Autechre – Quaristice

Interesting album. I started with Quaristice (Versions) and didn’t love it the first time through, so I was skeptical putting on the main Quaristice album, but…wow. Maybe I love short track Autechre.

Standouts on first listen: Altibzz, Simmm, Tankakern, rale, fwzE, 90101-5I-I, bnc Castl, chenc9

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Listening to this, and it is really, all over the place. It's both irritable and irresistable. Should it keep you awake at night? Send you to sleep at night? I just don't know. In summary, a lazy effort with only 2 or 3 standout tracks

Playing now... What drugs were you on for this fukkup BPM bomblastic tidy-puppy cute industrial art spreading up the universe like this alien formed tidy cupboard with the kitchen sink... Love it, hate it.....it's all the same 🫨 leee

This is the rare Autechre release that never really clicked for me. Maybe I just prefer long form, meandering Autechre as opposed to the "sketch" approach that is on display here. Out of the 20 tracks on this, there's just half a dozen that I actually like to listen to and that have in some way engraved themselves into my conscience, the rest just won't stick. The odd one out for me, I guess.

I've ignored this album since it was released because of the reviews. I feel like a damned fool. It's absolutely one of their best. The smaller tracks and wider variety of soundscapes make it a virtual tour of experimental electronic music. It's a museum piece. Gold.

This Album could have been much better with a better selection of the musics to be included in this Album, so many tracks included with different tunes that it compromises some of its coherence, nevertheless it turns out to be a satisfying release after many attempts to assemble its content...still some tracks sound aggressive and distressing to my ears. My top track is "Paralel Suns" witch is absolutely amazing and impressive, it places me before giant Temples falling apart , also i love "Altibzz" which is very melodic and makes me fly over a vast landscape,"Rale" with its dark tune , "Notwo" witch is like a mysterious force growing, and "Outh9x" that makes me imagine a forgotten surreal temple immersed in deep fog during daylight.

I just love the artwork for this release. Excellent job, Designer's Republic.

Listening to Autechre albums from start to finish with a little understanding of music technology and its evolution over the past 18 years, you kind of get a sense for these two lads.

While itting they really don't know what they are doing in a classical music sense, they have always pushed their gear and the limitations of electronic music and to wonderful affect.

From hacking ensoniq samplers to learning software like max/msp, they have pushed the limits most other artists felt comfortable with and thus a lot of listener's comfort limits. At times they create the most beautiful and otherworldy soundscapes and at times create the most isolatingly cold calculated digital sound scapes, like music a schizophrenic AI might calculate.

Quaristice is the culmination of nearly 20 years of growth and push towards the outer limits of music technology and experimentation. They seem to have reached a comfort level (for the time being) with music technology and this album showcases this level of artistic comfort.

It "feels" as though they have really reached a point where they have explored and isolated enough sonic avenues, and now they share with us an assortment of paths, melodic, percussive and somewhat odd yet entirely musical pieces.

The majorty of tracks are short at pop song length or less, but you get the "ideas" with each track, and each track is, in essence, a different idea. This is where their mastery shines through. They show us what can be done with it all. From lovely melodic to calculated percussion and points in between. Old sounds mashed with new. In a quickly and easily digested "information age" format.

While listening to this album Im consequently reminded of all the elements I have come to love about their sound and all of the elements I have yet to really understand or feel, yet somehow they mix and match just enough, to make me feel like the bumpy road that has been Autechre's discography has led to something great.

IF you listen to Autechre, from their first album to their last and really try and understand that this is essentially a life sentence of dedication to exploration of electronic music and the technology available to make it over the past 20 years, you will really understand this album and have a better understanding of some of their "harder to listen to" works and maybe "get" their ideas now.

The growth in computing power from the early 90s up to now has been staggering, in both computers and electronic instruments. Autechre and few other artists have kept pace with this tech curve and that is an act of pure genius in itself. To make these frontier sounds musical and at times emotionally/creatively charged is just amazing. Autechre does this, and does it very well.