Chiastic Slide

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Chiastic Slide

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Artist Autechre
Released 17 February 1997
Label Warp Records (WARP49)
Envane
(1997) 		Chiastic Slide Cichlisuite
(1997)

Chiastic Slide is the fourth studio album by Autechre released on Warp Records. It was originally released on February 17th, 1997[1], then later repressed on vinyl in 2021, alongside LP5.

History

A majority of Chiastic Slide was done using Logic.[2] Intitially tracks were being made in C-Lab Creator on Atari computers up until "halfway through doing Chiastic Slide" where they acquired Macs with Logic.[3] In Warp: Labels Unlimited, they remarked that 90% of the material was not done with Macs, "it was just mixed on a Mac".[4] The Casio SK-1[5] and R8[2] was also used on Chaistic Slide.

60 tracks were made for Chiastic Slide from October 1995 to August 1996, but only 9 of them were picked for the album.[6][7]

For Sony Techno Japan, Sean said the title was "something changeable, movable and making numbers, circuits and shapes crossed."[6] In The Wire, a note was said that the title was "a cryptic reference to the mercunal qualities of the crossfader".[8]

Cover

The cover art, designed by The Designers Republic, is a collage of simplified abstract shapes using images from a New York trip, specifically "some street-level structural (under the E-train tracks), a shot overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge (probably) from the Empire State Building, and some images found in magazines in hotel lobbies and airline magazines on the flight back (shots of the NASA control room, of white goods junkyards)." [9]

Tracks

Cipater

  • "Cipater" was done on C-Lab Creator.[2][3]

Rettic AC

  • "Rettic AC" was done in Logic.[2]
  • In an interview Sean revealed that this track is the sound of tissue paper being rubbed over a microphone.[10]

Tewe

  • The ending features the purrs of Sean's first cat, Winterbottom.[11]
  • "Tewe" was mostly sequenced on the Roland R8[2] in a few hours. The melody and bass was both sent to Quadraverb and "played over midi". [12]

Cichli

  • "Cichli" was done in Logic.[2][3]
  • The track had elements reused for Cichlisuite.
  • The title is likely derived from Cichlid, a family of fish. This fish naming theme was further explored on Cichlisuite.
  • Sean mentioned that he has Boards of Canada's acoustic cover of "Cichli" on cassette.[13][14]

Hub

  • "Hub" was done in Logic.[2]

Calbruc

  • "Calbruc" was done in Logic.[2]

Recury

  • "Recury" was done in Logic.[2][3]
  • The percussion on "Recury" are all heavily processed "homemade sampler stuff." [15]
  • The title is likely a play on "Reoccurring"

Pule

Nuane

  • "Nuane" was done on C-Lab Creator.[2][3]
  • A slightly modified version of the title was possibly used for Envane (Nvane).
  • "Nuane" uses a groove template.[17]

Tracklist

# Title Length
1 Cipater 8:56
2 Rettic AC 2:08
3 Tewe 6:57
4 Cichli 8:53
5 Hub 7:35
6 Calbruc 3:51
7 Recury 9:44
8 Pule 8:33
9 Nuane 13:14
Total 1:09:51

Links

Credits

References

  1. ↑ https://bleep.com/release/249530-autechre-chiastic-slide
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 https://web.archive.org/web/20240517220958/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/112458650906114812
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "So yeah, [C-Lab Creator] was my favourite program for ages. And then when, and we used that up until about halfway through doing Chiastic Slide. We got Mac and then we got Logic because Logic, as we understood, it was the, kind of, new version. And so it still had the event list from C-Lab in there, which I really liked. So yeah, we used Logic for a little bit towards the end of doing Chiastic. So there's a couple of tracks using it on Chiastic, but most of Chiastic was still the Atari. And yeah, so like Cipater was done on the Atari, and Nuane was done on it, and I think the tracks that we did using Logic were quite basic. So I think Recury was done using Logic, and Pule was done using Logic. Yeah, I think the rest of it was Atari, thinking about it, maybe Cichli was done using Logic as well. I can't remember. I think it was, actually, yeah, I think Cichli is Logic."
  4. ↑ Warp: Labels Unlimited by Rob Young, pg 89
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/19990222164648/http://www.sme.co.jp/Music/Info/SonyTechno/newsE/9705/ae/
  7. ↑ Ruud, Knut Andreas. "The _alt.music.autechre_ FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) version 1.15". LonelyMachines, December 2000, https://lonelymachines.org/the-autechre-faq-v-199/. Accessed 20 May 2024.
  8. ↑ Autechre. Transformed by Sound, February 1997. "On this array of electronic components the pair recorded their fourth album, Chiastic Slide, the title a cryptic reference to the mercunal qualities of the crossfader. On the DJ panel or the mixing board, this little slider acts as the magician's curtain, swishing from side to side to reveal marvels previously hidden. Only now, the way Autechre have engineered things, the curtains have multiplied, there are boxes within boxes, screens hiding screens hiding screens."
  9. ↑ "Chiastic Slide". The Designers Republic, https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/chiastic-slide. Accessed 20 May 2024.
  10. ↑ https://youtu.be/j_nt4lFvZ1w?t=240
  11. ↑ Q187, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240217234806/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111948852735521025
  13. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "When will you release the Boards of Canada Chicli cover? I've only got it on cassette. So I can't release it. So if you want that Chicli cover, you're gonna have to get Warp to get Boards to give it to them for some fucking anniversary release or some shit like that, because that's the only way it's ever gonna come out, I think now. They would’ve had a chance to do it when Warp did that covers album, and they probably just decided not to for reasons. So I think that sort of chance’s passed already. I don't think it's likely to."
  14. ↑ https://bocpages.org/wiki/Autechre_-_Cichli_(Boards_of_Canada_Cover)
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240218010910/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111949563697343787
  16. ↑ https://forum.watmm.com/topic/3851-autechrews-tracklisting/#comment-77326
  17. ↑ Exploring the parameter space: A conversation with Autechre, October 2023. "Rob: [...] And with Emagic Logic, as Sean was saying, we could do lots more quantizing lots more swing combinations, and just aim for something. Sean: Like that track. Nuane. That’s like a groove template. Rob: Exactly, that’s like, one of the first times we started messing with all that."
  18. ↑ "Autechre – Chiastic Slide". Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/master/1348-Autechre-Chiastic-Slide. Accessed 20 May 2024.
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