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I don't know why i am suddenly reminded of this... but i am. I just did the dishes, and suddenly i was remembering this strange event that happened to me 3 years ago. I haven't even thought about it whilst buying a couple of autechre-cd's recently... Like i said... it was about 3 or 4 years ago. I was still a student at the artschool, and strictly listened to music made with guitars and drums. It was late one night, and i was writing an E-mail to a friend in the computer-room of the artacademy. Because it was so late, there weren't many other people there... maybe 4 or 5 besides me. And suddenly i heard this awful noise. Random clicks and beeps, weird buzzing sounds, and all sorts of other ugly effects. I turned around, and saw how a girl at the other end of the room was playing that "music" on her computer. Another girl (her friend i guess) was sitting next to her, and screamed above the noise (she was playing it LOUD): "What the hell is this? It's awful!". And the girl laughed and said: "No it isn't, this is autechre and it's beautiful!". And the other girl again: "I don't care what it is, turn it off! It's driving me insane!" And thankgod she turned off the music then (after all that noise i could almost feel the silence, hehe... i was honestly quite relieved it was over!). I even remember mentioning it in the E-mail i was writing, that someone in the room has just played the most horrible music i ever heard in my life, and how some people just have no taste in music blah blah blah. :-) I was just thinking how strange it is that a person's taste can change so much in a relatively short time! It's insane! At this very moment i'm listening to (and loving) LP5, and only 3 years ago i was disgusted by this very same artist and couldn't believe how anyone would voluntarely listen to them. Sigh... what i wouldn't give today to suddenly meet someone (a girl no less :-p) into autechre! Life is cruel ;-) I wish i would know what song it was... but i don't. I |
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....I just remembered that name "autechre", and made a mental note to avoid Autechre at all cost ;-) |
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jesus! dutch girls that like ae???? i'd like to meet :) lovely rant, btw :) |
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I bought lp5 in 1998 by mistake, I didnt even know what autechre was, i thought it could be the name of the label... i listened to it once... and I thought: this is shit, rubish... I turned it back to the shop... now lp5 is one of my all time favs |
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I bought Tri Repetae because I liked the sound of Autechre really. My first impressions were very good, but now I can only truly tolerate it on a decent speaker system at a reasonable volume. Still yet to get Confield. |
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heh, yeah! Who would've thought that? But there is at least one, i know that for sure. She had short black curly hair and wore glasses :-p Good luck with the search ;-) And Nacmat... that is about the same story indeed. It's strange isn't it? Like our brains just weren't ready for this music yet in 1998. Makes me wonder what i'll be listening to in the future... |
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My first AE record was Envane...thought it was okay, but nothing special. Someone recommended TriRep to me so after a while i bought it and ever since i've been hooked. I bought all their records in a month and a half or something. |
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I found Autechre through a webpage where you could type in the names of your 3 favourite bands and the webpage suggested bands that were similiar to them. I typed Pixies, Sonic Youth and BoC and got Autechre as a result. I downloaded one of their tracks and thought it was total crap. |
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RELEASE ALL ZIG! |
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a friend of mine put on amber, "foil" to be exact. that track blew me away. and I was really looking for something new - THAT WAS IT! |
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i read an interview with the console guy, martin gretschmann. he makes kinda electro-pop and i wanted to get more of that stuff. he said tri repetae was the best electronic album for him, ever. i dld it and didn't like it at all then a friend lent me a cd the other day, the PI sound track, and i really liked kalpol introl. this made me relistening to rep++ and i liked it a bit. |
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My second and real "introduction" to autechre was on a compilation-cd someone made for me. It had 12 songs by 12 different artists (ranging from The Velvet Underground to Filter to Mouse On Mars)... and one of the songs was Clipper.... i was hooked the first time i heard it. (altough it took me a couple of months to actually buy Tri Repetae). |
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My first hearing of Ae was a remix of Silverside, called Silversub (or something) on a Future Music cover CD. Amber was just out or about to be out and there was a nice interview in the mag. I went out and bought the CD and got Incunabula the same week. I didn't get Internet access until 4 years later and nobody knew what MP3s were back then. Now I have most Ae releases, missing only Cavity Job and Ganz Graf. -P |
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my friend showed it to me about three years ago. I remember the scene exactly: I was feeling very shitty and sick and I was playing some computer game at my friends house. Then he put on tri repeatae and for a few moments i dug it, but as i continued to play the game (think it was an online RPG) i started to feel even more sick. the dark dark music was creeping into me, but i kept it on. it stayed on for a few more minutes and then i turned it off and was like, jesus christ this is the most depressing shit i have ever heard. it took me a few months to really get into it. now i don't find tri repeatae depressing at all. |
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kalpol intro in pi |
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chiastic slide! cipater - extremely loud on a good stereo |
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my first ae experience was weird... i don't know anyone who has witnessed this. it was 1995-96 and i was watching usa up all night with ronda shear. DIRECTLY after the show was over, they played the "bass cadet" video. no warning, no talk afterward. they just played it. i liked it alot, so when my birthday rolled around, i ordered the 12" from wax trax (which i still own today, and it has ALL the mixes on one 12" except the taz mix). then i got tri rep cuz i heard good things, which i still love to this day. then lp5 came out and i heard about it being this revolutionary album. i thought, cool... i remember them. so i got it. and it is STILL my favorite electronic album, PERIOD. |
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chiastic slide lots o people here recommended it to me. |
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i found autechre (and IDM) by way of The Designers Republic, and TDR by way of the Wipeout games for Playstation. i was looking at the TDR website, going thru all their archived website design project links and came upon Warp records site. this was when Confield had just been released, around May 2001, and Uviol was playing as the background music at Warp's main page. it didn't halt me in my tracks, but it didn't repulse me either, i guess my attention at the time was more on the design of the site than the music, but i remember thinking that this was music i might be able to get into. Fastforward to Dec. 2001, was at a music shop and saw Confield on the shelf and remembered the cover from seeing it on Warp's site. didn't have enough money, so i opted for Peel Session. next few days i was back to buy Confield. |
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BASSCADET! Of course! I have to correct my story. The video for Basscadet on MTV is when I first heard Ae. They used to have this show on MTV with great music and the Ae guys even were guests on the show. Doh! -P |
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my 1st Ae encounter was the Second Bad Vilbel video on AMP |
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Ae was sort an accident and an experiment at the same time: I wandered into a music store that was having a special on 2 CD sets of anything at $14.99 each, how ever many 2 CD sets I wanted. I had just started my journey into "electronica" (thanks also to MTV's AMP, rest in peace). I happened to pick up Orbital's InSides (I had become a major fan of the Hartnoll brothers with Green, Brown and Middle of Nowhere, but that's another story...), and Aphex Twin's SAW II. I was about to leave the "electronica" section, when an olive-colored 2CD caught my eye. The tag underneath it said: Autechre Tri-Repetae ++ OUR 2CD SPECIAL PRICE - $14.99 The thing that caught me about the case was how indistinct it was. I knew the artist and title, but that was it. At least Aphex Twin had pictures. FFWD... I had gotten through InSides and absolutely adored it. SAW II was a grower, but I loved what I heard and gave it props. But TR++ caught me completely by surprise. It was so......different. But by good, it was catchy. It sounded like hip-hop for robots, just totally in a class by itself. The more I listened, the more I loved it. I had listened to the 1st CD (the actual Tri Rep album) for about a week to let it sink in, then turned my attention to the 2nd CD... ...and the rest was history. I still enjoy the hell out of both of them. Hasn't grown old yet. Needless to say, went I went online a year later, my Ae collection (CD-wise) grew as big as my Orbital, Orb and Aphex collection had. 1996 was a great year for music! |
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tDR didn't design "confield" did they..? I mean, ae made their own visuals on that one.. |
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My aunt came to visit us for christmas...she checked my SAW1 cd and was like, you should check out Autechre...and I did...first album I got was Incunabula, and it was exactly what I thought it would be(little did I know what the later albums were like)....a year or so has passed, I have all of them...and quite chuffed with all my AE purchases:) |
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agreed 1996 is prolly the best year for musix IMO |
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i bought 'confield' in 2001 after reading a recommendation from thom yorke in an interview in some free magazine from tower records. when i first listened to it, it was too harsh, but i gave it some time. i sort of stopped listening to it, but then i picked up ep7 and that sort of eased me into it better. and now listening to autechre is all i do and i want to leave my house but i have no friends near me and nobody from where i used to live is available so now i'm going to walk around in the cold by myself. i'm getting cabin fever here kids. |
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dang i messed up, the first time i heard them was also on Amp, the Second Bad Vilbel video i saw in '96, it kind of creeped me out, it would still be 5 years til i got into them and the whole IDM thing. qrter...... yep, autechre designed art for Confield... |
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