Autechre / Saw You

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Autechre / Saw You
Artist Autechre
Released 1990
Label self-released

Autechre / Saw You Lego Feet
(1991)

Autechre / Saw You is the oldest known release from Autechre, created in 1990 as a demo cassette, with only 50 copies made which were shared with friends and labels.[1] On January 13th, 2024, Sean posted downloads for tape transfers of both Autechre[2] and Saw You.[3]

History

Both tracks were made in Daz Fitton's studio above Dr Rock around 1989-1990 and recorded straight to cassette. [4][5]

On its Discogs page, it was noted that the tape got them signed to Warp Records. However, Sean clarified that they were actually rejected due to Warp not currently looking to sign anyone at the time. The track that actually got them signed was "Crystel" in 1991.[6]

The labels on the cassette were made by Sean with ink splatters, and the font used on the labels is Zurich Black from the Letraset character set.

Tracks

Autechre

  • The track name came from typing "Au" (due to a 'au' type sample appearing in the track) and then keysmashing the rest until the Atari's 8 character limit was hit. The band themselves liked the name so much they later adopted it as their new pseudonym.[7][8]
  • "Autechre" was played on Sunset 102 FM on December 18th, 1990 by 808 State.
  • The pads on "Autechre" was later reused in "Persuit 2" from Warp Tapes 89-93 along with noise from "Saw You" in 1992.
  • According to the metadata of Sean's download, it was recorded in 1989.

Saw You

  • When asked about it in 2022, Sean mentioned that in the Sweatbox 1991 recording, "Saw You" was the house/techno track with long keys and an TX81Z saxophone sound.[4] The TX81Z sound was "prob an edited preset".[3]
  • According to the metadata of Sean's download, it was recorded in 1990.

Tracklist

# Title Length
1 Autechre 5:22
2 Saw You 6:10
Total 11:32

Trivia

  • The Discogs listing along with its images, created by user awkwardsilence, were confirmed to be real in the July Twitch AMA.[4] However, out of respect, the original poster stated they weren't planning on leaking the tracks.
  • An early copy spread around Soulseek (and later uploaded to YouTube by hsfq) is fake. It actually consists of the tracks "Many" and "The Brink" from Freeform's Free EP (SKAM, 1995).[9]

Links

References

  1. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/6714178-Autechre-Autechre-Saw-You
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240113170311/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111749663624600342
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240113162259/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111749064152560779
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "“Can you tell us something about the Autechre/Saw You demo?” Yeah! So both of them are tracks that we did in Dazzy’s studio in ‘89, ‘90. They're like, one of them is on the Sweatbox video. I think it might be the last track. It's kind of a slow, plug-in kind of house beat, sort of techno thing with long keys in it, and a kind of weird saxophone sounding sound doing the, which I think was a TX81Z sound. It might have been a from before we knew really what we were doing with that thing. Got a battery warning. So yeah, that's Saw You. And then the Autechre track that's called Autechre, I don't think that's out there. I haven't got any plans to release them songs so, no. As far as I know, that hasn't leaked anywhere. But the pictures of the tapes are real. It was funny seeing that bloke on Discogs having to argue with people that it was real, you know? They were saying like “That's, I don't believe it. Nobody was spray painting tape labels back then!” Well fuck off, yes we were! I can't help it if we're a bit of ahead of everyone graphically, you know. It's just we’re writers, of course! We’re fucking graff writers! Of course we're going to spray our tape labels, what else we're going to do with them? It's like they've never seen the sleeve for Cavity Job."
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114430/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111635157753588040
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240113191644/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111750128290861077
  7. ↑ Sound On Sound Interview, April 2004. "Autechre pronounce their name as 'autecker'. Sean Booth explains that the name came about when the duo were working on an Atari. "The first two letters were intentional, because there was an 'au' sound in the track, and the rest of the letters were bashed randomly on the keyboard. We had this track title for ages, and we had written it on a cassette, with some graphics. It looked good, and we began using it as our name.""
  8. ↑ SECONDS Magazine Issue 31, 1994. "SECONDS: What does "Autechre" mean? Brown: It means nothing actually. It's kind of a mistake. With a lot of computer sequencing programs, you have eight characters to name a track. We had a name for a track that was kind of descriptive of the track --- it was a couple of words. When we decided to randomize it by messing around with the computer, it actually freaked out and came out with this word "autechre". We decided that you could pronounce it, so it became the name of that track. Then about six months later we decided to adopt it as the title of us."
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6R3fyKSwVM&pp=ygUQQXV0ZWNocmUgU2F3IFl1bw%3D%3D
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