Tewe, track 3 off Chiastic Slide

I love most of Chiastic Slide, and my favorite tracks vary from listen to listen, but Tewe is consistently up near the top and always sounds amazing to me. The wonderful sound design, the subtle, odd melodies, and most of all, those mind bending, clunky, skittering beats and rhythmic blips and bloops. Every time I hear it it sounds so futuristic and adventurous, but also highly structured and highly musical. I can't believe this was made in 1997.

Underrated piece of genius, that track...

Agreed.

If this is a secret, I don't know anybody who's keeping it.

The thing I've always liked about it, is that it sounds NOTHING like anything else on the album, but still fits in really well! Nothing else on the album sounds as brittle and skeletal... it's great.

it sounds like the brain of a kitten.

Definitely one of my favorites, however, sometimes, it ends up creeping me the heck out. I don't know why, but it can make me completely paranoid.

Tewe has some great acoustic reverbrations as well..its more natural quality makes it stand apart from the rest of the Slide; but as mentioned above still fits into the mix. i think its general creeping quality grants it thus; much like Cipater

  Lianne said:

I love most of Chiastic Slide, and my favorite tracks vary from listen to listen, but Tewe is consistently up near the top and always sounds amazing to me. The wonderful sound design, the subtle, odd melodies, and most of all, those mind bending, clunky, skittering beats and rhythmic blips and bloops. Every time I hear it it sounds so futuristic and adventurous, but also highly structured and highly musical. I can't believe this was made in 1997.

exactly my thoughts

Just revisited this album there yesterday for the first time in ages. Really some great shit on there. I have to say though....Calbruc is the one that's been blowing my mind the most. When the horns (?) go all epic just before the 2:00 mark...ace.

And yes, Tewe is great.

That was the first track i've heard from Ae ... now it's my all time fav.

i love the beat and how the synths make their own percussion in this track.

Uviol on Confield even sparks some resemblence

This track is one of the most subtle and broodiest hip hop tracks Autechre has ever made. It has recently become one of my favorites. I recently listened to it as I explored around an abandoned water tower, and the urban decay perfectly fit the mood of this track.

This track has always made me think of streets at night in the rain.

My ex girlfriend said it made her think of barren deserts, full of rattlesnakes.

We broke up, it clearly wasn't working out.

Right at the end of Tewe there's a noise that's barely audible through speakers, but when heard through headphones sounds like some kind of hell-hound slobbering into your ears. First time I listened to the track through headphones I was alone, in the dark, on acid. It was terrifying.

Haven't really grasped any track from that album besides Cichli, but I feel that Cichli is their best or second best track. Can't decide if I like it more than Garbagemx36.

sometimes when i put tewe on at work people start to dance around in their own styles as they're working, as if they don't even realize they're doing it

Second only to cipater.

hmmm, Tewe never actually stood out much to me... I'll have to give it a closer listen now!

I always picture a futuristic construction site, where a Terminator style robot is desperately crawling away on its belly (it's been destroyed below the waist) as it's being picked to death by tiny insect like flying robots. Not sure where this imagery came from, but I can never listen to the track without thinking of this. Poor robot...

Tewe reminds me very much of Indian music, as does Surripere. It would be wicked to hear a tabla version of them.

Not underrated. Besides Cichli, it's the track I mostly listened to on Chiastic Slide.

Chiastic Slide is just generally speaking a very good album.

wait, chiastic slide? is this out yet?