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''EP7'' is the seventh EP by [[Autechre]]. It was originally released on June 7th, 1999 on Warp Records.
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'''''EP7''''' is the seventh EP by [[Autechre]] released on [https://warp.net/ Warp Records] It was originally released on June 7th, 1999.<ref>https://bleep.com/release/23103-autechre-ep7</ref> 
 
== History ==
The reason ''EP7'' is an EP despite its length was that so they could, as Sean noted, "do things that weren't album-like."<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Autechre: elseq et al, June 2016|quote=It all comes back to this idea of the album, and the sacred thing that it is. We're not really from an albums background, though, we're from a 12-inches-and-weird-tracks-on-tapes-where-you-don't-know-who-the-artists-are background! So it kind of makes sense for us to do things that aren't format-related as such. Like when we did EP7, we deliberately called it an EP so we could do things that weren't album-like.}}</ref> The material shown on the record were all from "four or five different periods of work."<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005|quote=With EP7 we did the same thing -- approached it like an album, but as an EP, with an album mentality, saying "this thing's like an album" without really giving a shit about the criteria, whether a track's really correct for the format or not. But we've spent such a long time doing it -- there's literally four or five different periods of work in that album, just on its own, so it's actually quite difficult to talk about it as an album.}}</ref> <!-- included it as a trivia note, but this begs the question whether to what extent we need other people assessment. Like we can solely rely on Rob Booth and Brown Sean and other close collaborators, but referring to other people mentioning the more "lo fi mixtape" feel of EP7 would be useful for this, ya know? -->
 
''EP7'' was the first release to utilise Max.<ref name=":02">{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote=So how old is the oldest part? I don't know, I don't, I don't know. 20 years, 25 years? Probably still using bits from when we've done EP7 because that was the first release where we properly used Max. It's the first release work, in fact I think it's the first release where we use Max at all, yeah, it is. So yeah, there's bits because that original, I think the first track I did in Max was Liccflii off EP7. So that was, and there are bits of the way that that works, or the idea behind the way that the rhythm works in that that I still use now, and it's just part of the vocabulary of our program rhythm in Max so. But I don't know if you could strictly say that it's the same patch.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AAA2 doc|420}}</ref>


[paragraph about sonic textures]
The cover of ''EP7'' was made by Sean using Freehand.<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Soundproof interviews Sean & Rob, 1999|quote='''Soundproof: How was that shape created? The artwork on EP7.''' '''Sean:''' We drew it in Freehand. '''Rob:''' That’s something that was done on like a circuit board designer.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AAA2 doc|597}}</ref> According to a Q&A from the Warp website, the cover art was based on trees.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609, https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609,]</ref>


== Tracks ==
To promote ''EP7,'' a [https://web.archive.org/web/20010430120118/http://www.warprecords.com/ography/WAPEP7/ minisite] was created featuring an applet, coded by Dorian Fraser Moore at Kleber Digital,<ref>https://dorian.fraser-moore.com/works/49/autechre-ep7</ref> which would randomly regenerate one of the 9 unique fractal designs<!-- this was done by decompiling the ep7.class file and seeing that it was reading data from a txt file, randomly chosen from /data/0.txt to 8.txt  -->from ''EP7''<nowiki/>'s designs, which you could zoom in and move around. [https://archive.theusefularts.org/warp/ography/single/WAPEP7/ An archived version exists here], however it requires a Java emulator like [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cheerpj-applet-runner/bbmolahhldcbngedljfadjlognfaaein?hl=en CheerpJ Applet Runner] to run.<ref><!-- If this could be externally sourced that'd be great -->Courtesy of atlasstorm contacting Dorian. This was dorian's response on 17 December 2023<!-- this might be wrong -->: <small>''"@atlasstorm Hiya, it wasn’t quite a rfactal generator, but rather a java Applet which regenerated the artwork from simplified version of the source files.   Someone asked me about this back in 2022 and I found an archive of the old, 1999, site and the code still works:   <nowiki>https://archive.theusefularts.org/warp/ography/single/WAPEP7/</nowiki>  You need to be able to run Jave in your browser to view it … I got it working in Chrome using CheerpJ Applet Runner, <nowiki>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-runner/bbmolahhldcbngedljfadjlognfaaein?hl=en</nowiki>  Can try and answer other questionsbif you have ‘em!"''</small></ref>


=== [untitled] ===
==Tracks==


* The untitled hidden track at the beginning of the album is only present on some CD releases of the album, and is only accessible by navigating to the previous song while playing "Rpeg".
===[untitled]===
 
*The untitled hidden track at the beginning of the album is only present on some CD releases of the album, and is only accessible by navigating to the previous song while playing "Rpeg".
*The track itself consists of recordings run through delays feeding into pitchshifters.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20240425190840/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/112331895371759798</ref>
[[File:ep7.1.jpg|thumb|150x150px|EP7.1]]
[[File:ep7.1.jpg|thumb|150x150px|EP7.1]]


=== Rpeg ===
===Rpeg===


=== Ccec ===
* According to Rob, the drums on "Rpeg" were "asr10 samples wet and filtery but tracked out into a really weak PC IBM with an awful audio card running a weak version of logic audio and low quality effects modulated with cc, it all just scrunched into something lo fi sounding but was extra drippy"<ref>{{Cite AAA2 doc|320}}</ref>


=== Squeller ===
===Ccec===


=== Left Blank ===
*The title is pronounced "check".<ref name=":1">https://web.archive.org/web/20240505014108/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/112384617982904846</ref>
*The vocals were processed by assiging the start position of the sample to the mod wheel and then messing with the mod wheel and additional sequencing.<ref name=":1" />
 
===Squeller===
 
*The end of the track used a Kyma Phase vocoder patch (same as "Liccflii" and [[List of Remixes#Nightmares On Wax - Sal Batardes (Autechre's Purple Mix)|"Nightmares On Wax - Sal Batardes (Autechre's Purple Mix)"]]) as well as SoundEdit 16 for pitch warbling similar to [[LP5#Vose In|"Vose In"]].<ref>{{Cite AAA2 doc|106}}</ref>
 
===Left Blank===
 
*The second half of "Left Blank" uses the Kyma Capybara for the "fft sounding stuff". That same patch went on to be reused on [[List of Remixes#Nightmares On Wax - Sal Batardes (Autechre's Purple Mix)|"Sal Batardes (Autechre Purple Mix)"]].<ref>{{Cite interview|quote=i never much liked kyma (horrible nested structuring, but it did sound pretty nice). we used it on a few things (second half of left blank, the nightmares on wax remix and the bic remix), and i eventually gave it to daz fitton|page=Hanalgig AMA, July 2022}}</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231217191142/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111595944351176551</ref><!-- This is more "gear history" (dont know how to deal with that, refer to the gamelan on Confield) but i want to add that the Kyma was also used on the Bic? remix before being given away to Daz Fitton -->
 
===Outpt===
 
*Rob notes that the track consisted of vocoder and the same equipment (with the exception of using "built in IBM PC soundcard GM voices all FM based") doing similar processing as "Rpeg". The reverse sections were achieved by applying reverb to reversed sections, then rereversed using "short IBM PC app VAZ synth splashes thru the effects". The white noise heard through most of the track was unintentional due to a poor noisefloor, but it worked with the track so it was left in.<ref>{{Cite AAA2 doc|323}}</ref><!-- more can be written here, refer to the question -->


=== Outpt ===
[[File:ep7.2.jpg|thumb|150x150px|EP7.2]]
[[File:ep7.2.jpg|thumb|150x150px|EP7.2]]


=== Dropp ===
===Dropp===
 
*The main synth for "Dropp" uses a Nord sequenced in Logic.<ref>{{Cite AAA doc|1003}}</ref>


* The main synth for "Dropp" uses a Nord sequenced in Logic.[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=D1003]
===Liccflii===


=== Liccflii ===
*"Liccflii" was the first track Sean did in Max.<ref name=":0">{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote=So how old is the oldest part? I don't know, I don't, I don't know. 20 years, 25 years? Probably still using bits from when we've done EP7 because that was the first release where we properly used Max. It's the first release work, in fact I think it's the first release where we use Max at all, yeah, it is. So yeah, there's bits because that original, I think the first track I did in Max was Liccflii off EP7. So that was, and there are bits of the way that that works, or the idea behind the way that the rhythm works in that that I still use now, and it's just part of the vocabulary of our program rhythm in Max so. But I don't know if you could strictly say that it's the same patch.}}</ref><!-- also, he pronounes it Lick Fly, which is interesting -->


* "Liccflii" was the first track Sean did in Max.[https://aepages.org/wiki/Sean_AMA_Transcript_220605#:~:text=So%20yeah%2C%20there%27s%20bits%20because%20that%20original%2C] <!-- also, he pronounes it Lick Fly, which is interesting -->
===Maphive 6.1 ===


=== Maphive 6.1 ===
*"Maphive 6.1" was created entirely on a Roland PMA-5.<ref>{{Cite AAA doc|615}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Wilson, Scott|title=Designing chaos: 7 pieces of gear that helped define Autechre’s game-changing sound|website=Factmag|date=25 February 2017|link=https://www.factmag.com/2017/02/25/autechre-gear-synths-samplers-drum-machines-effects/|accessdate=15 April 2024}}</ref> The title "Maphive" is derived from the equipment, shuffling "PMA-5" to "MAP-5".


* The track "Maphive 6.1" was created entirely on a Roland PMA-5, a small, portable music work station with a built in sequencer alongside 306 MIDI instruments.
===Zeiss Contarex===


=== Zeiss Contarex ===
*The tracks shares its name with the Contarex camera made by Zeiss Ikon.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20221005023155/http://autechre.wikifoundry.com/page/EP7#:~:text=Pun%20on%20%22Output%22-,Zeiss%20Contarex%3A,-Contarex%20is%20a</ref>
*The sample near the end of the track originates from a shortwave radio broadcast, although Sean clarifies he doesn't know what the sample itself was.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231221142328/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111608211662796491</ref>


=== Netlon Sentinel ===
===Netlon Sentinel===


=== Pir ===
*According to Sean, "Netlon Sentinel" was the name of a company that was displayed on a big sign, which "became a bit of a meme to shout it out every time" everytime they drove past it on their way to Hillsborough.<ref>{{Cite AAA2 doc|620}}</ref>


== Tracklist ==
===Pir ===
 
==Tracklist==
{{Tracklist|list=
{{Tracklist|list=
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{{tl track|number=&#45;1|title=''untitled''|length=9:47}}
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{{tl finaltime|time=1:09:54}}
{{tl finaltime|time=1:09:54}}
}}
}}
== Trivia ==
==Credits==
 
*[[Rob Brown]] (writer)
*[[Sean Booth]] (writer)
*[[Autechre]] (production)
*[[Frank Arkwright]] (mastering) <ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/1992-Autechre-EP7</ref>


* ''EP7'' is the longest EP Autechre have released to date, at just under 1 hour and 10 minutes, including the untitled hidden track.
==References==
<references />
[[Category:EP]]
[[Category:EP]]

Latest revision as of 15:38, 24 April 2025

EP7

EP7.jpg

Artist Autechre
Released 7 June 1999
Label Warp Records (WAPEP7)
Peel Session
(1999) 		EP7 Peel Session 2
(2000)

EP7 is the seventh EP by Autechre released on Warp Records It was originally released on June 7th, 1999.[1]

History

The reason EP7 is an EP despite its length was that so they could, as Sean noted, "do things that weren't album-like."[2] The material shown on the record were all from "four or five different periods of work."[3]

EP7 was the first release to utilise Max.[4][5]

The cover of EP7 was made by Sean using Freehand.[6][7] According to a Q&A from the Warp website, the cover art was based on trees.[8]

To promote EP7, a minisite was created featuring an applet, coded by Dorian Fraser Moore at Kleber Digital,[9] which would randomly regenerate one of the 9 unique fractal designsfrom EP7's designs, which you could zoom in and move around. An archived version exists here, however it requires a Java emulator like CheerpJ Applet Runner to run.[10]

Tracks

[untitled]

  • The untitled hidden track at the beginning of the album is only present on some CD releases of the album, and is only accessible by navigating to the previous song while playing "Rpeg".
  • The track itself consists of recordings run through delays feeding into pitchshifters.[11]
EP7.1

Rpeg

  • According to Rob, the drums on "Rpeg" were "asr10 samples wet and filtery but tracked out into a really weak PC IBM with an awful audio card running a weak version of logic audio and low quality effects modulated with cc, it all just scrunched into something lo fi sounding but was extra drippy"[12]

Ccec

  • The title is pronounced "check".[13]
  • The vocals were processed by assiging the start position of the sample to the mod wheel and then messing with the mod wheel and additional sequencing.[13]

Squeller

Left Blank

Outpt

  • Rob notes that the track consisted of vocoder and the same equipment (with the exception of using "built in IBM PC soundcard GM voices all FM based") doing similar processing as "Rpeg". The reverse sections were achieved by applying reverb to reversed sections, then rereversed using "short IBM PC app VAZ synth splashes thru the effects". The white noise heard through most of the track was unintentional due to a poor noisefloor, but it worked with the track so it was left in.[17]
EP7.2

Dropp

  • The main synth for "Dropp" uses a Nord sequenced in Logic.[18]

Liccflii

  • "Liccflii" was the first track Sean did in Max.[19]

Maphive 6.1

  • "Maphive 6.1" was created entirely on a Roland PMA-5.[20][21] The title "Maphive" is derived from the equipment, shuffling "PMA-5" to "MAP-5".

Zeiss Contarex

  • The tracks shares its name with the Contarex camera made by Zeiss Ikon.[22]
  • The sample near the end of the track originates from a shortwave radio broadcast, although Sean clarifies he doesn't know what the sample itself was.[23]

Netlon Sentinel

  • According to Sean, "Netlon Sentinel" was the name of a company that was displayed on a big sign, which "became a bit of a meme to shout it out every time" everytime they drove past it on their way to Hillsborough.[24]

Pir

Tracklist

# Title Length
-1 untitled 9:47
1 Rpeg 6:01
2 Ccec 4:59
3 Squeller 4:38
4 Left Blank 6:40
5 Outpt 7:12
6 Dropp 3:16
7 Liccflii 4:58
8 Maphive 6.1 8:18
9 Zeiss Contarex 6:33
10 Netlon Sentinel 4:06
11 Pir 3:32
Total 1:09:54

Credits

References

  1. ↑ https://bleep.com/release/23103-autechre-ep7
  2. ↑ Autechre: elseq et al, June 2016. "It all comes back to this idea of the album, and the sacred thing that it is. We're not really from an albums background, though, we're from a 12-inches-and-weird-tracks-on-tapes-where-you-don't-know-who-the-artists-are background! So it kind of makes sense for us to do things that aren't format-related as such. Like when we did EP7, we deliberately called it an EP so we could do things that weren't album-like."
  3. ↑ Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005. "With EP7 we did the same thing -- approached it like an album, but as an EP, with an album mentality, saying "this thing's like an album" without really giving a shit about the criteria, whether a track's really correct for the format or not. But we've spent such a long time doing it -- there's literally four or five different periods of work in that album, just on its own, so it's actually quite difficult to talk about it as an album."
  4. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "So how old is the oldest part? I don't know, I don't, I don't know. 20 years, 25 years? Probably still using bits from when we've done EP7 because that was the first release where we properly used Max. It's the first release work, in fact I think it's the first release where we use Max at all, yeah, it is. So yeah, there's bits because that original, I think the first track I did in Max was Liccflii off EP7. So that was, and there are bits of the way that that works, or the idea behind the way that the rhythm works in that that I still use now, and it's just part of the vocabulary of our program rhythm in Max so. But I don't know if you could strictly say that it's the same patch."
  5. ↑ Q420, Ask Autechre Anything Again, KEYOSC, April 2025
  6. ↑ Soundproof interviews Sean & Rob, 1999. "Soundproof: How was that shape created? The artwork on EP7. Sean: We drew it in Freehand. Rob: That’s something that was done on like a circuit board designer."
  7. ↑ Q597, Ask Autechre Anything Again, KEYOSC, April 2025
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020816104848/http://www.autechre.nu/cgi-bin/newspro/news.cgi?newsid1018136565,21609,
  9. ↑ https://dorian.fraser-moore.com/works/49/autechre-ep7
  10. ↑ Courtesy of atlasstorm contacting Dorian. This was dorian's response on 17 December 2023: "@atlasstorm Hiya, it wasn’t quite a rfactal generator, but rather a java Applet which regenerated the artwork from simplified version of the source files.   Someone asked me about this back in 2022 and I found an archive of the old, 1999, site and the code still works:   https://archive.theusefularts.org/warp/ography/single/WAPEP7/  You need to be able to run Jave in your browser to view it … I got it working in Chrome using CheerpJ Applet Runner, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-runner/bbmolahhldcbngedljfadjlognfaaein?hl=en  Can try and answer other questionsbif you have ‘em!"
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240425190840/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/112331895371759798
  12. ↑ Q320, Ask Autechre Anything Again, KEYOSC, April 2025
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240505014108/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/112384617982904846
  14. ↑ Q106, Ask Autechre Anything Again, KEYOSC, April 2025
  15. ↑ Hanalgig AMA, July 2022. "i never much liked kyma (horrible nested structuring, but it did sound pretty nice). we used it on a few things (second half of left blank, the nightmares on wax remix and the bic remix), and i eventually gave it to daz fitton"
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231217191142/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111595944351176551
  17. ↑ Q323, Ask Autechre Anything Again, KEYOSC, April 2025
  18. ↑ Q1003, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  19. ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "So how old is the oldest part? I don't know, I don't, I don't know. 20 years, 25 years? Probably still using bits from when we've done EP7 because that was the first release where we properly used Max. It's the first release work, in fact I think it's the first release where we use Max at all, yeah, it is. So yeah, there's bits because that original, I think the first track I did in Max was Liccflii off EP7. So that was, and there are bits of the way that that works, or the idea behind the way that the rhythm works in that that I still use now, and it's just part of the vocabulary of our program rhythm in Max so. But I don't know if you could strictly say that it's the same patch."
  20. ↑ Q615, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
  21. ↑ Wilson, Scott. "Designing chaos: 7 pieces of gear that helped define Autechre’s game-changing sound". Factmag, 25 February 2017, https://www.factmag.com/2017/02/25/autechre-gear-synths-samplers-drum-machines-effects/. Accessed 15 April 2024.
  22. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221005023155/http://autechre.wikifoundry.com/page/EP7#:~:text=Pun%20on%20%22Output%22-,Zeiss%20Contarex%3A,-Contarex%20is%20a
  23. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231221142328/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111608211662796491
  24. ↑ Q620, Ask Autechre Anything Again, KEYOSC, April 2025
  25. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/1992-Autechre-EP7
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