Autechre / Saw You

Autechre / Saw You is the oldest known release from Autechre, created in 1990 as a two-track demo cassette single which was distributed to friends and labels which allowed them to get signed to Warp Records. [1] As of writing, it has yet to leak or be released in any capacity.

Tracks

Autechre

• The track name came from typing "Au" (due to a 'au' type sample appearing in the track) and then keysmashing the rest until the Atari's 8 character limit was hit. The band themselves liked the name so much they later adopted it as their new pseudonym. [2][3]

Saw You

• Sean confirmed that it was a house/techno track with long keys and the TX81Z saxophone sound. [4] "Saw You" appeared in the Sweatbox 1991 recording.

Tracklist [5]

#	Title	Length
1	Autechre	5:59
2	Saw You	5:12
Total		11:11

Trivia

• The Discogs listing created by user awkwardsilence, including the images, was confirmed to be real in the July Twitch AMA [6] however the original poster out of respect stated they aren't copying the tracks.
• Both tracks were made in Daz's stuio around 1989-1990. [7]
• The labels on the cassette was made by Sean with ink splatters.
• A copy spread around Soulseek, and later uploaded on YouTube by hsfq, is fake - consisting of the tracks "Many" and "The Brink" from Freeform's Free EP (SKAM, 1995). [8]