History Music / Autechre

** ''Incunabula'' and ''Amber'', while more experimental than ''Cavity Job'', lack the noise influences that would go on to define their sound.

* [[SurprisinglyGentleSong Surprisingly Gentle Track]]: "Slip" is an upbeat, happy tune that happens to be on ''Amber'', one of the darkest and unmelodic Autechre albums to date.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Confield'' is far more dense and chaotic than their earlier works.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Some of their more ambient leaning works can be this. as they repeat a short loop (or multiple ones) for all of its running time. Taken to extremes with tracks like "Perlence Subrange 6-36" which loops 2 notes for nearly an hour.

* ShoutOut: "Theme of Sudden Roundabout" references a local landmark near where Rob and Sean used to live, while "Montreal" refers to the Canadian city and the friends that they have there. And "Second Bad Vilbel" refers to a town in Germany.

** ''Incunabula'' and ''Amber'' are far less noisy and more melodic than their subsequent works.

* [[SurprisinglyGentleSong Surprisingly Gentle Track]]: ''Slip'' is an upbeat, happy tune that happens to be on ''Amber'', one of the darkest and unmelodic Autechre albums to date.
* SurrealMusicVideo: Second Bad Vilbel (which was directed by Chris Cunningham) and the iconic Gantz Graf video.

** Level 9: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhK4E3DUYyg Bine]] -- ''Confield''

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Played straight in ''Cavity Job'' and ''Incunabula''.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: Possibly the poster child of this trope. [[http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=47276 This is the cover]] of their most popular album, ''Tri Repetae''.

** Nearly each album contains a few lengthy pieces, including: "Windwind" from ''Incunabula''; "Stud" and "Rsdio" from ''Tri Repetae''; "Nuane" from ''Chiastic Slide'' and "Sublimit'' from ''Untilted''.

Their 1993 debut album Incunabula, was a surprise success and their third album ''Tri Repetae'', was considered a breakthrough and is still to this day considered a classic. Though their first few albums had an ambient techno sound, this changed completely with their 2001 album ''Confield'', which was drastically different from their earlier works and was considered largely inaccessible. Their latest releases have been conspicuously lengthy and experimental: a 9-part live recordings release titled ''AE_LIVE'' in late 2015; a 4-hour, 21-track mammoth in five parts called ''elseq 1-5'', on May 19, 2016; and four 2-hour long broadcasts via NTS Radio, released as ''NTS Sessions 1-4''.

Their 1993 debut album Incunabula, was a surprise success and their third album ''Tri Repetae'', was considered a breakthrough and is still to this day considered a classic. Though their first few albums had an ambient techno sound, this changed completely with their 2001 album ''Confield'', which was drastically different from their earlier works and was considered largely inaccessible. Their latest release, a 4-hour, 21-track mammoth in five parts called ''elseq 1-5'', came out on May 19, 2016.

* ''NTS Sessions'' (2018) [[note]]formally divided into 4 parts (''NTS Sessions 01'', ''NTS Sessions 02'',...) but released all at once[[/note]]

* EpicRocking: "Perlence subrange 6-36" is almost ''an hour long'', which, despite its genre (ambient), counts for length alone.
** Their 2013 album ''Exai'' is over 2 hours long.
** The ''elseq'' series, itself totalling 4 hours in length, has even longer tracks than usual. Half of the songs are over 10 minutes, and "elyc6 0nset" tops 27.
** Their "AE_LIVE" sets. They're meant to be one long piece each (although with clear sections at all" and if all are put together its over 9 hours of new music!
** Their forthcoming "NTS Sessions" each session is exactly 2 hours long, which makes 8(!) hours of new music
* GenreRoulette: Seriously, compare ''Amber'' to ''Confield.'' Wiki/ThatOtherWiki has.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Confield'' and to some extent, ''Oversteps''.
* NoNameGiven: [=LP5=] does not have any actual name.

** "Lowride" from ''Incunabula'' samples Music/GangStarr's "DJ Premier Is In Deep Concentration", which samples Kool & the Gang's "Summer Madness" in its turn.
* SelfTitledAlbum: Due to the fact that a title is not printed anywhere on the case, but the band's name is, ''[=LP5=]'' is often referred to as ''Autechre'' or ''The Autechre Album'' by the more oblivious.

* ShoutOut: "Theme Of Sudden Roundabout" which references a local landmark near where Rob and Sean used to live, while "Montreal" refers to the Canadian city and the friends that they have there. And "Second Bad Vilbel" refers to a town in Germany.

* ''[=LP5=]'' (1998)

* ''elseq 1-5'' (2016) - formally divided into 5 parts (''elseq 1'', ''elseq 2'',...) but released all at once

* GenreRoulette: Seriously, compare ''Amber'' to ''Confield.'' ThatOtherWiki has.

* OldShame: The band consider their first two albums, all of which were highly influential and commonly considered their best work, "cheesy."

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover art for ''Draft 7.30''. [[https://protein-cms-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/grafik/78/large_Draft_7.30.jpg Behold.]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Played straight in ''Cavity Job'' and ''Incunabula''

Their 1993 debut album Incunabula, was a surprise success and their third album ''Tri Repetae'', was considered a breakthrough and is still to this day considered a classic. Though their first few albums had an ambient techno sound, this changed completely with their 2001 album ''Confield'', which was drastically different from their earlier works and was considered largely inaccessible. Their latest album, ''Exai'', was released on 4 March 2013.

** Their latest album, ''Exai'', is over 2 hours long.

* InNameOnly: Two of their [=EPs=] are similar in length to that of an average album. One is twice as long.

* PunnyName: ''Confield'' and ''Untilted''.

Their 1993 debut album Incunabula, was a surprise success and their third album ''Tri Repetae'', was considered a breakthrough and is still to this day considered a classic. Though their first few albums had an ambient techno sound, this changed completely with their 2001 album ''Confield'', which was drastically different from their earlier works and was considered largely inaccessible. Their latest album, ''Oversteps'', was released on 22 March 2010. A new [[InNameOnly EP]], ''Move Of Ten'', was released on July 12 2010.

* BrokenPedestal / OldShame: The band consider their first two albums, all of which were highly influential and commonly considered their best work, "cheesy."

** Level 2: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFm87ncj-Xc Treale]] -- ''Oversteps''
** Level 3: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRLb8AYgIc bladelores]] -- ''Exai''
** Level 4: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Ky3pKqjI0 Second Scepe]] -- ''Anvil Vapre EP''
** Level 5: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NySz4SR-0Q nodezsh]] -- ''Exai''
** Level 6: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_A5p04VXc Clipper]] -- ''Tri Repetae''
** Level 7: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlR1dOC0y_U Ipacial Section]] -- ''Untilted''
** Level 8: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zT3kVtpHc Second Bad Vilbel]] -- ''Anvil Vapre EP''
** Level 9: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Exrc19gRb4 Bine]] -- ''Confield''
** Level 10: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdO9SzDd3OU Pen Expers]] -- ''Confield''

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The majority of their albums' names are linked to what number it is chronologically, e.g. debut album is called ''Incunabula'', derived from a latin word meaning 'the earliest traces of something'; third album ''Tri Repetae'' has the prefix 'tri-' indicating three; a chiastic phrase has four parts, thus the fourth album being called ''Chiastic Slide''; LP5 and Draft 7.30; eighth album ''Untilted'' has eight letters in the title and eight tracks; ''Quaristice'' has the catalogue number 333 which adds up to nine; ''Exai'' is a phonetic reading of XI, the roman numeral for "eleven".