Cavity Job

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Cavity Job

Cavity Job.jpg

Artist Autechre
Released 1991
Label Hardcore Records (HARD003)
Lego Feet
(1991) 		Cavity Job Incunabula
(1993)

Cavity Job is an EP by Autechre released in late 1991. It is both the first official Autechre release and the 3rd of only 4 records to be released on Hardcore Records before it went bankrupt.

Tracks

Cavity Job

  • A late demo version of "Cavity Job"[1] appeared in live shows like Sweatbox 2 at Bojangles club in 1991[2] and on IBC Radio shows.[3] There is also an earlier variation of it titled "Cavity Job Original 244 Mix" which has no "this is" sample from "Style Wars" and synth solo.[4]
  • There is an unreleased remix of Cavity Job made in 1992, but it's currently unreleased and not much is known about it.
  • Sean explained much of the background for "Cavity Job / Accelera 1 & 2" in Mastodon posts, [5] starting with the equipment used for that early rough version being their old setup: RSD-10, SK-1, SK-5 for samplers and MC-202, SH-2 for synths, all on Tascam 244 Portastudio "with at least one bounce IIRC." He further elaborated in the same post on specific parts: "The kick and snare were played live on the SK-5 to tape, and then a bar of that was looped on the RSD-10 so it had a really dirty feel. The hats were 606. We’d just got the R8 at that point but it’s only doing the claps." The cleaner version of the track for the official Cavity Job was rebuilt using an Atari ST, FZ-10 and MC-202 mixed to quarter-inch cartridge tape at Daz's studio. Sean's estimate is that the original version took probably a few nights across 1-2 weeks, and the EP remake took a few days.
  • The original EP version opened with a sample of "Valium Ten" by Hawkwind, which was removed when it was re-released on EPs 1991 - 2002, however a pitchshifted and reversed repetition of the sample, remains at the end of the track. Another sample from the film "Style Wars" also appears across the track ("this is" part).

Accelera 1 & 2

  • "Accelera 1 & 2" initially started out as a 1989 track by Rob called "Rippin Circuits" (which was later released on Warp Tapes 89-93) before being reworked into "Accelera 1 & 2". [6][7] Early unreleased version of it was made om the same setup as original Cavity Job and was recorded using Tascam 244 aswell. It had a sampled pad instead of Jupiter 8 and was played quite often by them at IBC Radio.
  • The woman sample also appeared on Gescom's Minidisc on the track "PT/AE".
  • There is also an another version called "2 Accelerippin R8 Edit".[4]
  • While the equipment was not listed, it's likely they used the same old setup for the original version as the original version of "Cavity Job", with the only noteworthy change being the ease of reworking due to the drums being all R8.[8] A Jupiter 8 belonging to Daz was potentially used for the pads on the remake.[9] Some other differences on the reworked version for the EP version include a dropped chord sample "that we were never gonna get away with" and some smaller sounds differing due to them being unable to reproduce it on Daz's gear. [8]
  • The original EP version opened with a sample of "Equinoxe Part 5" Live in Houston by Jean Michel-Jarre, which was removed when it was re-released on EPs 1991 - 2002, though the line itself ("The most amazing sight ever viewed by the human eye!") appears later in the track, said by Atari ST SAM voice. The sample of the woman yelling "Yeah!" comes from a sex scene between Thomas and Mary-Lou in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Tracklist

# Title Length
1 Cavity Job 6:10
2 Accelera 1 & 2 6:39
Total 12:49

Trivia

  • Cavity Job is one of only two Autechre releases to have a title track, with the other being Gantz Graf.
  • Cover art was made by Autechre using Letraset and Letratone dry transfer templates, just like they did with their demo tapes, while the artwork was done by Dave Hanal.
  • The Casio SK-1 was used on Cavity Job.[10]
  • In URB Magazine Issue 42, May 1995, Hardcore Records was described as a con that immediately filed for bankruptcy and fled soon after the release of Cavity Job, meaning they earned nothing from the record. In the same interview Sean mentioned that it was "the worst record we ever did!".

Credits

References

  1. ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=B1347:B1348
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7LGzCZ-q0
  3. ↑ https://youtu.be/E_7ttPWn1bU
  4. ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 https://www.reddit.com/r/autechre/comments/1bbc89f/old_lego_feetae_leak_of_early_material/
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114430/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111635157753588040
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114430/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111635157753588040#:~:text=There%E2%80%99s%20also%20a%20way%20older%20original%20original%20of%20Accelera%20(from%20%E2%80%9889)%20called%20Rippin%20Circuits%20that%E2%80%99s%20on%20the%20Warp%20Tapes%20thing%20(I%20think%20the%20oldest%20track%20on%20there)%20but%20it%27s%20a%20different%20vibe%20really%2C%20just%20the%20riff%20is%20the%20same.
  7. ↑ https://aepages.org/wiki/Sean_Twitch_AMA,_July_2022#:~:text=which%20was%20originally%20it%20was%20called%20Ripping%20Circuits
  8. ↑ Jump up to: 8.0 8.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114430/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111635157753588040#:~:text=We%20remade%20the%20b%2Dside%20track%20Accelera%201%262%20at%20the%20same%20time%20but%20that%20was%20a%20bit%20easier%20cos%20the%20drums%20were%20all%20R8%20IIRC.
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20250409204226/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/114303369010045124
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609,#:~:text=cavity%20job%2C%20incunabula%2C%20chiastic%20slide
  11. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/235196-Autechre-Cavity-Job
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