Chiastic Slide

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Chiastic Slide
Chiastic Slide cover
Studio album by Autechre
Released 17 February 1997
Recorded ???
Genre IDM
Length 69:53
Label Warp Records WARP49
Producer Autechre
Professional reviews
Autechre chronology
Envane
(1997)		 Chiastic Slide
(1997)		 Radio Mix
(1997)

Chiastic Slide, released in 1997 by Warp Records, is an album by the electronic music group Autechre. Like many releases under the Warp label, the album is in a style frequently described as Intelligent Dance Music; other descriptions classify it as experimental music or, less accurately, as experimental techno[citation needed].

Many critics panned Chiastic Slide as being an underwhelming follow-up to 1995's groundbreaking Tri Repetae[citation needed]; however, it's now clear that the album inspired subsequent Autechre releases such as 2001's Confield, and it's often cited as one of the most underappreciated IDM albums of the 1990s[citation needed].

It is also considered to be a "forgotten" release in the eyes of many American listeners[citation needed] thanks to the fact that it did not receive a release in the United States until Warp Records began distributing its own releases there in 2001. Trent Reznor supposedly found the record too experimental to be worth distributing on his now defunct Nothing Records label[citation needed], although this theory ignores the fact that he picked up the equally controversial LP5 and EP7.

Autechre produced several remixes of track four, "Cichli," on their subsequent EP Cichlisuite (1997).

The sleeve is designed by Sheffield based design agency The Designers Republic.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Cipater" – 8:56
  2. "Rettic AC" – 2:08
  3. "Tewe" – 6:56
  4. "Cichli" – 8:52
  5. "Hub" – 7:35
  6. "Calbruc" – 3:51
  7. "Recury" – 9:44
  8. "Pule" – 8:33
  9. "Nuane" – 13:13

[edit] External links

  • Chiastic Slide at the official Warp discography (features audio clips).
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Autechre
Sean Booth | Rob Brown
Albums
Incunabula (1993) – Amber (1994) – Tri Repetae (1995) – Chiastic Slide (1997) – LP5 (1998) – Confield (2001) – Draft 7.30 (2003) – Untilted (2005) – Quaristice (2008)
EPs
Lego Feet (1991) – Anti EP (1994) – Garbage (1995) – Anvil Vapre (1995) – Envane (1997) – Cichlisuite (1997) – Peel Session (1999) – EP7 (1999) – Peel Session 2 (2001) – Gantz Graf (2002) – Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae (2008)
Singles, promos and remixes
"Cavity Job" (1991) – Basscadet (1994) – "We R Are Why" (1996) – Radio Mix (1997) – "Splitrmx12" (1999)
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