Autechre release 5.5 hour mix to celebrate 30 years of 'Artificial Intelligence'

The duo have dubbed it a “mix of some of the stuff that was floating around us" in the early '90s

Autechre are celebrating the re-release of their 1992 compilation album 'Artificial Intelligence' via Warp with a brand new 5.5 hour mix.

Featuring tracks from LFO, Orbital, 808 State, and Brian Eno, the new mix includes around 100 different artists who inspired the duo throughout the early '90s.

Calling it a “mix of some of the stuff that was floating around us at the time”, the release first appeared on Mixlr on December 30, just three weeks after the original compilation’s reissue on December 9.

Featuring tracks from Autechre as well as Aphex Twin, The Dice Man, Richie Hawtin under his moniker Up!, Speedy J, B12 with the alias Musicology, I.A.O. and The Orb’s Dr Alex Paterson, the album was an early introduction to one of the most influential and respected electronic labels of all time.

Upon its original release in the ’90s, Warp co-founder Steve Beckett wanted the album to be for chilled-out listening rather than dancing, telling journalist and author Simon Reynolds for the 1999 book Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture: “You could sit down and listen to it like you would a Kraftwerk or Pink Floyd album. That’s why we put those sleeves on the cover of Artificial Intelligence — to get it into people’s minds that you weren’t supposed to dance to it!”

Check out the new 330+ minute mix from Autechre here.

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