Sto Lend EP from 1996???

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore...95&s=143441

What on earth is this, and why haven't I heard of it?

there's just one track by them and it's a remix, I think

how about we post some links that work for les sans-iTunes? I believe a healthy dose of rule reading is also in order

:undecided:

this is totally un-googlable case. bullshit napster also have this, and that's all.

nor track names, neither label

Bizarre...I really have no clue what this is. My first instinct is that this is obviously fake, but then how do you get it distributed on iTunes?

I can't see this being real, but how effing sweet would it be for a long-lost autechre ep from circa 1996 to exist?!?!

someone with an iTunes acct buy this and report baack, capiche

I'm awaiting e-mail of an iTunes gift voucher so I can give this a shot. I know I'll be regretting the expense soon enough, though, as I have little doubt that this is fake. Somebody's going to be laughing all the way to the bank on this one. Still, need to be sure, right?

Incidentally, if anyone here has listened to the samples in iTunes, do they seem "authentic" at all? I'll admit that it seems like a good impression of Ae circa 1996, if nothing else. The Black Dog mix sounds uncharacteristic, though.

It's on Amazon too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CDMRO...10&sr=102-8

"Sto Lend"? What the.

Sounds more like Arovane to me.

it's autechr-esque style, a bit older than 1996, probably 1995

but yeah, more like an unlucky example

But its not on Bleep or Beatport.

I listened to the clips again and it certainly sounds fake - like something from Djak Up Bitch. The image also looks too cheap to be the real thing. Besides, "Sto Lend"? "Sto len"? "Lend"? I don't know...

  moo duck said:

it's autechr-esque style, a bit older than 1996, probably 1995

It would have to be 1995 at the latest, at least in part, as the Black Dog split up in '95, and I highly doubt there would be a Ken Downie solo remix of an Autechre track, particularly one that sounds like that.

  PusillanimousRex said:

Besides, "Sto Lend"? "Sto len"? "Lend"? I don't know...

stolen'd

cool!

it's like, you know, some person stole autechre tracks and they decided to put them out as limited edition just for the copyright? so warp didn't announce it. 'catapult'

but then again a remix. too much track-length for the fake also

Half of me is fighting the urge to download this while the other's telling me not to be a dickhead and waste money on what can only be a cunning fake. This will inevitably result in me downloading it anyway and feeling fucking stupid afterwards when it's all exposed as a fraud. I feel like I did the first time I downloaded Mum's 'Hooper Bay'.

On the other hand, I can't see how iTunes would be that stupid if it is fake. I might email Warp (after I've d/l'ed).

someone email warp about it.

it says it was released 1 dec 1996

was that a monday?

records are released on monday in the uk right?

Okay, so the card I ordered isn't showing up, but I had 300 Yen on credit, so I grabbed 2 tracks, and I'm quite confident that this is neither Ae nor Black Dog. It also isn't circa 1995/'96 either, as it sounds just like the guff that everybody and his dog was churning out by the truckload in '99-'01. Very unconvincing.

In fact, I am sufficiently confident that it is a fake (even despite the use of a vocal sample that sounds remarkably similar to one used in PIOBmx19) that I'm going to submit the two tracks I have so you can see for yourselves. Umm... in lo-rez MP3 format so it isn't actually pirating. Normally I would never distribute something a band still has financial interest in, but Ae aren't getting a penny from this, I'd stake my as-yet-nonexistent reputation on it.

Here it is: call me a cynic, but it's a fraud, not a Black Dog mix...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQJKWJ39

I can't help but finding this really exciting! I mean yeah, it probably is fake but I just don't understand where it came from, which makes it really interesting, how did it get on iTunes AND Amazon... if it is fake, then it raises interesting questions about fraud and the digital age of distribution... it's so much more fascinating than a fake on like soulseek or something...

Agreed, it really is intriguing that something that's 99% fake/mis-tagged has got to be distruibuted like this. and I wonder if some of BoC's fake back catalogue (you know, the ones made from Look around you, mum, and the radom tracks in the old tunes trilogy) will ever make an appearance for the same reasons..

Can we get some closure on this? Anyone bought & listened to these tracks?

lol wtf?

I can't find it when I search on I tunes.

The tracks on megaupload are not autechre.