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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes
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Autechre
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Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Formed in 1987, they are one of the most popular acts signed to the Warp Records label, known for its electronic music. While heavily associated with IDM, Booth and Brown are ambivalent about relating their sound to established genres, Autechre have also recorded under various pseudonyms. One of the duos earliest recordings was a 12 single released under the alias Lego Feet in 1991 by Skam Records, the majority of releases by the umbrella project Gescom have been attributed to Booth and Brown, among other artists. One recent critic stated that Autechre create some of the most complicated music you could hope to drown in and are recognized as pioneers in experimental music. Booth and Brown pronounce the name Autechre with a Rochdale accent, however, they have explained that the name can be pronounced in any way one sees fit. Booth explains, The first two letters were intentional, because there was an au sound in the track, and the rest of the letters were bashed randomly on the keyboard. We had this title for ages, and we had written it on a cassette. It looked good, and we began using it as our name, Brown and Booth met through Manchesters graffiti scene in 1987 when they both lived in Rochdale. Their first release was Lego Feet, a 12 recorded under an alias of the name brought out by Manchesters Skam Records. Their first release as Autechre was the single Cavity Job in 1991, two more tracks appeared during the following year, under the now finalised Autechre name, on the Warp Records compilation Artificial Intelligence, part of the series of the same name. The compilation contained The Egg, later reworked for their first full-length release under the title Eggshell, in 1993 Warp released their debut album, Incunabula, which became a surprise success, reaching the top of the UK Indie Chart. An EP of remixes of Incunabulas Basscadet was released in 1994 and this music video featured on MTV Europes Party Zone when Autechre were interviewed during the show in September that year. 1994 also saw the release of Amber, an album featuring a more ambient, rave music was defined as music which includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. However we advise DJs to have a lawyer and musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment, in a 2008 interview with Pitchfork Media, Rob Brown mentioned that Incunabula and Amber retrospectively sounded cheesy. Brown later clarified that he was trying to say how they were more simple. 1995 saw the release of Tri Repetae, their album, as well as the EPs Anvil Vapre. Featuring a monochrome cover designed by The Designers Republic, with whom Autechre have long held a close association, Tri Repetae and its associated EPs were combined into a two disc set entitled Tri Repetae++, which was released in the United States
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Intelligent dance music
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Intelligent dance music is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s. Its creation was influenced by developments in dance music such as Detroit techno. Stylistically, IDM tended to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than adhering to musical characteristics associated with specific genres of dance music, the range of post-techno styles that emerged in the early 1990s were described variously as art techno, ambient techno, intelligent techno, and electronica. In the United States, the latter is used as a catchall term to describe not only downtempo or downbeat/non-dance electronic music. In 2014, music critic Sasha Frere-Jones observed that the term is widely reviled and he regards UK acts Aphex Twin and Autechre as central to the evolution of the genre. In 1992, Warp released Artificial Intelligence, the first album in the Artificial Intelligence series. Subtitled electronic listening music from Warp, the record was a collection of tracks from such as Autechre, B12, The Black Dog, Aphex Twin and The Orb. Steve Beckett, co-owner of Warp, has said the music that the label was releasing then was targeting a post-club. At the same time, the UK market was saturated with increasingly frenetic breakbeat, in 1993, a number of new intelligent techno/electronica record labels emerged, including New Electronica, Mille Plateaux, 100% Pure, and Ferox Records. In November 1991, the phrase intelligent techno appeared on Usenet in reference to Coils The Snow EP. Off the Internet, the phrase appeared in both the U. S. & UK music press in late 1992, in reference to Jam & Spoons Tales from a Danceographic Ocean. Another instance of the phrase appeared on Usenet in April 1993 in reference to The Black Dogs album Bytes, the first message, sent on 1 August 1993, was entitled Can Dumb People Enjoy IDM, Too. Kirk and The Future Sound of London, and even artists like System 7, William Orbit, Sabres of Paradise, Orbital, Plastikman and Björk. By the end of 1996, Boards of Canada and the Schematic Records label were among the topics of discussion, alongside perennial favorites like Aphex Twin. As of 2015, the mailing list is still active, warps second Artificial Intelligence compilation was released in 1994. The album featured fragments of posts from the IDM mailing list incorporated into typographic artwork by The Designers Republic, sleeve notes by David Toop acknowledged the genres multitude of musical and cultural influences and suggested none should be considered more important than any other. Lesser-known artists on the Likemind label and Kirk Degiorgios A. R. T, in the mid-1990s, North American audiences welcomed IDM, and many IDM record labels were founded, including Drop Beat, Isophlux, Suction, Schematic and Cytrax. In Miami, Florida, labels like Schematic, Merck Records, Nophi Recordings and The Beta Bodega Coalition released material by such as Phoenecia, Dino Felipe, Machinedrum
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Warp (record label)
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Warp is an English independent record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store workers Steve Beckett, Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon. It is currently based in London, current artists on the label roster include Flying Lotus, Rustie, Oneohtrix Point Never, Danny Brown, Grizzly Bear, Brian Eno, TNGHT, and Kelela. Warp was founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell, the name was chosen because the original name, Warped Records, was difficult to distinguish over the telephone. The first release was by Forgemasters, whose 500 copy pressing of Track with no Name was financed by an Enterprise Allowance grant and it set a trend for the early releases both in terms of sound, and the use of purple sleeves. The follow-up was Nightmares on Waxs Dextrous, which sold around 30,000 copies, the first album released was Sweet Exorcists C. C. E. P. in 1991. In the same year Robert Gordon left Warp acrimoniously, initially all the album releases used gatefold sleeves and coloured vinyl, often designed by The Designers Republic or Phil Wolstenholme. A VHS compilation of digitally animated music videos called Motion was released in conjunction with the second Artificial Intelligence compilation, in 1996 Warp started the Blech club night in Sheffield, also in London between 1997 and 1999, and released an accompanying compilation CD under the same name. The artwork, created by the Designers Republic, had a distinctive Japanese manga influence, the collection celebrated the labels tenth anniversary. In 2000, the label moved its operations to London along with its physical music, co-founder Rob Mitchell was diagnosed with cancer in early 2001. Warpmart has now been absorbed into Bleep. com, today Bleep sells a carefully curated selection of music from a diverse range of labels. The site has released its own limited edition LPs The Green Series. On 27 September 2004, Warp released its music video compilation, named WarpVision. 2005 saw the release of Warp, the first book in the Labels Unlimited series, written by Rob Young, the book gave an illustrated history of the label, as well as offering a complete discography. The Warp website said the book was “A very beautiful thing and like our very own This Is Your Life, the label continued to expand its roster, signing acts including. Battles, Born Ruffians, Maxïmo Park, Gravenhurst and Grizzly Bear, for the labels 20th anniversary in 2009, several Warp20 concerts took place in Paris, New York City, Sheffield, Tokyo, Berlin and London. Warp also celebrated by releasing the Warp20 box set, composed of six parts, Warp20 The Complete Catalogue, Warp20, a CD album featuring an hour-long piece by Osymyso, made from sections, samples and fragments of Warp music from the previous twenty years. Warp20, a double 10” vinyl of loops from Warp tracks, Warp continues to release albums, from artists such as Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus, Mark Pritchard, Bibio, Jamie Lidell, Lonelady, Leila, and Gonjasufi. Recent signings include Brian Eno, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mount Kimbie, darkstar, Death Grips, patten and Jeremiah Jae
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Garbage (EP)
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Garbage is the fourth EP by British Electronic music duo Autechre, released by Warp Records on 27 February 1995. Garbage is a companion to their album Amber, being based on material from the same sessions, the cover and interior illustrations are digitally garbled versions of the cover of Amber. Garbage was also released alongside Anvil Vapre as part of the US version of Tri Repetae, on the EP the tracks are written as Garbagemx36/PIOBmx19/Bronchusevenmx24/VLetrmx21. The numbers at the end of the titles are the percentage of the total EP time each track takes up
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Tri Repetae
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Tri Repetae is the third studio album by the British electronic music duo Autechre, released on 6 November 1995 by Warp Records in the United Kingdom and on 16 March 1996 by Wax Trax. The album was released in the US as a two-disc set named Tri Repetae++, in Japan, it was released with the bonus track Medrey. The liner notes of the album mention a preference to listen to the album on vinyl for its inclusion of surface noise, the CD version states that the album is incomplete without surface noise whereas the vinyl version states that it is complete with surface noise. All tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown, the bonus disc is made up of the EPs Anvil Vapre and Garbage. Tri Repetae at the official Warp discography
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Electronic music
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In general, a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer. During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions for instruments were composed. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds, Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. An important new development was the advent of computers for the purpose of composing music, algorithmic composition was first demonstrated in Australia in 1951. In America and Europe, live electronics were pioneered in the early 1960s, during the 1970s to early 1980s, the monophonic Minimoog became once the most widely used synthesizer at that time in both popular and electronic art music. In the 1980s, electronic music became dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines. Electronically produced music became prevalent in the domain by the 1990s. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. Today, pop music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form. At the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments and these initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments, while some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium accurately synthesized the sound of orchestral instruments. It achieved viable public interest and made progress into streaming music through telephone networks. Critics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments, ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises, developments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s, from the late 1920s, the increased practicality of electronic instruments influenced composers such as Joseph Schillinger to adopt them
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Snake Pass
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Snake Pass is a hill pass in the Derbyshire section of the Peak District, crossing the Pennines between Glossop and the Ladybower Reservoir at Ashopton. The road was engineered by Thomas Telford and opened in 1821, the pass carries the A57 road between Manchester and Sheffield, but it is no longer the main signposted route between those two cities. Like several other roads cross the Pennines, Snake Pass has a poor accident record compared with roads in the UK generally. It is regularly closed in winter because of snow, and has seen several longer-term closures owing to subsidence following heavy rain, the road remains a popular route for tourists and motorcycles, however, and sections have been used for semi-professional cycling races such as the Tour of Britain. It is part of the shortest route by road from Manchester to Sheffield, after this, it passes a public house that used to be known as the Snake Inn, and descends through forest to the Ladybower Reservoir at Ashopton. The name of the road matches its winding route, but actually derives from the emblem of the Snake Inn, in turn, the pubs name and sign were derived from the serpent on the Cavendish arms of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire. In the early 21st century, the inn was renamed the Snake Pass Inn, in 1932, an Iron Age axe thought to be more than 2,000 years old was found near the site of this road. The current road further south was designed as a road by Thomas Telford to improve communications east of Glossop. It was originally called the Sheffield to Glossop Turnpike and run by a turnpike trust, an act of parliament to build the road was passed in 1818, and construction was financed by the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Devonshire. The road opened in 1821, having cost £18,625 to build, upon opening, it was the highest turnpike road in England. The road was popular and increased toll collections of traffic heading to Glossop. Tolls were abolished on the road in June 1870, the eastern end of the pass is by the River Derwent. The river is bridged by the Ashopton Viaduct, built as part of the Ladybower Reservoir project between 1935 and 1945, unlike Snake Pass, the Woodhead route is a trunk road. Traffic levels on both passes remained similar until the 1980s, but the Woodhead Pass route is now favoured as it directly to the M1. Despite Sheffield and Manchester being among the largest UK cities by population, a Manchester to Sheffield motorway was first proposed in 1966, and a small section bypassing Denton and Hyde has been built, now the M67. The Woodhead Tunnel was closed in 1981 in anticipation of a road replacement, consequently, the plans were shelved, but reports in December 2014 announced a revival of the scheme. The road remains popular with drivers, in 2008, a survey by Caterham Cars rated Snake Pass the best driving road in the UK. The following year, it was listed as one of the best roads for driving in Britain by Auto Trader magazine, as would be expected for a road crossing the Pennines, Snake Pass has several dangerous bends and blind summits
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Bad Vilbel
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Bad Vilbel is a spa town in Hesse, Germany, famous for its many mineral water springs. Bad Vilbel was founded in 774 but much older artefacts were found in the area, in 1848 during railway works, a Roman villa was scooped out with a Thermae and a Mosaic. A replica of this mosaic is presented in an exhibition in the spa gardens. The town Vilbel got the label Bad in 1948 for its numerous mineral springs, the health spa operations stopped in the 1960s but the mineral water industry connected more springs of the Wetterau by pipelines to the bottling plant of Hassia in Bad Vilbel. The hessian government reform formed 1971/72 Bad Vilbel, Dortelweil, Gronau, since 1997 great areas have been developed for living and business, like the residential area of Dortelweil-West or the commercial park Quellenpark between Bad Vilbel, Massenheim and Dortelweil. Thomas Stöhr was elected in March 2003 and he was re-elected in February 2010 and in March 2016. Bad Vilbel has four stations on the Main–Weser Railway, served by Frankfurts local transport network. It has access to the A661 autobahn and the highway B3, Bad Vilbel station English electronic music duo Autechre released a song entitled Second Bad Vilbel on their EP Anvil Vapre. The title derives from the twinning with Glossop, an area the group would have passed en route to Sheffield
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Glossop
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Glossop is a market town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, England, about 15 miles east of Manchester,24 miles west of Sheffield and 32 miles north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop is near Derbyshires county borders with Cheshire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and it is between 150 and 300 metres above mean sea level, and is a gateway to the Peak District National Park. A municipal borough was created in 1866, and the urban area within two local government wards. The area now known as Glossop approximates to the villages that used to be called Glossopdale, architecturally, the area is dominated by buildings constructed of the local sandstone. There remain two significant former cotton mills and the Dinting railway viaduct, Glossop has transport links to Manchester, making the area popular for commuters. Because of its size and location, Glossop had many definitions, the village of Glossop is now called Old Glossop. Howard Town and Milltown gained importance and they were named New Town and then Glossop. Local government reorganisations had caused the Glossopdale villages to be promoted to a municipal borough, land has been added to Glossop and other lands removed. From a small settlement it became an ancient parish, a manor, a borough, currently two county divisions in High Peak Borough, Derbyshire, have Glossop as part of their names. There is evidence of a Bronze Age burial site on Shire Hill, the Romans arrived in 78 AD. At that time, the area was within the territory of the Brigantes tribe, in the late 1st century the Romans built a fort, Ardotalia, on high ground above the river in present-day Gamesley. The site of fort was rediscovered in 1771 by an amateur historian. It subsequently acquired the name Melandra Castle, the extensive site has been excavated, revealing fort walls, a shrine and the fort headquarters. The area has been landscaped to provide parking and picnic areas, King William I awarded the manor of Glossop to William Peveril, who began construction of Glossop Castle, but the entire estate was later confiscated. In 1157 King Henry II gave the manor of Glossop to Basingwerk Abbey and they gained a market charter for Glossop in 1290, and one for Charlesworth in 1328. In 1433, the monks leased all of Glossopdale to the Talbot family, in 1494, an illegitimate son of the family, Dr John Talbot, was appointed vicar of Glossop. He founded a school, and paved the route over the moors. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1537 the manor of Glossop was given to the Talbot family, in 1606 it came into the ownership of the Howard family, the Dukes of Norfolk, who held it for the next 300 years
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Gantz Graf
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Gantz Graf is a three-track EP released by Autechre in 2002 on CD and 12. The video features an object synchronized to the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes. Rutterford claims the idea for the Gantz Graf video came during one of his LSD trips, the video was produced by Lost in Space. DVD Gantz Graf at the official Warp discography, interview with Alex Rutterford in making the Gantz Graf video
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Incunabula (album)
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And that Amber was their first album we put out on Warp. Music critics David Stubbs and Ned Raggett noted that Incunabula would differ from Autechres later releases and he concluded that Incunabula follows the same general tone, tracks often experiment with ghostly keyboard backing and mostly clinical beats combined with odd, individual touches. Incunabula was released by Warp on 29 November 1993 and it was released again by Wax Trax. on 25 January 1994 in the United States. Incunabula was re-released on vinyl by Warp on 11 November 2016, in a contemporary review, the St. K. techno albums of the early 90s. All tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown, credits adapted from Incunabulas record sleeve
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Amber (Autechre album)
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Amber is the second studio album by the British electronic music duo Autechre, released by Warp Records on 7 November 1994. Amber was Autechres first album of new material as their previous work Incunabula was a compilation of older tracks, CMJ described the sound of Amber as entirely electronic and entirely instrumental outside a few vocal samples. Fact magazine described Amber as containing some of Autechres most ambient moments, fact compared songs on the album to works of Brian Eno, describing them as beatless, but powerful low-end means that they’re contemplative rather than ethereal. Fact also described such as Montreal and Piezo as different styled pieces with deep veins of techno. Select described the album as a 90s update of electros cut-n-paste rhythmics into the realms of the odd. Amber was released by Warp Records on 7 November 1994. The album was released on disc, double vinyl, cassette. Amber was released on 24 January 1995 by TVT Records, Amber was re-released on vinyl by Warp on 11 November 2016. Raggett concluded that things are starting to gel a little more here than on previous releases. Select gave the four stars out of five, describing the group as out on the fringes, having a good rummage for the weird and beautiful. In 2008, Booth described listening to Incunabula and Amber again, and commented on how cheesy they were, the review concluded that What makes Amber fascinating to revisit decades on is to hear vestigial organs and sonic cul-de-sacs that Autechre would bin almost immediately after. All tracks are credited to Brown/Booth,1994 in music Music of the United Kingdom
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Chiastic Slide
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Chiastic Slide is the fourth studio album by the British electronic music group Autechre, released 24 February 1997 by Warp Records. Chiastic Slide was released on 24 February 1997 and it did not receive a release in the United States until Warp Records began distributing its own releases there in 2001. Autechre produced five remixes of the track, Cichli, on their subsequent EP Cichlisuite. The sleeve was designed by Sheffield-based design agency The Designers Republic, allmusic critic John Bush panned Chiastic Slide as being an underwhelming follow-up to 1995s Tri Repetae, saying it was too repetitive and lacked ideas. Tim Barr in Techno, the Rough Guide called Chiastic Slide The aural equivalent of being at the bottom of the sea and he went on to say the album was Dark, claustrophobic. The third track from this album Tewe was featured as the song for Adios One Step Beyond skate video which was released in 2002. Chiastic Slide at the official Warp website
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Confield
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Confield is the sixth album by British electronic music duo Autechre, released 30 April 2001 by Warp Records. Confield saw the use of computer programs to form the basis of songs instead of stand-alone synthesizers. According to Booth, Most of Confield came out of experiments with Max that werent really applicable in a club environment, like EP7 before it and their 2003 release Draft 7.30, Booth and Brown make use of generative sequences on Confield. You have something that people would call random, but I would say is quantifiable. It seems that for a lot of people, if they hear something that doesnt sound regular, if live musicians were playing it, theyd probably call it jazz or something. But the fact that its out of a computer, as they perceive it. For me its just messing around with a lot of analogue sequencers and its like saying, I want this to go from this beat to that beat over this amount of time, with this curve, which is shaped according to this equation. Pitchfork Media gave the album an 8, however, Allmusic, giving the album only a 3/5, argued that Confield was a record to respect, not enjoy, a viewpoint expressed by other review outlets. He said many of the songs sounded as though the CD player was skipping, fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman held a similar view, saying the album sounded like a malfunctioning dishwasher or a CD jumping. Despite the records controversial nature, the scores a average of 82/100 at Metacritic based on ten reviews. In 2009, chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound recorded a version of Cfern on their album a/rhythmia, Confield at the official Warp discography
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Draft 7.30
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Draft 7.30 is the seventh album by the electronic music group Autechre. It was released by Warp Records in 2003, the name Draft 7.30 supposedly derives from the album being the 30th edited version of the album. The artwork for album was created by Alex Rutterford. Theme of Sudden Roundabout refers to Sudden, which is in Rochdale, reniform Puls was used in a television advertisement for the LG U880 mobile phone. Around the time of the release, Sean Booth stated in an interview that doesnt seem to limit us in the way it did when we first started. The album received mixed to positive reviews from critics, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown. Draft 7.30 at the official Warp discography
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Untilted
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The album charted at #199 in the UK. The cover art for the album was created by Alex Rutterford, a phony version of the album was leaked on file sharing networks simultaneously to the actual albums promotional leak. It became so widespread that Sean Booth commented in an interview The more fakes the merrier, we’ve released fakes ourselves, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown. Untilted at the official Warp discography
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Quaristice
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Quaristice is the ninth studio album by British electronic music duo Autechre, initially released on 29 January 2008 by Warp Records. It was made available for download via bleep. com in FLAC and MP3 format on 29 January 2008 and then received a physical release on 3 March 2008. Booth said in a March 2008 interview, a lot of the tracks are edited-down jams, some of them hour-long pieces we made in a day. We’d have a jam, a ten- or a seven-minute and end up with a three- or four-minute track. The album is accompanied with artwork from The Designers Republic. The last thirty seconds of The Plc contains a repeated sample of Run–D. M. C. s 1985 track Here We Go. In an interview, Booth said the product is the FLAC file – but I dont object to those who want to own something that they can hold. The album was released as a 2-CD set with alternate versions of 11 tracks on a second 68-minute CD. The casing is a photo-etched, steel case and the release was limited to 1000 copies, the limited edition sold out within 12 hours of being announced. Quaristice received somewhat positive reviews overall, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown. A second disc, entitled Quaristice, was included in the limited edition, official release announcement Listen to Quaristice at Bleep. com Quaristice at metacritic
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Oversteps (album)
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Oversteps is the tenth album by electronic music duo Autechre, released on Warp Records. The album was available for official download on bleep. com and the Japanese iTunes Store on 22 February 2010. Critics were generally positive about Oversteps, with many considering it more accessible than previous albums. The dynamic between the duo in the studio was called hilariously accommodating in the interview, with Booth stating I don’t mind backing down. Autechre streamed a twelve-hour webcast in early March 2010, coinciding with the release, as they had with the releases of Untilted. The album artwork was created by The Designers Republic, Oversteps was released on 23 March 2010. Before its release, numerous versions of the album showed up on Internet websites. Brown said it was becoming a bit of a tradition at the time of the albums release, Oversteps peaked at No.15 and No.46 on Billboards Dance/Electronic Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts, respectively, the week of 10 April 2010. Oversteps received generally positive reviews, with most agreeing it is one of the bands most accessible albums to date, matt Kennedy of BBC was highly complimentary, and noted that while Oversteps is certainly no exception to their outwardly difficult aesthetic. Beneath the icy exterior, deceptively warm hearts beat and he compared it to mid-1990s sets by fellow IDM group Future Sound of London, saying the albums songs all seem to blossom out of each other to immerse the listener in a synaesthetic environment. He concluded his review on a note as Kennedy, saying, Oversteps is still a challenging listen. But it’s also their most instantly rewarding—and arguably best—album to date, patrick Sisson of Pitchfork Media said the album recalled earlier works such as Amber, saying, the ambience and atmospheres of Oversteps are haunting. He also called the album less rigid and almost organic, concluding that Autechre were still incorporating new designs, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown
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Exai
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Exai is the eleventh album by electronic music duo Autechre, released on Warp Records. The album was released in form on 7 February 2013, with the double CD. Like other Autechre albums, Exai features album artwork by The Designers Republic, Exai has received positive reviews, with a Metacritic average rating of 80% based on twenty-three reviews. Grayson Currin of Pitchfork Media thought the album had good moments. Chris Power of BBC Music was more enthusiastic, calling the album Autechres best in fifteen years, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown
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Anti EP
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Anti EP is the third EP by British electronic music duo Autechre, released by Warp Records on 3 September 1994. It is the only Autechre release — EP or otherwise — to have a purpose for release. Anti EP was a protest against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Sean Booth explained the bands strategy for the song Flutter by saying, We made as many different bars as we could on the drum machine, then strung them all together. The packaging for both compact disc and vinyl variants bore a sticker with a disclaimer about the nature of the rhythmic elements of Lost. The sticker acted as a seal, which was required to be broken in order to access the media enclosed in the packaging, despite Flutters ability to be played at two different speeds on vinyl, the CD version contains the song as played at 45 RPM. Lost and Djarum are featured at their standard 33 1⁄3 RPM speed, at 33 1⁄3 RPM, Flutter would be around 13,26 in length. All tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown, anti EP at the official Warp discography Discogs entry for 12 vinyl Discogs entry for CD
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Envane
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Envane is the Sixth EP by British electronic music duo Autechre, released by Warp Records on 27 January 1997. The EP consists of four tracks, which Sean Booth has described as originating from the same basis, like Anvil Vapre, the vinyl release of Envane split the tracks across two 12 records that were sold separately. Goz Quarter has also been referred to as 902 Quarter due to the typeface used. The sleeve is designed by Sheffield-based design agency The Designers Republic, the cover image appears to depict an abstract depiction of Fallingwater, a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Goz Quarter contains both scratching and a sample taken from No Awareness on Dr. Octagonecologyst. Envane at the Warp Records discography
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Cichlisuite
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Cichlisuite is the sixth EP by Autechre and was released 26 August 1997. The title suggests that the EP consists of remixes of Cichli from Chiastic Slide, like Envane, songs were split across two vinyl records that were sold separately. The sleeve artwork was designed by The Designers Republic, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown
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Peel Session (Autechre EP)
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Peel Session is an album by electronic duo Autechre, released on vinyl and CD by Warp Records on 11 January 1999. It consists of material recorded for John Peels Radio 1 sessions in late 1995, the session was first broadcast on 9 October 1995. The sleeve is designed by Sheffield-based design agency The Designers Republic, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown. Peel Session at the Warp Records official website
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EP7
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EP7 is an EP by the electronic music group Autechre, and was released by Warp Records. It is classified as an EP by the band despite being long enough to qualify as an album, the record was released in two parts on vinyl, named EP7.1 and EP7.2. The name of this EP prompted Warp Records to give the name LP5 to the previously released untitled album by the band, the fractal on the cover was designed with a circuit board designer. The minisite created by Warp also featured a fractal generator that would create new artwork similar to that throughout the liner notes. EP7 received mixed to positive reviews, ryan Screiber of Pitchfork Media said the albums primary problem was a lack of diversity and that the tracks very little in the way of originality. The original UK CD pressing includes a track in the pregap. The track, which can be accessed by rewinding from the beginning of Rpeg, is 6,44 in duration and is followed by 3,01 of silence, some CD players do not handle the trick, and may skip Rpeg because of it. The hidden track was not included on the US release nor on vinyl, in 2010, Pitchfork Medias included it in their list of ten unusual CD-era gimmicks. All tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown
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Peel Session 2
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Peel Session 2 is the second John Peel session that Autechre recorded. The tracks were given to Peel in August 1999 and aired on 8 September 1999, the EP was released by Warp Records at the end of 2000. The artwork for Peel Session 2, created by The Designers Republic, is matte white lettering on a white background with a matte white border. The only exception to the lettering is in the top left corner of the booklet cover the artist name, Autechre. Below this in white lettering is the EP title, Peel Session 2 and these tracks were unnamed when given to John Peel. All tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown
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L-event
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L-event is an EP by electronic music duo Autechre, released on Warp Records on 28 October 2013. Like Exai, it has album artwork and packaging by The Designers Republic and it was released on 28 October 2013 as a CD and LP, accompanied with either a downloadable. mp3 or. WAV version of the album when purchased from Bleep. com. Andy Kellman of AllMusic described L-event as some of Autechres most direct, least complex output, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown
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Basscadet
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Basscadet is a track released by British electronic music duo Autechre, as their second EP, under the title of Basscad, EP by Warp Records on 25 April 1994. The EP consists entirely of remixes of the track which originally appeared on Incunabula. It is the only Autechre single to be taken from an album, the EP was released as a collection of three 10-inch vinyl singles and peaked at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also released as a CD single with the addition of Basscadubmx, Bcdtmx was used for the video of Basscadet, which was directed by Jess Scott Hunter. All titles are listed without the word Basscadet in the liner notes, all tracks written by Sean Booth and Rob Brown. The US released CD TVT 8717-2 has the track list as the UK Warp CD. Basscadet Mixes Part 1 on vinyl Basscadet Mixes Part 2 on vinyl Basscadet Mixes Part 3 on vinyl
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We R Are Why
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We R Are Why is an Autechre 12-inch single released by mail-order and available at some concerts, by Warp Records in 1996. It was written and produced by Rob Brown and Sean Booth, there is intentionally no speed listed on the release. In an AAA on the site WATMM, Sean Booth stated our original intention to not write it on the record, the durations above were measured when the vinyl was played at 45 rpm. We R Are Why / Are Y Are We. at Discogs
