When I'm rich one day I'll start an AE cassette collection. I guess it was towards the end of general cassette production in '97? They even sent out a promo cassette for Christ's sake. Love it :)Įdit: forgot to mention how funny it was to see a cassette of this album too (I think the first image I posted there is from the discogs cassette artwork, but that art is featured on the CD and I'd assume on the vinyls?). One of the main prints with the 'ae' embedded would've made a great poster:Īlso on the art for the CD case back (outward) there's a huge overlay print of the 'compact disc digital audio logo' seen below (I could try and get some pics illustrating the overlay here and elsewhere in the art if anyone wants but it's VERY subtle) which is a super tDR thing to do. The albums before are very special and unique but I can't think of anything that would have sounded close to Chiastic Slide when it came out - a total game changer. It's hard or impossible to see on the pics I saw on discogs, but there's a fair amount of this: the inner artwork is also a combo of 'regular' printing as well as this overlay sort of print.I'm not into design so I'm probably getting the terminology all wrong, but nonetheless I always liked it. Chiastic is definitely when they 'became' Autechre if that makes any sense. For something that seems to rub our ears the wrong way in every 6 minutes, there's another audio track of harmony infused within those every 6 minutes we hate.The overlay print on the CD artwork was really cool, with much only catching light occasionally. A serene, ethereal, or sometimes eerie backdrop within Chiastic Slide. A super contrasted sound within every song that works in almost every accord. So what does Autechre bring here? A darker, colder overtone from Amber. It would be easy to say Autechre have no sense of improving themselves, but album after album since their debut, they've mixed it up, to the point of uncomfortably for themselves. Once a song lets go as it does in "Cichli" (you know that circus keyboard contrast to the hard repetition of drum breaks) it something that is utterly relaxing, in every sense of the word. It's something to be perceived and to be heard on their fourth release. A insensitive, if not callous, repetitive drum break accompanied by a serene, concentrated, ethereal keyboard or tone(s) that eventually overtakes the entire song whole. Though not initially met with the same critical acclaim as Tri Repetae or LP5, Chiastic Slide was eventually recognized by. A pattern develops within the structure of Chiastic envelops in the polar opposites of musicality within every track. While 'LP5' somehow managed to transcend all of this, 'Chiastic Slide' is the crucible that made 'LP5' possible.
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It no longer sounds like music made by humans with synths it sounds like a series of natural processes becoming conscious and exploring a world of sound. Thus this animal is showcased in a harsh reality of hard break beats with a circus number keyboard in "Cichlii", something exceptionally telling. 'Chiastic Slide' is filled with novel detail, nuance and suggestion. This is a different animal and it shows itself to be something of an experimental project for Booth and Brown. They are molding their future albums off of Chiastic Slide gone are soft, simple electronic presence within Incunabula or the dense warmth of synths within Amber. This evolution of sorts for Autechre is endearing, in the sense that we'll never see them in this type of form. Its overly noticeable distortion of noise is, like the previous song, an afterthought - instead we focus on the serene backdrop. I'd assume it's the same, the description discogs has for the Peel Session 2 artwork sounds like what's on the Chiastic Slide CD. I don't have the second Peel Session on CD (one of their releases I've not purchased, didn't really enjoy it). Chiastic Slide bellows forward in its low voice and murky movements as shown by "Rettic AC". The same printing as on the second Peel Session. It drives eloquently - at 4:45 the creaks and clicks are an afterthought once the mood sets in, it's almost compulsive to sit through it and listen to the watery high-toned keyboard that heeds through. Nonetheless, it still doesn't sound like a lost cause the compositions are tightly knit in a heavy bass laden opening track "Cipater" that merges clicks and quick drum pacings exponentially. The group's 1997 release hints at the dark, harsh corridors that the new millennium bands would grab hold of. Chiastic Slide is a bit of a crossroads for Autechre. Their latest works sound of a mix-mash of past albums, all the while adding increasingly cold and mundane minimalism within their music. Their music hasn't stagnated or leaned toward a static composition, instead since Incunabula and if not more evident in Amber they've strived to become ill-mannered in their fashion of electronic. Autechre force the listener to use its love/hate relationship within every track, and for the most part the love takes over.Īutechre have become increasingly difficult to describe these last few years. Review Summary: An album of musical opposites.
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