Chiastic Slide

Chiastic Slide 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, then later repressed on vinyl in 2021, alongside LP5.

Tracks

Cipater

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

Rettic AC

• In an interview Sean revealed that this track is the sound of tissue paper being rubbed over a microphone. [1]

Tewe

• The ending features the purrs of Sean's first cat, Winterbottom. [2]
• "Tewe" was mostly sequenced on the Roland R8 in a few hours. The melody and bass was both sent to Quadraverb and "played over midi". [3]

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. [4]

Recury

• "Recury" was done in Logic.
• The percussion on "Recury" are all heavily processed "homemade sampler stuff." [5]
• The title is likely a play on "Reoccurring"

Pule

• "Pule" was done in Logic.
• An alternate version of "Pule" called "Lupe Mx" was initally debuted on the 10th of April, 2005 in a test transmission on autechre.ws.[6] "Lupe Mx" was later shared by Sean with Oscar Powell and was later performed on NTS Radio in a DJ Mix on March 7th, 2018. [7]

Nuane

• "Nuane" was done on the Atari (C-Lab Creator)
• A slightly modified version of the title was possibly used for Envane (Nvane).
• "Nuane" uses a groove template.[8]

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)." [9]
• 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" . [10]

Links

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

Credits

• Autechre (production)
• Rob Brown (writer)
• Sean Booth (writer)
• The Designers Republic (design) [11]