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Yes yes yes! Autechre is almost like musical art. Or well... to me it is art. Just awesome stuff from their early mix-tapes of hiphop to todays stuff. It's all quality in it's purest form. Their like gods to me, just like Simon is to trävelörgh and cinos. :)

I can't get bored with their stuff even if I tried really. True pioneers of IDM/Electronica field is how I would describe them. :)

What you think of them?

 

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ps. here's véry well made interview which should be interesting to all fans of Autechre. :) And those who don't know AE yet, this article could give you some nice info.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/articles/autechre.htm

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Well, I don't worship them as you, but I do find them as one of the most prominent and creative artists in Electronica/IDM genre.

 

They have unique mixture of mechanic and distorted music with insane breaks and twisted arrangements. I like their Tri Repetae double album as TRUE MASTERPIECE...Fantastic ! :)

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me like! I think it is their 2 or 3 earlist albums I dig most.

 

in similar style is Monolake that I like even better. has anyone heard their Cinemascope album? fantastic!

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in similar style is Monolake that I like even better. has anyone heard their Cinemascope album? fantastic!

 

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Check out some early topics, we already had discussion about Monolake, I like them so much, I have 6 of their albums and they are all great, especially Cinemascope and Hong Kong... ;)

 

 

I lost touch after draft 7.3... besides a few good songs in that one their stuff is too... incoherent... ?

 

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Yeah, I even dislike Draft 7.3, it's not only incoherent but boring and uninspiring... :(

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me like! I think it is their 2 or 3 earlist albums I dig most.

 

in similar style is Monolake that I like even better. has anyone heard their Cinemascope album? fantastic!

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Fääään-tastic it is, true! :)

Monolake is hmmm... more ambient-ish for sure but they do make splendid music.

 

I'm not trying to defend AE any way here, but I think calling AE's newest stuff uninspiring and boring is a bit exaggerated.

 

Different music needs different approach... and there many go wrong, expecting something and then getting something else.

I always try to think what artist has tried to do and then it's much easier to get a good perspective towards that music.

 

I recommend that article I gave, reading that really tells a lot of autechre and about their music.

 

:)

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never heard of them sorry  :(

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You're forgiven :) Try out if you feel like listening to something else :)

 

They're ok.

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Hey whouw! Saying something I worship is ok by a guy like you makes my day! :D

I really thought it's gonna be some bashing all the way down again but nice to see I'm totally wrong!

 

:)

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Autechre.... :)

 

I love all their discography,older and newer.My favorite album is Amber but i also love Draft 7.30.My favorites EPs:Envane and Basscadet remixes(especially Basscadubmx is owwwhhhhaaaa).Damn this guys used to make fantastic deep psychedelia and their newer stuff are extremely intelligent and mind-smashing.Big respect to Autechre.

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Hey whouw! Saying something I worship is ok by a guy like you makes my day! :D

I really thought it's gonna be some bashing all the way down again but nice to see I'm totally wrong!

 

:)

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Teartear and Windwind are quite tasty pieces.

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I don't know their music but I went to see them live... didn't find it all that exciting really. Crazy - sure... interesting, only marginally.

 

It was bizarre seeing an entire room of people not dancing at a party... just stroking their chins.

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Well, to be fair, they're notorious for making their live sets so abstract and complex it's more sound art than music - they pretty much never ever play album tracks live, it's all speciallymade for the live performances. At Roskilde this year they played very danceable stuff though, I'm told.

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is it just me, or does "darker" artists (like Autechre and Monolake) tend to be more artsy? if you agree, why do you think it is so?

 

my definition of artsy = artists that has a vision that each sound and beat is striving for. call it concept if you will. the counter-artsy artists would be someone who rather 'design' music for a purpose, it could be background music to smoking dope, cutting the lawn, doin your laundry, dancing .. or whatever.

 

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btw, Au-tek-er .. is that how your pronounce it? :D I've always said AUT-EKRE. it's a stopid name anyway <_<

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me like! I think it is their 2 or 3 earlist albums I dig most.

 

in similar style is Monolake that I like even better. has anyone heard their Cinemascope album? fantastic!

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Monolake similar to Autechre? What planet are you from, NilsTentacles?

 

I find their music very different, starting from their earliest work. Indeed, Monolake's first CD has much more in common with the other Chain Reaction artist releases (most of which was 4/4 techno) than with the British duo.

 

I enjoy (and recommend) both groups, generally preferring their latest stuff to the earliest.

 

Incidentally, I personally detest the name 'Intelligent Dance Music (IDM)' as a label for a music genre. It belongs to that class of silly labels (such as 'trip hop') which are perfectly expendable. But at least it is a better name than what Richard James's Rephlex tried to give to this sort of music - 'brain dance'. Ugh!

 

 

 

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My favourite Autechre album: Incunabula. Just great..

 

I still haven't heard their latest few albums, it takes time to get familiar with this kinda stuff.

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you can't get familiar with their newer stuff, in my opinion :)

I mean, they've developed they're sound into extreme measure of weird noises and there's not SINGLE recognizeable part in their newest album, or I could say that almost from their few other recent cds too.

But that's not a bad thing, quite the opposite! It's so nice when I put 'Untilted' on my cd player and it's always like a first time... and it's also very 'hard to get' music so you gotta be patient... but that's the charm with these fellows really :)

ps. Incunabula... I probably don't have to say it's very good album. :) At that point they still used to make recognizeable stuff...with melodies! :blink:

 

:)

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