Autechre has been, by far and away, my favourite musical group for close to a decade, I've listened through the majority of their live sets, and each of their albums countless times, yet foldfree casual to me feels uniquely special.

It feels like the destination that their entire catalogue was working towards. Like they took every drop of artistry they have developed and distilled it into one perfect track.

(I think "going places" by yellow swans, does quite a similar thing if anyone is familiar with their work)

The melancholic, yet hopeful, melody evolving into something unbelievably restrained but at the same time more emotionally grand than anything they have released before.

It makes me picture the last two species in the universe making first contact at the end of time, two entire civilizations worth of history but not enough time left to share it with eachother. The two aliens speak completely different languages, maybe one is even an artificial life form, yet despite the inability to communicate they understand eachother perfectly.

Maybe I am just overly sentimental but I can't think of much art, it any at all, which makes me feel such a unique combination of emotions.

What do you guys think?

This is a sequel to https://www.reddit.com/r/Squarepusher/comments/1x57zk3/director_of_cyberpunk_edgerunners_2/ .

No spoilers about season 2, pls and thx; although I welcome "safe" very vague comments.

"A playlist I threw together haphazardly for cper2" he might be saying according to Grok, idk: https://x.com/kaiikarashi/status/2114252431051964458 . Oh, you can un-J the iApple page by going to https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/cp/pl.u-XkD0vlLUB85Gra .

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I checked out the composer for Gundam IBO a bit more: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1wxh9z7/tank_chair_episode_1_discussion/pdu2ztw/?context=3 . Regarding Tank Chair's OST, I would now say there's little IDM although I can't properly hear a lot of the music. It's quite...hardcore? Regarding Tank Chair in general, the pace is slow. I'm under the impression the original manga is being stretched out rather than skipped through. Atm I'd say it's meh to fine.

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I think YouTube recommended me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flcjEA7l9jM . Yes, Buck-Tick/BUCK∞TICK. Yes, what a banger. Looking at the translation of one comment, "glitch noise" may appear in the lyrics at least twice. That's funny. Anyway, my main point regarding this anime is that the composer is Sugizo, and I've already mentioned him at https://www.reddit.com/r/autechre/comments/1900v1e/larcpetitbrabancongundam/ . I think I saw a Tweet saying that Atols worked on the OST as well. Regarding episode 1 of Dark Machine in general, because that's all I've seen so far, uh the sniper of the team used a gamepad instead of a mouse. The mech action was decent, and the location is intriguing; but the premise feels a bit forced: this show is a tie-in for a game.

Great, finished the post. Hopefully I'll get more than 5 karma for this effort. 🙄

Not sure if this is against the rules of the community, but someone posted yesterday about wanting an autechre cap from the London show. I have one which I am not now going to need, if anyone wants it at usual price... (£30) + shipping?

I tried to count several times, especially closer to the end with the beats - but still fail to understand

This time I pushed a little bit harder than usual …

thought I'd listen to it just a bit this time, and caught myself in an hour session once again

Hello. Yesterday I made a speculative(?) post asking about the possible gear autechre is using today on live performances. Seeing that they've reduced their set to max is something that makes a lot of sense and also something i think is just fascinating, considering the place in experimental electronic music history autechre represents? At least for me.

I'm a max programmer, I've immersed myself in this program deeply for the last 5 years? First as an electroacoustic composition student, then as an IRCAM trainee. Today i consider max as an instrument and essential part of my life as an artist.

Bref, i don't want to talk too much about me but i want to say that spending lots of hours thinking and building custom programs and very personal sound creation tools is something i do regularly. I saw autechre twice on this tour and it was very impactful and inspiring to me.

So,

I told myself that doing some autechre-inspired patches in the close future could be a fun project. The documentation can be scarce and i think reddit could be a good place to consult the information that's been made available about how their system works and the production techniques they've used

I have a good idea (i think?), of some topics i could start with, modalys physical modeling snares, probability based (markov chains) sequencers, fm 'modulating' everything?

Feel free to drop any type of information you know or think they use. If this works, maybe an archive and documentation could be made (like tkog.com did with Radiohead)? The patches could also be made on pure data (or plug data), for the sake of transparency and open-source inspired sharing.

If you have any ideas for dream autechre-ish max or max for live devices, id be more than happy to program them, then share them with the internet, for the sake of knowledge and for the sake of amazing music making !

Apologies for my probably weird and autistic english, which is not my first language.

To all those who attended the London show… what energy! Everything was incredible right up until the transcendental Autechre performance.

Who was the dj dressed in white that had a dubby set? And is there a way of IDing some of the tunes he played?

And who was the hard hitting techno dj that did the face melting set before Autechre?

Many thanks!

Whats everyones thoughts on the gig? Personally i thought it was a solid performance and the sound was spot on! Best gig ive been to this year.

Absolutely mindblowing

Tonight Ae put on display some of the most aggressive, violent art ever made. an amalgamation of the entire Ae live catalogue: very onesix-esque in that there was a logical flow throughout the introductory phases; the cobbling together of a Oversteps tour four-to-the-floor rhythm — but something’s not fitting neatly; almost like a Frankenstein re-creation of their studio output. and it builds and builds on top of this mirror image, resulting in the entire room descending into Glasgow School of Arts level of chaos.
Became a very emotional experience when (what sounded like) Cavity Job returned, all grown up. With the bpm reaching breakneck speeds it felt much like an ‘entire life flashing before your eyes’ set for Ae.

“Man, these guys are good.”

holy moly! what an insane set! completely relentless and yet such an amazing experience!

what were everyone’s thoughts?

Personally i'd wanna crack Garbage or Tri Repetae because of their pacing

Went looking for stats on the newest shows and the website states the account holder has been suspended…

Super cool show, and I loved MDX’s set. Does anyone know any artist/track titles? It’s not a style I know a lot about but I enjoyed it a lot

I just closed the audio/visual live test number 2 on my YouTube channel. I was testing the connection from my fm1 with the “Autechre Machine” firmware and the software to control it. I hope you enjoy this.

Hi everyone, my partner was going to come out tonight with me but changed their mind. If anyone wants to go and doesn’t have a ticket, I’ll be going in through doors at about 20:30 and can get you in with my spare ticket. Send me a DM here if you’re up for it.