Draft 7.30

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Draft 7.30 is the seventh album by Autechre. It was originally released on April 7th, 2003 on Warp Records. It was later repressed on vinyl in 2023, alongside Confield.

Sean noted that Draft was "really straight, using straight-up normal sequencers and samplers."[1] With the exception of some generative elements on "RENIFORM PULS", Draft 7.30 was otherwise written "note by note".

Tracklist

#	Title	Length
1	Xylin Room	6:09
2	IV VV IV VV VIII	4:51
3	6IE.CR	5:39
4	TAPR	3:15
5	Surripere	11:23
6	Theme Of Sudden Roundabout	4:52
7	VL AL 5	4:57
8	P.:NTIL	7:08
9	V-PROC	6:00
10	RENIFORM PULS	8:39
Total		1:02:51

Tracks

Xylin Room

• One of the precussive samples is of a wooden garden table being knocked on. [2]

Surripere

• Surripere consists of a a fake analog (Nord?) on the first part, and a Nord Lead with Native Battery's loop modulation on the second part's "crunchy stuff."[3]

Theme of Sudden Roundabout

• “Theme Of Sudden Roundabout” is likely a reference to Sudden, a suburb of Rochdale, where Rob and Sean grew up. The titular roundabout in question could be this one, as seen on Google Maps.

VL AL 5

• A 12-minute version of VL AL 5 was played during the 2008-02-23 Webcast.

Original Titles

Before the release of Draft 7.30, early tracks titles were uploaded to CDDB. For each corresponding track they were:

1. Benk Chin
2. nwnw8
3. 606.ie
4. reppat
5. Theft
6. Prince Moth Mothy Moth Moth
7. Vlimpton Alpha 5
8. Foam Conduit
9. uprock
10. kidney bean

In the WATMM AAA, Sean confirmed that they were the actual file titles that he threw onto CDDB "for a laugh." [4]

Trivia

• The album’s title implies that the released version is the 30th edit of the band’s seventh album.
• The track titles are sometimes stylized as being in all uppercase. (Ex. "XYLIN ROOM")

Links

• Bandcamp
• Repress announcement tweet
• Repress release tweet