autechre

[Orang Utan]

discuss

[Spandex]

almost completely passed me by. occasionally someone plays something I like and I go "what's this, I vaguely recognise it from years ago" and it turns to be off that album that sort of has bluey/yellowy desert on the cover or something. My flatmate had it.

but I'm willing to have much stronger opinions about them for hours if it'd be useful.

[mdk]

for me its the shortcuts that really makes me prefer vi to emacs.

[Orang Utan]

i'm asking cos i haven't listened to a lot of their stuff cos i found it rather challenging, but i'm off work ill and decided to go through all of their material in chronological order, hearing how they have developed and maybe getting a handle on their bonkers stuff later on.
i'm blown away so far, more than i expected - garbage and anvil vaepre are just extraordinary.
i've only got to tri repetae so far, so am looking forward to having my brain melted even further.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

they definitely get more extreme from tri repetae onwards, I thought confield was really good.

[Konx-om-Pax]

new album coming next year!

[dan gulberry]

I think they got better and better until they decided to make Quaristice, which seemed lazy by comparison to their other, recent material. It was intended to be that way, I suppose - a live-ish album. Anyway, interested to see what they do next. Whenever I listen to them I want to dig out my old samplers, make tracks.

[dan gulberry]

Originally Posted by Konx-om-Pax

new album coming next year!

Do tell.

[Burnibus]

autechre to me, more than any other artists in electronic music have got it. They have inspired me more than anyone else as they seem to have carved their own path and have been at the same time almost dreamy in their lushness and uncompromising in their complexity.

I can honestly say i love all their music, i think Untilted is awesome and one of my faves, but Confield And Draft are also amazing.

I too dont like quaristice as much as others but the irony is that the Quaristice tour contained some of the best electronic music i had ever heard. and unfortunately i cannot hear it again.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

its all a bit macho though isn't it

[Burnibus]

is it? im not sure how beautiful music is a bit macho.

i personally love the contrast of hard and soft in music, the sense of drama it produces or can produce in the listener. even in ae's most rock hard music there is always a stunning melody running through it, shimmering in the back ground.

[Orang Utan]

i know girls who like autechre but it is kind of true that they seem to appeal more to blokes. let's have a heated debate with egregious generalisations, hysterical misinterpetations and the basest of insults being traded, eventually ending with spandex and knid clinging to each other in exhaustion.

[Burnibus]

indeed or we could just say that we lykes da mooziks.

[dan gulberry]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

i know girls who like autechre but it is kind of true that they seem to appeal more to blokes. let's have a heated debate with egregious generalisations, hysterical misinterpetations and the basest of insults being traded, eventually ending with spandex and knid clinging to each other in exhaustion.

[dan gulberry]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

its all a bit macho though isn't it

Which? Just the live stuff or in general?

[don___quixote]

LP-5 is the bomb i you ask me - no one else seems to hate it or love it tho. I like (or loved) pretty much everything before it too - afterwards i think they loose it a bit tho = not thru lack of talent just blatant prog-electronica-analism. and the last one didn't tick either the prog-electronica-analism box or the plain good-electronic-music box in my book.

If you disagree your clearly a cunt/idiot.

[Spandex]

I'm up for skipping the other bits and going straight for the clinging.

[Orang Utan]

rivulets of sweat and blood combining

[Spandex]

Maybe I should try the stuff between that old one I liked (Amber, I looked it up) and Quaristice (which I think I listened to a couple of bits of but don't remember).

[don___quixote]

Originally Posted by Spandex

clinging.

que?

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by don___quixote

que?

like worn-out boxers in a sweaty embrace

[Spandex]

dribbling over gumshields. salty tears and cuddles.

[don___quixote]

back to the cling then - i liked the one with the vid out of the later stuff (Grantz Graf) the vid is wick - also loved Chicchilli suite out of the stuff just before the border line unlistenable.


edited out chiastic slide - cos that was well early and awesome.

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by Spandex

dribbling over gumshields. salty tears and cuddles.

erufuton needs
homoerotic haikus
with spandex and knid

[Irrungenwirrungen]

There's some lovely remixes by them as well, which are well worth 'searching' for.

[Orang Utan]

yeah - i was sent a link to the laxir remixes

[don___quixote]

Originally Posted by Orang Utan

yeah - i was sent a link to the laxir remixes

nice one - going on the playlist for tomorrow.

[Orang Utan]

i've just downloaded a 12 hour radio show of theirs, so it looks i will have a continuous day and a half's worth of autechre related fun to enjoy.

[don___quixote]

i don't fancy your chances of enjoying all that or even getting through it really.

[Orang Utan]

i think i'll manage it. i'm ill with snotitis and unlikely to sleep