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Gantz Graf, anyone pick it up?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got it, and I bought it without having heard any of it, with a feeling of sad inevitability that I was never going to want to listen to it ever again, coupled with a frantic sense of denial.

It sounds like someone dragging a large metal chain across a vibrating radiator. But then again, I find Autechre have got consistently duller ever since Chiastic Slide or therabouts... I think they're stuck in a kind of creative cul-de-sac where the only place they can think of to go is to get more complex, more pernickity, more intense, more extreme, less melodic, and really it strikes me as a substitute for any actualy new ideas.

The annoying thing is that so many of their fans will blindly accept any old dross they put out, with relatively few people willing to say "look, the emperor is naked". Someone recently described Confield to me as being "so brilliant it's unlistenable"... I mean, WTF? Why don't you just admit you don't like it?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The new songs didn't do much for me at first, but they're growing on me. They haven't brought back the melodies by any means, but the beats are still noisy and textured and great, and the last track has some synthy atmospheric backgrounds that add a lot.

The new video, however, is fantastic...it represents the music so tightly and perfectly that I can hardly seperate out the visuals when I just listen to the cd.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Confield. :> I'd say I like their melodic, 'pretty' material a lot more, but at this point there's still enough left in their rhythm and sounds to interest me.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

will someone please phonetically spell 'autechre' for me? i have no idea how to pronounce it. seriously.

― drake, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

AWWWW-TECH-URRR

― Karl J Kretzschmar, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was listening to the radio tonight and the DJ played a Peter Hammill song after a listener had pointed out its similarity to Gantz Graf. He wasn't far off. It was the song Jargon King from the 1983 album A Black Box. Funny, that. BTW, Dial, the second song on the new Autechre EP, sounds like it was influenced by 2-step garage.

― JoB, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was taught to say it "aw-ticker"

― brains, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I vascillate between Awww-tech-urr and Awwwt-ikur.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

say it in french: au-tech-re audio technology recherche

― the hegemon, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say I like their melodic, 'pretty' material a lot more

I must have missed this phase of their output. I would never use the work "pretty" to describe the Ae I've heard, but I'm missing a couple in the middle. Of the 4 or 5 I have, I think Confield is by far the best & found all the criticims of it very confusing. It really reminds me of the Brian Eno/John Hassel Fourth World: Possible Musics record, where a single repeating bassline anchors all this drifting rhythmic stuff. And it just doesn't strike me as noisy, but then, I may be missing a key part of their picture.

― Mark, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

agree with mark. i'm kind of the total opposite to Matt DC - i only like them from Chiastic Slide onwards. Confield was a fantastic album and i really didn't understand the criticisms either - in fact i didn't understand those giving it props either - all this talk about 'complexity' and 'cul de sacs' - with Confield i hear a very english record - it reminds me of the sundays first album, and also pickettywitch and earlys 70s pop - no, not sonically, but thematically, emotionally - arndale centres, driving up the A1, or on the GNER going through Retford - or that funny little bridge at Goole that separates the industry of yorks from the emptyness of lincs - or that big pool of water near rochdale when you get the bradford- manchester train. perhaps, what some people say of BOC is somehow evoked more by Confield for me then...

now Gantz Graf! not as immediate for me as Confield, didn't have the same initial impact, but the last portion of the 3rd track is wonderful. the main track is ok, the 2nd i like, but the way the 3rd changes is great. so far this has been a d/l on my parents pc back at home, so i've not played that much, i'll buy this week so i'll get to know it more then

i actually picked up incanabula and another early thing fairly recently, and i found that difficult to get into, the black dogisms, the artificial intelligence schtick - i didn't like it that much. i really they think they are a group that got better with time

― gareth, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amber still has a couple really pretty tracks on it. "Slip" comes to mind. I'd agree though that a lot of that Artifcial Intelligence era idm didn't age well.

― bnw, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pretty: pir, pen expers (my auto-response re: any autechre q)

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chiastic Slide and the Peel Sessions material both have some very pretty melodies and music.

I don't know if I would say they got consistently better or worse with time, for me they got great and then remained very compelling. And I agree with Mark about Confield.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes Pir is pretty. So are 'Arch Carrier', 'Cichli', 'Krib' and 'Slip'. I thought Pen Expers was highly overrated - it just sounds like a hoover sucking up coins to me. The Gantz Graf EP is bollocks imho. Confield took me about a year of constant listening to understand and vaguely enjoy. That said, my favourite period is everything from Chiastic Slide till EP7. That was a lovely AE period where the experimentation and melodies fitted perfectly.

― dog latin, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd.

And I keep meaning to order GG -- I've given cap.iv quite a few listens, and it is as most of you say fantastic. Though I do get a bit wistful for Amber-era ae, though interestingly enough I don't much like Amber itself. What I mean is that the directions they went towards on AeP and AeG; on the one hand, dancefloor fare with an uncanny sense of beat/melody, and on the other, melody they could've mined for ages.

And re: Incunabula, there can never be enough Black Dogism IMO.

― Leee, Sunday, 18 August 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

gescom: A1-D1.

http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=SKA028D

heard one track on MAH and, er, didn't understand it.

― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

I was just wondering the other day what had happened to them!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

MAH?

― lukas, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

mary anne hobbs, probably the only place on (uk) national radio that you'd hear this stuff these days.

― koogs, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

What a depressing truism.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=28426

― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

horrible cardboard sleeves inside - scratch-me-do. lovely looking though.

― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

already own all but... one of these? ;_;

cool packaging

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

can't believe radiohead are trying to steal their thunder.

― djh, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

Autechre: Classic or Dud?

― ledge, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

new track on this http://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-two , a 255(!) track compilation with proceeds going to MacMillan Cancer Trust

― koogs, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:53 (eleven years ago)

wow

― cheeseburger, Friday, 28 November 2014 12:03 (eleven years ago)

YEEEESSSSS. Well... sounds less massive than spl9. Definitely not 5.2222 times as massive.

― Kelly Gang Carey and the Mantels (ledge), Friday, 28 November 2014 12:11 (eleven years ago)

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