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Second Bad Vilbel

The opener of the 1995 EP Anvil Vapre, which Chris Cunningham made into a video.
Autechre, from Anvil Vapre (1995)

Written by
Sean Booth, Rob Brown
Released
1995
Length
9:45
Album
Anvil Vapre

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Second Bad Vilbel was written by Booth and Brown and opens the Anvil Vapre EP, released by Warp on October 2, 1995, where it runs 9:45. It is also on the US two-disc Tri Repetae++. Chris Cunningham's first music video for Autechre was made for it; Wikipedia dates it 1995 in his biography and 1996 in his videography, and a re-edited version, 4:13, is on the 2004 Warp DVD compilation WarpVision and on the Gantz Graf DVD. The upload on hypersongs is probably either that video or the re-edit, and the runtime was not checked.

It was used in the soundtrack of the video game Hardwar, along with Clipper; the EP's Second Scepe is in Hardwar and Sleeping Dogs. A Sputnik Music review says it opens with harsh noise before settling into a breakbeat, and the producer DJ Perc, in an Electronic Beats feature, picked it as a favorite for its intensity and mournful pads, both seen only in search summaries. Setlist.fm counts two performances.

More songs by Autechre

Gantz Graf

Sources

  1. Anvil Vapre, Wikipedia
  2. Tri Repetae, Wikipedia
  3. Chris Cunningham (director), Wikipedia
  4. Gantz Graf, Wikipedia