Autechre - Tri Repetae

Disc One is the best release Autechre ever did and the first one anyone should ever buy if they want to start their journey towards Autechre. Every track has a unique flavor and borders that fine line between techno and experimental.

Disc Two is great as well, but a bit too repetitive to be a favorite. "Vletrmx21" is the best ambient track they ever did and ever will do and "Garbagemx36" is the best on the album and doesn't even seem like over 14 minutes when you’re listening to it.

Like it's been mentioned so many times. If your a first time listener, get this double, afterwards you'll want them all.

I take it all back. Fucking incredible. Production this precise, brutal, filthy, terse dry ecstatic and beautiful... I wouldn't even know where to begin. Electro smeared and mashed into whole new form with sinuous leads and pummelling bass twisted around one another and barbed with hissing, wheezing noisy percussive rhythms. Every track belongs to its own soundworld and it's all rooted in the b-boy love of smacking breaks. Listen LOUD and on a decent system. Chiastic Slide is even better, but Autechre become Autechre the production genii here.

I love this record. This is probably my favorite Autechre album. The combination of deep, think pads, weird glitchy beats and assorted noises, is genius! When I first bought this record I didn't know that the second disc was two separate EP's. I'm not sure what Autechre's intention was for releasing this version with the two EP's, but they certainly go well with one another. Both discs seem as though they were meant to be one long track, everything just flows. You could listen to this album without being aware of when one track finished and the next began.

Most people would probably say that this album doesn't compare to a release like Amber, but I think this record deserves more credit. There may not be any hard driving beats, chaotic interludes or breakdowns, and it may seem fairly bland at times when compared to albums like Amber or Draft 7.30, but it definitely has a genuine appeal and a whole lot to offer.

If Valve Software had half an ounce of sense, they'd have forgotten about making a soundtrack for Half-Life and just licensed this instead. It feels like you should listen to it exclusively in abandoned factories. It's more industrial than industrial music. Fabulous, mathematically precise and terrifying.

After this album is when I waved goodbye to Autechre, for this CD marks their last "human" effort. Their albums over the years have become more and more expiremental, and I dare say too hard to possibly appreciate in the same way as their first 3 albums.

Tri Repetae still has the organic elements of Incunabula and Amber, but with a more robot feel. A lot more sounds and percussion styles used in this one. While this album is amazing, it was clear that Autechre wanted to keep pushing the boundaries of what you can do with sounds, not rhythym.

By the time their next album came out, Chiastic Slide, I had lost interest in what they were all about. Hopefully they'll return to making more logical music someday... but until, this is my farewell album to them.

I don't get it. What's all the fuss about? Same with Incunabula - that's even worse than this album. I like Amber, Chiastic Slide, LP5 and a few of the EPs. This is just slightly twisted electro though, it's so repetitive and with boring melodies that go nowhere. Dull, dull, dull.

Used to be a huge fan of theirs at the time. Incunabula had been straight success, Amber was even deeper. When this record came, I was astonished by the difference they could provide on every album, but it didn't last, the EPs started to crack already and their sound started to form into that freaky stuff they're best known today. For me this record is important because it represents the last days of their music when it still used to be good.

Eutow was the very first Autechre track that I ever listened to, and it blew me away. Then when I heard the other tracks I thought it was all crap. It took me awhile to get into the more difficult tracks, but now I love anything autechre. I believe its because Eutow is their softest, easiest tune. It really stands out from their other tracks.

And as for TR++ as a whole, it is also very easy to listen too. Same with Incunabula. These 2 albums would be great for first time listeners, because of their easy listening. Also, they should be the only thing first time listeners should try, since something like Confield could turn them away forever.

A lot of people consider this to be Autechre's best album, but i'm afraid I have to disagree. Sure its up there in their greatest work, but I much prefer Amber's ambient tunes then this CD. The opening track, Dael is amazing and continues throughout the first half of the CD. But I find the last 5 tracks to be kinda lacking. A definite must have if you're a Autechre fan, but I suggest starting with Amber instead.

Tri Repetae takes place in a machine factory on some distant planet where there are no humans and where the sky is always red. The factory's high windows are smeared with liquid smoke, but from the catwalk one can still make out the barren mountains jutting up at the far end of the orange desert that surrounds the building on all sides. Giant metal claws plunge into mounds of sparking cables and extract the demolished corpses of robots that once served a purpose in this world, some fighting wars, some carrying supplies across impassable landscapes, some drilling holes into the floors of green oceans. A red wind from outside stirs up the acrid smell of hot metal and feeds the fire of a monstrous black furnace, gaping like the mouth of a volcano beneathe dangling corpses that were once filled with the fear of death, the terror of the battlefield, the frantic sound of snapping metal.