Autechre

It’s what‘s fer dinner

Autechre? I barely know her!

Album Rating: 5.0

This 4.1 rating reeks of ignorance, apathy and wasted privilege. Imagine not getting the best LP of all time.

Album Rating: 3.5

4.1 is quite high, no?

Ignorance of what? Artists like TFSOL and Skinny Puppy did far more original things with electronics before this one even came out.

Album Rating: 5.0

Skinny Peepee. WRYN could you please be serious for a moment? Nobody cares who was the first DJ from UK to grab them synthesizers and create "original things" with them. Honestly, any dude with a functional brain was original in the 90s because there was hardly any modern electronic music to build on. Autechre, true electronic legends, have artistic vision, TFSOL were lost in fog and never showed consistency. Skinny Puppy are just embarrassing.

Seeing it by past standards is actually quite benevolent, since there' nothing really advanced about tracks like "Overand" and "Rsdio" at all. I just wouldn't want to listen to something that any mildly ambitious bedroom producer could come up with since the 2000s.

Album Rating: 5.0

Rsdio, just so you know, is a very ingenious, innovative track. To this day, most people didn't even notice - since it's quite subtle - but they replaced the letter "a" of the word radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio), fine tuned it, and somehow they got it just right...! Which is frankly quite the feat for 1995. I don't expect a Skinny Puppy fan like you to understand the implications of this, though, no offence.

I could literally do a remake of their track "Tewe" by feeding noise into a multi-band delay and making a rhythm out of it, and my experience goes as far as a few days with free plugins. A cold technological reality. Skinny Puppy did that sort of thing back in the 1980s but came up with tracks like "Assimilate" instead.

Album Rating: 5.0

Tell me about it, I did that sort of thing (the multi-delay bands with rhythm stuff) myself back when the first edition of Fruity Loops Studio was released, with zero knowledge of music producing. Autechre are all advertisement no content, that's what I've been saying all along. Sad! Now that I think about it, I can remake Confield in two hours tops by recording myself rinsing my mouth with some oil and a couple of metallic objects, binaurally, of course.

I didn't go further than noise-generated jams fed through the mentioned multi-band processing. So rather basic, but still giving much more interesting results than the same 3 seconds-loop with minor background variations over seven minutes like in "Tewe". I guess I just expext a little more of the oh-so shamefully underacknowledged "Mozarts, if born as robots" as someone put it in the sound-offs.

sorry friend, I like tfsol, but Autechre are in another stratosphere and aren’t even remotely comparable. also why would I listen to skinny puppy when coil exist?

and you absolutely could not make any of these tracks. understanding the technology behind something and actually applying it creatively are two entirely different things.

one requires knowledge, the other requires abstraction. the two are not equivalent.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm mad

I just saw that Baseline edited the second last comment to something completely different, probably shouldn't surprise me from Sputnik at this point. Anyway, I don't mean to put down Autechre's musicianship, all tracks still work great in the context of the record. Just that their approach to production and arrangements might be radical, but not necessarily original.

I will just leave it at that, as the site has a weird bug of denying new responses and I won't bother to entirely rewrite it.

"also why would I listen to skinny puppy when coil exist?"
this is not a good take or a particularly fair comparison (but it is the only take on this page that deserves a comment!)

Album Rating: 5.0

"I just saw that Baseline edited the second last comment to something completely different"

More likely you saw yourself going crazy. I didn't edit any post here to substantially change its meaning. I think you were just tripping last night and were talking to yourself, I mean just re-read your posts out loud.

“this is not a good take or a particularly fair comparison”

if I can put it into better words, why would I listen to industrial that sounds like rock music when I can listen to industrial that doesn’t.

I like my industrial free of all EBM influence (even though some EBM is ok)

"sorry friend, I like tfsol, but Autechre are in another stratosphere and aren’t even remotely comparable. also why would I listen to skinny puppy when coil exist?"

They have enough in common with TFSOL to cite them as the major influence in becoming producers in the first place, not sure what's supposed to be so hard to hear about it. Outside of Skinny Puppy cevin Key also makes IDM in all iterations since the 1990s and arguably before the term existed. So it can be worthwhile to look beyond mere genre-tags, all of them clearly create technology driven music. I don't care which of the artists I listen to adhere most "successfully" to their categorization.

"understanding the technology behind something and actually applying it creatively are two entirely different things.

one requires knowledge, the other requires abstraction. the two are not equivalent."

It doesn't require abstraction to reproduce something that has already been created. That's quite a basic logical error.

@Baseline

"I think you were just tripping last night and were talking to yourself"

At least you've got it right that I wouldn't bother with a response to this childish pseudo-riddle. Well done.

Album Rating: 4.5

“ 4.1 is quite high, no?”



What surprises me is I’m pretty sure this had a 4.3 avg back in the day

"why would I listen to industrial that sounds like rock music when I can listen to industrial that doesn’t."
heh now this i do get