Autechre's reissue engine reaches their outstanding 2008 album, featuring definitive moments of their near 40 year (and ongoing) run.
‘Quaristice’ is Rob Brown and Sean Booth’s 9th studio album as Autechre, conceived some 20 years up-to-the-hilt in their thing, and depicting the duo emerging into a sort of hybrid live x studio jam style that’s distinguished much of their work thus far. However archänlèy, it’s still not even the best version - that honour is reserved to the 2.5hr digital-only ‘Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae’ brimming with extended versions, including an hour long mix of ‘Perlance subrange 6-36’ and deadly 10’ mix of ‘Tkakanren’ - but suffice it to say we’re made up to see this one in the wild on vinyl, at least.
The follow-up to a pivotal standout, 2004’s ‘Untilted’ (also reissued this year), ‘Quaristice’ really felt like a future upgrade to the system on its release in 2008. Completely unconcerned with prevailing or emerging trends of dubstep or UKF at the time, it sees the duo follow their noses for hardware/ software jams into the proper mutant body music, milling limbs to the meanest 112BPM electro swag in the twin-rotor electro hip hop gnash of ‘Tankakern’, and utterly wrecking the senses in the blizzard dynamic of ‘Fol3’, or manipulating sinew with deviant liquid B-Boy tekkerz on ’90101-5l-l’ - each of which feature in even better versions on the 2nd disc (and frankly better yet in their alternative extensions of the digi-only version).
There are flashes of the melodic and harmonically curious Autechre we all know and love in opener ‘Altibzz’ (their love note to the magic of Altrincham), the aerated strings of ‘Theswere’, and almost Lynchian noir of ‘Notwo’, yet the whole thing feels to trigger muscle memories and flashbacks to club physicality, as felt in the corresponding live show at Pure in Manchester at the time. The mad thing is, as judged from recent live show, they still sound as rudely uncompromising and propulsive now, 17 years later, perhaps more than ever
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Black 2LP vinyl in printed inner sleeves in wide spine outer sleeve
Estimated Release Date: 05 September 2025
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Autechre's reissue engine reaches their outstanding 2008 album, featuring definitive moments of their near 40 year (and ongoing) run.
‘Quaristice’ is Rob Brown and Sean Booth’s 9th studio album as Autechre, conceived some 20 years up-to-the-hilt in their thing, and depicting the duo emerging into a sort of hybrid live x studio jam style that’s distinguished much of their work thus far. However archänlèy, it’s still not even the best version - that honour is reserved to the 2.5hr digital-only ‘Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae’ brimming with extended versions, including an hour long mix of ‘Perlance subrange 6-36’ and deadly 10’ mix of ‘Tkakanren’ - but suffice it to say we’re made up to see this one in the wild on vinyl, at least.
The follow-up to a pivotal standout, 2004’s ‘Untilted’ (also reissued this year), ‘Quaristice’ really felt like a future upgrade to the system on its release in 2008. Completely unconcerned with prevailing or emerging trends of dubstep or UKF at the time, it sees the duo follow their noses for hardware/ software jams into the proper mutant body music, milling limbs to the meanest 112BPM electro swag in the twin-rotor electro hip hop gnash of ‘Tankakern’, and utterly wrecking the senses in the blizzard dynamic of ‘Fol3’, or manipulating sinew with deviant liquid B-Boy tekkerz on ’90101-5l-l’ - each of which feature in even better versions on the 2nd disc (and frankly better yet in their alternative extensions of the digi-only version).
There are flashes of the melodic and harmonically curious Autechre we all know and love in opener ‘Altibzz’ (their love note to the magic of Altrincham), the aerated strings of ‘Theswere’, and almost Lynchian noir of ‘Notwo’, yet the whole thing feels to trigger muscle memories and flashbacks to club physicality, as felt in the corresponding live show at Pure in Manchester at the time. The mad thing is, as judged from recent live show, they still sound as rudely uncompromising and propulsive now, 17 years later, perhaps more than ever