Silverside is fuckin' amazing. And there's other music like it - but not by Autechre?

I heard just a short sample of this song a few weeks ago, and knew it was for me; however after buying a few of Autechre's albums it seems that Silverside is a smoothe & elegant anomaly among track after track of "fast forward till it calms down," or "construct a skyscraper in 10 minutes with nothing but your surrenge" music.

But, I have heard music like it; only I have no idea who made it. There's no longer a link to it, but I once heard what could have come from Autechre if the rest of his music was more like "SIlverside" than a assembly line for killer robots, making music for killer robots. It was runway music on a low-bitrate video of Calvin Klein's Fall 2001 collection. BUT! I've searched on google and found a couple mentions of Autechre and runway music... Maybe? I've heard enough of Autechre. No way.

The rest of the album is like that song. As well as the album before and after that. Their earlier stuff is generally more accessible, but still really amazing.
If you one day decide to listen to their later "killer robot" works, try to introduce yourself more gently by listening to the Garbage EP or LP5 first.

There's tons and tons of nice light IDM stuff out there.

Proem are a good start.

Zlatko Kreso:

Are you joking? Or just deaf?

I bought Amber, Incunabula, and Tri Repetae. The latter two albums are NOTHING like Silveside, period. And Amber, while it does have a couple other tracks that border on a similar style as Silverside - classical edged techno-passion - it is overall too much like its adjacent albums.

Keef :

"There's tons and tons of nice light IDM stuff out there"

Have you heard Silverside? Everything from Poem, and Autechre's Silverside are absolutely incomparable.

I didn't describe Silverside much, but that doesn't mean I'm don't discriminate. Why waste time typing a meaningless response? I'll look for other electronic music forums to post this.

You're missing out on quite a bit of great music if you only like Autechre's early work...

Well, of course, that's not what I said; and didn't mean to imply it. I listen to a great many styles of music; but am now curious about a particular style of which Autechre's Silverside is a damn good example.

When I say style, I mean: If you heard Silverside and other songs like it, if you didn't know better, you'd be sure were produced by the same guy intending them all to be similar in construction and purpose.

Oh sorry, I wasn't aware of that you wanted it to be THAT similar. Cause the early stuff is sort of all in the same vein, at least IMHO. Well I can't help you then, sorry man.

The closest I could find is 'Schadenfreude' by Mira Calix. Sounds like the same synth is used, probably caused she's married (or was) to one of them and nicked it.

I agree that Amber is Autechre's most memorably beautiful album, and that Silverside is their most memorable 'song;' I wish I could find other music like it. However, the suggestion of there being a whole world af similar music out there is just that - a suggestion. Personally I enjoy all Autechre's work, as I hear in it the same pursuit of the science of crystalline sound: their later work is more difficult, and some of it is just harsh, but there is always the same sense of beauty behind the ever more angular and 'digital' contortions of form. A friend of mine once said that he disliked Autechre because they didn't use technology imaginatively; I held the opposite, and my position has been vindicated over the course of their career, perhaps at the expense of the emotional lushness which first attracted me to them. (There's two of them, by the way, Sean Booth and Rob Brown: Tricky motherfuckers, if ever I heard them.)

Thanks, I'll have a listen to Mira Calix...