Editing Autechre (section)

===''Confield'', ''Draft 7.30'' and ''Untilted'' (2000–2007)===
[[File:Autechre SeOne.jpg|thumb|right|Autechre live at SeOne]]
The new millennium brought about a drastic change in Autechre's style, demonstrated by ''[[Confield]]'' (2001) and ''[[Draft 7.30]]'' (2003), as well as the ''[[Gantz Graf]]'' EP (2002). The title track from ''Gantz Graf'' inspired an iconic video by British designer [[Alex Rutterford]], featuring an object (or an agglomeration of objects) synchronised to the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes and finally dissolves. Rutterford, who had previously created an unofficial video for the ''Tri Repetae'' track "Eutow" as part of the [[Channel 4]] music programme ''Lo-Fi'' in 2001, claimed the idea for the "Gantz Graf" video came during one of his [[LSD]] trips.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://warp.net/records/autechre/alex-rutterford-on-the-creation-of-the-gantz-graf-video |title=Warp / Records / Autechre / Alex Rutterford on the Creation of the Gantz Graf Video |website=Warp.net |access-date=2 May 2012 |archive-date=7 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707032939/http://warp.net/records/autechre/alex-rutterford-on-the-creation-of-the-gantz-graf-video |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Peel Session 2|second]] Autechre Peel session EP was also released in 2002, containing four tracks broadcast in 1999, named by John Peel himself. Autechre released three collaborative albums with Andrew M. McKenzie's [[Hafler Trio]] collective during the following five years (see [[#Collaborations, remixes and covers|collaborations]]).

[[Metacritic]] rated the critical reviews to ''Confield'' as "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/autechre/confield |title = Autechre: Confield (2001) Reviews |access-date = 24 December 2008 |website = [[Metacritic]] | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081204194757/http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/autechre/confield| archive-date= 4 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> According to Sean Booth, "most of ''Confield'' came out of experiments with [[Max (software)|Max]] that weren't really applicable in a club environment."<ref>{{cite web |last=Tingen |first=Paul |date=April 2004 |title=In producing their complex, abstract electronica, Autechre have taken the idea of the studio as an instrument to new extremes... |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/autechre |access-date=27 February 2024 |website=SoundOnSound.com}}</ref> In contrast, 2003's ''Draft 7.30'' was seen by some<ref>{{cite web |title=Draft 7.30 reviews at Metacritic.com |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/autechre/draft730 |access-date=22 December 2009 |website=[[Metacritic]] |archive-date=26 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126092331/http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/autechre/draft730 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as an easier record to grasp. Booth stated in an interview around the release of ''Draft 7.30'' that "[rhythm] doesn't seem to limit us in the way it did when we first started. Now I think we just get it, we're totally fluent in it and can be more expressive."<ref>{{cite news |last=Phelan |first=Laurence |date=6 April 2003 |title=The bleeping noise in your head? That'll be Autechre... |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-bleeping-noise-in-your-head-thatll-be-autechre-593705.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120193251/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-bleeping-noise-in-your-head-thatll-be-autechre-593705.html |archive-date=20 November 2009 |access-date=11 March 2009 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>

''[[Untilted]]'' (a play on the word "untitled"), the duo's eighth album, was released in 2005. It roughly continued the sound of their previous two LPs, though featured compositions that mutated greatly during their duration, typically alternating between passages of ambience and heavily processed, precise beats, such as on "Ipacial Section". Its final track, "Sublimit", is at almost sixteen minutes; Autechre's longest composition to feature on any of their albums until 2016's ''[[elseq 1–5]]''. The release of ''Untilted'' was followed by a two-month tour that took the group around Europe, America and Japan, but withdrew them from studio work for an unusual length of time.<ref name="pitchfork2">{{cite web |last=Richardson |first=Mark |date=17 February 2008 |title=Pitchfork: Interviews: Autechre |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6788-autechre/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091126133826/http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6788-autechre/ |archive-date=26 November 2009 |access-date=22 December 2009 |work=[[Pitchfork Media]]}}</ref> The outcome of this, coupled with a forced change in studio setup, was a gap of three years between releases, longer than ever before.
[[File:Autechre1.jpg|right|thumb|Autechre live in Princeton NJ, USA, 2001]]