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Autechre

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  • Archive Panic: Autechre have been active since 1991, and have been releasing albums and EPs at a respectable rate. This trope kicks in with 2013's Exai, the band's first album to span two discs (and two hours.) Then followed a nine-hour live album and two studio albums, four and eight hours long, respectively.
  • Broken Base: Confield. Despite going far beyond that album's sonic palette, it still manages to confound and alienate listeners. There's a sharp divide between pre- and post-Confield Autechre fans, with a small amount of overlap.
  • First Installment Wins: Some fans look at Incunabula this way.
  • Growing the Beard: Tri Repetae is considered by long-time fans (and the duo themselves) to be where they started to come into their own, leaving behind the ambient techno sound of their first two albums (which are nonetheless both highly regarded) and into the more experimental style of later works.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In short order, the use of nonrepetitive beat programming went from the basis of a legal disclaimer on the cover of Anti EP, to the first thing anybody thinks of when you mention the name.
  • Mainstream Obscurity: They're one of, if not the, most important names in the IDM/experimental electronic genre, and have been cited as a major influence by the likes of Björk, Radiohead, and SOPHIE, but unlike Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, their records have yet to dent the charts and truly crossover from the underground.
  • Memetic Mutation: A very minor example in comparison to many other Memetic Mutations; "Gantz Graf" has led to numerous videos where things are being synced to the song, such as a self-destructing washing machine.
  • Nightmare Fuel: They have so much of it in their songs that they have a subpage here.
  • Old Guard Versus New Blood: Pulled off successfully on LP5. Exai is also starting to look like this after being acclaimed by critics and fans alike.
  • Signature Song:
    • "Gantz Graf" may qualify due to its iconic Surreal Music Video.
    • As for non-music video songs, "Nil" and "Dropp" have gotten the most views on YouTube, and "Bike" has the most plays on Spotify.
  • Vindicated by History: Chiastic Slide, which upon its release was deemed underwhelming and a disappointment. These days, it's considered an underrated classic.

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