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thatne
from United States on 2005-07-14 13:42 [#01662915]
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when you first heard autechre, did you like it immediately? did you get it right away? i have been listening to them for several years now. i like to imagine how their music interacts with a new listener. what are some of your recollections regarding your first experiences with autechre, and how they differ from your current appreciation of this original and peerless duo.
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Combo
from Sex on 2005-07-14 13:43 [#01662919]
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when i heard pen expers i thought : DAMNED ! this is AWESOME
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Gwely Mernans
from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-07-14 13:52 [#01662931]
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i started at chiastic slide and loved it, then went backwards, then forwards.
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from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2005-07-14 13:56 [#01662935]
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hated it, and bought every cd since then
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pachi
from yo momma (United States) on 2005-07-14 14:04 [#01662942]
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Started with Tri Repetae, then Amber. Liked it. Then went straight to EP7. I was like, "OMGz this teh Ae?!?!" Took me a while but liked it again. Went to Chiastic Slide. Loved it. Checked out LP5, then Peel Session 2, then Confield, then Gantz Graf, then Draft 7.30, and now Untilted.
I guess Ae are #1 for me now. Well, for at least the past 5 years really.
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nacmat
on 2005-07-14 14:09 [#01662948]
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itt was 1998 - lp5
I gave the cd back to the store
not until 2002 did I like it, but then it was instant love
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OK
on 2005-07-14 14:40 [#01662968]
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first i heard was amber, and i liked it lots, because it was a style of music i had been searching for years.
then I heard the rest of the stuff and didn't like it at all.
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vcxz
from currently N.I. on 2005-07-14 14:45 [#01662976]
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I'm not quite sure if I like it or not. I probably will. I tend to become very enthusiastic about bands/artists that were just the same to me in the beginning.
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ambsace
from canaDUH. on 2005-07-14 14:48 [#01662978]
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i heard amber in my uncle's car. and it was barely audible, but it was fuckin' with me so i asked what it was and he turned it up. after my vacation i went out and bought it. been a fan ever since. awww.
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hanal
from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 14:48 [#01662979]
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thought this was quite good
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-07-14 14:52 [#01662982]
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i was bored and had just started getting into aphex, so i browsed amazon.com [of all places] for similar artists, read up on autechre, and downloaded confield. ive been in love ever since.
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axion
from planet rock (Sweden) on 2005-07-14 14:53 [#01662984]
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i think there two first records Incunabula and Amber felt good initial i dident like tri repetae and chiastic slide initial but did it with Lp5.there later records:Confield,Draft 7.30 and Untitled felt bad initial.I like lp5 and some tracks of them now but nothing more.I am listening to Draft 7,30 at the moment and i am trying to figure out if its anygood.They sure dont make easy music to enjoy but still i hear there is quality in there music but that aint always enough.
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from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2005-07-14 14:56 [#01662987]
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ae old school, eh ?
:)
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hanal
from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 14:57 [#01662988]
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you know it:>
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-07-14 15:14 [#01663005]
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I heard it and thought "'s ok... nothing special."
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nacmat
on 2005-07-14 16:02 [#01663047]
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yeah the artwork is a classic too
man you got skills.
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2005-07-14 16:04 [#01663048]
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when i first heard autechre (amber) I was blown away. then they got a bit artsy and i gave up. i still to this day havent been able to 'get' it
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oyvinto
on 2005-07-14 16:17 [#01663062]
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my friend tried to convince me that ae was the shit for years, but i didn't get it instantly. i borrowed some cd's of him now and then, but never got into it, before i finally one day fell in love with lp5. probably in 1999 or so. after that i borrowed all his ae cd's and i've bought all the releases since that. and most of them are still getting better. amazing actually. best shit.
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plaidzebra
from so long, xlt on 2005-07-14 16:17 [#01663063]
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they sounded a lot different in 1993, but i did like them immediately. i lost interest mostly at confield (though the live show was fantastic) and gave up at gantz graf.
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_gvarek_
from next to you (Poland) on 2005-07-14 16:28 [#01663079]
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I started with "Incunabula" and was amazed by the freshness and "modernity" of their sound. The first shock came with EP7 (now it`s my fav), the second one with "Confield", the third with "Untilted". I find only "Confield" and "Draft" a bit indigestible, but the rest: YEAH!
And, I like the new direction of Ae sound very much; well, maybe a little bit more atmosphere would be nice...
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JLefrere
from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 17:08 [#01663149]
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Good topic. Tastes can change a LOT, I've found. At first I only knew the old stuff like Incunabula, which I liked, but then bought a copy of Draft that back then I found really disappointing. A couple of years later I gave it another shot and found it completely different, loved it, moved onto LP5 and the rest (although I think they came out before...doesn't matter), and of course Untilted.
Long story short, 2 years ago I hated them but in September I'm seeing them at that rave in London :D There's probably already a thread about that but without search I don't know. Who's going? I'm a poor old raving virgin so it'd be cool to see some xlt people.
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ymenard
on 2005-07-14 17:30 [#01663181]
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For me it was in 2000. Kid A was released, and I heard Tom in his interview stating he was influenced by AE.
I already had a couple of AFX (Classics and SAWII), but no AE. I got myself EP7, it was pretty expensive, like 28$ Canadian. My first listening went really bad, I had no reference whatsoever, no understanding of the context of the album. I think I remember almost stopping the CD because I couldn't bare it. It was just way too much too soon I guess.
A couple of months later I tried listening to it again after being a little more musically mature, in that year 2000 my musical knowledge just exploded. I got into Bob Dylan. I got into Miles Davis. I got into classical music. I was now ready to attack IDM. I listened to EP7 and finally "understood it". Then I got myself all the AE albums, AFX, Squarepusher, etc... ;)
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-07-14 17:34 [#01663189]
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I don't remember all that clearly. I think I was underwhelmed/confused and it took me a month or two after I heard them to really put some ear grease into listening to them. I didn't like Amber and Incunabula at first, I think it was Confield that broke me in, though I needed a breaking-in period for THAT too.
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Gob Beldof
on 2005-07-14 17:41 [#01663200]
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so what have you got, and what do you want?
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uzim
on 2005-07-14 18:22 [#01663233]
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i can't remember for sure but i think my first impression was one of "density"/"heaviness".
and i still kinda do, even if i'm a lot more used to it now; when i stumble upon an Autechre track in my playlist when i'm not really in the mood, i skip it and play something else... with all these multilayered complex beats, it feels like a big, dense, thick piece of bread or cake or whatever for breakfast when i just woke up; i cannot and don't want to swallow it.
that's why i like Oval a lot by the way; they're a bit like Autechre (to some extent) but they sound very "light". Oval feels like clouds of electronic sounds.
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yann_g
from now on 2005-07-14 18:36 [#01663237]
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when i first heard them (it was track 1 off lp5) i asked the people that put it what it was.
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tftp
from Danver (United States) on 2005-07-14 19:19 [#01663266]
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i honestly cannot remember the first autechre i've heard.
the first release i was into was the confield cassette tape leak
strange - - -
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thatne
from United States on 2005-07-16 13:48 [#01665368]
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yes then, thanks for your replies gents the reason i made this thread is because goddamn if autechre aren't sometimes, "so awesome to me" in their records that i needed to write about it to you, to communicate they are the kings of the universe innit
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thatne
from United States on 2005-07-16 13:51 [#01665370]
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it's funny ymenard because i think that with "rpeg" ep7 begins with one of their user-friendliest tracks it depends upon your musical background and "did you have an openminde?" but it's a track that i think is nice to you so elastic mellifluous arpeggiated with a hard-core underpinning it good to your ears definitely, a good record ymenard.
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tolstoyed
from the ocean on 2005-07-16 13:52 [#01665372]
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i had no idea who they were when i bought the first album..i had a listen in the shop and liked it.
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brokephones
from Londontario on 2005-07-16 14:53 [#01665401]
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First heard them when clicking through samples at the Warp site. Then bought draft and got started from there. It was the variation in the beats that hooked me.
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cygnus
from nowhere and everyplace on 2005-07-16 15:02 [#01665407]
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first song i heard was overand
had to hear more of it, still gotta
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hanal
from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-16 15:05 [#01665408]
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yeah thats right,some tracks by ae should never end
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hanal
from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-16 15:06 [#01665409]
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do you like my new avatar:)
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cygnus
from nowhere and everyplace on 2005-07-16 15:10 [#01665411]
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its syncing well with cap.iv rite about now
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lupus yonderboy
from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-16 19:53 [#01665561]
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bought lp5 when it came out..way back when you could buy nearly anything that came out on warp and it was great.
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FlyAgaric
from the discovery (Africa) on 2005-07-16 21:29 [#01665600]
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initial reaction: "wow this music is the shit" to incunabula - some years back - first thing my buddy does is buy confield wanting more incunabula - big mistake!! some good tracks on there but overall not a very pleasnt listening experience. heard that for a while and decided to go chronological - amber amazing - most albums great - still have many eps to check out but can't get them because they're not available - all albums are great, they have their moments, more recently draft and untilted have done more than confield. i still have the old confield my friend quickly "threw away" - i listen to certain tracks sometimes. untilted on the otherhand is much more playfull, not as introspective, deep concentrated autechre. not like that makes any sense but ill continue to buy anything these guys put out - they're doing their own thing with some really great results at times.
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penexpers
from Toronto (Canada) on 2005-07-17 05:44 [#01665755]
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I got all the albums at the same time apart from Untilted and it took me 2 or 3 listens to realise how good ae actually were.
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