Autechre Altered:Carbon - the fake Oversteps

As I'm sure many people now know, there was a fake 'viral' release of Oversteps which was infact the debut release album of Altered:Carbon.

I first got Altered:Carbon's album as the overstep fake and to be honest I thought it had some good sounds!

I've subsequently heard a lot of speculation about whether Autechre themselves released this as a viral etc, the conspiracies are all quite amusing.

http://fatroland.blogspot.com/2010/01/autechres-oversteps-fake-leak-scandal.html

the fake known(1):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4I7ZkeBoI

I'm not trying to state it as 'news' I'm just curious as to poeoples thoughts on the Altered:Carbon album.

As a stand alone piece of music I like Altered Carbon. It probably would have more fans if it wasn't passed off as Autechre to start with.

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I like it quite a lot but in no way does it actually sound like ae

i only listened to it twice when it was being circulated as a fake. then after i deleted the fakes i downloaded the proper release, i haven't listened again though. some nice stuff on there but the real oversteps is totally satisfying my electronic needs right now.

I thought some of it was pretty good, especially the fake "see on see" had some cool stuff happening in the beats. I was pretty pissed when I found out it wasn't the real Oversteps though. Oh well, at least it was worth listening too.

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i love the idea of fake leaks. i will try to get my fake AE album together so the next album I can make a fake too. just need a few more sample cds...

  On 4/3/2010 at 12:51 AM, Hanratty said:

i love the idea of fake leaks. i will try to get my fake AE album together so the next album I can make a fake too. just need a few more sample cds...

lol yeah next time there'll be twenty

  On 4/1/2010 at 8:03 PM, sysyphus said:

the fake known(1):

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4I7ZkeBoI

this is gooooood

some of the altered carbon tracks are great, they/he need to lay off the Glitch VST just a tad though. It was an instant dead giveaway that it was not Autechre

I thought I was losing my mind trying to find two tracks I had heard on oversteps. I formatted my phone and eventually put the legit copy on there unknowingly. That fake known(1) is one of them. The other I haven't come across yet. It was sort of slow at the start with a steady bass drum and what sounded like metallic water droplets, then a nice synth came in and while the song occasionally chopped or changed pitch.

I feel foolish trying to describe electronic music...

Ah the other was track 6 from http://www.last.fm/music/Altered:Carbon/Altered:Carbon. Feels good to scratch that itch finally.

interesting, a comment on youtube claims Altered Carbon are Mike and Marcus from BoC. Is this laughable, or is there any potential truth to it?

  On 3/16/2014 at 10:27 AM, lumpenprol said:

interesting, a comment on youtube claims Altered Carbon are Mike and Marcus from BoC. Is this laughable, or is there any potential truth to it?

No (yes to laughable), they're just from Scotland, and they are pretty open about their identity.

I recall almost all regular Ae listeners around me was sold on that weak ass fake. Makes me feel special.

Tinted Corvettes is like the fucked up twin of:

I remember I listened to it after I had listened to Oversteps, still thought it was quite good

And then later when I was messing around with Absynth 5 presets (back in the day when I still used presets) I recognized one of the sounds, lost all respect for it

I thought it was great, felt to me like a return to old Autechrian roots. Listened to it a fucktonne at the time.

It took until I bought the Oversteps box set and then tried to play a track out in a bar (which I subsequently couldn't find, obvs) to realise summat was up.

Since found out via the WATMMs about the fake stuff...I've been buying the 'chre since 94...boy was my face red etc.

The track in question was Sleav…just beautiful…gutted it isnae on vinyl anywhere.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/AlteredCarbon/Altered_Carbon/Altered-Carbon_-_Altered-Carbon_-_13_Sleav

  On 3/16/2014 at 6:39 PM, futureimage said:

Tinted Corvettes is like the fucked up twin of:

 

thats fucking awesome, never seen that particular hexstatic video. Makes me want to fire up Vjamm again

Why would you pass off your own music and ideas off as someone else's? What am I missing here

  On 3/30/2014 at 12:33 AM, caIx said:

Why would you pass off your own music and ideas off as someone else's? What am I missing here

priorities clearly fucked