Warp Tapes 89-93
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Warp Tapes 89-93 is a DJ Mix by Autechre compiling material from 1989 to 1993. It was debuted on NTS Radio during Warp's 30th anniversary weekend as two mixes: Part 1 on June 21st, 2019, and Part 2 on June 23rd, 2019.[1] It was then officially released on June 24th, 2019 as a free download on the store.[2][3]
History
The tracks were a mix between those recorded straight to cassette and those recorded on a TASCAM 244, which were of much higher quality. Some dubs were added by Rob 10 years earlier for levelling purposes while working on the Lego Feet reissue, but otherwise no major changes or mastering was done.[4] The DJ mix format was done after NTS Radio approached Autechre to request one, but Sean noted that the possiblity of releasing them individually was not out of the question.[5]
Analysis
Analysis by Quants0. Timestamps are based on spectral analysis of the waveforms.
| Timestamp | Identifer / Notes |
|---|---|
| Warp Tapes 89-93 Part 1 | |
| 0:00:00 - 0:04:47 | #1 |
| 0:04:10 - 0:08:31 | #2
Uses a 303 synth. |
| 0:07:57 - 0:12:09 | #3 "Westcoast Acid"[6] |
| 0:12:05 - 0:16:02 | #4 "Rippin Circuits"[6][7]
"Rippin Circuits" is an early version of "Accelera 1 & 2" made by Rob in 1989. Sean said that this to likely the oldest track in the compilation.[7][8] |
| 0:15:36 - 0:22:43 | #5
Contains elements from "Kalpol Introl". Samples "Pass the Mic" by Beastie Boys [9] |
| 0:21:12 - 0:27:55 | #6 "Destroyer" [10]
Samples J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1965 speech using the Boss RSD-10[11] |
| 0:26:58 - 0:31:35 | #7 |
| 0:31:33 - 0:34:10 | #8 |
| 0:33:51 - 0:41:05 | #9 |
| 0:40:27 - 0:48:16 | #10 |
| 0:47:17 - 0:54:20 | #11 "98 Chop"[6]
Contains a brief reprise of Part 1 #7 which continues into Part 1 #12 |
| 0:54:20 - 1:00:00 | #12
Contains percussion from "Crystel". Unidentified "cheers mate" sample begins at 0:58:59 |
| Warp Tapes 89-93 Part 2 | |
| 0:00:00 - 0:08:44 | #1 "Luna Chop"[12][6]
Uses the same bassline as "Keyop" from Lego Feet |
| 0:08:37 - 0:12:58 | #2
Uses the same percussion as "Maetl" |
| 0:12:44 - 0:18:01 | #3 |
| 0:17:23 - 0:24:19 | #4 |
| 0:23:33 - 0:31:54 | #5
Early version of "Leterel" |
| 0:31:26 - 0:33:40 | #6
Reprise of Part 1 #7 |
| 0:33:12 - 0:38:37 | #7 |
| 0:38:07 - 0:45:33 | #8 "Persuit 2"[6] |
| 0:44:54 - 0:54:36 | #9 Contains elements of "444" |
| 0:53:21 - 1:00:00 | #10 "Peyaline"[6] |
Tracklist
| # | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warp Tapes 89-93 Part 1 | 1:00:00 |
| 2 | Warp Tapes 89-93 Part 2 | 1:00:00 |
| Total | 2:00:00 | |
Links
References
- ↑ https://artists.wxaxrxp.net/autechre
- ↑ https://ra.co/news/43993
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/13799471-Autechre-Warp-Tapes-89-93
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "The Warp Tapes are really good,” thank you, “surprising great quality recordings for their age. Some of them are. The ones that were recorded on 244 are good because the 244, TASCAM 244, is just beautiful and if you're just recording two channels onto it, because it runs at double speed, then all the noise is, like, out of the way and they're just, it's just really good analog sound. It's really surprising. You can get sound like that out of a cassette, you know. So yeah, all the tracks that were recorded on that thing sound great, and all the stuff that was done straight to normal cassette sounds, well it is what it is, you know. Did they need much remastering? No. I mean, there weren't, there was no mastering at all. It was just, the tracks were taken. Rob did new dubs of a lot of those tracks which were just literally just getting the line and the levels correct, and then just putting them on a digital and at 24 bit, I think, and so we had, we did, he'd done them quite a while before like a good 10 years before we did that. I think it was around the time that we were recompiling, because we had to rebuild the Lego Feet thing when we did that because we didn't have the masters for that. Just time, and had gone missing, so we had to rebuild that. So the version that Skam released later isn't the same as the version that came out in ‘91. That all the tracks sounded different, I mean, we tried to rip, do, you know, replicate it as close as we could but it's, yeah, in the same, so. So, anyway we had them newer versions and they're just a bit cleaner. They're just better digital copies, so, but there was no EQ or anything on any of it or anything like that, it was just as is, so, and then, yeah. Just to, just kind of mixed as, you know, like mix together, the tracks or whatever, but like not really. There's no mastering or anything, so. I think we were just lucky, really. I think when you're not using much equipment, if using a very, very basic setup like just a drum machine through a DJ mixer into a tape deck, you can't really go wrong, you know, it's gonna sound good. That's the beauty of that shit and we were blessed, really, to grow up at a time where that shit was the only shit we could afford, you know. I think if we'd have had a lot more money and we'd have had bigger studios, you know, like an early Mac maybe or, you know, things wouldn't have sounded quite so correct now from back then. So we were just sort of lucky not to have any equipment, I think, in a lot of ways, and you don't make as many mistakes in your mixing and everything because there's nothing there to mix, you know. So yeah, we were just lucky."
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, June 2022. "Any plans to release more early stuff like the Warp tapes? No plans because we didn't have a plan to do that. It was just, we got asked by NTS and we had the stuff there. So we just threw the mix together and did it. Was a bit, you know, off the cuff. We haven't got loads and loads of amazing material from that era. We've got loads of material though, so I don't know. Maybe. I mean we even thought about doing a release based on that thing because that's a mix. So maybe we could just put the tracks out individually on some kind of format? I guess, if we could be bothered?"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 EnergyIsMassiveLight. "old lego feet/ae leak of early material". Reddit, 10 March 2024, https://www.reddit.com/r/autechre/comments/1bbc89f/old_lego_feetae_leak_of_early_material/. Accessed 25 March 2024.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "But that original Accelera track, which was originally it was called Rippin Circuits, that was Rob's track from ‘89, that was like the first time that we'd done that pitch thing, and it was really cool because like on the 202, if he was using the 202 as to generate the square wave for the pitch input, and then you had your sample in there, and then you started adding resonance to it, it just start losing it slightly and getting really good."
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114430/https://post.lurk.org/@sean_ae/111635157753588040#:~:text=(I%20think%20the%20oldest%20track%20on%20there)
- ↑ https://www.whosampled.com/sample/661650/Autechre-Part-1-Track-5-Beastie-Boys-Pass-the-Mic/
- ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAizLmKun4yF6oBVUhIrewYN-ZiY_9ORckmT-hF93Ho/edit#gid=0&range=D274
- ↑ Sean Twitch AMA, July 2022. "Yeah, that was our only sampler for quite a long time, like that Destroyer of Worlds track was done just using that as a sampler, done on the four track."
- ↑ https://forum.watmm.com/topic/20728-luna-chop