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

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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...

'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.