that I have to leave work now. And get on a subway. And then a train. And then go to the dining hall. And then go home.

this isn't..... 3AM eternal... is it? this crowd stuff?

no. AAROIEAHTOEIGH I DON'T TO LEAVE THIS

have a good one! i'm sure mp3s will happen!

oh yes they will

don't worry internets will provide, i slskd their last 7.5hr webcast.

feelin' the hoover bass / mentasm stab action

WHAT IS THIS VOCAL SAMPLE FROM

I KNOW IT

lebowski :) well one of them

genuinely LOLing at this track

Tour de France i'm sure

LOLOLOL

ok wtf

love it when they throw their own stuff in.

is this ae's granz fraf?

My cat is not liking this. Sorry, Lou Lou. :(

it's off chiastic slide, can't remember which track.

ah ok

calbruc

ta!

niiiiiiice

LOL they played Pacific by 808 state? Flashback city.

Grr cant listen to this as I'm at work. We recorded the last marathon 12 hour one they did a couple years back tho.

o_O

hehe

liking this one. sounds v old skool idm.

B12 or something maybe? probably something totally obscure.

i think it might have been b12's obtuse slowed right down.

what's this???

something from the first lfo album playing under something else i don't know

Gunshot- Battle Creek Brawl (thx to google)

"Now we come to the payoff."

oh no i have just found out...

Autechre Live - London Show 2010

Tickets for this event have now sold out on Bleep.

;_; ;_; ;_;

:(((((

oh shit, i hear Maggie's Last Party in the background

i was at that party

what they're playing right now is so smoooove it's sick

"It's ME, bitches!"

i think i'll just copy/paste "what is this?"

"what is this?"

(that "gimme yr love" jam?)

i think i'll just copy/paste "what is this?"

haha thanks!

spread it out like grey poupon

Talib Kweli

El Ef Oh!

been listening since 12.30 and lovin' the hiphop/bleep/bass;

oh, this is dope

so so good

this bdp mix is pretty fucking great

ha!!!! deutsche!

nice global #autechre trending going on,

also: http://5-against-4.blogspot.com/2009/03/autechre-webcast-updated-links.html

the last 12 hour one they did

rakim!!!! over BOC!!

stereo mc's a v pleasant surprise!

can't stop smiling!!

http://5-against-4.blogspot.com/2009/03/autechre-webcast-updated-links.html

tx!

lololololol

808 claps all night long

so 1 hour recording takes 690MB

are you recording WAV?

yup. will convert later

AW YEAH

these beats are dope

is this an official mix of Stripped/Breathing In Fumes?

this depeche mode/gahan thing + 808s stark electro thing right now is fucking great

what ae track is this again?

omg yessss i was just waiting for arch carrier to drop in here somewhere

of course yes

Now I'm just waiting for "s-sometimmes-sometimes a parrot talks!"

Is this what Autechre sounds like when they're jacking off?

brutal with the millimeter

maybe it was their pick on warp 10+1 :)

[ may be of interest to some: Wu-techre: http://historypainting.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/solen-presents-free-wutechre-mixtape/ ]

SAW 85-92!!! EEEEEEEEE!EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Pulsewidth?

this has not stopped being awesome for the 3 hrs i've listened

Vogue. now Vogue. I. just cant. even. deal.

whats this now???

rob hood - rhythm

no idea what those crazy hard drums were but i sure didn't see acid eiffel coming next!

is there ever a wrong time for this track though

i mean weddings, funerals, u name it

I hope they play Voodoo Ray at my funeral.

man, sounds like I missed out!

Autechre 2010 broadcast - (Section) c. 2:20am GMT/March 3,2010. (Contains) Cybotron, Aphex Twin, Madonna

Autechre 2010 broadcast section Cybotron_ Aphex Twin_ Madonna.mp3 - 9.15MB

totally can't wait for mp3s (and tracklistings)

there was a track w/totally awesome gurgly bass noises which i think was mixed into "energy flash" so i will be delighted to be reunited with that (happened just before this thread got busy with track IDs or i'd have asked y'all at the time)

xpost, thanks TS! looking forward to hearing part of what I missed after going to bed (track I just mentioned was on soon after 11pm GMT if anyone has an earlier mp3 and feels trainspotterish)

all the versions of the album on slsk i've found appear to be fakes.

I heard the secret silent partner of Autechre is none other than the AWOL Automan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovy72798WgM&feature=related

the whole 12 hour mix is torrenting now. i'm half way through downloading. will probably put up as 30 min streams over time for collective song IDing

http://themixingbowl.org/thread/view/99695

i'm gonna try and detect some tunes on the album instead.

How about "known1"? The tune seems pretty hard to miss there.

This doesn't even sound like the same band that did the last few albums to me but I quite like it all the same. Very pleasant.

how big is the torrent?

xpost: 1.17 GB at 224kbps; my connection is painfully slow today

wish I'd listened to more of this now :-(

the torrent is FLYING for me!

Hooray I'll be d/ling this then...

How about "known1"? The tune seems pretty hard to miss there.

It's really the only one, though, isn't it? The rest of the melodies sound kind of random in a bad way to me.

http://rapidshare.com/files/358399122/Autechre.ws_Broadcast_-_02-03-2010.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?oqdzymomhzx
http://www.mediafire.com/?znmw0euckmj
http://www.mediafire.com/?y3lomgmoxdd

4 parts, i think it's the complete show

hm, i couldn't get those files to unstuff properly, despite some fiddling around with underscores in the file names. :(

Part 1 is still downloading for me two hours later. Sad face.

anyone managed to download the whole stream via the torrent link that i posted up thread? opened up what i have so far on a wave editor and seems to be full of many, intermittent silences where the stream was buffering.... guess, i'll have to edit them out and hope the stitching still holds it all together

ah yes, if you copy the _Underscore pattern of part1 for the other 3 parts the extraction will work. if you're using Unrarx, just copy the file name on the error message. It will tell you what file name it expects.

gah! except it doesn't. panic! someone upload that torrent plz. my account has been locked because I couldn't remember my password and tried too many times.

there's a direct mp3 link here - http://mururoar.com/blog/?p=5522

xpost: thks just sayin! from the mururoar.com link, i'm getting this at super speeds:

http://rockinz.org/files/Autechre.ws%20Broadcast%20-%2002-03-2010.mp3

Are Autechre fans into Kim Hiorthøy? Sounds like a good match. My Last Day sounds like a hybrid of Autechre, Four Tet and DJ Shadow to me. Better than all 3, in my opinion.

Are the a) torrent file, b) Rapidshare/mediafire, and c) mururoar/rockinz files all the same source? Is one best/more complete? Totally do not want to download this and find tons of dropouts.

don't fuck with those 4 links i posted. waste of time. that's all i can tell you. i've got the single track mp3 that's ~690mb, haven't played it yet.

(Tannenbaum Schmidt), is that all 12 hrs in that mururoar.com link above?

Are Autechre fans into Kim Hiorthøy?

I'd prefer you give him more of a chance than whatever is on his myspace page but thanks for looking into it.

all the versions of the album on slsk i've found appear to be fakes.

And one of those was arranged/organised by modey! (and a band of merry wattmers. Apparently). NFI which one tho.

its lates, but i got a good copy at 224kps and seems dropout free. The muraroar one I found to be 128kps but also seems fine.

first hour of the mix is loads of hiphop and then explores gurgling ambient proggy spaces: its awesome.

i'll put up somewhere for ilxors in daytime if needed

VERY MUCH NEEDED!! is it one big file?

Needed. Thank you.

That webcast was a revelation. I don't know shit about Autechre or ambient or hiphop or anything but I loved it, every minute of the seven hours I listened (avoiding several tasks).

it was seriously great. more consistently electro / hip hop / dance, and more worked over & mashed up / beatmatched than the last two marathon webcasts where they were on the whole mostly presenting intact tracks. I miss them occasionally dropping things like Renaldo & the Loaf and Parmegiani but I'll bet few others did

rawr. i won't be back in the States with consistent broadband for a month. rawr.

the rockinz file does appear to be 12 hours long (and 20 minutes) - 128kbps, 678M

here's someone that's put the broadcast up as six 2hour long files.

http://www.bosbos.net/2010/03/04/autechre-webcast-02032010/

haven't tried/tested the links.

Google Docs spreadsheet w/tracklist (in progress)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Asm8G_iuGEMzdDV3cmJEUzFnUlE4b3dzUjhaaVRRclE&hl=nl

http://www.bosbos.net/2010/03/04/autechre-webcast-02032010/

Oops! (509)
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!

if you're patient you will eventually (probably end of weekend) get 224kbps download and 128kbps streams of the whole thing, in 60 min long digestable chunks - each edited to stand alone as much as possible.

say thank you

http://ae2010.wordpress.com/

<3<3<3<3
xoxoxoxo

what bitrate was this broadcasted in? i got the 224 version off 'the mixing bowl' torrent earlier (v fast)

Are the a) torrent file, b) Rapidshare/mediafire, and c) mururoar/rockinz files all the same source? Is one best/more complete? Totally do not want to download this and find tons of dropouts.

I'm 1hr into the torrent and have not heard any dropouts.

tho honestly, I may want to try out some of the more broken-up files.

and yeah, it's pretty great! and that google spreadsheet makes me love the internet.

damn, this part is so cool:

48:00 Tangerine Dream Rubycon Part One
62:10 Schaft SKF10047 (Ae Rmx)
67:20 Gescom Mag 3.1426 (Remix by Ae)

Are Autechre fans into Kim Hiorthøy?

yes.

yeah, its great how quickly the hive mind has pretty much completed the tracklisting!

(Why do I have this sneaking feeling I'll listen to this entire 12-hour mix more than I'll listen to the new Joanna Newsom?)

So, does Autechre do this every year? They did a half-day mix-a-thon back in Feb. '08, didn't they?

This mix has made me more of an Autechre fan than any of their albums.

probably no one should stop listening to the 12 hours of awesome for anything lesser, but here's a little mix i made last night that starts with a dope old ae track off the first peel session ep: http://soundcloud.com/einzelganger-1/spacesick-2

I tried Kim Hiorthøy (album's on spotify) and it was ok in a genial scandiwegian electronica kinda way but not in the same league (or not trying to do the same thing, at least) as ae.

Damn I wish someone would fill in what was playing before FSOL at 6:10 in that spreadsheet (which seems to be a few minutes out from the torrent),

So, does Autechre do this every year? They did a half-day mix-a-thon back in Feb. '08, didn't they?

a 12 hour one in 08, yup, a 7.5h one in 05, and they did a whole bunch of hour-ish things on various stations in 03.

and a thing on xltronic in 06...

Did anyone manage to capture the actual stream itself? Is that possible? Or are things like this usually just recorded to a giant WAV and recompressed?

Yeah, I recorded the last 5 hours as 4GB WAV! couple of points where the stream dropped off but to my surprise (I'd gone to sleep ) when opened up in an editor, after silences removed and audio being stitched together, there's nothing missing - so guess there's a buffer built into the streams.

I don't know enough about what quality the actual stream was transmitted at, but at least I can covert the WAV into a decent bitrate 320 kbps MP3.

I'm putting my own recording up when I reach these segments. The ones up so far should be downloading to give you 224kbps MP3s.

314:50 Joey Beltram Energy Flash
323:00 Arrow Feeling Hot Hot Hot !
324:55 Age of Love Age of Love Don't know the version..
327:12 808 State Leo Leo 1
330:40 4Hero Mr. Kirk's Nightmare

Lolz at autechre playing out Arrow "Feeling Hot Hot Hot"

314:50 Joey Beltram Energy Flash
323:00 Arrow Feeling Hot Hot Hot !
324:55 Age of Love Age of Love Don't know the version..
327:12 808 State Leo Leo 1
330:40 4Hero Mr. Kirk's Nightmare

Lolz at autechre playing out Arrow "Feeling Hot Hot Hot"

lol, awesome:
330:40 4Hero Mr. Kirk's Nightmare

"come down to the station... your son is dead"

def one of the best samples ever

So I think the thing I commented on earlier with the awesome bass noises is the mystery mix of John + Julie - Circles, so thanks for mp3+tracklisting links, and if anyone can trainspot which mix it is that would also be great. Thanks!

So, does Autechre do this every year? They did a half-day mix-a-thon back in Feb. '08, didn't they?

a 12 hour one in 08, yup, a 7.5h one in 05, and they did a whole bunch of hour-ish things on various stations in 03.

Lately, every time they have a new album, in other words.

Demonoid torrent linked on bosbos.net now working fine. <3.

just upped the 6th our; will try and get rest up today, but otherwise over weekend. the 7th and 8th hour are chockfull of dope 80s/90s hiphop. and a few "Wow" moments

http://ae2010.wordpress.com/

* 6th hour

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!
Du grünst nicht nur
zur Sommerzeit,
Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!
Wie oft hat nicht zur Weihnachtszeit
Ein Baum von dir mich hoch erfreut!
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich
was lehren:
Die Hoffnung und Beständigkeit
Gibt Trost und Kraft
zu jeder Zeit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Das soll dein Kleid
mich lehren.

sick:

445:30 The Future Sound Of London Amoeba
449:24 Boards of Canada Turquoise Hexagon Sun
451:42 Eric B & Rakim Microphone Fiend

http://img31.yfrog.com/img31/3953/dndl.jpg

Good to know someone was keeping Presid/ae/nt Barack updated on global matters importance

....erm, matters of global importance...

okay, its now a museum piece; all up there now . finished.

i've listened to the entirety of the fucker. its glorious.

I was skeptical about the raves, but damn 40+ minutes into the first part, this is some fresh stuff.

final plug: http://ae2010.wordpress.com/

spread the word, etc

The whole shebang's here http://percussionlab.com/sets/autechre/12_hour_radio_broadcast

067 - 04:58:30 - Xon - Dissonance

this is great

there doesn't seem to be any discussion of the album sean booth did with mika vainio and kouhei matsunaga (from nhk)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jjfixzyald0e

though it is itself suprisingly quiet given the artists

is it good?

OK I've completely lost track of where I am in regards to the webmix, thinking I should've downloaded the single-track behemoth.

I heard "Chime"!!! For, like a couple seconds! (About 43 minutes into the sixth file.)

Sorry if I'm being Captain Obvious here but are you thinking of the "Chime" fairground noise on "Energy Flash" by Joey Beltram? (I assume Energy Flash sampled Chime because Chime came out first, but I've never been quite sure on that)

I think there was a thread about that!

I've been slowly making my way through this all week, I'm about six hours into it now. So far the opening hour and a half has been the best, in particular I love the Tangerine Dream --> Herb Alpert section (via St. Etienne and others).

I don't know from Joey Beltram, so this is news to me!

Does "known(1)" remind anyone else of Coil's "Amethyst Deceivers", b/c it sounds to me like the closest Autechre's come to doing a cover (not that that's a bad thing!).

Yeah, I can see that, kinda sorta. It's also the only good track on the album.

oh wow

> the closest Autechre's come to doing a cover

what about wissensee?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wissensee/dp/B001G4JJP6

their track on the earth remix album basically sounds like a cover too

so this came out properly on monday. i downloaded it from bleep. so far it's pretty rad. reminds me of LP5, but maybe less "gimmicky". by gimmicky, i mean there's less to differentiate the different tracks, e.g. on LP5 there was the one that sped up and slowed down within a bar (fold4,wrap5), the one that sounded like someone turning the volume up and down (vose in), the one with no beat-just melody (melve), the really pretty one (rae), the one with the string quartet (arch carrier) etc. on oversteps the tracks kind of blend into one, but maybe that's because i've only recently heard it. it's going to be fun properly exploring it.

That's promising, LP5 is my favourite Autechre. I'm sure I'll end up buying this - I like Quaristice a lot ("fun to explore" fits that one perfectly actually) so I've got high hopes.

I hear Autechre's live show in Birmingham on March 12 absolutely sucked. Confirm / deny?

Vinyl turned up in the post at ours yesterday. Yr usual awesome Designers Republic kind of thing (though one corner of the really sturdy thick box got mashed in the mail which is annoying). 2 records, and a 3rd sleeve that holds nothing but a poster!

The CD packaging is impeccable, 4-panel gatefold, with a limoncello-colored gradient fade towards the disk tray. The recording sounds very elegant, probably the most superficially-spacious autechre record I've ever heard. Already dropped for the 24-bit .wavs, a $9.99 cd, and I wonder what I'll do when I encounter the $40 vinyl. The album is good, and it puts most of their previous material in a more satisfying light. Kind of annoyed at the endless repetition-pattern of Treale, and the quality of the chimes in O=0, but otherwise an engaging record. Pretty ambivalent towards Known(1), pt2ph8 is f*ckin' golden.

I've been listening to this on repeat and i can safely say this is the first thing they've done since EP7 that is solid gold. Glad to have you back Autechre.

15-odd listens in and I'm still not really feeling it. But I haven't given up hope.

hardly grappling with the unknown on this are they?
"untilted" was the peak for me, y'know abstractions, developments.
so many grooves in stasis on this.
not "bad" but "meh"
& what's with extending the slavish adulation to a 12 hr dj mix where there's no surprises?
don't get it.
maybe i'm too old for this.

If anything, much of it reminds me of very early Kraftwerk --say, "Kristallo"-- chopped up a bit. Not sure how I'm feeling about that.

Interesting to hear about people being big fans of Untilted. It wasn't a bad album, but to me it was veering way too close into an oblivious clatter of sound. I'm pleased Autechre have gone back to working with melodies again, something they've always been really good at but somehow left off of their last few offerings. I think on Oversteps they're doing some pretty complex things with these melodies, whereas on Draft and Untilted the emphasis was mostly textural/rhythmic. There seems to be a few rock and jazz influences too, which I haven't really noticed before with them.

The CD packaging is impeccable, 4-panel gatefold, with a limoncello-colored gradient fade towards the disk tray. The recording sounds very elegant, probably the most superficially-spacious autechre record I've ever heard.

Agree with all this. Picked this up yesterday (also $9.99) and I'm really enjoying it, one spin through.

How do I tell the real one from the fakes?

the real one sounds like a big departure. known(1) (track 3) sounds like a digital harpsichord + banjo. the Altered:Carbon leak (fooled me) has cutup vocals on track 3.

> How do I tell the real one from the fakes?

by the packaging?

Atcha, Palpatean, found it! Thanks.

There's also a various WATMMer-authored fake collection that's pretty remarkable. Some of it's indiscernible from middle-later period Autechre.

The vinyl edition of Oversteps is indeed lovely lovely.

I take it only those purchased through Bleep get the free download? My copy has no coupon of any kind that I can see. Which is a shame, of course.

How do I tell the real one from the fakes?

― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:04 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

You can verify by comparing against the real thing streaming on xlr8r:

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2010/03/new-autechre-album-streaming-now

I picked up a couple of the leaks out of curiosity and they are nothing like Oversteps, or much good even

How do I tell the real one from the fakes?

Easily achieved by actually buying the CD/vinyl in a physical shop. ;-)

Oh hush. Last time I bought an Ae album unheard, it turned out to be Draft 7.30.

Which is awesome.

The only Ae I've heard is LP5/EP7/Confield. Had Tre Repetae for a bit but deleted it. But the previous three are so up my street, I should investigate their 00-10s stuff.

confield/draft are probably the best of the last decade but oversteps is lovely

i don't quite see how one can have radically different opinions of any of these albums when they all derive from a fairly singular sensibility, slight narcissism of sd imo.....

Hmm don't know how you can square something like Leterel with some of the beat freak outs on Confield. Could definitely see their split into more inscrutable music bothering some previous fans.
Or maybe you're only talking about LP5 onwards.

So this sounds a lot like Chiastic so far -- yay!

Gotta say, while I'm a big Ae fan, I can only just about tolerate (not so much enjoy) Confield through Untilted. Everything else is amazing. My faves are def LP5 and EP7, but Oversteps has really got a hold on me. A lot of it is quite catchy, which is more than one can say of Draft and Untilted.

known(1) (track 3) sounds like a digital harpsichord + banjo

+ a bunch of digital weasels being put through a wringer.

still the standout track for me.

what's the one that sounds like someone playing a ridiculous guitar solo all over it?

redfall? but don't heard anything much like a guitar on it. or anywhere else.

the sound isn't like a guitar, but it's played like one, errr... if you see what i mean?

redfall has some maybe guitar-like wanky jazz noodling on it. bit too wanky for my tastes.

yeah i think that's it. i like that one.

They do this "12 notes in search of a melody" thing from time to time, where it seems like they've just bashed out something random on a keyboard, and sometimes the notes fall beautifully (Draun Quarter, Cichli, Gelk), but sometimes it sounds just too aimless for my tastes.

man, i have to listen to gelk again - that's from a peel session and it's really beautiful if i remember correctly?

i wonder about this sometimes, and whether Ae are having us on. They claim that there is always method to their madness and that nothing is random, rather the output of complex algorithmic chain reactions. But yeah, sometimes it sounds like a cat jumping around on an out of tune piano.

gelk + gaekwed both on peel sesh 2 and both a+++++ imo

i'm worried i might have lost my copy of peel2. it's a great one. is that the one where they sent john the tracks but no tracklisting, so he made some up himself (hence "19 headaches")?

got email back from warp denying me permission to allow 60 min Autechre trax DJ mix be made available for d/l & streaming. : (

ledge otm

i wonder about this sometimes, and whether Ae are having us on. They claim that there is always method to their madness and that nothing is random, rather the output of complex algorithmic chain reactions. But yeah, sometimes it sounds like a cat jumping around on an out of tune piano.

― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, March 26, 2010 5:18 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i've got the impression that they create generative patterns where the melodies and the percussion sounds are results of a sort of 'patch' designed on software like Max/MSP. Where a sound or sounds are given parameters of activity in which they can generate indeterminate patterns, giving it a random feel. The parameters could be open, but possibly strict in a harmonic assignment. I believe there is a lot of this sort of action on the new one.

okay listening to this for the first time, 3 tracks in. this is pretty damn sweet

tshirts: http://bleep.com/index.php?page=stock_details&releaseid=284

(printed on the inside as well as the outside)

"A bonus track 'Xektses sql' is available on the Japanese CD and as an AAC file from the Japanese iTunes store."

that t-shirt model is really makin that shirt look goooooood

probably pretty accurate for the target audience tho

"A bonus track 'Xektses sql' is available on the Japanese CD and as an AAC file from the Japanese iTunes store."

and as a 5l5k download! sooner or later.

i want that t-shirt so that it looks like i just barfed up squid ink all down myself.

and as a 5l5k download! sooner or later.

(or right now.)

(why do they do that? making it region specific = it'll end up on sharing sites the world over, putting it on itunes or bleep = more sales. at least give the people a chance to buy it...)

IIRC it was to get Japanese people to buy the significantly more expensive Japanese pressings instead of cheaper imports from the US and UK.

It's a longstanding practice and all that.

> that t-shirt model is really makin that shirt look goooooood

anyone got a number for the snorg girl?

'Xektses sql' is the laziest jp bonus track i'm aware of

i think peel 2 is the one i really liked, i should dig it up and see if i'm still feeling it.

it feels weird to listen to autechre in 2010, they seem so dated and yet still so futuristic at the same time.

the peel sessions are both excellent

I'm with you ledge on doubting this record but I'm only 2 odd listens in. I think I might be standing by my initial reaction which was this is more of a pure atmospheres album than a pure moods album.

When I look back on Tri-Repetae++ the only tracks I listen to are #2 and #3 because those are the ones with the most endearing emotion in the industrial sounds

I enjoy this album but I'm not ready to rep for it. This coming from someone that stood up for fucking Medulla. I'll check back in in four weeks.

just got home from seeing them live, pretty awesome.

anyone interested in a 60min mix of Autechre music?

Yes. Tell me more, Tannenbaum.

just got home from seeing them live, pretty awesome.

― anagram, Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:54 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Tell me more, anagram. My friend who saw them in Birmingham three weeks ago hated it, and from her description the show didn't sound at all enjoyable to me either.

I just took a nap to this new album today!

d-sho qub - chooooon!

I saw them in Vienna, at the Flex which is a renowned dance club with an incredible sound system. Russell Haswell came on first and did ten minutes of white noise. Ae were as danceable as I've ever seen them. I wouldn't call it funky exactly, but it was jittery and jumpy mixed in with the expected harshness. I dunno, this isn't usually my area of interest but I found it unexpectedly listenable.

O TANNENBAUM
O TANNENBAUM
HOW MUCH DO YOU ROCK THE HOUSE

<3

Thank you, anagram. That sounds great, and completely unlike what my friend saw on March 12 (? - approx.) in Birmingham. From my friend's email:

Still feeling completely brain damaged after standing directly in front of the speakers during this for 80 minutes a few nights ago. Not such a wise idea in retrospect.

("this" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iEv9d4PrT8)

The sound was seriously bad, so muddy...bass was just utterly fuck off loud the whole time but the set was pretty much just one completely monolithic, grey arhythmic thud that had no real transitions or changes, no melodic parts, depth or feeling at all particularly. Purportedly the very rough, distorted and shitty mix is deliberate to prevent taping (*?!) The only reason I'd like to hear a recording now is so I can hear what I couldn't at the gig! One great thing about Autechre of course is that it's never a wise idea to have any preconceptions about them, but I do think that aiming for pure physicality of sound really sold themselves short. It's difficult to explain how perverse I thought it was at the time.

thanks, ctrl-S!

That mix was meant to feature with this: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artandmusic/?cid=417&b_log=417

actually i changed my mind, apart from known(1) this is starting to sound pretty meh to me

kinda ambivalent towards this album. sometimes it sounds lovely, and then at other times really dull. keep returning to it, out of some notion that it will somehow 'click' and reveal a kind of genius, but that's unrealistic. pt2ph8 is nice enough, and ilanders has got that slow, twisted churn. the production seems pretty novel for an autechre album (big, spacious, polished). getting a lot of polished stone and glass surfaces from it

this has grown on me some, but i think it's a little too noodly. not much to really grab hold of. it sounds pretty fucking rad though. favorites are "see on see" and "yuop" right now.

i get some similar vibes from dopplereffekt - calabi yau space. might like that album more.

I can never tell if it's my imagination, but depending on where my head is positioned or listening to headphones, I'm certain they're doing some pretty insane stuff with surround sound, or whatever it's called these days.

the whole album (Oversteps) sounds to me like what the soundtrack to a re-make of Westworld should sound like.

I know it's pretty simple but I've been loving this. I think it works really well as ambient music.

new tracks! streaming now!

http://autechre.ws/move-of-ten/

anyone go see 'em live?

New track, singular.

It's a great track, though.

New album on the way already, huh?

their site calls Oversteps an "album" and Move Of Ten a "release" fwiw

anyone go see 'em live?

T-60 hours

this will be like quaristice.quadrange i guess

their site calls Oversteps an "album" and Move Of Ten a "release" fwiw

Point being?

maybe they've gone back to the old alternating album/ep schedule.

(I'm slow... thanks.)

maybe they've gone back to the old alternating album/ep schedule.

hope so!!

I hope this is EP7 to Oversteps' LP5

new one is available for download at bleep.com. some nice, varied tracks..

who can hear the difference between 24-bit and 16 bit .wavs?

dogs

(i just laughed at my own joke...)

anyway, is out on the 12th, already available digitally. how is it?

s'alright

ah i'm doin my 'it hasn't grabbed me so letting it slide' kinda thing but i put a lot of time into oversteps which never really paid off.

if you like oversteps, you'll probably like move of ten, even though it isn't quite as good

This is still rlly good.

yes! not so fond of 'move of ten' yet tho

i forgot it had come out. Getting it now.

I picked up Move of Ten but haven't had a chance to spin yet. Oversteps is nice, though.

man, I love move of ten. really dig the thick, heavy beats and the melodic flourishes sprinkled on top.

i listened to it this mornign for the first time - yup, love it. a rougher, muddier dub cut of oversteps. i like the track with the jazz flute sounds.

yes! that's a great one.

it also happens to be a version of my favourite track on oversteps (don't ask me to say track names because i don't know or care).

never even noticed that. I've probably only listened to oversteps about three times total. really need to go back to it.

you should, because it's the best thing they've done since EP7.

I like the idea of these alternate albums. it does totally remind me of the dub tradition and the way you might get one side and then a dub side.

yeah, I definitely will. I always seem to be running a few releases behind with autechre because I'm typically unsure about how I feel about a new one until I've spent some time with it.

but move of ten really clicked right off. but then I tend to find their EPs more digestible in general.

Listened to it again - It's a proper dance album (okay, it's not exactly Basement Jaxx, but it's got bloody dubstep and techno tracks on it).

'm62' is one of the most surprising things i've heard from them in forever.