Chiastic Slide

WARP49

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

Tracks

Cipater

• "Cipater" was done on the Atari (C-Lab Creator)

Tewe

• The ending features the purrs of Sean's first cat, Winterbottom. [1]

Cichli

• "Cichli" was done in Logic.
• 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 in the June 2022 Twitch AMA that he has Boards of Canada's acoustic cover of "Cichli" on cassette. [2]

Recury

• "Recury" was done in Logic.
• The title is likely a play on "Reoccurring"

Pule

• "Pule" was done in Logic.
• An alternate version of "Pule" was debuted on a test stream on autechre.ws called "Lupe Mx" featuring percussion, however no version of it is widely available. A "beatless" version of "Lupe Mx" sent in by Sean was performed on NTS Radio by Powell on March 7th, 2018 (7:10). [3]

Nuane

• "Nuane" was done on the Atari (C-Lab Creator)
• A slightly modified version of the title was possibly used for Envane (Nvane).

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

Trivia

• 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)." [4]
• In the July 2022 Twitch AMA, Sean mentioned that they were using C-Lab Creator on the Atari up until about "halfway through doing Chiastic Slide" before getting Macs where they used Logic "towards the end of doing Chiastic" . [5]

Links

• AE_STORE
• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Bleep
• Discogs
• Soundcloud
• Spotify

Credits

• Autechre (production)
• Rob Brown (writer)
• Sean Booth (writer)
• The Designers Republic (design)[6] [7]