Cavity Job
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Cavity Job is an EP by Autechre released around 1991. It is both the only Autechre release and the 3rd of only 4 records to be released on Hardcore Records.
Tracks
Cavity Job
- The first radically different version of "Cavity Job" appeared in live shows like Sweatbox 1991. [1] [2]
- Sean explained much of the background for "Cavity Job / Accelera 1 & 2" in Mastodon posts, [3] starting with the equipment used for that early rough version being their old setup: RSD-10, SK-1, SK-5 for samplers and 202, SH-2 for synths, all on Tascam 244 mixer "with at least one bounce IIRC." He further elaborated in the same post on specific parts: "The kick and snare were played live on the SK-5 to tape, and then a bar of that was looped on the RSD-10 so it had a really dirty feel. The hats were 606. We’d just got the R8 at that point but it’s only doing the claps." The cleaner version of the track for the official Cavity Job was rebuilt using an Atari, FZ-10 and 202 mixed to quarter-inch cartridge tape at Daz's studio. Sean's estimate is that the original version took probably a few nights of 1-2 weeks, and the EP remake took a few days.
- The original EP version opened with a sample of "Valium Ten" by Hawkwind, which was removed when it was re-released on EPs 1991 - 2002.
Accelera 1 & 2
- "Accelera 1 & 2" initially started out as a 1989 track by Rob called "Ripping Circuits" (which was later released on Warp Tapes 89-93) before being reworked into "Accelera 1 & 2". [4][5] The woman sample also appeared on Gescom's Minidisc on the track "PT/AE".
- While the equipment was not listed, it's likely they used the same old setup for the original version as the original version of "Cavity Job", with the only noteworthy change being the ease of reworking due to the drums being all R8. Some other differences on the reworked version for the EP version included a dropped chord sample "that we were never gonna get away with" and some smaller sounds differing due to them being unable to reproduce it on Daz's gear. [6]
- The original EP version opened with a sample of "Equinoxe Part 5" Live in Houston by Jean Michel-Jarre, which was removed when it was re-released on EPs 1991 - 2002. The sample of the woman yelling "yeah" comes from a sex scene between Thomas and Mary-Lou in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cavity Job | 6:10 |
| 2 | Accelera 1 & 2 | 6:39 |
| Total | 12:49 | |
Trivia
- Cavity Job is one of only two Autechre releases to have a title track, with the other being Gantz Graf.
- The cover of Cavity Job features a man wearing sunglasses and holding a drill, and was drawn by Dave Hanal.
- In URB Magazine Issue 42, May 1995, Hardcore Records was described as a con that immediately filed for bankruptcy and fled soon after the release of Cavity Job, meaning they earned nothing from the record. In the same interview Sean mentioned that it was "the worst record we ever did!".
- [OPINION, NEEDS SECOND PASS] There are some controversy regarding the position of Cavity Job in the discography, given that if this is taken as the first EP Autechre released, it would invalidate some of the naming conventions of other EPs, such as making EP7 the 8th EP.There are some arguments to consider it an single, however its inclusion on EPs 1991 - 2002 indicates that it is officially seen as an EP. Another argument rephrases that Basscad,EP is the first EP released on Warp Records, and thus all proceeding EPs "numbering" is based on the fact that it is released on Warp Records.