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<!-- how much background needs to be added to this? Here I'm starting straight from the final straw, but I think given the way this is relevant to Autechre, I feel more due diligence should be given to this historical section. -->After the success of the 1992 Castlemorton Common Festival, the biggest illegal rave in the UK<!-- wanted to add attendance, but wikipedia poinst towards During, S. (2005) Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction, Page 131, Routledge ISBN 0-415-24656-3 for their numbers of it being between 20k - 40k; i want to get that verified before citing it. | <!-- how much background needs to be added to this? Here I'm starting straight from the final straw, but I think given the way this is relevant to Autechre, I feel more due diligence should be given to this historical section. -->After the success of the 1992 Castlemorton Common Festival, the biggest illegal rave in the UK<!-- wanted to add attendance, but wikipedia poinst towards During, S. (2005) Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction, Page 131, Routledge ISBN 0-415-24656-3 for their numbers of it being between 20k - 40k; i want to get that verified before citing it. | ||
there's also a really good trail regarding its aim towards curbing alternative culture: Gilbert J. Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound, Page 150, Routledge 1999, ISBN 0-415-17032-X -->, the UK parliament responded with the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 c. 33 which in part was targetting the rise of illegal rave culture. <ref>{{Cite web|author=Pattison, Louis|title=How the Political Warning of Autechre's Anti EP Made it a Warp Records Classic|link=https://www.vice.com/en/article/78ab5d/warp-25-autechre-anti-ep|website=Vice|date=21 July 2014|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Chester, Jerry|title=Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law|link=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-39960232|website=BBC|date=28 May 2017|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref> In Chapter V, sections 63-66<!-- or was it 63-67? --> "Powers in relation to raves", the main aim of the sections was to set out how raves should be broken up. At the start of section 63, it provided a definition for what consituted a rave | there's also a really good trail regarding its aim towards curbing alternative culture: Gilbert J. Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound, Page 150, Routledge 1999, ISBN 0-415-17032-X -->, the UK parliament responded with the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 c. 33 which in part was targetting the rise of illegal rave culture.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Pattison, Louis|title=How the Political Warning of Autechre's Anti EP Made it a Warp Records Classic|link=https://www.vice.com/en/article/78ab5d/warp-25-autechre-anti-ep|website=Vice|date=21 July 2014|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Chester, Jerry|title=Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law|link=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-39960232|website=BBC|date=28 May 2017|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref> In Chapter V, sections 63-66<!-- or was it 63-67? --> "Powers in relation to raves", the main aim of the sections was to set out how raves should be broken up. At the start of section 63, it provided a definition for what consituted a rave, with a definition for the type of music played at those raves.<blockquote>(b) “music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.<ref>https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/V/crossheading/powers-in-relation-to-raves</ref></blockquote>Autechre strongly opposed the bill. For an feature in NME, they discussed how "Nobody really knows what's going to happen if the Criminal Justice Bill becomes law, [...] that's what's so scary about it. Why on earth do you want to ban music with repetative beats?"<ref name=":0" /> In an interview with Pete Lawrence, Sean noted that "The clause that irritated me was the one about repetitive beats...it's the single most idiotic legislative move I've ever seen, but impossible to enforce. It's easy to get around - you simply don't quantize your bass drum, you play it in live."<ref>[[Ae in conversation with ON magazine's Pete Lawrence, 1994]]</ref> <!-- https://archive.ph/20130713023659/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4664674.html this interview should have extra stuff it seems but i need to access it first LOL --><!-- pretend this comment breaks up the before and after of Anti's release, because i think it changes how to write about it -->[[File:anti-ep-warning.jpg|thumb|219x219px]][[File:anti-ep-profits.jpg|thumb|219x219px]]When ''Anti'' was released, it came with a label warning that "Lost" and "Djarum" were not to be played if the bill became law, however "Flutter" was otherwise compliant since it had "been programmed in such a way that no bars contain identical beats". The sticker wrapped around (acting as a seal), with the back explaining that all profits would go to Liberty, and that "Autechre is politically non-aligned. This is about personal freedom".<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/158-Autechre-Anti-EP/image/SW1hZ2U6MjQ1MjQwMw==</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Negative_Interest_20|title=Autechre - Anti EP|link=https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/13drzuf/autechre_anti_ep/|website=Reddit|date=10 March 2023|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref> | ||
Part of the material originated from live show material written while touring.<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005|quote=[...] and at the same time we were writing loads of live stuff and touring loads of live stuff, part of which ended up on the Anti EP, and you could hear at the time that we were putting more of the up-for-it stuff out on EP, basically.}}</ref> | |||
(b) “music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. <ref>https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/V/crossheading/powers-in-relation-to-raves</ref></blockquote>Autechre strongly opposed the bill. For an feature in NME, they discussed how "Nobody really knows what's going to happen if the Criminal Justice Bill becomes law, [...] that's what's so scary about it. Why on earth do you want to ban music with repetative beats?"<ref name=":0" /> In an interview with Pete Lawrence, Sean noted that "The clause that irritated me was the one about repetitive beats...it's the single most idiotic legislative move I've ever seen, but impossible to enforce. It's easy to get around - you simply don't quantize your bass drum, you play it in live."<ref>[[Ae in conversation with ON magazine's Pete Lawrence, 1994]]</ref> <!-- https://archive.ph/20130713023659/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4664674.html this interview should have extra stuff it seems but i need to access it first LOL --> | |||
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=== Flutter === | === Flutter === | ||
* "Flutter" was previewed on July 24th, 1994 at a Socialist Worker's Party-run march. <ref>{{Cite web|author=Gallivan, Jospeh|title=Jospeh Gallivan on pop|link=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jospeh-gallivan-on-pop-1414727.html|website=The Independent|date=18 July 1994|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref><!-- this also includes this quote from Sean | * "Flutter" was previewed on July 24th, 1994 at a Socialist Worker's Party-run march.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Gallivan, Jospeh|title=Jospeh Gallivan on pop|link=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jospeh-gallivan-on-pop-1414727.html|website=The Independent|date=18 July 1994|accessdate=2 March 2024}}</ref><!-- this also includes this quote from Sean | ||
'We made as many different bars as we could on the drum machine, then strung them all together. Contrary to what's normal, the beat is ever-changing, but the melody is simple and repetitive, so you know where you are. It sounds very strange.' --> | 'We made as many different bars as we could on the drum machine, then strung them all together. Contrary to what's normal, the beat is ever-changing, but the melody is simple and repetitive, so you know where you are. It sounds very strange.' --> | ||
* "Flutter" was designed such that it can be played at "at both forty five and thirty three revolutions" | * "Flutter" was designed such that it can be played at "at both forty five and thirty three revolutions", however the CD and digital version stuck to 45rpm.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/157-Autechre-Anti-EP#:~:text=Although%20the%20note,and%20Other%20Identifiers</ref> <!-- this is kinda dumb, im thinking about how 33 and 45 stuff was a thing to consider around the time but yeah this feels useless, might remove --> | ||
* The track consists of an Roland R8 for both drums sounds and sequencing for both precussion and melody, QuadraVerb for delay and reverb, and an EPS sampler for the melody sounds. <ref>{{Cite AAA doc|216}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AAA doc|697}}</ref><ref>{{Cite interview|quote='''Is that something you miss about composing songs like Flutter?''' I mean no, because I’ll be doing it if I missed it. I've still got the gear, so there's nothing stopping me getting the EPS and the R8 out and doing Flutter 2, you know. I just don't feel like doing it, so. But you are welcome to have a go if you want, you know. Just get the sound effects card for the R8, sample some kind of arbitrary sound like a vocal or something, and just knock out your own version of Flutter. I think there's like a Quadraverb on there as well, so you might need that. Not hard though. If you want it, just make it.|page=Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022}}</ref> The sequencing on the R8 was played in and completed within a day. <ref>{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote='''How much time it took to sequence Flutter with the R8?''' Just like a day. Not long, just played in. You can do the rolls with the pressure on the pad and all that, right, so. And yeah, the pitches. You can do with the slider so you kind of, you know, you write in the pattern first and then you do the pitches with the slider sort of thing. You do it a few times until it sounds good and then I say it's done right, so. It's very fast and that's partly why I used the R8 so long because it's just so fast to write on. It's like much faster than doing those kind of rolls in Cubase. We had to draw them in. You just do your hand on the pad like the pressure. Just change the pressure. You can do it on an MPC, you know, same thing so.}}</ref><ref name=":0">https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/</ref> | * The track consists of an Roland R8 for both drums sounds and sequencing for both precussion and melody, QuadraVerb for delay and reverb, and an EPS sampler for the melody sounds.<ref>{{Cite AAA doc|216}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AAA doc|697}}</ref><ref>{{Cite interview|quote='''Is that something you miss about composing songs like Flutter?''' I mean no, because I’ll be doing it if I missed it. I've still got the gear, so there's nothing stopping me getting the EPS and the R8 out and doing Flutter 2, you know. I just don't feel like doing it, so. But you are welcome to have a go if you want, you know. Just get the sound effects card for the R8, sample some kind of arbitrary sound like a vocal or something, and just knock out your own version of Flutter. I think there's like a Quadraverb on there as well, so you might need that. Not hard though. If you want it, just make it.|page=Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022}}</ref> The sequencing on the R8 was played in and completed within a day.<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote='''How much time it took to sequence Flutter with the R8?''' Just like a day. Not long, just played in. You can do the rolls with the pressure on the pad and all that, right, so. And yeah, the pitches. You can do with the slider so you kind of, you know, you write in the pattern first and then you do the pitches with the slider sort of thing. You do it a few times until it sounds good and then I say it's done right, so. It's very fast and that's partly why I used the R8 so long because it's just so fast to write on. It's like much faster than doing those kind of rolls in Cubase. We had to draw them in. You just do your hand on the pad like the pressure. Just change the pressure. You can do it on an MPC, you know, same thing so.}}</ref><ref name=":0">https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/</ref> | ||
* In [[URB Magazine Issue 42, May 1995]], the writer mentioned that Flutter contains "a string of 65 distinct drum patterns." | * In [[URB Magazine Issue 42, May 1995]], the writer mentioned that Flutter contains "a string of 65 distinct drum patterns." | ||
* A "slow burnt out version of Flutter" was performed at Sankey's in Manchester. <ref>{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote='''Sankey's set.''' My goodness, yes. [laughs] No way, someone was there, yeah. Yeah, Flutter, fucking, we did a really kind of slow burnt out version of Flutter in that Sankey's set and it's pretty good. It's, like, quite different to the other ones. It's like playing it at 33 except the sounds that's a lot down, you know. But yeah, that was fun. But yeah, I've got a DAT of that somewhere in Manchester, so.}}</ref> | * A "slow burnt out version of Flutter" was performed at Sankey's in Manchester.<ref>{{Cite interview|page=Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022|quote='''Sankey's set.''' My goodness, yes. [laughs] No way, someone was there, yeah. Yeah, Flutter, fucking, we did a really kind of slow burnt out version of Flutter in that Sankey's set and it's pretty good. It's, like, quite different to the other ones. It's like playing it at 33 except the sounds that's a lot down, you know. But yeah, that was fun. But yeah, I've got a DAT of that somewhere in Manchester, so.}}</ref> | ||
==Tracklist== | ==Tracklist== | ||
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Anti is the second EP by Autechre released on Warp Records. It was originally released on September 3rd, 1994.[1]
History
After the success of the 1992 Castlemorton Common Festival, the biggest illegal rave in the UK, the UK parliament responded with the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 c. 33 which in part was targetting the rise of illegal rave culture.[2][3] In Chapter V, sections 63-66 "Powers in relation to raves", the main aim of the sections was to set out how raves should be broken up. At the start of section 63, it provided a definition for what consituted a rave, with a definition for the type of music played at those raves.
(b) “music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.[4]
Autechre strongly opposed the bill. For an feature in NME, they discussed how "Nobody really knows what's going to happen if the Criminal Justice Bill becomes law, [...] that's what's so scary about it. Why on earth do you want to ban music with repetative beats?"[5] In an interview with Pete Lawrence, Sean noted that "The clause that irritated me was the one about repetitive beats...it's the single most idiotic legislative move I've ever seen, but impossible to enforce. It's easy to get around - you simply don't quantize your bass drum, you play it in live."[6]
When Anti was released, it came with a label warning that "Lost" and "Djarum" were not to be played if the bill became law, however "Flutter" was otherwise compliant since it had "been programmed in such a way that no bars contain identical beats". The sticker wrapped around (acting as a seal), with the back explaining that all profits would go to Liberty, and that "Autechre is politically non-aligned. This is about personal freedom".[7][8]
Part of the material originated from live show material written while touring.[9]
Tracks
Lost
Djarum
Flutter
- "Flutter" was previewed on July 24th, 1994 at a Socialist Worker's Party-run march.[10]
- "Flutter" was designed such that it can be played at "at both forty five and thirty three revolutions", however the CD and digital version stuck to 45rpm.[11]
- The track consists of an Roland R8 for both drums sounds and sequencing for both precussion and melody, QuadraVerb for delay and reverb, and an EPS sampler for the melody sounds.[12][13][14] The sequencing on the R8 was played in and completed within a day.[15][5]
- In URB Magazine Issue 42, May 1995, the writer mentioned that Flutter contains "a string of 65 distinct drum patterns."
- A "slow burnt out version of Flutter" was performed at Sankey's in Manchester.[16]
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lost | 7:24 |
| 2 | Djarum | 7:20 |
| 3 | Flutter | 10:00 |
| Total | 24:44 | |
Credits
- Rob Brown (writer)
- Sean Booth (writer)
- Autechre (production)
- The Designers Republic (design)
- Maxwell Anandappa (plated) [17]
References
- ↑ "Autechre - Anti. Bleep.". Bleep, https://bleep.com/release/23110-autechre-anti. Accessed 20 May 2024.
- ↑ Pattison, Louis. "How the Political Warning of Autechre's Anti EP Made it a Warp Records Classic". Vice, 21 July 2014, https://www.vice.com/en/article/78ab5d/warp-25-autechre-anti-ep. Accessed 2 March 2024.
- ↑ Chester, Jerry. "Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law". BBC, 28 May 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-39960232. Accessed 2 March 2024.
- ↑ https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/V/crossheading/powers-in-relation-to-raves
- ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53306579754/in/album-72177720312403761/
- ↑ Ae in conversation with ON magazine's Pete Lawrence, 1994
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/158-Autechre-Anti-EP/image/SW1hZ2U6MjQ1MjQwMw==
- ↑ Negative_Interest_20. "Autechre - Anti EP". Reddit, 10 March 2023, https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/13drzuf/autechre_anti_ep/. Accessed 2 March 2024.
- ↑ Autechre's Interview with Мatt O'Leary, March 2005. "[...] and at the same time we were writing loads of live stuff and touring loads of live stuff, part of which ended up on the Anti EP, and you could hear at the time that we were putting more of the up-for-it stuff out on EP, basically."
- ↑ Gallivan, Jospeh. "Jospeh Gallivan on pop". The Independent, 18 July 1994, https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jospeh-gallivan-on-pop-1414727.html. Accessed 2 March 2024.
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/157-Autechre-Anti-EP#:~:text=Although%20the%20note,and%20Other%20Identifiers
- ↑ Q216, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
- ↑ Q697, WATMM Ask Autechre Anything, November 2013
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "Is that something you miss about composing songs like Flutter? I mean no, because I’ll be doing it if I missed it. I've still got the gear, so there's nothing stopping me getting the EPS and the R8 out and doing Flutter 2, you know. I just don't feel like doing it, so. But you are welcome to have a go if you want, you know. Just get the sound effects card for the R8, sample some kind of arbitrary sound like a vocal or something, and just knock out your own version of Flutter. I think there's like a Quadraverb on there as well, so you might need that. Not hard though. If you want it, just make it."
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "How much time it took to sequence Flutter with the R8? Just like a day. Not long, just played in. You can do the rolls with the pressure on the pad and all that, right, so. And yeah, the pitches. You can do with the slider so you kind of, you know, you write in the pattern first and then you do the pitches with the slider sort of thing. You do it a few times until it sounds good and then I say it's done right, so. It's very fast and that's partly why I used the R8 so long because it's just so fast to write on. It's like much faster than doing those kind of rolls in Cubase. We had to draw them in. You just do your hand on the pad like the pressure. Just change the pressure. You can do it on an MPC, you know, same thing so."
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "Sankey's set. My goodness, yes. [laughs] No way, someone was there, yeah. Yeah, Flutter, fucking, we did a really kind of slow burnt out version of Flutter in that Sankey's set and it's pretty good. It's, like, quite different to the other ones. It's like playing it at 33 except the sounds that's a lot down, you know. But yeah, that was fun. But yeah, I've got a DAT of that somewhere in Manchester, so."
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/master/1315-Autechre-Anti-EP