Chiastic Slide

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Chiastic Slide

Studio album by Autechre
Released	17 February 1997
Recorded	???
Genre	IDM
Length	69:53
Label	Warp Records WARP49
Producer(s)	Autechre
All Music Guide Image:3 stars.svg link The Milk Factory (5/5) link
Autechre chronology
Envane (1997)	Chiastic Slide (1997)	Radio Mix (1997)

Chiastic Slide, released in 1997 by Warp Records, is an album by the electronic music group Autechre. Like most releases under the Warp label, the album is in the style frequently referred to as Intelligent Dance Music; other descriptions classify it as experimental music or, less accurately, as experimental techno.

Many critics panned Chiastic Slide as being an underwhelming follow-up to 1995's groundbreaking Tri Repetae; however, it's now clear that the album inspired subsequent Autechre releases such as 2001's Confield, and it's often cited as one of the most underappreciated IDM albums of the 1990s.

It's also considered to be a "forgotten" release in the eyes of many listeners thanks to the fact that it wasn't released in the United States until Warp Records began distributing its own releases there in 2001; Trent Reznor supposedly found the record too experimental to be worth distributing on his now defunct Nothing Records label, although this theory ignores the fact that he picked up the equally controversial LP5 and EP7.

Autechre produced several remixes of track four, "Cichli," on their subsequent EP Cichlisuite (1997); they bear little resemblance to the original, though.