''LP5'' is the untitled fifth
studio album
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by English
electronic music
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duo
Autechre
Autechre () is an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are among the best known acts signed to UK electronic label Warp Records, through which all of Au ...
, released on 13 July 1998 on
Warp
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. No title was printed anywhere within the artwork, in line with the later
EP ''
EP7
''EP7'' is the seventh EP by the electronic music group Autechre, released by Warp Records on 7 June 1999. 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, name ...
''; it has also been called ''Autechre'', as well as ''Album'', as listed on promotional copies.
With the album, Autechre began abandoning the considerably warm and organic sounds of earlier albums like ''
Amber
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'' in favor of a fine-tuned, technical style they had begun exploring on ''
Chiastic Slide'' and the ''
Cichlisuite
''Cichlisuite'' is the sixth EP by electronic music duo Autechre, released on August 26, 1997 by Warp Records. The EP was simultaneously released on CD and as two 12” records, all with unique cover art by The Designers Republic. ''Cichlisuite ...
'' EP, while also incorporating influences from
electroacoustic music
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.
Production
The track "Drane2" is a response to
Aphex Twin
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's "
Bucephalus Bouncing Ball", which, according to Sean Booth, is an answer to Autechre's earlier track "
Drane":
"yeah we did the track drane, which had that exponential speeding-up delay thing happening, and then rich
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did that bouncing ball track, and we answered it with drane2 which was the same delay trick but feeding percussion into it instead, as a kind of tease"
Several technical facts about the album's production are known from an AMA conducted in 2013 on the electronic music site "We Are The Music Makers": synths used on the album include the
Nord Lead 1,
Yamaha DX100, and
Ensoniq ASR-10
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; the first half of "Vose In" was made using the Nord Lead's drum maps and its ending was programmed in
SoundEdit 16; finally, the complex rhythms of "Under BOAC" were programmed in
Logic Pro
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rather than in
Max.
Critical reception
Greg Prato of
AllMusic
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gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and said that "all the songs are cut from the same sonic cloth".
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Pitchfork
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'' listed ''LP5'' at number eight on its 2017 list of "The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time", one of three Autechre albums to be included; reviewer Mark Richardson stated that the album effectively balances the accessibility of their earlier work with the more challenging material to come, and thus represents "a certain peak."
Track listing
On US pressings, the
hidden track
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is moved to its own 12th track, and the silence after "Drane2" is shortened by three minutes. The hidden track is not found on vinyl pressings.
Charts
References
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Autechre albums
1998 albums
Warp (record label) albums