NB. It comes either as CD with all four tracks or 2x12" each with 2
tracks. Not really remixes on the 12"R. Bit odd really.
WAP64CD
Autechre
Anvil Vapre
RELEASED ON 3 October 1995
12" / 12"R / CD
01 Second Bad Vilbel
02 Second Scepe
03 Second Scout
04 Second Peng
Autechre like the Aphex Twin seem to be keeping up a fairly steady stream
of releases and _Anvil Vapre_ is the latest. Like _Garbage_ it's quite a
hefty number weighing in at about 40 minutes. Autechre certainly seem now
to be consistently realising the potential of _Incunabula_, their first
album which though interesting, (it had loads of great noises) didn't
perhaps cohere as well as _Amber_ and other post _Incunabula_ work.
'Second Bad Vilbel' completely fried my CD player when I first played
it... Or so I thought. It starts with a wicked (evil) kind of distortion
sample thingy, which sounds like a cross between a blow torch and a really
fucked piece of vinyl. This repeats while a bit of Aphexy looped polybass
kicks in; it all layers up and eventually breaks for another blow torch
solo before it changes direction slightly, with a dark _Amber_ like sound
creeps in and the bass rejoins the affair. Every thing goes off and loops
for a while before it breaks again and that polybass is broken down and
twisted into a neat halting yet some how funky rhythm section, until the
whole thing echoes and fades out.
Track two takes off with another slower thudding polyrhythm, percussion
snippets and what sounds like very cut up vocal samples, cool simple
Autechrey chords things follow, slowly mutating while background is
provided by the haunting bit from _Amber_'s 'Further', it all reaches a
crescendo and the bass breaks, then everything fades off dreamily (these
long fades are becoming a bit of an Autechre trademark.
'Second Scout' has more excellent studded bass, and little wa ing bits and
a totally funky slow electroey noise that drifts in and out in amongst the
percussion, awesome, there's then a longish drifting echoey break, before
the finale.
Echoey ticky percussion and big bass drum thumps start 'Second Peng' off.
That wicked ringing noise _Incunabula_ owners will recognise, is given
some treatment here, mixing with layers of twinkling echoeing percussion
in an epic track.
So good stuff again perhaps a bit more aggressive than the cool metallic
emotion of Garbage, beats are certainly wicked. 'Second Scount' is a
corker. Autechre just get better and better - and I'm told that their
latest stuff (read third album) is even more amazing.
There is an accompanying short(ish) video but I haven't seen this yet :(
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