Quaristice

WARP333

Quaristice is the ninth studio album by Autechre released on Warp Records. It was originally released on March 3rd, 2008. Alongside the release of Quaristice was the limited edition Quaristice (Versions), followed a few months later by Digital Exclusives EP and Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae.

Unlike many previous Autechre releases, Quaristice features shorter track lengths, most of which fall under the 5 minute mark, creating a faster pace.

Tracks

Altibzz

The Plc

The vocal samples on the outro of "The Plc" are from Run-DMC's "Here We Go (Live at the Funhouse)" [1]

IO

The first versions of "IO" appeared during the 2005-2007 live sets. (example) and 2008 live sets. (example).

plyPhon

"plyPhon" was made by Rob on the MPC.[2]

Perlence

SonDEremawe

Simmm

paralel Suns

Steels

Elements of "Steels" made an appearance in the 2008 live sets. (example)
In the Monomachines file dump, the MPC had a bunch of samples of sounds used in "Steels" which were 64 samples of steeldif ("steeldif01.WAV" to "steeldif64.WAV") and 37 samples of steelxif ("steelxif01.WAV" to "steelxid37.WAV").

Tankakern

The TR-606 Drumatix appears on "Tankakern" [3]

rale

Fol3

fwzE

90101-5l-l

Elements of "90101-5l-l" appear in the 2008 live sets. (example)

bnc Castl

"bnc Castl" may be short for "bouncy castle"
Elements of "bnc Castl" appear in the 2005-2007 live sets. (example)

Theswere

WNSN

chenc9

"chenc9" had an early appearance on the 2005-2007 live sets. (example)

Notwo

Outh9X

"Outh9X" uses of NMG2 and Simmons SDE.[4]

nu-Nr6d

On the Japanese issue of Quaristice, the cover was altered to include nu-Nr6d in the tracklist design. [5]

Quaristice (Versions)

WARP333X

Coinciding with the March 3rd release, a steel case edition of the Quaristice CD was released. It was limited to 1,000 copies and was sold out within a day after the announcement. In the limited edition CD set, a second disc is included, titled Quaristice (Versions), which consists of alternate and extended versions of certain tracks.

Altichyre

The PlclCpC

This particular version of "The Plc" first appeared in the 2005-2007 live sets. (example)

IO (mons)

This track was one of the few tracks to be released multiple times, appearing also on Digital Exclusives EP.

Phylopn

Perlence range3

SonDEre-ix

Tankraken

fol4

90101-61-01

chenc9-x

nofour

Tracklist


#	Title	Length
1	Altibzz	2:52
2	The Plc	4:17
3	IO	3:08
4	plyPhon	2:33
5	Perlence	3:25
6	SonDEremawe	1:21
7	Simmm	5:00
8	paralel Suns	3:03
9	Steels	2:56
10	Tankakern	3:39
11	rale	3:43
12	Fol3	3:47
13	fwzE	2:39
14	90101-5l-l	3:11
15	bnc Castl	2:52
16	Theswere	2:12
17	WNSN	4:57
18	chenc9	4:57
19	Notwo	5:34
20	Outh9X	7:15
		1:13:22

21	nu-Nr6d (Japanese CD exclusive)	3:51
Quaristice (Versions)
1	Altichyre	1:43
2	The PlclCpC	9:18
3	IO (mons)	7:52
4	Phylopn	2:40
5	Perlence range3	7:37
6	SonDEre-ix	3:27
7	Tankraken	5:28
8	fol4	11:41
9	90101-61-01	5:10
10	chenc9-x	8:29
11	nofour	4:24
		1:07:55

Total		2:25:09

Trivia

The CAT number, WARP333, was likely specifically requested by Autechre.
At the time of release, Quaristice had the most tracks for a singe Autechre album, totally at 20 tracks (excluding the bonus track on the Japanese CD). It would eventually be beaten by elseq 1-5, which had 21 tracks.
The Quaristice era has the most total songs of any Autechre album. Including the unfinished 2007 demo in Hanalgig, the Quaristice era consists of 48 unique songs.
Sean mentioned in a 2008 FutureMusic interview that there was a four month period of "just pure listening through and editing" with the help of Digital Performer.
Quaristice and Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae marks the first time Autechre had The Designers Republic make covers for individual tracks (see gallery below). Other releases to also have inidivudal track art include Oversteps and elseq 1-5.
Quaristice was the first new artwork commissions by The Designers Republic after a 10-year hiatus since Chiastic Slide. [6]