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No vocals or conventional instruments appear, only sequencing overlap of different types of beats and tones. Influences from Indian music, hip-hop, Brian Eno-style ambient, house music permeate these compositions in addition to a host of other smaller influences. Sounds alot like Aphex twin to me. Like fellow sample artist Beck, Autechre are masters of sticking together random free-associations to make a moving, living carnival of layered cacophony.
Autechre are Rob Brown and Sean Booth, and along with Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) are the reigning kings of the so-called IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) scene. Autechre have released many albums and EPs since their debut release in 1993. Envane is the EP they released just prior to their 97 album, and gives an indication of their constantly evolving sound. It further explores their fascinations with distortion and noise, offbeat and mutating rhythms, sonic intricacies and sense of melancholy melody. ‘Goz Quarter’ is an insectoid, hiphop workout with spasmodic sequences and lengthy swathes of resonant scratching. The second half introduces reflective strings and unstable, helical themes. ‘Latent Quarter’ intercepts a corrupted, digital broadcast. Cascading system failures are unable to restore order to chaos. ‘Laughing Quarter’ is an propulsive, mutative, liquid groove and the track that would pass most convincingly on a dancefloor. ‘Draun Quarter’ is the lengthiest track here. A more pensive, disembodied soundworld, heavy with regret and weary of life. Clattering beats and dejected synths soldier on through unsettling environs while cries for help are stifled mid-sentence unable to penetrate into a brighter universe.
Reviews:
"Autechre upgrade techno with the compositional beauties of melody and textural knowledge, stacking rhythms against each other in delicately collapsing structures of intricate similarities. Using sequencers, samplers, and keyboards, Autechre create rhythmic architectures which hold themselves together with percussion which unifies different elements of itself in a changeable order, allowing them to weave melody through the background in slow, often-repeated notes and basic note structures. "---Anus
"Autechre's Rob Brown and Sean Booth have never exactly played safe. They began as electro-loving graffiti artists before progressing to the equally police-unfriendly world of pirate radio. Now they make anti-Criminal Justice Bill records with non-repetive beats (October's 'Anti'). It's not exactly the hide-in-bedroom built-my-own-synths approach to techno notoriety is it?"---Select Magazine
AUTECHRE Real Audio:
Kalpol Introl
Bike
Autriche
Bronchus 2
Basscadet
Dael
Clipper
Leterel
Rotar
Stud
Second Bad Vilbel
Second Scepe
Second Scout
Second Peng
Garbagemx36
AUTECHRE links:
AeA Autechre Archive
Autechre Recordings
Autechre Visual Discography
Emanuel's Autechre Page
Jason's Autechre Page
Mixmaster Morris: Autechre
Shape of Sound
Sony Music Japan: Autechre
Steady J's Autechre/Gescom Page
Steve's Autechre Page
TVT Records: Autechre
This copyright on this site is held by the ELECTRONIC MUSIC SITE. Autechre appears courtesy of Wax Trax! Records, Aphex Twin appears courtesy of Rephlex Records, Download and Skinny Puppy appear courtesy of Nettwerk Records, Slugwrench and ^|SiCk0|^ appear courtesy of Intolerance Records.
No vocals or conventional instruments appear, only sequencing overlap of different types of beats and tones. Influences from Indian music, hip-hop, Brian Eno-style ambient, house music permeate these compositions in addition to a host of other smaller influences. Sounds alot like Aphex twin to me. Like fellow sample artist Beck, Autechre are masters of sticking together random free-associations to make a moving, living carnival of layered cacophony.
Autechre are Rob Brown and Sean Booth, and along with Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) are the reigning kings of the so-called IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) scene. Autechre have released many albums and EPs since their debut release in 1993. Envane is the EP they released just prior to their 97 album, and gives an indication of their constantly evolving sound. It further explores their fascinations with distortion and noise, offbeat and mutating rhythms, sonic intricacies and sense of melancholy melody. ‘Goz Quarter’ is an insectoid, hiphop workout with spasmodic sequences and lengthy swathes of resonant scratching. The second half introduces reflective strings and unstable, helical themes. ‘Latent Quarter’ intercepts a corrupted, digital broadcast. Cascading system failures are unable to restore order to chaos. ‘Laughing Quarter’ is an propulsive, mutative, liquid groove and the track that would pass most convincingly on a dancefloor. ‘Draun Quarter’ is the lengthiest track here. A more pensive, disembodied soundworld, heavy with regret and weary of life. Clattering beats and dejected synths soldier on through unsettling environs while cries for help are stifled mid-sentence unable to penetrate into a brighter universe.
Reviews:
"Autechre upgrade techno with the compositional beauties of melody and textural knowledge, stacking rhythms against each other in delicately collapsing structures of intricate similarities. Using sequencers, samplers, and keyboards, Autechre create rhythmic architectures which hold themselves together with percussion which unifies different elements of itself in a changeable order, allowing them to weave melody through the background in slow, often-repeated notes and basic note structures. "---Anus
"Autechre's Rob Brown and Sean Booth have never exactly played safe. They began as electro-loving graffiti artists before progressing to the equally police-unfriendly world of pirate radio. Now they make anti-Criminal Justice Bill records with non-repetive beats (October's 'Anti'). It's not exactly the hide-in-bedroom built-my-own-synths approach to techno notoriety is it?"---Select Magazine
AUTECHRE Real Audio:
Kalpol Introl
Bike
Autriche
Bronchus 2
Basscadet
Dael
Clipper
Leterel
Rotar
Stud
Second Bad Vilbel
Second Scepe
Second Scout
Second Peng
Garbagemx36
AUTECHRE links:
AeA Autechre Archive
Autechre Recordings
Autechre Visual Discography
Emanuel's Autechre Page
Jason's Autechre Page
Mixmaster Morris: Autechre
Shape of Sound
Sony Music Japan: Autechre
Steady J's Autechre/Gescom Page
Steve's Autechre Page
TVT Records: Autechre
This copyright on this site is held by the ELECTRONIC MUSIC SITE. Autechre appears courtesy of Wax Trax! Records, Aphex Twin appears courtesy of Rephlex Records, Download and Skinny Puppy appear courtesy of Nettwerk Records, Slugwrench and ^|SiCk0|^ appear courtesy of Intolerance Records.