New Autechre interview - Metal Magazine

  On 10/24/2024 at 5:13 PM, Friendly Stranger said:

I know the album format discussion is the big takeaway here, but I thought the comments around the overwhelming amount of music, coming out on an overwhelming number of platforms, resonated with me alot. I love Bandcamp and I also hate it - I can't possibly try to keep up with everything going on over there. Add to that Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Maybe I'm just a boring old man thinking fondly of simpler times, but releases used to be a fuckin event. Now you get a trickle release of albums, digital releases coming months before physical, album announcements 4+ months out, etc. It's just alot. 

yeah man. i think streaming technology has afforded such vast access to publishing and accessing music and we just haven't caught up to it really. i think it rules and sucks sort of equally idk. 

it's funny though, back in the 90s, it always seemed to me that autechre had the perfect release schedule. they'd do an lp every year and there'd be like 1 or 2 eps that were basically at the same level as the lps. even with this release rate, i always felt when the next shit came out i was still learning the last shit. from lp5-ep7-confield i was getting each one being like...what the fuck is going on. but somehow it all made sense, it fit together, and i followed the releases more easily. 

with the last 10 years or so, i of course get everything from these brothers and i love it, but i don't have as much of a grasp of it all. part of that is that i've gotten older and shit, for sure. so i'm not a teenager who can just throw on my headphones, put on the newest record from "the 'chre," and just cry and punch the air and grind my pillows every night doing this. just kidding, i still do this. 

in the end i just trust ae to do cool shit. they've always seemed so uncompromising about their vision and i've never seen anything like a diminishing in creativity or autechre ethos. they are really a top notch duo, there's nothing like them out there. gotta just let the brothers go off and do your best to keep up with them. 

who gives a shit about formats just gimme fresh ae tunage, preferably SOON.

  On 10/24/2024 at 5:57 PM, jaderpansen said:

who gives a shit about formats just gimme fresh ae tunage, preferably SOON.

Autechre SOON

  On 10/24/2024 at 5:52 PM, Alcofribas said:

yeah man. i think streaming technology has afforded such vast access to publishing and accessing music and we just haven't caught up to it really. i think it rules and sucks sort of equally idk. 

it's funny though, back in the 90s, it always seemed to me that autechre had the perfect release schedule. they'd do an lp every year and there'd be like 1 or 2 eps that were basically at the same level as the lps. even with this release rate, i always felt when the next shit came out i was still learning the last shit. from lp5-ep7-confield i was getting each one being like...what the fuck is going on. but somehow it all made sense, it fit together, and i followed the releases more easily. 

with the last 10 years or so, i of course get everything from these brothers and i love it, but i don't have as much of a grasp of it all. part of that is that i've gotten older and shit, for sure. so i'm not a teenager who can just throw on my headphones, put on the newest record from "the 'chre," and just cry and punch the air and grind my pillows every night doing this. just kidding, i still do this. 

in the end i just trust ae to do cool shit. they've always seemed so uncompromising about their vision and i've never seen anything like a diminishing in creativity or autechre ethos. they are really a top notch duo, there's nothing like them out there. gotta just let the brothers go off and do your best to keep up with them. 

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i love them so much. what they have done in 30 years is up there with anyone involved in making music. in any era, ever. It's that simple. new parameters n all that innit

  On 10/24/2024 at 11:14 PM, dr lopez said:

i love them so much. what they have done in 30 years is up there with anyone involved in making music. in any era, ever. It's that simple. new parameters n all that innit

100%

  On 10/24/2024 at 5:13 PM, Friendly Stranger said:

I know the album format discussion is the big takeaway here, but I thought the comments around the overwhelming amount of music, coming out on an overwhelming number of platforms, resonated with me alot. I love Bandcamp and I also hate it - I can't possibly try to keep up with everything going on over there. Add to that Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Maybe I'm just a boring old man thinking fondly of simpler times, but releases used to be a fuckin event. Now you get a trickle release of albums, digital releases coming months before physical, album announcements 4+ months out, etc. It's just alot. 

This is why I stopped using streaming services and went back to buying all my music. I hear fewer records overall but I enjoy them more.

As a side note, I went back to Elseq and NTS recently and came to the conclusion there are still so many tracks to digest there. I know I’ve listened to them before, but they still sound so new and alien to me. I can pretend they’re new for a couple more years, I guess. ;D

Lets not forget they're the best interviewees too - no bullshit, no smart-assness, satire, taking the piss, deprication, fawning...just straight up "this is how we do it and why". thats not to say the interviers are often tedious and original - see above.. but.. compared to the other warp heavyweights, autechre know how to speak clearly and passionately 

  On 10/25/2024 at 11:39 AM, phudoshin said:

Lets not forget they're the best interviewees too - no bullshit, no smart-assness, satire, taking the piss, deprication, fawning...just straight up "this is how we do it and why". thats not to say the interviers are often tedious and original - see above.. but.. compared to the other warp heavyweights, autechre know how to speak clearly and passionately 

they have had some great interviewers too, I still really like the Resident Advisor interview that Joe Muggs did when Elseq came out and also the interview that @droid did at the beginning of this year.

ooh will checkout, thanks!

  On 10/25/2024 at 7:37 AM, Satans Little Helper said:

As a side note, I went back to Elseq and NTS recently and came to the conclusion there are still so many tracks to digest there. I know I’ve listened to them before, but they still sound so new and alien to me. I can pretend they’re new for a couple more years, I guess. ;D

bro im still workin on exai

exai is a great example of why the album format owns. seriously superb Album

  On 10/25/2024 at 2:51 PM, dr lopez said:

bro im still workin on exai

Bro im still workin on Tri Repetae

(Joking aside, I know this is not an acceptable opinion these days, but that’s still their best work IMHO. Altho I appreciate this is the equivalent of trying to pick a single atom to mark the peak of Mt. Everest)

  On 10/25/2024 at 2:56 PM, pizza said:

exai is a great example of why the album format owns. seriously superb Album

Nothing less sign&plus

  On 10/25/2024 at 6:38 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

Altho I appreciate this is the equivalent of trying to pick a single atom to mark the peak of Mt. Everest

for some reason this came to mind... a bunch of Sherpas looking around at the frozen corpses they dragged up the mountain. 

The question about the studio album seemingly got them pretty agitated

And, coincidence or not, the interview (abruptly) finished after that.

Can’t help but noticing last reply from Rob which seems pretty glitched, containing fragments of previous statements in the interview.

Hopefully it was some editing mistake…

  On 10/25/2024 at 7:25 PM, ignatius said:

for some reason this came to mind... a bunch of Sherpas looking around at the frozen corpses they dragged up the mountain. 

Sherpas: Ae fans

Frozen corpses: friends of Ae fans, that have had Ae foisted on them

  On 10/25/2024 at 6:38 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

Bro im still workin on Tri Repetae

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Tri Rep was recorded LIVE

  On 10/28/2024 at 1:54 AM, stev said:

Tri Rep was recorded LIVE

Source?

In terms of copywriting this is one hell of a lazy interview. It feels like the editor just published the entire transcript. So much colloquialism and so many grammar mistakes...

Yes it is, and there were moments in this when I was amazed the interviewer didn't go deeper with some topics, S+R are giving some intriguing replies here but the interviewer just moves on to the next item on their list. Really liked droids interview from last year, as well as some of the older stuff, the resident advisor one from elseq days for instance. These were real conversations and less like a q+a. Also, "iconic" The way this word is used today really gets to me for some reason lol, and it pops up 3 times in this interview.