Where are Autechre now? They really painted themselves into a corner... not that I've kept up with the 'genre', but the only thing I've heard that really extends IDMs technical vocabulary past their sound design was the The Four Quarters, and that was as much because it tempered their dense abstraction with dub-minimalism and Vlad Delays jazz noodlings, making it smoother, less grainy and more 3D. The First Quarter still rocks me... it could simply be my imagination, but the track has such a live vibe, like you can hear him noodling about on keyboards and building up the layers - and it's that improv feel that stops it being processed nerd wank and makes it feel musical and nice.
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