New Autechre Album out in March!

[ghosty]

I was looking at the warp records website and saw that Autechre is putting out a new album in March.. the tracklist has like 20 songs... thats a ton for them. Quarterstice or something like that is the name of it. I can't wait. I have almost all of thier work they've put out, and hope to one day get it all. Anyone else love this group as much as I do?

[McLeodGanja]

Chiastic Slide is a great album, as is Tri Repetae. I just bought Draft 7.30 and Untitled as well. They pretty much all sound the same from beginning to end though, not sure if I regret buying the latest two or not.

[ghosty]

Their later works get far more abstract and experimental then the Tri Repetae era, I suggest giving them a few more listens where you really sit and absorb it and see if they grow on you a little more. Autechre is not a group that can be easily absorbed upon the first couple listens (in many cases not even the first 5 listens). There is intricate subtle shifts and changes in the later works that is not always noticable upon first listen, they have also developed an affinity for almost unheard of time signatures. Draft 7.30 took a long time for me to open up to but is now one of my favorite albums by them. Untitled is a bit less abstract but instead makes use of very odd and irregular time signatures that often shift constantly. However thier later works admittedly are definately not for everyone. Perhaps you might enjoy their more minimalistic early works prior to Tri Repetae a lot more? Thier first record Incunabula is a strong debut, and Amber is also a very decent record.

Chiastic Slide is one I haven't gotten yet because I can never find it in any of the shops around me, but I think I may order it soon. From what I've been told it's the middle point in the shift from the early more minimal works to the more complex and abstract and is a great blend of both worlds. I look forward to hearing that one as well.

[McLeodGanja]

I'm surprised you don't have Chiastic Slide, it is considered one of their best works.

I'm sure I will like the last two albums, I don't dislike them, but you know when you pay for music you expect more from it.

Have you heard "Augur" by Interloper? One thing which I find lacking in Autchres work is voice sampling, I find a techno record can sound quite empty without some. This album by Interloper is one of my favourites of the experimental/industrial/ambient/electro genre, yeah that's like 4 genres I know but it's a difficult album to categorise. It is very dark and atmospheric, and contains lots of nice voice samples.

[ghosty]

I'll have to look into that one, that's a new name for me

[McLeodGanja]

Look out there is also a rock band called Interloper, can't find any news on what the original Interloper are doing now. You wont regret buying this album though. The second one, Six Dragons, is quite different, more like acid jazz, I didn't like it so much.

Interloper - Augur (http://www.discogs.com/release/116896)

[ghosty]

Tried looking for it online so I could hear some samples of it, but no luck. Perhaps I'll have better luck next time I go to my favorite local cd shop. They got almost everything there, the place is huge

[McLeodGanja]

Shame. They are a fairly small act who originated from Camden in London, I believe, so might be hard to come by in America. I only discovered them by chance. Amongst the piles of other shite, that were in my local library CD borrowing collection, I found this curiosity and decided to give it a listen.

Listened to the last two autechre albums a bit more and they are growing on me. Hearing them in that half asleep state always helps. I like the last track on Untitled, nice to hear some voices samples, albiet a minimal amount, it is minimal techno after all.

[ghosty]

Yeah, you wont hear much vocal samples in Autechre's work because to use them goes against the aim of thier work. Autechre try to remove the human element from the music completely, as if to make it seem the results of the music constructing and shaping itself or working like functions of a rhythmic machine (The "Gantz Graf" single being one of the extreme examples of that aesthetic goal). There is only a couple other Autechre tracks I know of with vocal samples in there entire works those being "Basscadet" off thier first album Incunabula and "Ccec" on Ep7, wich is thier take on glitch hop... I suppose you could argue that that's a vocal sample on "Stud" on Tri Repetae also but I think it's more likely a vocal sounding synth voice.

[McLeodGanja]

Quaristice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaristice)

It's apparently available for download now.

Have you ever listened to one of their albums backwards? I'd like to try listening to Untitled backwards, if it is possible, maybe it sounds really good as well.

One thing is for sure, smoking a bowl and falling asleep to their music seems to add extra dimension to it, when you are in that half awake state of mind when you come back into the conscious realm, it's almost like for a few moments you can discern the the pattern in the music.

[ghosty]

Yes, totally I love just really sitting and absorbing Autechre in that half awake like state. Ive been listening to them so long I notice the patterns and shifts in about everything they do, but your right when your kinda just drifting and listening it really comes out.

Haven't tried listening to any of it backwards, but I realized I have the ablity using Audacity... I might have to try that on a few tracks.

[McLeodGanja]

Have you checked their myspace? I went there to see if they had any new tracks. The page is completely schitzo up on my computer, like it didn't load properly. I don't know if it's just them being "experimental" with the page design or it really is an error, do you get the same thing? The plug in media player works fine.

[ghosty]

Yeah, that's totally on purpose I'm prety sure, seems to take likeness to the style displayed on the new cover.. Didn't look like any of the tracks were new though. Autechre's so secretive and elusive about things I wouldn't be suprised If we dont hear any clips even until the actual release date.

[cjshamrock]

I'm excited about this, as I quite like Autechre. IMHO, their later albums are best listened in altered states, though. One act I also highly recommend are Boards of Canada. :thumbsup:

[McLeodGanja]

I like BOC too, but I was a little bit disappointed with the 3rd album The Campfire Headphase.

[ghosty]

I also love Boards of Canada... Geogaddi is one of my all time favorite albums ever. Campfire Headphase wasn't bad IMO it was just a different approach using different dynamics by incorporating the accousic guitars. And I think, you cant really expect them to top Geogaddi, that album is just a masterpiece. Ever try playing some of the tracks off there backwards?... it reveals more of the brilliance of it.

[McLeodGanja]

I bought Geogaddi just after I came back from India so my head was still a little unadjusted to the western hemisphere, it is quite a dark album.

What I like about it though is the voice samples and short clips of random things, it seems to make it more complete an album than the new one.

I just got into these guys.

MySpace.com - Beat Bizarre - All - Trance / Progressive / Psychedelic - www.myspace.com/beatbizarre (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=167545343)

Very well constructed prog trance with plenty of nice electro voice samples in it to keep me happy.:D

[ghosty]

You guys should check the track on my page "Rage Against The Reverb" I just recently figured out a quick way to add samples, and it's my first track involving vocal samples.. I think you might dig it. ... It's the first track on my page, link in sig.:thumbsup:

[ghosty]

i recorded some of the webcast in a really cheap way through my laptop.. im gonna doctor it up a bit make the quality sound a lil beter than i could post some excerpts

[ghosty]

Album drops tomorrow!! I'm totally going to pick it up as soon as I wake up tomorrow:thumbsup:

[McLeodGanja]

I wasn't sure whether I was going to buy this, but after listening to it a couple of times on their myspace I couldn't resist, what do you think Ghosty? I think it is there best for a long time:thumbsup:, it is more structured and has more variation in style than there previous two. I've listened to it a lot since I downloaded it, and I've also got more into the previous two as well.

I'm sure that there are voice samples in this album, there must be. Are tou sure that they NEVER use voice samples Ghosty? It really sounds like they do on this, but you never know maybe they are just really good at making technology sound like voices.

[ghosty]

Nah this record is pretty different than the previous few records, they contuniue to re-analyze thier sound with every album... that said, it still has their signature sound. It's got a somewhat more live and human feel to it than the cold metaloid sounds of untitled or draft 7.3... but it also contains elements of the more minimalist and ambient sounds of thier early works like the amber-tri repetae era. There are also more distorted vocal samples in this album than any release by them I've heard before, it's an interesting dynamic shift for them. As unintelligible as it may be to figure out what the samples actually might be saying, they chop them in with thier other abstract sounds until it becomes another element of the rhythm of the track, it also fills in a sonic space that was left alone in a lot of their other works. On a whole, it's another new shift for Autechre that's a challenging but enjoyable listen