Draft 7.30

Draft 7.30 Artist Autechre Released 7 April 2003 Label Warp Records (WARP111)

Gantz Graf (2002) Draft 7.30 Untilted (2005)

Draft 7.30 is the seventh studio album by Autechre released on Warp Records. It was originally released on April 7th, 2003, then later repressed on vinyl in 2023, alongside Confield.

Tracks

XYLIN ROOM

• One of the percussive samples is of a wooden garden table being knocked on. [1]
• The original title was "Benk Chin".

IV VV IV VV VIII

• The original title was "nwnw8", with the final title being a heavily stylised version of that title - substituting N for IV and W for VV.
• "IV VV IV VV VIII" was initially released as a single for Draft 7.30, both for radio play[2] and download.[3]

6IE.CR

• "6IE.CR" consists of a CR-8000 being fed through a RSD10 with the Nord(?) controlling the pitch of it[4] with some gating and layering for the second half that Sean couldnt properly remember.
• The original title was "606.ie" in the CDDB, which Sean also confirmed in interview that it was initially called that because "it was based on a manipulation of a 606 sound." [5] The title got abbreivated to 6IE, with CR likely being appended to mean the CR-8000.

TAPR

• The original title was "reppat", which when reversed spells out "tapper".

SURRIPERE

• The track initially started life as two separate tracks, with the second half made before the first. Later in development, they realised that both tracks had the same 120BPM tempo and decided to combine it for the final track. [6]
• "Surripere" consists of a a fake analog (Nord?) on the first part, and a Nord Lead with Native Battery's loop modulation on the second part's "crunchy stuff."[7]
• The original title was "Theft". The final title "Surripere" is the Latin word that became surreptitious, meaning doing something stealthily. [8] A straight translation of "Surripere" is in fact "theft"

THEME OF SUDDEN ROUNDABOUT

• “Theme Of Sudden Roundabout” is a reference to Sudden, a suburb of Rochdale, where Rob and Sean grew up. [9] The titular roundabout in question could be this one, as seen on Google Maps.
• The original title, as listed on CDDB, was "Prince Moth Mothy Moth Moth". In the WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, Rob mentions this was wrong, that the original title ended with Mother, as in someone who does moth.[10] However, in 2023, when Sean was asked about the title again, he mentioned that it was just Moth at the end. [11] In that same post, Sean explained that the track was called that after an "epically large moth" landed on their Nord Modular and sat there for much of the track.

VL AL 5

• A 12-minute version of VL AL 5 was played during the 2008-02-23 Webcast.
• The original title was "Vlimpton Alpha 5", which the final title is just an abbreviation of.

P.:NTIL

• The original title was "Foam Conduit".

V-PROC

• The original title was "uprock".
• "V-PROC" initially started out with possibly Linndrum samples before being mangled beyond recognition. [12]

RENIFORM PULS

• The original title listed in the CDDB was "kidney bean". The final title consists of "Reniform", which means kidney-shaped, and "Puls", which is just short for Pulse. [13] "Pulse" can be either be interpreted in an electronic context (i.e. clock pulse) or as a synonym for legume/bean, the latter of which would indicate that Reniform (kidney-shaped) Puls (bean) directly references the original title.
• "Reniform Puls" is the only track to have any use of Max/MSP on Draft 7.30,[14] however most of it was still DAWs: "mostly done in digital performer, but there's loads of hardware on there, and bits of modular stuff." [15]

Tracklist

#	Title	Length
1	XYLIN ROOM	6:09
2	IV VV IV VV VIII	4:51
3	6IE.CR	5:39
4	TAPR	3:15
5	SURRIPERE	11:23
6	THEME OF SUDDEN ROUNDABOUT	4:52
7	VL AL 5	4:57
8	P.:NTIL	7:08
9	V-PROC	6:00
10	RENIFORM PULS	8:39
Total		1:02:51

(Note: the capitalisation used here comes from the sleeves of the LP [16] and CD [17] releases as well as the current Bandcamp version[18], which prints all the titles in all caps. However, there are alternate capitalisations such as Bleep[19], the MusicBrainz database[20] and other streaming services whereby some titles are standard case.)

Trivia

• The album’s title implies that the released version is the 30th edit of the band’s seventh album.
• Sean noted that Draft 7.30 was "really straight, using straight-up normal sequencers and samplers." With the exception of some generative elements on "RENIFORM PULS", Draft 7.30 was otherwise written "note by note".[21] Alongside that, a lot of Digital Performer was used, with some use cases being "triggering a sampler from the sequencer (akai z8 over midi)". [22] Draft 7.30 also uses a lot amplitude envelopes, alongside "really light touches of quadraverb and lexicon on select parts" [23]
• Before the release of Draft 7.30, early tracks titles were uploaded to CDDB (each track has their original title listed in their respective section). In the WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, Sean confirmed that they were the actual working file titles that he threw onto CDDB "for a laugh." [24]

Links

• AE_STORE
• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Bleep
• Discogs
• Soundcloud
• Spotify
• Repress announcement tweet
• Repress release tweet

Credits

• Autechre (production)
• Rob Brown (writer)
• Sean Booth (writer)
• Noel Summerville (mastering engineer)
• Alexander Rutterford (images, design) [25]