My fascination with electronic music, inoculated at age eight when I stole a cassette tape called Rave Til Dawn from my 16-year-old sister and proceeded to have my malleable mind shattered by first-wave jungle and hardcore, had developed into a full-blown obsession, which I managed to satiate only by scouring online for further out-there sounds. I first heard Chiastic Slide when I was young, barely a teenager, the consequence of poor socialization and an early-onset internet addiction. Speaking personally, it’s hard for me to think of another record whose opening salvo - its first minute, let’s say - has ever left such an immediate, life-altering impact on me. Chiastic Slide is the sound of two artists discovering their true calling. The Warp pioneers’ discography is best understood as a continuum - one that begins with the organic and compositional and ends with the stochastic and chaotic. (That award goes to Tri Repetae, for purposes of pleasure, or LP5, for warping of the mind.) But pull back far enough and view Autechre’s discography through a wide-angle lens, and Chiastic Slide is the axis point around which all of Autechre’s work revolves. Chris Zaldua remembers a life-altering first listen to one of the most influential electronic records of all the time.Ĭhiastic Slide, released on February 17, 1997, isn’t even Autechre’s best album. Autechre released their fourth long-player, Chiastic Slide, 20 years ago this month.
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