''Autechre - Australian tour May 2010
Perth
Thursday, 27 May - Capitol
Sydney
Friday, 28 May - Forum
Supported by FBI
Melbourne
Saturday, 29 May - Hi Fi Bar
Tickets on sale now civilsociety.com.au for more details
Civil Society are proud to announce the return tour of the English electronic music pioneers on Autechre. After over 15 years Autechre will finally return in May for performances in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Autechre will be showcasing the experimental forms that have kept their music relevant and engaging throughout the career to their latest album Oversteps.
Proponents of “mind-boggling intricacies and moody, broody sound-sculpting” – Mojo, Autechre, alongside fellow Warp Records stalwarts Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Boards Of Canada, have established themselves as creative force. A sonic maelstrom that emanates from the darkness of a pitch black stage bar a resolute few small red lights,
Hailing from Rochdale in Manchester, Autechre’s Rob Brown and Sean Booth buildt friendship based on swapping mix-tapes and collecting a mix of cheap recording gear. Soon the pair were composing their own music through their first incarnation as a group called Lego Feet, they released a self tilted track on Skam Records. It was however in 1992 that they released their first single as Autechre a 12” called Cavity Job on Hardcore records.
Over the past 14 years Autechre have released 10 albums, multiple EPs and singles. They’ve built a fan base of concert goers, musicians and critics alike with Thom Yorke of Radiohead telling of Autechre’s tracks making his head spin and citing Booth and Brown as a major influences on Kid a and Amnesiac. Above all it has been Autechre’s desire to experiment that has allowed them to continually develop and evolve their sound to become one of the most distinctive and revered electronic groups of all time.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness Autechre in Australia again for the first time in over 15 years, performing live in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth this May.''
Oops… tix HERE
Perth and not Brisbane? What?
Yes! Road trip.
just bought sydney tickets
considering heading to the melbourne shows as well.
fuck me, that's incredible.
i saw them in 2003 in London at the Fridge in Brixton. Pitch black room, totally freaky. oh yeah, and at their ATP that year as well.
extreme good times.
BIG UPS
Fuck yeah. I just hope the HiFi fills up; not much fun when it's half full.
unimpressed about no brisbane show.
$60.50 for the forum show..hmm, being a poor student this year wasn't necessarily the greatest idea
This is awesome but I'm really, really struggling to part with $60 for it. I just don't have it. Otherwise, I guess you could say I've been looking forward to this for the better part of fifteen years.
!?!?
oh wow I only discovered this band about a month ago. I really love their new album. $60 is a tiny bit steep but I suspect they would be pretty awesome live? (and loud?)
Those are exactly my sentimonies.
dub3000 - I just don't have the cash. At all. I don't smoke, I don't drink coffee... it's not like I have bad spending to cut back on!
But holy crap, I'm going! Thanks anok, you're the coolest dude in the dudiverse ever.
Brilliant! Will be there for sure. I saw them in London in 1999 and it was unlike anything I've experienced before or since. Disorienting, loud, spatial and awesome. Off to listen to Tri Repetae right now..
But what IS it like? I don't know what to make of this.
I don't think I can afford this and Tortoise. Decisions, decisions.
I'm already in Melbourne for gigs now, don't know if I can make it back again next month, especially for a regular weekend rather than a long one. Very tempting though.
I've seen tortoise a few times and they're less interesting with each show, so if you've keen 'em before kaz, like me, I'd go autechre!
Tortoise are actually horrible live. I have walked out of one of thier shows, it was really just so bad.
No contest between them and ae
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Freaky deaky it was!
anyone got times for tonight?
8pm Mark Pritchard (Harmonic 313)
10pm Rob Hall techno explosion
12 midnight Autechre
thx broey.
Had a good time last night. The late 90s crowd was totally hilarious and there were so many cocks in the room I had to get really drunk lest I have nightmares about being Chonged, but I kind of enjoyed the jungle warm-up set by Mark Pritchard, even if it was completely ridiculous being in a big venue like that with no lights going on at all. Just coloured, dim stage lighting on a guy neck-dancing over his laptop. Nice to hear 'Limb by limb'.
Autechre were pretty intense. Lots more jungle/dnb influence than I had expected. I thought it was great. There were long passages which were so atonal and retarded that they didn't resemble music much at all. Plenty of wobbling, nodding heads trying to find the 1. Drifted in and out of abstraction at fairly regular intervals, and tuned it up to some relentless techno at a couple of points.
Honestly, if the room hadn't been full of expectant people - that is, without Autechre's career progression - I don't know how viable this sort of thing would be. It really is incredibly weird and it's kind of surprising that people enjoy this music, when you think of it. But that's a moot point. A hypnotic and strange set. Perhaps too much of an assault all at once (I'd have liked to hear some of their more slow building ambient work) but I'm so glad I went after all this time. Spent a long time blissing out with my eyes closed. Nothing to see anyway, and no lights to motivate proper attempts at dancing.
Hey black wasp! - nice review. I wish I'd been there, just for Mark P's set, but Ae sound like they were very similar to what we got in Sydney. Maybe the sound was better for more of the room.
I loved the strange jungle influence. I did feel that the beats weren't nearly as random as some people thought. Maybe I'm primed on listening to lots of Icarus, but I thought there was a lot of displacing of beats, where if you did close your eyes and tune in to the music, there was always something like an off-beat hi-hat sound or something that would mostly keep to the 2nd & 4th beats of the bar. You could still nod your head along, although there would always be moments of further disorientation.
You're absolutely right that Autechre's career progression - essentially their entire prior body of work - is an important part of why such big audiences actually accept this stuff as music. But that's ok - it is awesome music, even if it takes some effort to comprehend.
yeah, totally. or three or four minutes into some chaos, it'd all suddenly make sense.
it makes me very grumpy that autechre live shows are almost exclusively made up of stuff they don't release anywhere else (i picked up on a few minutes of something that sounded a bit like LCC but everything else sounded new to me). and that they don't release any of their live stuff, and have said they won't do that in the future. and that the live show seemed way better/tighter/more consistent than the last couple of albums. and that they have their own sound-guy who watches for tapers like a hawk.
hence: no decent bootlegs. gah.
there's a 256kbps soundboard of the 2005 autechre glasgow arts school set floating around. it's stunning. it's like all the best bits of untilted and quaristice mangled together, plus another 45 minutes of insane stuff that isn't out anywhere else. but the show on friday seemed even more nasty than that. would love to hear it again :-(
Yeah I totally agree - I'd love to hear a recording of the stuff they played on the Aus tour!
there was definitely someone booting the show on friday. if I run into him again (see him all over the place—the next day in redeye for instance) i'll ask him to post it to this thread.
I really wish they hadn't played so late. not only did it mean that I could've gone to Boris as well after all, but I was just too fucking tired to properly process the density. I loved it, but was falling asleep on my feet by the end.
melbourne show @ hi fi bar.
http://tinyurl.com/2ckhacf
NOWAI. xmod, context? What kind of recording? Audience? Desk?
I'm grabbing now anyway.
Not recorded by me...I just stumbled upon it. Audience recording, flac format, very listenable.
The opening ambient bit just before the beats kick in sent shivers down my spine when I heard it again.
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
this is just about the best quality audience boot of autechre i've heard. very little audience chatter. thanks for posting that! (it was recorded with a zoom h2 or h4 apparently, i wish i'd brought mine to the sydney show, lucky someone else was thinking).
i did a tweak of it with some bass cut and treble added, tried to balanced the stereo image a bit. scrubs up nice.
great set. it's seriously dense though. i have no idea how they expect people to cope with this live, heh.
aw gawd, why's shit in flac? damn you audio nerds. isn't mp3 an open enough format?
mp3 is lossy. flac isn't.
in any case, everything except itunes and WMP can play it, and there are loads of free converters. pretty sure cdex will work - just drag the FLAC files into the main window and it should just convert them for you.
btw, it starts getting really good from about halfway in. ~42 minutes after the initial BOOM-CHK intro.
started listening to this so i don't burn out on the melbourne bootleg
http://www.discogs.com/Autechre-Radio-Mix/release/17922
That's good. This is even better (IMO):
http://www.factmag.com/2010/02/08/fact-mix-122-autechre/
(Still available even though it says ''for three weeks'')
the krautrock + hiphop thing that kicks in there at about 12 minutes-ish is sublime.
thanks for posting -- i remember the opening chord sequence part blew me away on the night, so good to have it now.