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Draft 7.30

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{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Draft 7.30
| type = studio
| artist = [[Autechre]]
| cover = AutechreDraft730.jpeg
| alt =
| released = 7 April 2003
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|[[Intelligent dance music|IDM]]|[[experimental music|experimental]]}}
| length = 62:46
| label = [[Warp Records|Warp]]
| producer = Autechre
| prev_title = [[Gantz Graf]]
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = [[Untilted]]
| next_year = 2005
}}

'''''Draft 7.30''''' is the seventh studio album by English [[electronic music]] duo [[Autechre]], released on 7 April 2003 by [[Warp Records]].

Around the time of the album's release, Sean Booth stated in an interview that "[rhythm] doesn't seem to limit us in the way it did when we first started".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-bleeping-noise-in-your-head-thatll-be-autechre-593705.html |title=The bleeping noise in your head? That'll be Autechre... |accessdate=11 March 2009 |author=Laurence Phelan |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121202545/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-bleeping-noise-in-your-head-thatll-be-autechre-593705.html |archivedate=21 November 2009 |date=6 April 2003 |work=[[The Independent]] |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| MC = 76/100<ref name=metacritic>{{cite web|title=Draft 7.30 – Autechre|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/draft-730|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=6 July 2012}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/draft-730-mw0000026094 | author=Bush, John | title=Draft 7.30 Review | publisher=[[AllMusic]] | accessdate=19 August 2012}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=guardian>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/apr/04/popandrock.artsfeatures4 | author=Wyse, Pascal | title=Autechre: Draft 7.30 | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=3 April 2003 | accessdate=19 August 2012}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Mesmerising stuff. [Mar 2003, p.109]</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev4score = 6.2/10<ref name=pitchfork/>
| rev5 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>As complex and remarkable as everything that preceded it. [Jun 2003, p.92]</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Release Magazine]]''
| rev6Score = 6/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Huss |first=Mattias |url=https://www.releasemagazine.net/Onrecord/orautechred730.htm|title=AUTECHRE - DRAFT 7.30|work=[[Release Magazine]] |date=25 April 2003 |accessdate=25 April 2003}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The new Rolling Stone album guide (pg. 28) |url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/28/mode/2up |website=[[Internet Archive]] |accessdate=13 August 2013 |date=13 August 2013}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Stylus Magazine]]''
| rev8Score = B<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/autechre/draft-730.htm | author=Heumann, Michael | title=Autechre: Draft 7.30 | work=[[Stylus Magazine]] | date=1 September 2003 | accessdate=19 August 2012 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919114729/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/autechre/draft-730.htm | archivedate=19 September 2012 }}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>By the time we reach "Surripere" we could be listening to a toughened-up Aphex Twin, poignant harmonies battling against oblique but splintering beats. [May 2003, p.92]</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Urb (magazine)|URB]]''
| rev10score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Draft's second half will hold more sway over those pining for the minor-key melodiousness of works through Tri Repetae++. [Jun 2003, p.93]</ref>
}}

The album received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Dominique Leone of ''[[Pitchfork Media]]'' said the album "doesn't break much new ground", but also thought that "Booth and Brown return to more straightforward grounds, even if they don't quite reach their mid-90s peak as melodic technicians".<ref name=pitchfork>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/364-draft-730/ |title=Draft 7.30 |accessdate=29 June 2011 |author=Leone, Dominique |date=23 April 2003 |work=[[Pitchfork Media|Pitchfork]]}}</ref> Pascal Wyse of ''[[The Guardian]]'' said, "Buried in this splintered, maths-driven world, down there with the metal insects, are shards of musical convention that keep a humanity alive", adding that the music "becomes quite a beautiful picture of the chaos of your brain".<ref name=guardian/>

==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| all_writing = Sean Booth and Rob Brown
| title1 = Xylin Room
| length1 = 6:09
| title2 = IV VV IV VV VIII
| length2 = 4:50
| title3 = 6IE.CR
| length3 = 5:38
| title4 = Tapr
| length4 = 3:14
| title5 = Surripere
| length5 = 11:23
| title6 = Theme of Sudden Roundabout
| length6 = 4:51
| title7 = VL AL 5
| length7 = 4:56
| title8 = P.:NTIL
| length8 = 7:07
| title9 = V-Proc
| length9 = 6:00
| title10 = Reniform Puls
| length10 = 8:38
| total_length = 62:46
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223124/http://www.warprecords.com/ography/release.php?cat=WARP111 ''Draft 7.30''] at the official Warp discography (features audio clips).
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Chiastic Slide

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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox album|
| name = Chiastic Slide
| type = Studio
| artist = [[Autechre]]
| cover = AutechreChiasticSlide.png
| border = yes
| alt =
| released = 17 February 1997
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|[[Intelligent dance music|IDM]]|[[ambient music|ambient]]|[[experimental music|experimental]]}}
| length = 69:48
| label = [[Warp (record label)|Warp]]
| producer = Autechre
| prev_title = [[Envane]]
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = [[Cichlisuite]]
| next_year = 1997
}}

'''''Chiastic Slide''''' is the fourth [[Album|studio album]] by the British [[electronic music]] group [[Autechre]], released 17 February 1997 by [[Warp Records]]. The album saw the duo continue to move further away from the [[ambient techno]] sound of their early releases, employing harsher, [[glitch (music)|glitchier]] beats. Though not initially met with the same critical acclaim as ''[[Tri Repetae]]'' or ''[[LP5]]'', ''Chiastic Slide'' was eventually recognized by critics as an innovative and "enormously influential" album.<ref name=fact>{{cite web |url=http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/26/autechre-chiastic-slide-20-years/ |title=Autechre's Chiastic Slide is 20 years old and still sounds like the future |author=Zaldua, Chris |publisher=FACT Magazine |date=26 February 2017 |accessdate=23 December 2017}}</ref>

==Release==
''Chiastic Slide'' was released on 17 February 1997. It did not receive a release in the [[United States]] until Warp Records began distributing its own releases there in 2001. Autechre referenced the fourth track, "Cichli", in the name of their subsequent [[Extended play|EP]] ''[[Cichlisuite]]'' (1997). The sleeve was designed by [[Sheffield]]-based design agency [[The Designers Republic]]. On 19 November 2021, ''Chiastic Slide'' was re-released by Warp on vinyl,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beeby |first1=Sean |title=Autechre to reissue classic albums LP5 and Chiastic Slide on vinyl |url=https://ra.co/news/76163 |website=Resident Advisor |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> alongside their next album [[LP5]].

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/chiastic-slide-mw0000017817 | author=Bush, John | title=Chiastic Slide Review | publisher=[[Allmusic]]. [[Rovi Corporation]] | accessdate=23 October 2012}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Muzik]]''
| rev2Score = 5/10<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Crysell |first=Andy |date=March 1997 |title=Autechre: ''Chiastic Slide'' |url=http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik022_march_1997.pdf |magazine=[[Muzik]] |issue=22 |page=107 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402181348/http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik022_march_1997.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2022 |access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The new Rolling Stone album guide (pg. 28) |url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/28/mode/2up |website=[[Internet Archive]] |accessdate=13 August 2013 |date=13 August 2013}}</ref>
}}
Allmusic critic John Bush panned ''Chiastic Slide'' as being an underwhelming follow-up to 1995's ''[[Tri Repetae]]'', saying it was too repetitive and lacked ideas.<ref name=allmusic/> Tim Barr in ''Techno: the Rough Guide'' called ''Chiastic Slide'' "The aural equivalent of being at the bottom of the sea."<ref name=rough>{{cite book | author=Barr, Tim | title=Techno: the Rough Guide | page=27 | year=2000 | publisher=Rough Guides}}</ref> He went on to say the album was "Dark, claustrophobic... yet full of strange beauty".<ref name=rough/>

A 2017 ''[[Fact (UK magazine)|FACT Magazine]]'' retrospective described ''Chiastic Slide'' as "an enduring classic" that marks "the axis point around which all of Autechre's work revolves," representing a "break from contemporaneous orthodoxy" in electronic music and sound composition.<ref name=fact/> In an interview with ''[[Popular 1 Magazine]]'', guitarist [[Kavus Torabi]] of [[Cardiacs]] named ''Chiastic Slide'' as one of his favourite albums.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Diaz |first1=Alberto |title=Interview: Tim Smith and Kavus Torabi |journal=Popular 1 Magazine |date=10 January 2005 |url=https://www.cardiacs.net/394-2/ |accessdate=23 July 2020}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| total_length = 69:48
| title1 = Cipater
| length1 = 8:56
| title2 = Rettic AC
| length2 = 2:08
| title3 = Tewe
| length3 = 6:56
| title4 = Cichli
| length4 = 8:52
| title5 = Hub
| length5 = 7:35
| title6 = Calbruc
| length6 = 3:51
| title7 = Recury
| length7 = 9:44
| title8 = Pule
| length8 = 8:33
| title9 = Nuane
| length9 = 13:13
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://warp.net/releases/115937-autechre-chiastic-slide ''Chiastic Slide''] at the official Warp website.

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