Autechre Interview with Sean Booth

nicely done ism.

  loganfive said:

nicely done ism.

yeah

good job

Sean Booth is a cool cat.

watmm = geek, xlt = macho

hahaha

i still think they should sell live cd's like underworld does: cdr of the gig itself, after every (!) gig.

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Cheers, thanks for posting. Anymore, or was that basically it? Anymore 'tech-y' discussion?

  ~ism said:

Well, I have to admit… I am one of the ones that hangs around We Are The Music Makers…from time to time [Laughs]

lol

~ism, you are the best ism of all ism's.

I must agree, this is some very good interview with ae.

So are we actually the first to read this?

Thank you.

awesome interview man! I actually learned something interesting and new...

hi, i'm sean booth

  Brian Tregaskin said:

hi, i'm sean booth

lol

I have a little question, who is sean and who is rob on photos ?

good interview

every time i've used digital performer i've hated it

  TheSlicker said:

I have a little question, who is sean and who is rob on photos ?

SEAN:

ROB:

  Enter a new display name said:

  TheSlicker said:

I have a little question, who is sean and who is rob on photos ?

SEAN:

 

 

ROB:

 

i guess its always cold in england?

what are some good soundboard recordings as referred to in this article? I've always meant to download some show but didn't know where to start

Glasgow 2005> http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?automodul...load&id=275

Hemsby 2007 > http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?automodul...load&id=324

Quebec 2005 (not soundboard but great quality)>

http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?automodul...load&id=277

The New york tracks are soundboard as well, about half way down the page here> http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?automodul...num=50&st=0

Enjoy man, absolutely fantastic stuff.

Great interview.

Sean endorses the artist subforums! Joyrex will be stoked.

  Sean Booth said:

WATMM? What's WATMM?

I lol'd. :laughing:

I hope it is more than just raw source material crap takes of what ended up becoming Quaristice, which sounds like raw source material +1 (minus the crap takes).

Ace!

  ~ism said:

we’d been doing a lot of gigs that year…in order to keep income stream going, we did some more gigs – mainly festivals and extended dates, we were doing them to keep above water basically.

does this quote scare the hell out of anyone else? i don't know how literally to take what he is saying, but it sounds like they were gigging just to stay in the black, so to speak. if an established band like autechre, with their record deal, press, popularity, record sales, tours, etc. are cutting it that close in terms of profitability, what does that say bout the chances for new upcoming artists?

  Sooty G said:

does this quote scare the hell out of anyone else? i don't know how literally to take what he is saying, but it sounds like they were gigging just to stay in the black, so to speak. if an established band like autechre, with their record deal, press, popularity, record sales, tours, etc. are cutting it that close in terms of profitability, what does that say bout the chances for new upcoming artists?

bingo.

glad someone mentioned that. welcome to reality - there aint any money in music at this end of the market. period. there's enough to live reasonably within means and earn a decent living...if you are lucky/good enough to be on top of your game and settled within an established market, but even for Ae I guess that ain't going to leave you drowning in cash. To put in context, Arctic Monkeys sold over a third of a million copies of their debut album within a week of release, I'd doubt whether any Warp artist has ever sold that many copies of all their albums put together over any period of time. Or even fucking close. (hey - like the Sheffield connection though?) This aint mainstream appeal music. No mainstream, no megabucks.

Reality check for anyone thinking iddem would send them into the Hollywood Hills...

Of course, I might be wrong. But I've always laughed at some of the chat on here about Ae/Boc/RDJ swilling in cash as if they were 'loaded'. Not exactly P-diddy shit going on here.

So those that nick the music are all the more shitty for it, go buy a a CD or LP and put some money in the pockets of the electronic music artists you support. North Face jackets aint cheap!! :laughing:

Id rather be geek then macho

I guess I'm a macho geek.

does this quote scare the hell out of anyone else? i don't know how literally to take what he is saying, but it sounds like they were gigging just to stay in the black, so to speak. if an established band like autechre, with their record deal, press, popularity, record sales, tours, etc. are cutting it that close in terms of profitability, what does that say bout the chances for new upcoming artists?

Preety Low mate, unless your an internationally famous DJ i.e Tiesto, Sasha e.t.c you are not going to earn alot of money in the electro business.

Given that I am interested now, does anyone know exactly what percentage AE get of their album sales? It seems as if you make more money from touring, either way it doesn't sound like a viable career anymore.

excellent work

thanks ism, a lot