Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

[lumpenprol]

10. Pentagsn

 

lol...where's draft?

[karmakramer]

Top 5

Oversteps

Amber

Tri Repetae

Untilted

Quaristice

 

I say top 5 because in reality those are just the albums I've really given solid listens to. I'm sure my top 5 will change as I listen more of their discography

[Guest Garkken]

01 Confield

02 Chiastic Slide

03 Quaristice

04 Draft 7.30

05 EP7

06 Incunabula

07 Tri Repetae

08 Amber

09 Untilted

10 LP5

 

At what point will Oversteps, I do not know ...

[David Bowman]

as it stands right now...

 

Confield

Untilted

Oversteps

Draft

Quaristice

lp5

Chiastic slide

Tri

amber

incun

Edited February 14, 2010 by David Bowman

[Guest Selador]

Links to 3 interesting videos:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCXTq-ufUEk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzG-KQ8TjE

[baph]

Pentagsn is the split they did with Bathory in 1994, right? Just before Anti? I still need to pick up that shit.

 

I wish they would go back to blackened idm.

[bubbhasdance]

Pentagsn is the split they did with Bathory in 1994, right? Just before Anti? I still need to pick up that shit.

 

I wish they would go back to blackened idm.

 

I'm glad someone here knows about that. You must know Shaun_Alfonso? I picked it up from him like a year ago

[Guest lithgow]

The Wire #313 (march issue):

 

message board acolytes

 

 

WATMBA.COM

 

utter dreck, i hope the writer dies of painful rectal cancer.

[azatoth]

The Wire #313 (march issue):

 

utter dreck, i hope the writer dies of painful rectal cancer.

[Guest ataraxy2]

Might as well join in the fun!

 

1. Confield

2. Tri Repetae

3. Amber

4. Untilted

5. Draft 7.30

6. Incunabula

 

7. LP5

8. Chiastic Slide

 

9. Quaristice

10. Oversteps

 

Those spaces are intentional.

[Guest uiert]

Same as it ever was by House of Pain is a great record mate, what have you done to it??

[Guest uiert]

I thought it was great too - I've read a lot of shitty, thesaurus-milking dreck in the music press, but the difference here is that the guy knows what the words actually mean.

I know that feeling of the ghost of the rhythmic pulse remaining in your mind long after the beats have been scrambled beyond recognition, in fact if there was a single quality I could use to describe their music, that would be it. So many times I find myself nodding to a rhythm that's not even there.

 

The bbc features a couple of amazingly well-written reviews of earlier works by ae. Draft in particular. Check em out :

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/rxqv

 

BBC Review

Long awaited newie from Sheffield glitchmasters Autechre, complete with...

Colin Buttimer 2002-11-20

...heavy slurring drums like the thunder of too-close-for-comfort artillery ("IV VV IV VV VIII")...

...perhaps the most gorgeous of the ten tracks, it appears to be a section cut from a circular whole ("Tapr")...

Draft 7.30 evinces a ceaseless motion which in transit mutates, corrodes, malfunctions. It's fascinating like the first sight of stop-motion photography. The quality of movement is predominantly heavy as in mercury or cadmium - said density marks Draft 7.30 out from Autechre's previous work. This simple equation (movement/change x weight) conveys a sense of fearsome, unpredictable momentum.

Autechre map their own territories. Draft 7.30 at times conjures THX1138, George Lucas's masterpiece of sound and visual design (the police chase, the crowd scenes); at times The Brothers Quay'sInstitute Benjamenta (the abstract dances of apprentice manservants as they seek to become automata in the harsh service of future employers).

...skull percussion played with wooden fists ("Xylin Room")...

...the onset of dusk activates lighting systems in a global sweep ("P.:NTIL")...

Imagine hiphop channeled via low quality microphones into surveillance systems, broadcast inside urban defence architectures (cf City of Quartz, Mike Davis); imagine it caught and reflected in a hall of mirrors shattering in slow motion.

Draft 7.30 is the visceral chitter-chatter of machines as they function and malfunction, as they adapt to new conditions. It's the rhythm of routers and sub-net masks, of mainframes and backbones. It's the sound of the KlingKlang studio as Ralf and Florian accelerate away down a long straight on their carbonfibre frames. The robots have become software bots, viral worms; the superhighway has succeeded the autobahn.

As the complexity of systems grow, unpredictability increases. Draft 7.30 is the sound of our technological present in all its intricacy and resultant strangeness.

[Guest uiert]

In my opinion is one of the more fortunate attempts of puttings words to Ae´s music.

[blos]

utter dreck, i hope the writer dies of painful rectal cancer.

Mum, is that you again?

[azatoth]

wtf, people are serioulsy underrating draft in their rankings. imo, it's their best album. followed by confield.

[Blir]

wtf, people are serioulsy underrating draft in their rankings. imo, it's their best album. followed by confield.

 

I know! I'll never understand why so many people have trouble getting along with Draft! It's sublime!

[Guest frits]

Oversteps i just getting better and better. Now that the melody lines are starting to sink in it´s getting quite epic all together.

It´s like Autechre own soundtrack. Very easy listening and nice for bus rides and long walks.

Edited February 14, 2010 by frits

[Guest Jacck]

1. Confield

2. Oversteps

3. Draft

4. LP5

5. Chiastic

6. Untilted

7. Tri Rep

8. Quaristice

9. Incunabula

10. Amber

 

Does change quite often though.

[Guest uiert]

wtf, people are serioulsy underrating draft in their rankings. imo, it's their best album. followed by confield.

 

 

sure, I agree. Draft and Conf are amongst the best by Ae.

[Guest]

lol i don't know what you guys get out of Confield.

 

1. Quaristice++

1. Oversteps

1. Chiastic Slide

1. Draft 7.30

1. Untilted

 

2. LP5

2. Amber

2. Tri Repetae++

 

3. Incunabula

 

4. Confield

[lumpenprol]

Damn it, I knew this would go off the rails, ok here's mine:

 

1/2: Chiastic Slide/LP5

3: EP7/Envane/Cichli Suite

4: Oversteps

5/6: Confield/Draft 7.30

7/8/9: Incunabula, Amber, Tri Rep++ as long as it has Garbage and Anvil Vapre

10/11: Amber/Untilted

 

 

12: Quaristice

[khov]

am i the only one here who thinks draft is a predictable (if not weak) album ?

after confield & its abstract/esoteric charms, i found draft pretty complicated & a bit boring. its not a bad record, it has its great moments, but when it came out, i really felt the gescom iss isa was better. to my ears, draft is nice but Untilted (or confield) seems more inspired/risky.

[Fredd-E]

am i the only one here who thinks draft is a predictable (if not weak) album ?

it can't be weak as it has got surripere on it. QED

[thehauntingsoul]

am i the only one here who thinks draft is a predictable (if not weak) album ?

after confield & its abstract/esoteric charms, i found draft pretty complicated & a bit boring. its not a bad record, it has its great moments, but when it came out, i really felt the gescom iss isa was better. to my ears, draft is nice but Untilted (or confield) seems more inspired/risky.

Predictable? WWWWTTFFFFFF???? Xylin Room? IV VV IV VV VIII? 61e.CR? Tapr? Surripere? Theme of sudden roundabout? VL AL 5? P.:ntil? V-Proc? Reniform Puls? All of these tracks have surprises and unpredictable stuff going on. I have no idea how you could call an Ae album predictable because one of the main purposes of Ae albums seems that they are unpredictable.

[Guest bardamu]

draft is insane. i used to think that between untilted/draft/confield, confield was clearly the best, but then i realized each had its special charm. for me draft is way more textural than confield. i first got into it from a sound design perspective, then realized that there were melodies buried in draft just as beautiful as confield. a good litmus test is if youve noticed the "hidden" melodies in the end of vproc (the weird reverb tails that form a carnival like melody) or the first half of surripere (the slightly tonal wooden hits!).

 

(it was only a matter of time before this thread devolved into album ranking)