AUTECHRE shuffle-list

[andrewwright]

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I was a coach for various female football teams in Saudi Arabia both before and after women's sports were legalized. One tactic to cope with the long bus and plane trips required to zip about the kingdom of sand playing other football teams, especially after tough losses, was to erase and strip the mind of stress and tension through the playing of an Autechre shuffle-list I devised that harkened back to even earlier years of initial employment spent driving over vast distances in rural Australia interviewing supposedly single parents and their eligibility for government payment.

Shuffle list in no order:

Inhake 2

Drane (EPIC!)

444

Basscadet (12-4cadetmx)

Basscadet (Beaumonthannttwomx) (AWESOME!)

Basscadet

Bike

Chatter

Clipper

Crystel

Doctrine

Eggshell

Eutow

Flutter

Foil

Further

Garbagemx

Kalpol Introl

Lost

Montreal

Nil

Nine

Nonima

Piezo

Piob mix 2

Puch

Second Scout

Silverside

Teartear

The Egg

VLetrmx (CRAZY!)

Yulquen

[Per]

That seems like a reasonable mix of tracks from the early albums and sometimes album-like EPs. Although it seems odd if not slightly insane that you would include most if not all of Amber except for Slip, if the idea isn't that you absolutely wouldn't be able to concentrate on something else whenever that came on. Also a bit funny to put The Egg and Eggshell in the same list.

Like many others I generally prefer those early albums, especially Incunabula and the Tri Repetae++ stuff (for some reason most of Amber didn't stick as much). Around LP5 they tend to get a bit flakier. Confield to Untilted is the period I don't like all that much - it's like they took EP7, which I'm very fond of, and removed everything that still made for individual recognizable tracks, leaving just anonymous droning collections of stochastic scrapes and beats. From Quaristice onwards however they're pleasant enough to listen to, even if precious few tracks stand out as distinctive and memorable, the 1-hour Perlence Subrange mix being a notable exception.

In fact, if I want to put on a bunch of Autechre while doing other stuff, a fine option is to just put on Elseq 1-5 or NTS Sessions 1-4 in their entirety and let them drone on for hours, more or less. I guess they didn't exist back when you originally compiled this list.

If I were to take your list as a point of origin, alterations would include putting Slip at the top of the selection, since I'm not insane, taking out some Amber stuff in favour of more tracks from Incunabula, Anvil Vapre and Garbage (Bronchusevenmx24 is one of my favourites), and the odd tracks from Tri Repetae through EP7. I'd add their "remix" of Like a Motorway, the We R Are Why Are Y Are We tracks, and six or seven of the Keynells including those released as Gescom, plus a track or four from the Gescom and Motor EPs which should fit right in. Finally switch out Kalpol Introl for the 11-minute CRAZY EPIC live from Brixton version.