I'm completely baffled. It is a completely smooth surface I can't get a hold on, no hooks
When the Criminal Justice Act came in in 1994 to outlaw "gatherings" that played music with a "succession of repetitive beats" Autechre took on the the forces of law and order by releasing the 'Anti-EP' which included 'Flutter' which had no successive repetitive beats.
what AE seem to be doing, or trying to do, is a non-academic version of the electronic / musique concrete thing
some of the stuff they were doing in the late 90s early 2000s was close to this guy Curtis Roads is a proper composer doing granular wossname
what actually puts me off is the drums element - it's imposingly rhythmic, but resolutely ungroovy
the one such effort I’ve seen is Woebot’s review of Exai, but I'd respectfully disagree with how he characterizes them. he suggests that they think they're too smart for good old stupid dance music--but then he quotes a completely different guy as "evidence" of this! from interviews (and from their music) it's clear that they don't think that. he also suggests that they've struggled to balance their "dialectic" of “street and avant garde aesthetics”. but a) they're very open about being create first, rationalize later types who don't think of their next album as their next rhetorical move and b) they see electro and electroacoustic as connected, not as opposites. and as thirdform always says, you can listen to them as dance music, it just takes a few (ok, an admittedly annoying number of) listens to hear how everything's working together. but they have an amazing sense of groove once your ears adjust.
When the Criminal Justice Act came in in 1994 to outlaw "gatherings" that played music with a "succession of repetitive beats" Autechre took on the the forces of law and order by releasing the 'Anti-EP' which included 'Flutter' which had no successive repetitive beats.
I was saying to the lads trying to get into autechre is like trying to feel sexual attraction for a vacuum cleaner. So it's not that I hate them more that I'm completely baffled. It is a completely smooth surface I can't get a hold on, no hooks
yeah that was me, i said it in a way that was easily misinterpreted. a classic case of assuming someone knows what your on about and them not at all.
it was in relation to incunabula i guess. lol no shame at all, i still rate these releases, i mean they're the first stuff to fully come out.
it meant a lot to us to actually have an album on a brilliant label. i think what i meant was (in the context of the original interview, as the journo was commenting on the striking differences between old and ((then)) newer work) i think i was trying to say how they were perhaps more simple, but not in a shit way.
sorry I should have left this thread alone. as you were.
I guess I'm missing the point by "nerding out" (hate that phrase but still) in a thread about why nerds like this music right?
if i was facetious (which of course i'm definitely not), i'd say your discomfort with asserting yourself and feelings of social disconnect in this thread are the exact phenomena which autecher capture in their music.
the lack of posts isn't because of you but rather it's the end of the working day in the uk.
It was embarrassing at the time. It only ever appealed to school shooters on an aesthetic level. The leather trench coats and the wrap around shades. Cyber-Crusties. Now it's more endearing than cringe though. There's enough distance. Nerds creating nerd hacker boyfriends (Neo/Case) who somehow manage to pull sexy ninja assassin ladies. (Molly/Trinity)