I was about 18 and my buddy gave me the Cichli Suite CD for my birthday. I'd transitioned from New Romantic to Goth to Indie and spent most of the previous couple of years listening to guitar bands like The Wedding Present, The June Brides, The Shop assistants and The Wolfhounds. But we were all just starting to broaden our horizons and get into electronic music more. I was listening to things like The Black Dog's Spanners, Plaid's Not For Threes, The Drum Club's eps, Transglobal Underground, Underworld, Bandulu, that kind of stuff. But Autechre was obviously something different again.
It's funny because I've been listening to them on and off ever since but have got gradually more and more into them over a couple of decades. I still find stuff in their old records I've never noticed before.
Nice thread!
