Tri Repetae / Anvil Vapre

The Sun: You are missing out man, you need to unlock this album for yourself. Remember it's not a question of 'are you going to like it?' its a question of 'can you appreciate it for what it is?'

A good way to prevent yourself from enjoying the album is when you continue to hold your initial expectations about the album after hearing it and being disappointed/confused with the actual album. Just expect what you know its going to be, and really feel the melody. On this album the melody is really the bulk of the music and the rhythm is just a wireframe that helps hold it together. Its a melodic, flowing, ambient album at it's core, and the rest piled on top is to give it some direction and energy IMO.

I hope you will change your mind this week my friend.

Also, sweepstakes: That was an epic post. My fave n00b ever!

also read the rules

edit: I just realized you joined WATMM about 2 months before I did so I don't know if the post count alone justifies me calling you a n00b.

Overand kind of sucks.

Hey overand I came in here to say that overand was a nice ambient song but I'm going to have to disagree with you, overand, on your opinion on overand

overand is awesome! what's with people not liking the most ambient autechre tracks?

like i've said before, i like it when they venture into that forbidden realm

  On 9/29/2009 at 6:00 AM, Calx Sherbet said:

like i've said before, i like it when they venture into that forbidden realm

Leave your gay fantasies out of this.

eutow is so bad

Oh god this thread is just upsetting me!

  On 9/29/2009 at 7:38 PM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

eutow is so bad

no it isn't, i just heard it

Eutow & Dael are my favorites, probably because I have memories attached to them and what not. This was my 1st AE album.

Not my 1st AE album but really the first one that I enjoyed. Heard Incuna first but only listened once and didn't enjoy it too much. Heard Tri Rep after that and was like "FFFFFFF this is good". Even now, I think Tri Rep is my overall favorite. I only like Incuna-Chiastic though *dodges arrows*. Can't wait till we get to the later ones, I'm excited about giving them another try.

  On 9/30/2009 at 3:59 AM, bubbhasdance said:

I only like Incuna-Chiastic though *dodges arrows*. Can't wait till we get to the later ones, I'm excited about giving them another try.

i find that kinda odd! i always thought that lp5 was more accessible than chiastic slide.

but back on the subject of tri repetae, i fucking love this album. like people have been saying before in this thread, it's very subtle, basically ambient music with some twitchy beats. i consider it to be the 'bridging point' between their early super-melodic stuff and the adventurous sound manipulation of their later albums.

a bad ae song? on my watmm?

  On 9/29/2009 at 5:53 AM, modey said:

overand is awesome! what's with people not liking the most ambient autechre tracks?

I happen to just really like their more mechanical stuff.

I did listen to all the songs from the Quadrange EP though, including the hour long one.

Dael: Digitized dogs barking or what?

  On 9/29/2009 at 2:37 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

also read the rules

Which ones?

Right, I'm about to do Tri Repetae in one go. Stay tuned...

he'll never make it

OK, I'm done. This album is an interesting change in direction from the ambient, melody-rich style of Amber. A lot of people rave about how this is their favourite Ae album, but I can't really see the appeal. Sure, there are some great tracks on it, but to me it's a rather empty median between the conventional sounds of Incunabula/Amber and the complex, rhythm-based style of their later work. Everything is rather striaghtforward, some parts sound kind of dull and repetitive. Most of Autechre's truly great work appears in their later releases, such as Chiastic Slide, EP7, Confield and Draft 7.30. The first three albums where just leading up to it (and at least Incunabula and Amber had something special about them).

Time for the track-by-track breakdown:

Deal: Lots of movement, gotta love that bass.

Clipper: Tri Repetae trying to sound like Amber. A wonderful mix of climbing melodies and thumping beats ensues.

Leterel: Not much to say about this track. It doesn't move very much.

Rotar: Really nice rhythm, which carries you into a world of spooky vibes.

Stud: This is a really cheeky track. You can tell they have the power to create an awesomely relaxing, beautifully ambient piece of music, and they go ahead and fill it with annoying noises and silence.

Eutow: Aw yeah, Eutow! One of the greatest tracks Ae have ever produced, even if it's hard to pinpoint exactly what makes it so great. The first 90 seconds have many climax points that turn out to be part of the build. We have..

0:00 Awesome opening melody

0:11 Another awesome melody in perfect harmony with the opening melody

0:24 Awesome melody changes slightly, overall atmosphere intensifies

0:52 A fuzzy bass line is introduced

1:02 Whoa, did you hear that? What the fuck? QUE PASA??

1:04 O. M. G. That is your brain WARPING THE FUCK OUT OF CONTROL. That fuzzy bass line distorts everything, squashing it down before the pitch bounces up again like a catapult. How can anyone listen without twitching their body?

1:14 The percussion comes rolling in like an alarm telling you to END YOUR DREAM ABOUT STRETCHING AND FALLING. But, wait, this noise fits in with the dream. This is part of the track! So now your running at top speed, trying to escape the distortion, but it becomes a part of you. The only option is to dance uncontrollably for the rest of the track, which leads straight into

C/Patch: A lot of strange noises come together to create a felling which is altogether quite nice.

Gnit: This has a lot of gurgles, rumbles and twitters that don't really add to the lead melody. But that's OK.

Overand: After hearing SAW2 by Aphex Twin, I have never heard anything quite like it. But this comes pretty close. It tricks you into thinking that it's a slow, calming track. But it's not. It is nerve racking, tense and claustrophobic. This is what paranoia feels like.

Rsdio: How on Earth did Ae create such a wonderful, shining star of a sound? This is what all space stations should sound like. What a wonderful track.

Medrey: I listened to this track all the way through for the first time, just for the sake of completion. It's not that good, really.

Well, there ya go. That's what it looks like when you spend over an hour writing a post. I'll do Anvil Vapre and Peel Sessions 1 soon, and pretty soon it'll be Chiastic Slide week!

How come I've never heard medrey? There's no excuse for this, I'm dling now

oh lol i forgot abut that song

Holy shit medrey is a very sexy track! Definitely a new fave for me

Tri Repetae does nothing for me. However, 2:55 onwards in Leterel I find some of the most moving, soulful and beautiful music Autechre have done. Rotar and Stud are growing on me, but otherwise, Overand and Leterel aside, I'm not keen on this album.

i love the chords in leterel.

i might take some acid and listen to this on the weekend!

Tri Rep is my favourite Ae work and sits in my Top 10 desert island discs.

Don't consider Medrey to be part of it btw - it was just a bonus on the jap release of ++... they never count in my book.

As with all Ae releases - best served with the lights dimmed, a puff and STRICTLY on vinyl with good loudspeakers.

mp3 rips just don't cut it as well.