Autechre Artificial Intelligence I: Autechre's Contributions

I've been listening to the classic Artificial Intelligence I, more specifically Autechre's contributions, The Egg and Crystel, and I am amazed how well they hold up after all these years. Simply amazing tracks.

Yeah that was before they sold all of their hardware to buy taquitos.

The drum programming is pretty unreal for mid-1992

  On 12/29/2011 at 12:52 AM, The Face Culler said:

The drum programming is pretty unreal for mid-1992

the musics dope to

autechre rpetty cool

Crystel is a pretty awesome song.

Those and The Dice Man. Definitely ace.

wrong subforum d00d

  On 12/29/2011 at 4:01 PM, modey said:

wrong subforum d00d

Yeah, I thought about that - at first I was going to talk about AI overall, but Autechre's tracks stand head and shoulders above the rest (even Polygon Window). I'll move this.

I don't think i've actually heard the other tracks on the compilations! Apart from polygon window of course. I'll have to give them a listen.

I still play these tracks all the time (and Chatter from volume 2), they still sound really cool to me and have aged perfectly.

  On 12/29/2011 at 1:08 AM, sup said:

rpetty

That track was on a later Ae release ....

I always liked Speedy J's "Fill 3" which for years I thought was The Orb's "Loving You" because the track titles were switched on the case, and I hadn't heard "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Center Of The Ultraworld" yet.

too bad autechre stuck their head up their ass and started making pretentions quasi-academic bullshit with "Amber"

  On 1/2/2012 at 4:53 AM, Joseph said:

too bad autechre stuck their head up their ass and started making pretentions quasi-academic bullshit with "Amber"

  On 1/2/2012 at 4:53 AM, Joseph said:

too bad autechre stuck their head up their ass and started making pretentions quasi-academic bullshit with "Amber"

I don't think I like you

Yeah I really wish Autechre had made the same album 12 times over.

The tracks on AI 1, are Sunny Weather Autechre. When the warm sun is shining and have a cold glass of beer in your hand and fancy some Autechre, what do you play? Always these tracks.

It would be nice if the lads could make a sunny summer weather album. Thats sounds cheesy as fuck I know.

It won't happen. Forget I said anything lol.

  On 1/2/2012 at 4:53 AM, Joseph said:

too bad autechre stuck their head up their ass and started making pretentions quasi-academic bullshit with "Amber"

In what way is Amber 'quasi-academic bullshit' ?!

(In fact, how on earth can a track be 'quasi-academic' )

"The Egg" is a tuuunne

  On 1/2/2012 at 9:04 PM, phick123 said:

"The Egg" is a tuuunne

Good tune. I prefer the "cleaner" sounding version of it in Eggshell from Incunabula though.

  On 1/2/2012 at 11:38 PM, Xenblake said:

  On 1/2/2012 at 9:04 PM, phick123 said:

"The Egg" is a tuuunne

 

Good tune. I prefer the "cleaner" sounding version of it in Eggshell from Incunabula though.

See, I'm quite the opposite - I never really cared too much for Eggshell, but The Egg just screams 'Autechre' for me - at least the Autechre I prefer.

The Egg is definetely more hip hop inspired, although those cut up voices that come in around 1:45 sound a bit too messy and out of place IMO. It gets wicked from around half way through where the meaty beats start coming in.

I think the "shiny" clean production on Eggshell does it better justice though. I find the hecticness in The Egg comes across as slightly disorganised, as bits plastered on here and there for effect.

I love the extra melodies in The Egg.. I've ripped them off quite often

  On 1/2/2012 at 2:34 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 1/2/2012 at 4:53 AM, Joseph said:

too bad autechre stuck their head up their ass and started making pretentions quasi-academic bullshit with "Amber"

In what way is Amber 'quasi-academic bullshit' ?!

that's what i thought. but they didn't actually do this 'til quite some time after Amber. :)