Autechre ‎– Tri Repetae

Probably one of there best releases,although not as good as "incunabula" its still supreme in every way possible from start to finish but my attention is focused on STUD for this review,as one of the most hardcore intelligent techno tunes I've ever heard,not in the sense its hardcore as early rave jargon its just brutal and tripped out and so hard,sounds awesome probably my favourite track by the duo not forgetting 444,its that riff underneath which sends a shudder down my spine.

Tri Repetae is a warm, rhythm oriented collection of songs but at the same time is on the far end of Ae's slow transition to very cold, arhythmic, computer generated music you see later. I wonder if one reason the older stuff is more approachable is because it is just slower. The later stuff (e.g. Confeld) has so many samples/minute and beats/minute. This album is less demanding.

Does anyone else go crazy for that sinuous, thick, winding, red-hot steel ingot pad/lead on Clipper at 1:44?

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.

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.

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.

Without a doubt this is Autechre's finest album. Here they have the perfect balance between the more melodic and warm sounds of early albums like Incanabula and the fractured dissonance of later albums. Listening to this now, 10 years after it was made, I would certainly put it in the top 10 albums of 90s electronica. A masterpiece.

In this album you can hear that the machines have taken more over the minds of Sean and Rob. In fact, Tri Repetae feels and sounds like a big, living factory on some alien planet.

The first track, Dael, opens the album perfectly with metalic sounds and beats. When I hear it, it feels I'm standing in the middle of a big machinery which moves in time with the music. The next track, Clipper start with some sharp noise and then some realy heavy beats kicks in, before some silent, but interesting ambient layers start to move back and fourh. Next up is Leterel, another good track with strange blip-blop sounds messing around in the background. Another tracks worth mention is Eutow and Overand. Eutow is a really lovely futuric synth track with makes me feel I'm flying over this big factory that is Tri Repetae. Overand is a really dark and hypnotic ambient track and it makes me feel that I'm wandering outside the factory at nigtht in the dark, with lots of alien creatures far away making strange sounds and noises. Stud and Gnitare also good tracks while Rotar dosen't do much to me.

4/5