I would like to see autechre try something new

on a side note I really do love their music.

I would love to see them try something radically different. Of course they might stink then.

This has been my sentiment for a couple years now. Too many monochromatic, aimless excercises in fragmented, hurried rhythms in the later period (espec. Untilted and Confield) stuff. Nothing really solid. 'Trees' is OK. The hard-hitting soccer jam w/the crowd noise and "break" is ar-ight, =I guess. But realistically, they could do well to serve up some minimalistic (but detailed) drones or some succinct pop (w/melody?) structures. Come w/some fresh shit. It's in them. It's in anybody. They need to relax. Songs would be great. Unfortunately they petered off into a lacksome, nether-realm of ineffectual melodies and dead-end, chicken w/they head-cut-off rhythms. Shit is dead to me. Who cares what gear they're using. Draft was promising, and Reniform Puls coulda been golden had it not diffused into a scattered mess, wtf. And get some new graphics, bro

The need to relax.

I agree. I'm pretty sure Autechre has a better idea of what they need to do than me, but if I were them, a whole album of "Overand"-esque tunes would be fantastic.

I dunno. I like Confield better than Draft 7.30, Untitled and the Eps released after it. Whe Confield was made, it seemed to be when they had finally gone off the deep end and Confield would be first of what would become an track of aimlessness (because of overqualified production and complexity being stuffed into every orifice). They had fun doodling with complexity and randomness. Now they need to come back to earth again. I want to see them take their smarts and put 'em towards making 'complex pop songs' if you catch my drift.

One thing that seems to be the same with almost all their songs is that they have never been broken down into movements with abrupt change in between each of them. In a sense they are all long morphing pieces of ambiance.

Seems to be a lot of Autechre Threads this month, I mention only because 3 years ago half jokingly decreed November to officially be 'Autechre Month' i.e. I was onto something there. Either way, I pulled out Tri Repetae++ a week and a half ago and was pretty surprised how impressed I was by it (more so than usually. I hadn't listened to it in 8 months or so by the way). Notably, I was (now more than ever) able to pick out certain textures that had a kind of organic(for lack of a better word that comes to mind), dubby feel to them. This is probably the result of expecting a kind of self-consciously 'IDM'ish glitch fest and coming back to realize their potential for more, errr. musical elements (also their roots in electro/hip-hop) which I found to be really engaging. I personally would like to see what would happen if they embraced this more, rather than the overtly 'IDMish' direction they've gone in the 00's, not going to pop, but taking their systematic approach and applying it to rich, spacious compositions.

rich, spacious compositions

This is almost opposite of what Autechre's music has become.

since you got tri repetae out, you should listen to garbage again.

Those eps are great, Anvil Vapre and Envane. Laughing Quarter is a pinnacle of autechre-ian goodness.

theres no pinnacle until the fat lady croaks

*phat lady

I always thought they should try their hand at being hip-hop producers. Or even pop, pop has a fair appetite for weird noises and beats 'n' shit these days.

how about they just keep making good records in the style of autechre?

WHAT STYLE IS THAT DUDE. Every album is a different style and everyone thinks they've lost their style but everyone disagrees on when they lost it.

On the subject of Confield - that is their drone album! Well ok it's not droney drone and it's got beats in but for the most part it's got a similar sense of hypnotic texture and minimal progression. And the real drone stuff they did with the Hafler trio isn't very good. Well, I haven't listened to it much anyway.

the genre is Pennine Folk

Someone else round these parts has a theory that Confield is a folk album.

i love confield

It is a masterpiece.

One thing that seems to be the same with almost all their songs is that they have never been broken down into movements with abrupt change in between each of them. In a sense they are all long morphing pieces of ambiance.

umm i think that's not very right at all, i mean Xylin Room, Surripere, 61e.CR, LCC, Ipacial Section and Augmatic Disport are just a few recent tracks that have very clear movements, in most cases 2 but for AD, which has like 5 sections... now that i think back, one of my favorites, Rae, is halved as well. i actually thought i was beginning to see a (gasp!) formula developing... but anyway, listen closer and you'll discover the delights in autechre's very own pocket symphonies! i really can't imagine them falling back on conventional song forms at this point for any reason whatsoever. it'd be cool, neat but... that's all it'd be- not mindblowing like mostly everything the've done to date aspires to be, imho. and yeah, confield is a bloody masterpiece.

This is almost opposite of what Autechre's music has become.p

yes, I don't see much of a point of contention here, as I thought I acknowledged this in saying rather than the overtly 'IDMish' direction they've gone in the 00's,and after all, this thread is about "seeing them try something new"

just so you guys know my personal preference personally would be that they both get hit by a bus sometime around 1998 and we never have to be subjected to twenty seven million utterly nondescript glitchectro max-msp jackoffs imitating them because hey - this stuttery shit's not as complicated as it sounds!

just you know throwin in the usual two cents

perhaps the real title of this thread should be "I would like to see autechre make a record that lives up to the fucking hype"

yeah, vmcjr, but do the movements have abrupt changes in between like a pop song does when it changes into a chorus?

I don't think all the ones you mentioned do. Also I said "almost all their songs". There has got to be a few exceptions but in general from what I have listened to over the years (I don't know songs by name) all their songs are mostly buildups and mutations.. nothing drastic really.

tombot so true

idm guilt

"Eutow" just came on my iTunes. Pinnacle?

For me, is Cichli.