Autechre Autechre - Oversteps (WARP210) [The MegaThread]

  On 4/13/2021 at 3:24 PM, xox said:

I really love this interview! One of my fav

I agree, it's a music-focused interview and goes into their approach. After all, they answer the questions: it's not their fault if they are repeatedly asked to historicize the electronic music of the 90s, or how they met. However, it is curious to read their point of view on a specific scene, on the flows and influences in pop, they, who play something that is out of every category, even from the idm itself

  On 4/30/2021 at 11:43 PM, Eggs said:

known(1) sounds like the nerds violin

 

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Or this cembalo solo by parmegiani

Happy birthday Oversteps !

Xektses Sql is the sound of ghosts having a rave inside the walls at 3am

oooo  o oo ooo ooo  o   ooo    oo  o   .    oooo   ooo    .    ooooo  o  oo   ooo    ooo o  ooo    oo   o   oooo  ooo   .     o  oooo ooo     .

x        xxx      xxx     .     xxxxxx      xxxxxxx

  On 4/9/2023 at 1:11 AM, toaoaoad said:

Xektses Sql is the sound of ghosts having a rave inside the walls at 3am

I'd never heard that track until today - pretty way out ! Sound like the noise of every upstairs neighbour that's lived above my flat where I'm thinking 'Just what the hell are they doing up there ?!' ... now I know they're just uber Ae fans listening to Japanese bonus tracks !

  On 4/15/2023 at 2:37 PM, zlemflolia said:

oooo  o oo ooo ooo  o   ooo    oo  o   .    oooo   ooo    .    ooooo  o  oo   ooo    ooo o  ooo    oo   o   oooo  ooo   .     o  oooo ooo     .

x        xxx      xxx     .     xxxxxx      xxxxxxx

bet no1 guess what this shit is

  On 4/16/2023 at 2:03 AM, zlemflolia said:

bet no1 guess what this shit is

actually I was waiting for the thing to have an outcome

spoiler

time signature? tomorrow, with my mind on, I will try to solve the arcane

  On 4/16/2023 at 2:43 AM, Draft78 said:

time signature? tomorrow, with my mind on, I will try to solve the arcane

I'll have to distinguish the 0 from the x, and whether it's the bass or the rhythmic line. But at 3 in the morning, that's too ambitious an undertaking

I just spent 3 days walking the south west coast path around Devon, and I spotted this at Salcombe. Secret cult house location? Recording studio? Sam and Ben's holiday home? Strange coincidence? 

  On 4/16/2023 at 9:22 AM, Soloman Tump said:

I just spent 3 days walking the south west coast path around Devon, and I spotted this at Salcombe. Secret cult house location? Recording studio? Sam and Ben's holiday home? Strange coincidence? 

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It's haunted. Xektses sql is just a raw field recording of the ghosts in Oversteps House.

  On 2/2/2010 at 7:18 PM, Alcofribas said:

just biked in to say i heard oversteps and it's pretty good. it's a return to the more incunabula, amber, tri, chiastic, lp5, ep7, confield, draft, untilted and quaristice ae. definitely a return to the generative software ae but also a return to the more hardware-oriented albums.

 

fukin lush

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  On 2/2/2010 at 7:52 PM, Alcofribas said:

r ess - pretty cool. more of an intro than a song. i think "r ess" means either "res," viz resonance, or maybe RS like, i dunoo, maybe some one's initials or like "Rob Sombie" or something.

 

 

ilanders- first autechre song with electric guitar. starts off slow, like just plucking around, you know like noodling or whatever. but then a wicked ae beat comes in, really tight compressed kicked with like really fast drum rolls all over the place. also the first ae track with vocals. as far as i can tell these are the lyrics:

 

using energy we create this recording

if you are sound of mind

you won't mind

our sick pads and their sense of forboding

 

(that las line might be "sons of fur-coating?" but wtf is that??

 

known(1) - literally the best song. reminds me of LUDD, kinda dumb but like brilliant at the same time. sick beats/ambient stuff.

 

 

pt2ph8 - i think the title refers to peer-to-peer gaming or something (is that even a thing?). anyway, this starts off very cinematic, lush orchestral swells, dark heavily reverbed brass looming in the periphery. then it conveys perfectly the following: you're in a nightmare, but it's a cube, but it's the house you grew up in. it's so weird b/c you know your way around perfectly but it feels like you're getting to the different rooms a lot faster than it should take. so: are the hallways smaller? or are you bigger/faster? fucking does your head in the way they do this.

 

 

qplay - kinda shite

 

see on see - made entirely of samples of water this piece is ambient but a bunch of times a big break beat just randomly comes in, like totally un-quantized and makes me think they didn't even know it was happening or something. pretty mental, the samples of the ocean are totally manipulated beyond recognition so it basically sounds just like the bass line in "vose in."

 

Treale - by this time i was pretty wasted so i feel like my observations might not be as objective. by the time this track comes on the album has already been playing for 65 minutes. so, you're kinda sick of it. this track sounds really gay, like, in a gay way: there's this 909 beat with a cute little whistling moog sound over the top (think snoop dog's first record) and a vocal sample that's saying either "dicks, eat 'em" or "this is IDM." i dunno, the voice sounds kinda like my ex so i skipped this one.

 

os veix3 - completed wasted by this point. i tried to turn this one up b/c it's really ambient but accidentally pressed the buzzer for my doorbell thus letting my mates in. they were like, "hey, is this the new ae?" and i was like, "dude, i don't even fucking know anymore." they told me this track was mega turbo ambient and i have no reason to doubt them.

 

O=0 - obviously a pisstake b/c this one is just 15" of silence (cf the title, lol @ ae)

 

d-sho qub - this one had me loling hardcore. the title is a play on the phrase "fo-sho, cuz" which is slang for "for sure, cousin," or basically, "yeah, dude." it sounds like they're using a korg ms-20 through a boss dd6 and then sampling that with an ensoniq eps with customized parameters and then filtering this through a korg wavestation? i think i also hear cs80, ems synthi100, and some buchla oscillators in there. it starts off really fucking creepy. like, creepy as fuck. like, i left my house at this point.

 

st epreo - depressing tune. a remix of "maetl" although at first it sounds like a remix of "silverside." really dark pads hover over a coffin-heavy bass line (probably a roland super jupiter). the beat sounds like it's composed entirely of samples from coltrane/rashid "interstellar space," although my mate pointed out that i was so fucked by this point that i had actually put on interstellar space but forgot and thought it was still oversteps.

 

redfall - via email i was told this was from a scrapped soundtrack for "redwall" but who knows. anyway, this sounds A LOT like the first track on incunabula. actually, my mate said i was at this point listening to incunabula. the song is lush, ambient synth strings with nice soft attacks. they sound metallic but gentle and soothing. leads into "bike" which totally surprised me. i was like "bike? on oversteps?" and i mean like the actual song, not a remix. mental.

 

krYlon - mental drill n bass thingy.

 

Yuop - the entire album, played in reverse, sped up X100, through a ring modular and buffer override. surprisingly the best tune.

 

8/10

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Good bump Lord Alcofribas. I haven't played Oversteps for ages. It's a great record. 

Done. They really nailed the spaceman set adrift and floating through the Milky Way with this record

Theory: the hihat/shaker/cabasa like percussion at the end of r ess (~4:15 onward) is an early form of the "sweeping broom" sound that appears later on in pendulu casual, frane casual etc.  Sounds like it's made up of the same "stuff".

A question for the boys when they do the next AAA on our new forum

this album has fuzzy sounds so good 

lol this literally sound like an expedition to Antartica.

  On 2/4/2025 at 10:13 AM, d-a-m-o said:

lol this literally sound like an expedition to Antartica.

I can go with that. Definitely lots of icy twinkly stars and dark skies. Space or Antarctica.

Treale is still unmatched in it's beauty

15 years Oversteps still going strong! Would Love me a Repress! Or maybe Untilted repress is coming? 20 years!! 

But the once we would love most is the Oversteps Soundboards my goodness! Please release!