Autechre / Saw You

Autechre / Saw You is the oldest known release from Lego Feet/Autechre, created in 1990 as a demo cassette, which only had 50 copies made and shared with labels and friends. [1] On January 13th, 2024, Sean posted downloads for tape transfers of both Autechre [2] and Saw You. [3]

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. [4][5]
• The file "LegoFour#01_Autechre.NORM.wav" tagged the track with the date 1989.

Saw You

• When asked about it in 2022, Sean mentioned that in the Sweatbox 1991 recording, "Saw You" was the house/techno track with long keys and an a TX81Z saxophone sound. [6] The TX81Z sound was "prob an edited preset". [7]
• The file "LegoFour#14_SawYou.NORM.wav" tagged the track with the date 1990.

Tracklist

#	Title	Length
1	Autechre	5:22
2	Saw You	6:11
Total		11:33

(note: times are taken from files shared by Sean, which likely mismatches by a few seconds with the distributed cassettes)

Trivia

• On the Discogs page, it was noted that the tape got them signed to Warp Records, however Sean clarified that they were actually rejected due to Warp not currently looking to sign anyone. The track that actually got them signed was "Crystel" in 1991. [8]
• The Discogs listing created by user awkwardsilence, including the images, was confirmed to be real in the July Twitch AMA [9] however the original poster out of respect stated they aren't copying the tracks.
• Both tracks were made in Daz Fitton’s studio above Dr Rock around 1989-1990 and recorded straight to cassette. [10][11]
• The labels on the cassette was made by Sean with ink splatters.
• A early 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). [12]

Links

• Discogs