As of 2019, it consists of 28 soundboard recordings, each roughly an hour long, made during their 2014-2015 live tour.

Said tour had its inception at Warp Records' 25th anniversary Warp25 celebration in Kraków, Poland on 20 September 2014, the duo's first live show since 2011.

[1] The recordings are accompanied by individualized abstract geometric artwork produced by The Designers Republic.

AE_LIVE was first released abruptly to members of the Autechre mailing list, who were given an invite-only opportunity to purchase the recordings.

"[11] In a 2016 interview, Autechre shared that the same system setup was used to create both the 2014-2015 live set and subsequent album elseq 1-5.