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Heya, does anyone have a transcription of this yet? started reading it on the xlr8r site but it's only an extract :( |
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I will try and scan this or post the entire interview later....I cannot now, I am still at work=) |
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Cool thanks! :) |
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yeah the interview is great !! about 5 pages, including 3 full size pics i emailed them to Phobiazero and Joyrex. they will get themup when they can. |
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is this interview in the latest issue of xlr8r?? |
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may 2003 $4.25 + few $$ for shipping if anybody wants me to get ti fro them -cover page -full facial pic -words -tons of text -full facial pic -tons of text plus xlr8r is an electronic heaven magazine, only wish i knrew more of the bands. |
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thanks, i'll buy it tomorrow, then... |
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I've been a way for a few days, is this interview up anywhere yet??? can't afford to buy the mag coz i'm poor at the mo. dunno where the hell i could buy it either. |
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hasnt been posted yet. (debating on wether or not to send it to ya, i just have the interview, not the whole magazine) |
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send me your address, if ya want the interview |
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cool thanks! :) chutneyfarmer_ie@yahoo.com should do it. thanks a million man. |
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errrrrr. send me your street address via emaius maximus. thad1us@yahoo.com (also check out my profile, its way kool) |
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HERE WE GO: This from the MAY 2003 issue of XLR8TR mag. It is based out of San Francisco,CA. Really good mag BTW...Sorry it took me SO LONG to post, I had to copy the whole thing...=) Cheers everyone!!!!!! ROUGH DRAFT " Interviews can really fuck up your day"announces Sean Booth. It's 9am and the plain speaking Lancashire lad is relaxing in the secluded charms of a faux-workman's cottage in the grounds of a British hotel.Outside, a river gurgles with freshly melted snow, while inside Booth shares a morning spliff with his partner Rob Brown. Booth is explaining why the reputedly tempremental Autechre are recieving a weeklong procession of journalists. He does'nt like to be disturbed. "Normally you do press on and off for two months and it interferes with our work. I'm not answering the phone in the studio". Booths sensativity to his enviorment has led him to forsake the urban landscapes of his youth in Rochdale,Manchester for a technological world constructed among the thatched roofs of Suffolk England. DRAFT 7.30, AE's 7th studio album, was recorded here. "It's not like a bedroom studio where you might be influenced by outsiders" observes Brown, who has his own studio setup at his place in London. Booth says he's happier here than in the countryside because he's not being force fed information about other people's daily cycles. He does'nt have to hear them getting ready for work, and he does'nt get bored so easily. He notes that previously Autechre would knock out tunes in two weeks "to get them out of the way". On DRAFT 7.30, they averaged three to four weeks per track. A journalist reputedly told Autechre that DRAFT 7.30 "made her feel like she was wandering around a bleak housing estate". Although Booth accuses her of being "middle class", he admits the album sounds more urban than its predecessors do. "Maybe we are harking back to bleak estates?" he speculates. "When we mere making music like AMBER, we were living on a bleak housing estate, which made it more |
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mellow sounding," concludes Booth. Autechre didnt plant DRAFT 7.30. Even the name is a working title that stuck because they couldnt think of anything more appropriate when they sent the work to WARP. Originally, its was DRAFT 7.1, then 7.2, then different versions until it ended up at 7.30. Despite holding a GODLIKE reputation among programmers who love music, Autechre's main intention with this album was to curtail thier use of new software. The duo agree they overdosed on technology on thier previous album (CONFIELD), so they refrained from downloading any new programs or plug-ins for DRAFT 7.30. As such, the album forced them to harken back to thier earlier circumstances. "When we started out in 87' we didnt have money to spend on gear. We'd buy a bit of equipment and really get to know it. Now its so easy to download 500 new bits of software in an afternoon," says Booth, who, in an issue of JOCKEY SLUT, claimed that the increased availability to gear has forced electronica into the hands of "FORD FIESTA owners"who lack creativity. Brown: " We found interesting things in stuff we already have. Autechre has always been about squeezing the most out of what you got, taking back roads to do things, plugging a bit of equipment into something that wasnt designed to recieve its information. This time its about composition rather than programming." Consequently, they believe DRAFT 7.30 is a more personal album, although you would have to be an aural genius to detect this among the abstract squeaks, groans and hisses. As clever as Autechre undoubtedly are, DRAFT 7.30 isnt thier most digestable album-its more an exercise in mastering technology. "Theres more of us in this one," insists Booth. "We love Confield, but know its a little too mathematical for some people who might its not got the same qualities as other music. Its like when I first heard ACID-HOUSE-I thought, " This isnt the way music is suppsed to be." |
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TAPE HEADS The promos of DRAFT 7.30 were sent out on cassette tape."Cassettes hold a significance for us because we grew up swapping tapes in a music sharing culture based on high speed dubbing, not dial up speed," explains Brown in well rehersed promotional platter. "Our early promos are on tape. They were the last universal format before everything went digital. People sling cassettes about and you find them on the floor, its totally different to the world of vinyl." Is thier tape loving purely nostalgic? Autechre are aware that while vinyl copies of DRAFT 7.30 would have gone straight to EBAY, digital copies would have been turned into MP3's flitting around the internet. Its a format Booth hates because he thinks thier music " sounds pretty snuff on MP3". Insists Brown: "Tapes give a good sense of the music without loads being shaved off, or the dynamics being altered." Booth says he doesnt object to fans downloading Autechre for free - he just prefers the sound of less easily accesible 44k versions. Rather than seeing the internet as a great leveler, he believes its a "highly accessible world wide web. Most people dont have the connections that allows them to download high resolution files. Look at a physical map of internet portals. They are all in America, Northern Europe, and a bit of Japan. The internet is more culturaly exclusive than Coca-Cola." |
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INDUSTRY BUM RUSHERS Throughout thier musical career, Autechre have continually name checked hip-hop as an influence. What do they think of its increased presence in the charts? Booth: "Ocassionally theres a good tune, but even the NEPTUNES who everybody seems to like, they are ripping off EL-P's beats, its all pop music." And how is pop music different from what Autechre does? "Some people think its a genre in itself and you can make a good pop record," Booth notes. "I dont think thats the case at all. Its surely about sales, marketing and image. But it aint difficult to make a catchy tune and get it trapped into people's heads." More than ever, Autechre arent about to take the easy option for the sake of commercial success. Booth: "I dont think people are drawn to that type of music naturally. Its just easy to comsume when your driving to work. You dont have to think about what your listening to." The masses arent being lazy - he continues - its more likely that the programming directors are becomming more conservative. " The music industry is becoming just like hollywood. All the money for record labels and studios is getting centralized because theres bigger organizations to maintain." Under different circumstances, in a parrallel universe where knowledge ruled. Autechre could be number 1. Back in the real world, the duo reflect on current events in hip-hop. When questioned about Jam Master Jay, rather than reeling of the usual answers about a hero gunned down, Autechre are predictably critical. "Everyone credits RUN-DMC for taking rap overground, but Walk this Way wasnt the first rap record to make the charts. Rap didnt have to blend itself with rock music to be accepted by the mainstream-it was accepted four years before with Kurtis Blow and Melle Mel." Booth claims JAY was his favorite member of RUN DMC, but the recent news of the Dj's death was "meaningless" to him. "I thought, everyone is going to clelbrate him like he's this major league hip-hop icon." Meanwhile Brown is suprise |
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about ADIDAS selling a pair of shell toes out of "Respect". Unsuprisingly, Booth thinks ADIDAS are "fucking cunts." ITS THIER PARTY Not everything is so dour in Autechre-land. Booth has positive things to say about the Spain-based multimedia festival Sonar-both the way its organizers integrate hyper-commericial with expieremental music, and how the popular night schedual funds daytime events (although he can't help commenting that there were "loads of Spanish people playing crap records"). DRAFT 7.30 will be released the day after the All Tommorows Parties festival, the British version of which Booth and Brown are curating in 2003. They pulled in a dream lineup that includes Public Enemy and the Magic Band, alongside thier own Autechre alter-ego Gescom, and are enjoying the process very much indeed. They're interested in how thier slant will make this ATP different from the ones curated by Sonic Youth, former Pavement member Stephen Malkmus, and, er, Simpsons creater Matt Groening in LA. Although the fest was originally schedualed for Japan, Autechre opted for the home turf when Japaneze organizers suggested Brian Eno. "We might as well have booked U2 to play"quips Booth. Autechre liken the selection process to radio Dj'ing. "Like when we did pirate stations,"claims Booth. "Or like putting a mixtape together for someone and being REALLY anal about it." Similarily to curating, the making of DRAFT 7.30 required Autechre to look back at thier roots, largely because they had advanced beond the latest developments in technology. Booth: "By building our own sequencers, we've learned so much about writing computer programs that we feel totally fluent. Technology has become transperant. We dont have to wrry about it presenting any obstacles, because we can take another route." It's a situation that inevitably makes them critical of the nerdy laptop culture with which thier associated. For us,computers are great communicating and music writing tools, but they need people to use them." |
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Booth believes computers will be superceded by more advanced machines. "Its pure speculation, but Im pretty comvinced they r going to reach the ceiling soon in terms of throwing electrons down bits of wire." Its this ceiling that made them turn to analog technology on DRAFT 7.30 to create elements that new-school computers couldnt. "I use computers and think,"this sounds a bit tight'. Than I use the analog synth and it sounds universally tight." "Analog technology deals with curving,constantly changing values, and it doesnt reduce everything to a series of steps. By working with constant curves, you can do loads more full on. I can see theres lots of room for improvement in terms of computer technology." While they wait for the scientists to catch up, Autechre must adapt old technology to draft sounds for the future.-------- =) |
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Recycle: I tried to OCR it, but it's not scanned at high enough res to do so - I'll have to retype it like Ironlung did in order to put it up on watmm. |
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Rex, its all here...Feel free to cut n copy this if ya like....=) Oh and I will have those pics for you soon, circumstances beyond my control prevented me from getting a camera.... |
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No worries... take yer time! Thanks! |
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