Looking forward to their show here in Denver in about 2 weeks.
quoted 37 lines Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:15:54 -0700
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:15:54 -0700
> From: eric@explosive.net
> To: christaylor415@gmail.com
> CC: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: autechre US tour
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Chris Taylor wrote:
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> > Has anyone caught Autechre on their current US tour? Any reports?
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> Yeah, saw 'em here in Portland last week.
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> The opener (the impossible-to-google Cygnus) was awesome. Live hardware set that was electro-rooted with some great
> development and movement. http://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/
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> Autechre played in the dark. Each with their laptop, screens dimmed down to almost nothing.
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> Nothing I recognized, but I haven't really been able to ID individual tracks since Quaristice. The sound at Holocene was
> pretty good but many in the crowd would not shut up their dumb mouths long enough to hear the quiet passages. Things
> would go sort of noodly noisey space and then drop into incredibly fast and 'hard' beats, full spectrum clattering
> glitchy things at 190bpm. Midrange "melodies" like they figured out how to suck sound backwards through the speakers.
> Pause. Repeat with a variation on timbre/tonality or maybe a hint of an acid squiggle done so fast it was gone before
> you're sure that's what happened.
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> 60 minutes of this and then they unplugged their laptops and slunk off. Rob Hall did some nice Warp-ish DJ stuff but it
> was a worknight and I had to go pretty quickly.
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> Was it good? Yeah, it's a treat for the ears. Feels like there is a bit of disdain, or at least indifference, for the
> audience and what they're hoping to get out of a live show, which I don't think is new. I was hoping for some kind of
> the 4/4 stuff that surfaced a couple of years back, and I had to resist the urge to shout out "Basscadet!!" like an
> idm-dork "Free bird!!" .. but as always, we get the thing Autechre want to do, not what we want them to.
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