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 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

ah, my mistake!

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

Sorry boothbrown, I already have all the original releases.

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

ten months pass...

http://youtu.be/lC7LGzCZ-q0

classic

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

track at 18:00 is pretty sick

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

two weeks pass...

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

more ore

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

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The show here in Chicago was surprisingly far from just men! Weird electronic music (and metal) attracts a pretty diverse crowd, it seems (at least as far as gender goes).

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 December 2025 15:49 (three months ago)

Yeah the crowd in DC was pretty gender balanced. Along with the metal head/goth contingent I mentioned back in October.

― Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 5 December 2025 16:40 (three months ago)

Reminds me of the goth tech fad

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 5 December 2025 17:12 (three months ago)

All tracks from the first couple of albums though - I hope he soldiers on and does more recent stuff next

Clipper is from Tri-Rep and corc is from LP5, I think. Would love to hear attempts at complex melodic track like See On See or Pir, but even the older tracks, with their more minimal structures and simpler progressions would be interesting to hear in this context. Few bands ever even attempt an Autechre cover, probably for good reason.

― octobeard, Friday, 5 December 2025 18:05 (three months ago)

oh wow, i can't WAIT for this. Would have loved to have heard something post-2000s but still

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 11 December 2025 12:30 (two months ago)

dunno why it's so expensive though? £45 for the vinyl, £25 for the CD... c'mon man

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 11 December 2025 12:37 (two months ago)

Everything is expensive, lol

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 December 2025 13:47 (two months ago)

I suspect this is Brexit tax at work. Our culture now being sold back to us at a higher price, lol

― Now read it backwards. (dog latin), Thursday, 11 December 2025 17:10 (two months ago)

one month passes...

Respect

https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autechre-guitar-2

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 January 2026 17:48 (one month ago)

Linked/discussed earlier!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 18:50 (one month ago)

Kind of a nice detail but you can faintly hear his metronome on Eggshell during the quiet parts

― octobeard, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 20:23 (one month ago)

two weeks pass...

more samples here
https://boomkat.com/products/autechre-guitar

― koogs, Friday, 30 January 2026 12:57 (one month ago)

forget that, sorry, i saw tracklisting, assumed they were all samples

there is a third example on bandcamp, corc, which i don't remember from before

― koogs, Friday, 30 January 2026 12:59 (one month ago)

For a second I thought this meant that Autechre put out a sample pack, and I was very excited.

― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Friday, 30 January 2026 14:03 (one month ago)

An electronic remix album of Shane's interpretations would be mad

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Friday, 30 January 2026 14:08 (one month ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXODYQvCPNs

great live set. almost all "hip hop" beats, really spacey

― flopson, Monday, 23 February 2026 21:48 (one week ago)

wrong link LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgt8n0d-o10

― flopson, Monday, 23 February 2026 21:49 (one week ago)

I feel like these live sets have been 50% of my music listening since seeing them live in October. I am now one of those people who think they are currently doing their best work. Can't wait for the next batch to be released.

― silverfish, Monday, 23 February 2026 21:58 (one week ago)

i have trouble with their studio albums but god if you can catch their live shows, do it. bought tickets on a whim when i heard they were playing a show here and it absolutely blitzed me

― nulloplasty, Monday, 23 February 2026 22:06 (one week ago)

xp same, but also, the rennes set is a good one for people who didn't like the october north america sets. way more chill

― flopson, Monday, 23 February 2026 22:07 (one week ago)

It's interesting, I don't necessarily think they are doing their best work, but I also think what they are doing is still both interesting and compelling, and often quite great. It's fascinating to listen to them essentially evolve in real time while mastering bits and bobs of technology and technique, often of their own devising, at the same time. So it's almost like they're simultaneously creating challenges and solutions for themselves, which gives the music an almost manic leap-frog undercurrent, as we listen to them catch up to their own concepts and ideas at the same time they're intentionally kicking those ideas just out of reach. It reminds me a little of those cartoons of characters riding a train speeding down tracks they are frantically laying down themselves just ahead of them.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 February 2026 22:10 (one week ago)

love that

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 23 February 2026 22:28 (one week ago)

pretty amazing that a group that has been going on for more than 30 years is still doing incredibly vital searching work

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 February 2026 23:11 (one week ago)

people who didn't like the october north america sets

can't wait to hear these supposedly brutal onslaughts, hopefully soon!

the rennes one sounded really familiar but i don't think i've actually listened to it yet. a lot of the european sets from around that time are at that tempo.

― map, Tuesday, 24 February 2026 00:33 (one week ago)

That Rennes set really is special. Wasn't expecting to hear something that sounds like free jazz sax.

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Tuesday, 24 February 2026 00:37 (one week ago)

xp ok that's inaccurate, i have a grab bag of these from '22 into '24 that i've listened to. they are all european dates but spread out. some of them are on the more chill side. lyon the night after the rennes set is faster and more intense, it's a favorite.

― map, Tuesday, 24 February 2026 00:40 (one week ago)

the outro to Rennes is the intro to Lyon so ... you could just play them back to back ...

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Tuesday, 24 February 2026 01:47 (one week ago)

can't wait to hear these supposedly brutal onslaughts, hopefully soon!

there are good rips of the october sets. i think i posted one on one of the autechre threads, maybe even this one, but can’t search now cause im on my phone

― flopson, Tuesday, 24 February 2026 20:18 (one week ago)

it's all good, i'll wait for the soundboard sets. which reminds me there are still a bunch i don't have yet.

― map, Tuesday, 24 February 2026 22:25 (one week ago)

I would love to go back and hear the set in Bristol. It divided everyone I went with, and there were a good few of us. People either loved the unrelenting black hole of the thing or found it impenetrable and pretentious

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 February 2026 23:43 (one week ago)

Just done Rennes & Lyon back to back. Amazing scenes. Simultaneously some of their grooviest and heaviest and most detailed work, music to get lost in. Lyon around the hour mark feels like a 12 dimensional mandlebrot set. It's fun to hear little callbacks and repeats within a set, I do want to get more familiar with the sets as a whole.

― ledge, Wednesday, 25 February 2026 14:54 (one week ago)

I didn't know they did another AMA last year, a lot of gear talk but I found out the reason for the problems with Manchester set I went to, the sub was rattling the USB out of Sean's gear!

https://forum.keyosc.com/topic/391-aaaa-ask-autechre-anything-again/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit?gid=447739750#gid=447739750

― ledge, Thursday, 26 February 2026 12:19 (one week ago)

apparently "7th Slip" is all 70s prog samples? does sound a bit like a distorted mellotron on there...wonder if anyone can ID any of it

― frogbs, Thursday, 26 February 2026 15:17 (one week ago)

sounds like a job for you!

― ledge, Thursday, 26 February 2026 16:03 (one week ago)

lol, if there's anything recognizable in there it has been made unrecognizable. reminds me of the track where fans asked if there was some specific MC sampled, and Sean was all, no, that's actually not even vocals, it's a synth.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 February 2026 16:12 (one week ago)

it sounds like a single second of a song being scratched into outerspace - definitely couldn't tell you

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Thursday, 26 February 2026 17:09 (one week ago)

Q&A is super interesting, this is maybe the most direct explanation I've seen of how their live set works at a broad level:

"ill receive a copy of his current rig, and all the music in there, ill add music to it on my rig as they sync everything, scales, tempo, timesig, if i want to. ill add whats not there that i would do given the chance, assume he may not use all his bits sometimes so i can add more than we need, then we run it all together on stage and we modify aspects of it individually, he cant change mine and i cant change his, so we bounce off each other in realtime, knowing whats likely to be happening next, as our transitions are visible to each other, we see a clock and a change in the cell selection, and i work with that to build a moment to a change, or anticipate what i need to do next with controllers"

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 26 February 2026 22:12 (one week ago)

yeah I wish it was available in a more readable format because there's a lot of great info in there. their decision to stop releasing studio albums and focus on live sets which they release in chunks of 15 sounds pretty crazy on the surface but I think they explain pretty well why they decided to do it

― frogbs, Thursday, 26 February 2026 22:18 (one week ago)

On page 11 someone asks the most important question and gets an almost answer...

Hiya
Elseq on cd maybe please?
Cheers

Sean's response:

next year is its 10 year anniversary

― placeholder username till I think of a better one (unperson), Thursday, 26 February 2026 22:39 (one week ago)

Would buy it on wax in a heartbeat.

― octobeard, Friday, 27 February 2026 00:21 (six days ago)

Would buy it on CD in a heartbeat

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 27 February 2026 09:23 (six days ago)

Be weird if they skipped Oversteps and Exai and just rereleased this

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 28 February 2026 09:09 (five days ago)

Oh waiiiiit... are they all coming out at the same time? Better start saving

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 28 February 2026 09:09 (five days ago)

Although back when Autechre came to play Bristol a local record shop magically came into the possession of some original private pressings of Exai, Move Of Ten, EP 7 and a few others, delivered by Rob and Sean themselves. So naturally I snapped those up

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Saturday, 28 February 2026 09:11 (five days ago)

would love to see the old EPs repressed, I only have the 2nd half of EP7 on wax, and the crown jewel of my 90's IDM rarities: the We R Are Why / Are We R Why 12" that's never seen a digital release

― octobeard, Sunday, 1 March 2026 02:53 (four days ago)

Maybe rerelease Envane and Cichlisuite as one 12" too lol

― octobeard, Sunday, 1 March 2026 02:54 (four days ago)

EP7 is the most glaring one. When the wind blows North East it's the pinnacle of their work for me

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Sunday, 1 March 2026 04:21 (four days ago)

Shane Parish's acoustic Autechre Guitar album is out finally. I am really enjoying his interpretation of Eutow right now with the really fast downward slides.

Most of the compositions are from the more melodically and rhythmically straight-forward first two albums, which is understandable. Nothing from Chiastic Slide either, which is also understandable.

I would be very welcoming of a second volume that tackles the later more abstract stuff. It might have to be up to interpretation rather than these loyal covers. Gosh, imagine All End on acoustic guitar yo....

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 March 2026 15:07 (yesterday)

Oh man, Yulquen is so good

― Jonk Raven (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 March 2026 15:24 (yesterday)

he should have dropped his guitar down a stairwell and recorded it

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 March 2026 15:49 (yesterday)

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