Autechre "Draft 7.30" 2x LP OOP Boards of Canada
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Autechre "Draft 7.30" Gatefold 2xLP Warp (UK)

Vinyl is NM/MT, Jacket is NM/MT!

Out of Print!!

Original Press.

Track Listing:

A1 Xylin Room 6:21 A2 IV V VI VII VIII 4:18 A3 6IE.CR 5:37 B1 Tapr 3:14 B2 Surripere 11:16 C1 Theme Of Sudden Roundabout 4:49 C2 VL AL 5 4:55 C3 P.:NTIL 7:06 D1 V-Proc 6:12 D2 Reniform Puls 7:47

Autechre are an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, the duo are one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums have been released. While most associated with IDM (intelligent dance music), Booth and Brown are ambivalent in relating their sound to established genres. Their music has exhibited a gradual shift in aesthetic throughout their career, from their earlier work with clear roots in techno, electro and hip hop to later albums that are often considered more experimental in nature, featuring complex patterns of rhythm and subdued melodies. Oversteps, their most recent album, was released on February 22nd 2010.

Autechre have also recorded under various pseudonyms. One of the duo's earliest recordings was a 12" under the alias Lego Feet, released in 1991 on Skam Records. The majority of releases by the mysterious "umbrella project" Gescom, most of them on Skam, have been attributed to Booth and Brown, among other artists.

Confield, Draft 7.30, and Untilted (2000–2007)

The new millennium brought about a drastic change in Autechre's style, initially indicated by the heavily generative EP7. Demonstrated by Confield (2001) and Draft 7.30 (2003), as well as the Gantz Graf EP (2002), listeners could hear Autechre's move into a musical territory built upon almost unrestrained rhythm backed by sparse melodies buried further back in the mix than ever before. Although still strongly connected to the IDM genre tag, tracks like Confield's closer "Lentic Catachresis" seem to momentarily sever all ties the duo have with electronic dance music, even in its broadest sense. In a similarly chaotic fashion, the title track from Gantz Graf inspired an iconic video by British designer Alex Rutterford, featuring an object (or an agglomeration of objects) synchronized to the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes, and finally dissolves. Rutterford, who had previously created an unofficial video for the Tri Repetae track "Eutow" as part of the Channel 4 music programme Lo-Fi in 2001, claimed the idea for the "Gantz Graf" video came during one of his LSD trips. The second Autechre Peel session EP was also released in 2002, containing four new tracks that were named by John Peel himself. Autechre released two collaborative albums with Andrew M. McKenzie's Hafler Trio collective during the following three years (see collaborations).

The reactions by both professional critics and fans to the release of Confield were mixed, as perhaps expected, though generally positive. Some publishers even went so far as to say it exhibits the duo at "the top of their game" and "cements Autechre's name in the pantheon of sonic visionaries", as well as praising its intricate, ambitious and unsettling nature. According to Sean Booth, "most of Confield came out of experiments with Max that weren't really applicable in a club environment." In contrast, 2003's Draft 7.30 was seen by some as a relatively easier record to grasp, combining Confield's sonic abstraction and ambition with splintered, harder beats that recall more the duo's interest in techno and hip hop, such as in the almost glitch hop rhythm of "V-Proc". Booth stated in an interview around the release of Draft 7.30 that "[rhythm] doesn't seem to limit us in the way it did when we first started. Now I think we just get it, we're totally fluent in it and can be more expressive."

Untilted (a play on the word "untitled"), the duo's eighth album, was released in 2005. It roughly continued the sound of their previous two LPs, though featured compositions that mutated greatly during their duration, typically alternating between passages of ambience and heavily processed, precise beats, such as on "Ipacial Section". Its final track, "Sublimit", is at almost sixteen minutes Autechre's longest composition to feature on any of their albums. The release of Untilted was followed by a two month tour that took the group around Europe, America and Japan, but withdrew them from studio work for an unusual length of time. The outcome of this, coupled with a forced change in studio setup, was a gap of three years between releases, longer than ever before.

Quaristice and Oversteps (2008–2011)

Their ninth album, Quaristice, was finally released in early 2008. In stark contrast to Untilted, it is made up of twenty tracks, more than any other Autechre release, each typically around 2–5 minutes in length. The download-only Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae EP that accompanies it (as well as the Versions bonus disc and three tracks released exclusively through the Japanese iTunes store) brings the total length of music released during their Quaristice era to over five hours. Among this is the hour-long, extremely minimal "Perlence subrange 6-36" that closes the EP. The sound of Quaristice, while unusually erratic, is arguably highly representative of Autechre as a whole: it contains washes of ambience, and heavily processed and textured sound design, together with beats both typical of IDM and resembling the techno and hip hop that influenced the duo in their early days. Each track on Quaristice was edited down from lengthy improvised sessions between Booth and Brown, some of which were released in longer versions on Quaristice. Quadrange.ep.ae. Although Sean Booth has stated that the FLAC release of Quaristice is the actual product, the album was also released by Warp Records as a double LP and a single CD as well as an elaborate two CD edition by Warp Records. Limited to only 1000 copies, and containing both the regular album and Quaristice (Versions), this special edition was packaged in a photo-etched steel case. It sold out within 12 hours of being announced.

On 13 January 2010, Warp Records announced Oversteps, Autechre's tenth album. Originally slated to be released in March, it was released a month early in digital form on Bleep.com to those who preordered it; the CD and deluxe vinyl editions were released on 22 March 2010. A two-month European tour occurred in support of the album, followed by limited shows in Japan and Australia, the latter breaking a 15 year absence. The sound of Oversteps, as with Quaristice, is greatly eclectic, though it is perhaps their most noticeably ambient release since 1994's Amber. Autechre then compiled a mix for the magazine FACT, released in February of the same year, that consisted of tracks by artists as diverse as J Dilla and Necrophagist. On 25 May 2010, Warp Records announced the ten track Move of Ten, an EP by the duo in conjunction with the release of Oversteps. The digipack CD and the two 12" vinyl version, as well as a high quality download, was released on 12 July 2010. In 2011 the release of a collection of EPs, excluding Move Of Ten, was announced on the Bleep Website, with artwork from the Designers Republic. Entitled EPs 1991 - 2002, it is set for physical release on 11 April 2011. The boxset includes a CD copy of their first EP, Cavity Job, the first time it has been released on the format.

Collaborations, remixes and covers

Both Booth and Brown are known to have been heavily involved with the majority of releases by the mysterious Gescom collective, although Booth admitted in an interview that around 20-30 musicians overall are connected with what he describes as an "umbrella project". Two elaborately packaged albums (Ƴo & h³æ and Æo³ & ³hæ) have been made by Autechre in collaboration with Andrew M. McKenzie's ongoing Hafler Trio project. Both albums are significantly more minimal than any other Autechre release, featuring dense, claustrophobic and noisy drones. A track called "Elephant Gear", credited to both Autechre and Canadian breakcore musician Venetian Snares under the alias AEVSVS, was released on a compilation in tribute to Elektron co-founder Daniel Hansson, who died in a car accident. Autechre have collaborated with several artists for live performances, including Zoviet France, Fennesz and Roedelius 3. Telepathics Meh In-Sect Connection, an album by Sean Booth in collaboration with Mika Vainio of Pan Sonic and Kouhei Matsunaga, was released in early 2010.

In 2009 they contributed a cover of an LFO song to the Warp20 (Recreated) compilation, as well as having their song "Tilapia" covered by John Callaghan.

Autechre helped initiate the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in 2000, and curated the 2003 festival.

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