Autechre: Classic or Dud?

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Great inventive IDM or geeky mindless crap?

I say the former, but i'm a Warp-head...

― dog latin, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got one of their CD's because they were critically acclaimed, but only listened to it once. I guess I just don't like their style.

― james e l, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bleep bloop, blip blip, bloop bloop. I borrowed an Autechre CD and I too found that the hype didn't live up to the bleeps. On the other hand, I heard Autechre being used as background music for a film at an art installation, and it seemed to work there. By itself, though? Can't see it. Maybe I'll grow into it.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Er, rather, bleeps didn't live up to the hype. Time for me to go home, I think.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mindless crap is what my dad said after listening to a bit of LP5 but for me it's great background music and also when your fucked up...

― Kevin Enas, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, it's not the kind of stuff one likes after one play

search: LP5

― dog latin, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I really like the idea of hype not living up to bleeps.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

personally, subjectively, they were brilliant on _tri repetae_. almost a perfect piece of work, i think, with all of the more traditionalist melodic bits of their first two albums clashing with the beginnings of the DSP shitstorm that was to come on later releases. everything since has been hit and miss, with even the better releases (lp5, ep7, envane) having tracks that just sound like 'generic autechre.'

as for "inventive," well, the IDM list be damned, they pretty much defined how IDM has sounded for the past 4 years or so by dint of every semi-talented derivative jacking their style (phoenicia, entire schematics roster, everything i've heard on musik aus strom, especially the horribly derivative but not even close to the mark flagship duo funkstorung, etc, etc). their fault or their misfortune, you be the judge.

― your null fame, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I quite like Autechre. Chiastic Slide and Tri Repetae are great. And the earlier more ambient stuff from Amber and Incunabula is quite nice too. I haven't been that into the shift toward more digital, more abstract, less beat oriented music in their last few releases. I like that they're evolving, I'm just not too keen on the result.

― bnw, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always found them strangely dissapointing. I do like most of Tri Repeate, but I find Amber dull (hard for me to imagine how so many consider that classic) and the post-Tri stuff I've heard generally just slides by me. I ADMIRE what they're doing with the thick sounds on EP7 -- it sounds very complicated and new -- but it's just not enjoyable listening for me. I keep it around, though, because I figure some day it just might click. But for now I'm calling Ae a dude.

― Mark, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would say Classic based on Tri Repetae and Chiastic Slide, but I think they make more of a Search and Destroy kind of band than a Classic Or Dud. They have some fantastic material and a chunk of not so fantastic. To my mind, the problem with them is that when you first hear their sound, it blows your ass to the back wall, but a monrh later it doesn't sound nearly as good, especially after you hear all the shameless imitators mentioned above? But then, is it their fault that it's easy to do a third rate imitation of their sound? And does that irrevocably alter how we hear the songs themselves?

― Dave M., Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic for the first four albums. 'Amber' is my favorite (not dull at all, it's perfect twilight music). Again a band who release too much stuff and you start to lose interest (and I won't start on all the 2nd rate copycats). But the first four are just perfect and all have a different atmosphere. Also have become victim to what someone on the Hips,head,heart-thread called the Kraftwerk-don't-have-a-soul fallacy. Autechre always struck me as one of the great soul bands, they always try to home in on a very peculiar sense of melancholy (fading of a beautiful day, the sadness of machines) or nostalgia (a lot of times the music shimmers with the feeling of being a child again). Any band that does that is Classic in my book.

― Omar, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Listening to the last strains of Cichli on Chiastic Slide as the sun comes up is awesome...

― dog latin, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you look up Autechre in the dictionary you'll find the answer

― K-reg, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

always admired what autechre were doing (the sheer bloody-mindedness reminded me of the fall) but could never love it. just too dry.

but in the last 6 months i've begun to change my mind, and i'm beginning to really love some of what they do (most of LP5, a lot of Chiastic Slide, and Clichi Suite are beautiful records i think).

it seems strange that it too such a long time for me to really like them, but then i did that with piano magic, happy mondays and tom waits too, and i love 90% of all their stuff too.

got tri repetae recently, but having difficulty getting into that one so far.

saw them at Brixton Fridge the other week, and they were excellent. every track seems to start off so uninviting, but gradually becomes wonderful

so, i think i'd head towards classic really

― gareth, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nah, i don't like tri repetae too much.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

autecism-the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host

― Kevin Enas, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hm, then who is the host? Mr. Aphex Twin? Or just idm geeks in general?

― bnw, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that's what the dictonary said..i'd go with idm geeks

― Kevin Enas, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to amend my previous comment. Based on the other comments here, I went out and picked up Tri-Repetae and I have to admit that I'm liking it quite a bit. I don't know what the other album I heard was, now. I'll probably check out the new one too. Thanks for changing my mind on this one.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heh, you're doing lots of amending lately... excellent. :)

― Josh, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clasik They laid down their basic schematic a decade ago, which was duely appropriated by a whole generation of Electronica outfits as a viable escape route from the ambient ghettos of the early nineties. But somehow, they both manage to avoid sounding anything like their legion of imitators, and remain undeniably Autechre. Geniuses in their own petri dish - remote, but perfect

― K-reg, Thursday, 10 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So anyone heard the new one? I was going to skip on this one, but it's getting really good reviews. Is it a departure or can it be compared with an oldie? Oh and most important: does it have some humanity (I always dread a full Autechre move into pure abstraction).

― Omar, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think the new one is the business. it is kind of a departure. its unmistakably them but less electro-ish. in a strange taxidermy way it reminds me of piano magic. very decayed sounding. busted cd type feel as well.

difficult to compare to other releases. perhaps the closest is chiastic slide (particularly hub)

i'd definitely recommend it. is rivalling Discovery for favourite album of moment.

― gareth, Monday, 14 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

Someone explain the appeal please? Much as I love the Warp-label, Autechre's brand of IDM just leaves me cold. Too ornate, too wrapped up in its own 'cleverness', too much fidgeting about playing around with FX. This music has no flow. Listening to Confield gives me a headache, as has every other release of theirs I've heard. Occasionally they hit on a groove, a sound, a pattern and everything momentarily clicks, but 5 seconds later and it abruptly changes direction. Is it like Geometry, or computer programming? I'm bemused, confused, and fail to connect with this music.

― Stevo, Sunday, 10 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still haven't listened to the new album much - I haven't found myself in the right mood - but it might be fair to say the music indeed "has no flow", the way you're probably thinking. Unless this sort of willful difficulty is your thing, I think it would help to start with their earlier CDs and work your way forward. (That might make the current stuff more palatable, but then it might not for you.) Incunabula and probably Tri Repetae (and "Garbage", dammit I wish my Trie Repetae disc 2 hadn't snapped in half) have lots of songs that unfold more nicely, without so much focus on subverting rhythmic expectations (and sonic ones too).

― Josh, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i come from the opposite perspective on this one josh. i only picked yp incunabula recently and found it rather uneventful, and i find tri repetae is too harsh. chiastic slide is like tri repetae but somehow more personable. i think the ideal starting point is probably LP5. this seems very accessible (although again, on initial hearing it just gave me a headache!), it eventually seeped in and i love that album now.

the new one is simultaneously a continuity of LP5 in terms of denseness and a complete break in that there seems to be no flow or groove whatsoever. the flow may have been convoluted before, now it just sounds broken and rusted. its a wonderful record (particularly the middle section) but probably not the best place to start. LP5 i think remains their highlight.

― gareth, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sean of Autechre in recent De:Bug declare: "we make the ultimate folk music". I like that idea a lot. No flow/broken sounds like another chinese puzzle, going to get it anyway. Another thing: I skipped on LP5, since i was suffering from autechritis at the time (I mean really, a record every year is too much), still worth checking out?

― Omar, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeh, lp5 is the best one!

as for autechre writing folk music, i wrote a confused piece on this, which you can find here

― gareth, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude! Confused? Not all. It's true isn't it? It such a nice framework for this sort of music.

So there you have it: we're the new folkies! :) Let's all grow beards.

― Omar, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Incunabula' is impressing me Josh, making more immediate sense than 'Confield'. 'Tri-Repetae' has moments of fractured beauty that long to be dwelt on, but frequently aren't. I find Autechre cold, abstract, and introverted, but I can't quite dismiss them. There is a dark clinical beauty that does attract. Like being drawn to an alluring, handsome stranger only to discover she/he is suffering from schizophrenia.

― Stevo, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1 listen into Confield and all i can say: it's doing my head in! Very, very good. 1st track esp. is amazing (sort of gamelan-on-ice planet stuff, beautiful melody harking back to 1st album...nice, nice). Bit of a surprise because it sounds more direct in a way than mid-period Autechre. And they came up with some new cool sounds too.

― Omar, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

Just got sent this:

Autechre - 'EPS 1991-2002' WARPCD211
5 X Deluxe CD - 47 Tracks - 5hr 39min 59sec
47 track digital bundle available now
CD shipped & released 11th April 2011

Order CD with instant WAV/MP3 download at Bleep
Download MP3/WAV at Bleep (includes videos)
Download digital at iTunes

Visit Autechre.ws

(Made in The Designers Republic™)
CAVITY JOB, BASSCADEP, ANTI EP
(Disc 1)

Cavity Job
Accelera 1 & 2
Basscadet (Bcdtmx)
Basscadet (Basscadoublemx)
Basscadet (Tazmx)
Basscadet (Basscadubmx)
Lost
Djarum
Flutter

Tracks 1 – 2 originally released as Cavity Job (p)1991 Autechre.
Tracks 3 – 6 originally released as Basscad EP (p) 1994 Warp Records Limited.
Tracks 7 – 9 originally released as Anti EP (p) 1994 Warp Records Limited.
GARBAGE, ANVIL VAPRE
(Disc 2)

Garbagemx
PIOBmx
Bronchusevenmx
VLetrmx
Second Bad Vilbel
Second Scepe
Second Scout
Second Peng

Tracks 1 – 4 originally released as Garbage (p)1995 Warp Records Limited.
Tracks 5 – 8 originally released as Anvil Vapre (p) 1995 Warp Records Limited.
PEEL SESSION, ENVANE
(Disc 3)

Milk DX
Inhake 2
Drane
Goz Quarter
Latent Quarter
Laughing Quarter
Draun Quarter

Tracks 1 – 3 originally released as Peel Session (p)1995 BBC.
Tracks 4 – 7 originally released as Envane (p)1997 Warp Records Limited.
CHICHLISUITE, EP7
(Disc 4)

Yeesland
Pencha
Characi
Krib
Tilapia
Rpeg
Ccec
Squeller
Left Blank
Outpt
Dropp
Liccflii

Tracks 1 – 5 originally released as Cichlisuite (p)1997 Warp Records Limited.
Tracks 6 – 12 originally released on EP7 (p)1999 Warp Records Limited.
EP7, PEEL SESSION 2, GANTZ GRAF
(Disc 5)

Maphive6.1
Zeiss Contarex
Netlon Sentinel
Pir
Gelk
Blifil
Gaekwad
19 Headaches
Gantz Graf
Dial.
Cap.IV

Tracks 1 – 4 originally released on EP7 (p)1999 Warp Records Limited.
Tracks 5 – 8 originally released as Peel Session 2 (p)1999 BBC.
Tracks 9 – 11 originally released as Gantz Graf (p)2002 Warp Records Limited.

― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:13 (fourteen years ago)

ooh, they've split the EP7s across two discs. Bad show.

― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:14 (fourteen years ago)

(closes eyes, mutters 'i do not need or want expensive box-sets, i do not need or want expensive box sets...')

― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:33 (fourteen years ago)

('I have all these tracks already, i have all these tracks already')

― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:41 (fourteen years ago)

Seems a little odd not to include the Seefeel or Beaumont Hannant mixes of Basscadet, but maybe that can be justified. Putting "Anvil Vapre" before "Garbage" seems like flat-out bad sequencing.

― with hidden noise, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

Tracks 1 – 4 originally released as Garbage (p)1995 Warp Records Limited.
Tracks 5 – 8 originally released as Anvil Vapre (p) 1995 Warp Records Limited.

― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 14:48 (fourteen years ago)

ah, my mistake!

― with hidden noise, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

This is disappointing. At least include all vinyl-only tracks, not only Cavity Job.

I don't feel this is worth the double-dip.

― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)

Sorry boothbrown, I already have all the original releases.

― StanM, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)

only own the Anti EP but not sure what I would do with this package - EP collections on several CDs just seem so impractical

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 08:49 (fourteen years ago)

This is disappointing. At least include all vinyl-only tracks, not only Cavity Job.
I don't feel this is worth the double-dip.

OTM.

Better to have the original Anti and break the seal on it to show what bollicks the Criminal Justice Thingy is.

― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Friday, 18 February 2011 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://thequietus.com/articles/10978-autechre-new-album-details-exai

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago)

I couldn't decide which C or D thread to pick so I made a new one

Autechre Exai

― ledge, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

http://youtu.be/lC7LGzCZ-q0

classic

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago)

track at 18:00 is pretty sick

― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago)

that whole video is rad, oh man that brings back memories, esp. the whistles and the whole dudes-with-long-fringe-swept-back-w-headbands thing, damn haven't seen that look in a minute

― the tune was space, Monday, 14 October 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://ge.tt/9ZkPRWw/v/0

more ore

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 07:14 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

http://p.autechre.ws/proxy?lnk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discogs.com%2Fartist%2F41-Autechre

― djh, Thursday, 5 March 2015 18:51 (ten years ago)

Skipping 1645 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Is this the same thing? (Downloadable link.)

https://archive.org/details/autechre-on-mixlr-12-30-22

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 March 2025 14:48 (three months ago)

dates are different, but the length checks out and the first 30 seconds sounds the same. maybe it was repeated.

― koogs, Wednesday, 19 March 2025 14:54 (three months ago)

yep that's it!

― clouds, Thursday, 20 March 2025 12:27 (three months ago)

one month passes...

OMG OMG OMG UNTILTED AND QUARISTICE REISSUES IMMINENT!!

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2025 14:15 (two months ago)

Looks like Quaristice will have a deluxe 4LP bundled with Quaristice Versions... Hmmm, vinyl is so pricey. I will definitely be getting Untilted for my collection, but I'll have to think about Quaristice - it was never a fave

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2025 14:18 (two months ago)

damn, I already have a quaristice lp but are they gonna get me to buy another one now? if I'm being honest, the versions material was never super compelling to me, tho I do like the proper album.

untilted goes super hard tho. one of their best imo.

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 28 April 2025 14:35 (two months ago)

so what are these extra tracks, given that they aren't quadrange tracks?

E1. Altichyre
E2. The Plc lCp C
E3. IO (mons)
F1. Phylopn
F2. Perlence range 3
F3. SonDEre-ix
G1. Tankraken
G2. fol4
H1. 90101-61-01
H2. chenc9-x
H3. nofour

"Includes Quaristice and for the first time on vinyl, Quaristice (Versions)."

wikipedia
> The album was also released as a 2-CD set with alternate versions of 11 tracks on a second 68-minute CD. The casing is a photo-etched, steel case and the release was limited to 1000 copies. The limited edition sold out within 12 hours of being announced.

that'll be why... are these going to be available without forking out 65 quid for the vinyl?

― koogs, Monday, 28 April 2025 14:40 (two months ago)

that's awesome news, I remember Sean saying after the Confield/Draft reissues that he wasn't sure if they were gonna do more (sounded like it was out of their hands), hopefully this means Oversteps and Exai are next

packaging Quaristice this way is pretty interesting, I've always wondered if the band considered Versions to be the "proper" LP version. in retrospect this was the start of their "release it all and let the fans sort it out" era

― frogbs, Monday, 28 April 2025 14:44 (two months ago)

(oh it does explicitly say 'digital tracklist' (20 tracks) and 'deluxe lp tracklist' (everything))

chiz

― koogs, Monday, 28 April 2025 14:44 (two months ago)

Can’t wait to see them in October

― Kung Fu Gift Shop (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 April 2025 14:45 (two months ago)

but the quadrange info says

"These are alternate versions of tracks from Quaristice and the special edition 2CD package of the album. These versions have not been made available before on any previous releases."

but the names are different. curse you.

― koogs, Monday, 28 April 2025 14:46 (two months ago)

I believe the way it went is:

Quaristice: the original 20 track album
Quaristice (Versions): the 11 track "bonus" album of extended/alternate cuts included in that metal boxset
Quadrange: 4 digital-only EPs consisting of more extended cuts (there is also something called the "Digital Exclusive EP"

LP 3 & 4 appears to be the "Versions" tracks

― frogbs, Monday, 28 April 2025 15:03 (two months ago)

Don't forget the bonus track on the Japanese CD of the original album!

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 28 April 2025 15:19 (two months ago)

i'm one of the 1000 metal box owners! except i'm not sure where it is right now...

― constant gravy (ledge), Monday, 28 April 2025 15:19 (two months ago)

strange that versions is being included and not quadrange. it's an awfully long time since i heard either

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2025 15:55 (two months ago)

Quadrange alone would be a 4xLP set with an hour long track

― frogbs, Monday, 28 April 2025 15:57 (two months ago)

I wonder if they'll put up the Versions and Quadrange tracks on Bandcamp.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 28 April 2025 16:02 (two months ago)

I'm sad they never rereleased EP7

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2025 22:28 (two months ago)

I think I still have a physical copy of that, but if I do it's the US edition that's missing the hidden track you have to rewind from track 1 to hear. It is included in the EPs 1991-2002 set on Bandcamp, though also missing the hidden track...

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 28 April 2025 22:36 (two months ago)

curious if they plan on reissuing the EPs ever - I'd be in for Garbage, Anvil Vapre, EP7, and Move of Ten

― frogbs, Monday, 28 April 2025 22:45 (two months ago)

Fuck all this, I just want Elseq on CD

― The Last Air ETC (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 April 2025 23:29 (two months ago)

^^^ I would buy a 5CD Elseq box in a fucking heartbeat.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 28 April 2025 23:41 (two months ago)

Quaristice: the original 20 track album
Quaristice (Versions): the 11 track "bonus" album of extended/alternate cuts included in that metal boxset
Quadrange: 4 digital-only EPs consisting of more extended cuts (there is also something called the "Digital Exclusive EP"
Don't forget the bonus track on the Japanese CD of the original album!

There was also the "Quaristice Digital Exclusive - EP" with
IO (mons) (7:40)
90101-51-4 (7:40)
Blyz Castl (5:36)

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 April 2025 23:51 (two months ago)

Such a headache of a release. I did love the "Perlence subrange 6-36" hour-long ambient beat mix. "Simmm" is wonderful too.

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 April 2025 23:53 (two months ago)

Hell yeah, stoked for Untilted. I'm really kicking myself for not buying Move of Ten and Oversteps though, hope those get a repress as well

― octobeard, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 00:03 (one month ago)

I love some songs on Quaristice, but really dislike/skip the rest. Super hit/miss album for me, more than any other album length release. The one record I might actually pass on getting the vinyl. Simm is all time though

― octobeard, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 00:04 (one month ago)

^^^ I would buy a 5CD Elseq box in a fucking heartbeat.

yep

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 00:08 (one month ago)

I would buy the 10LP Elseq vinyl box set in a heartbeat too

― octobeard, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 00:29 (one month ago)

elseq is of pretty awkward length for a vinyl release, you'd either need some 28 minute sides or you could split it up into some like, 7xLP thing. but if they go ahead and reissue Oversteps and Exai it'll be the only one of their main studio albums not on vinyl, so maybe they'll figure out a way

― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 00:45 (one month ago)

I already have Exai on vinyl, it's out there right now

― octobeard, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 04:31 (one month ago)

I love some songs on Quaristice, but really dislike/skip the rest. Super hit/miss album for me, more than any other album length release.

i get this and don’t like every track either, which is not unique to this particular autechre record. but what does feel unique (for them, anyway) is how short and varied all of the tracks are. if i’m not into one, it’s cool, i’ll just
wait a minute or two, nbd. has a similar appeal that a lot of abstract, playful early electronic music has for me.

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 05:07 (one month ago)

Glad everyone's on board with Simm. That's a cracking tune

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:18 (one month ago)

Although I'm still trying to figure out what specifically it is about Quaristice that doesn't work so well with me. On paper I like the idea of an album of short suites, a la Melve, but somehow it's only a handful of tracks that really work for me, and I start getting a bit twitchy and wanting to skip them even though they're short

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:28 (one month ago)

Forgot that Exai got released on vinyl...

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:28 (one month ago)

Fuck all this, I just want Elseq on CD

― The Last Air ETC (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, April 28, 2025 6:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

^^^ I would buy a 5CD Elseq box in a fucking heartbeat.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, April 28, 2025 6:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Preach

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 09:16 (one month ago)

I’m a broken record on this point, but lads, please give us like ONE CD reissue in these announcements, reading that email full of only LPs was dispiriting

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 09:18 (one month ago)

Aren’t the CDs still in print tho?

― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 10:04 (one month ago)

Although I'm still trying to figure out what specifically it is about Quaristice that doesn't work so well with me. On paper I like the idea of an album of short suites, a la Melve, but somehow it's only a handful of tracks that really work for me, and I start getting a bit twitchy and wanting to skip them even though they're short

For me there's more than a few tracks that just don't work in a short format, are too jarring, or too musque-concretey for my tastes when sequenced with absolute bangers and accessible ditties like Simmm or 90101-5l-l. Just feels like it lacks cohesion as an "album" in ways that most of their full lengths really maintain. And I do like when they push boundaries with their sound design, but it's better when it's stretched out and able to develop over time. NTS really exemplified that.

― octobeard, Thursday, 1 May 2025 02:25 (one month ago)

see I think you might like the Versions disc, that to me feels more like an Autechre album (actually maybe a bit similar to PLUS). I've always felt like Quaristice was kind of like a peek into the album that Versions would eventually become

― frogbs, Thursday, 1 May 2025 02:45 (one month ago)

I actually should revisit that. Usually don't put on much from that era given the other options

― octobeard, Thursday, 1 May 2025 06:38 (one month ago)

me too. i've not heard versions (or quadrange) since they came out

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Thursday, 1 May 2025 09:26 (one month ago)

Listening to it now. Confirming what I knew already, altichyre is peak ae fat melancholy synth pad, should be longer.

― constant gravy (ledge), Thursday, 1 May 2025 09:52 (one month ago)

Where's the best place to listen? YouTube?

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Thursday, 1 May 2025 09:53 (one month ago)

that's what i'm doing.

― constant gravy (ledge), Thursday, 1 May 2025 09:54 (one month ago)

*listening interrupted by shitty you tube advert* this is not the best place to listen.

― constant gravy (ledge), Thursday, 1 May 2025 10:01 (one month ago)

i'm almost thinking splurging £90 on the twofer vinyl might be worth it just to have Versions on a piece of media I can relax with...

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Thursday, 1 May 2025 10:02 (one month ago)

caved and preordered the Quaristice 4 LP + Untilted vinyl. Sadly you don't get Quaristice Versions as a download

― DLC Soundsystem (dog latin), Friday, 2 May 2025 16:20 (one month ago)

one month passes...

having said autechre are not a radio band, I've heard them on the radio twice in less than a week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d8pj
altbizz on Radcliffe and Maconie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d97t
foil on Forever Dark

― koogs, Saturday, 21 June 2025 14:26 (one week ago)

Thought this was a bump about the Japanese tour announcement

― The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 21 June 2025 16:04 (one week ago)

I heard altbizz wafting up the stairs while I was otherwise engaged. an unusual choice!

― the wrong witch roams the earth (ledge), Saturday, 21 June 2025 18:21 (one week ago)

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