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Tijnie Hostetler

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Dec 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/1/97
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ok. so i bought autechre's "tri repitae." and i really like it. and i want
to recommend it to people. but, embarrassingly enough, i can't pronounce
their name. could someone e-mail me and tell me how it's pronounced? thanks
: )

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jack

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Dec 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/1/97
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Tijnie Hostetler wrote:
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> ok. so i bought autechre's "tri repitae." and i really like it. and i want
> to recommend it to people. but, embarrassingly enough, i can't pronounce
> their name. could someone e-mail me and tell me how it's pronounced? thanks


AU-tech-re: "AW" like austria
"TEK" like 'technology'
"ER" like british "centRE" or "metRE"

With the accent on the first syllable.. AW-tek-errr. Otherwise it rhymes
with "pecker."

Jeff Williams

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Dec 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/6/97
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jack wrote in message <34836D15...@telegram.infi.net>...

>Tijnie Hostetler wrote:
>
>AU-tech-re: "AW" like austria
> "TEK" like 'technology'
> "ER" like british "centRE" or "metRE"
>
>With the accent on the first syllable.. AW-tek-errr. Otherwise it rhymes
>with "pecker."

Actually, this is wrong. They did an interview a LONGass time ago for one
of the British papers (I think it was Melody Maker, whichever one it is that
has the big electronic section in the middle), and they were asked this
question. Their answer:

It's pronounced "aw-TEK-ra". Ever since then (this was about 4 or 5 years
ago when they were first getting started), that's been the accepted
pronunciation among everyone I have ever talked to about them (except for
some people who take it to extremes and say "awtekray", which is just out of
control). If you've been pronouncing it the way you describe all this time,
there are probably a lot of people who have been snivelling behind your
back... It would make sense pronouncing it "awteker", since they're English
and that's how they spell things, but it's not correct.

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