Autechre

droid

droid

Well-known member
You need to listen closer to Rae. There's a ton of weird musical shit going on there. Deconstruction & reconstruction, decay and rebirth. Not dissimilar to a lot of the EP work, but it begins in medias res, rather than building up - the drums have momentum, the melody is established and they just roll straight in. It makes me think of some bittersweet biographical montage, fragments of a happy life whizzing by at high speed and then when it drops tempo (seemingly without missing a beat - how do they do that?) we're suddenly in slow mo at a funeral, every detail lovingly and painfully captured as the drums concede defeat and retreat and that achingly sad refrain takes command, ushers the coffin into the ground and illuminaties every moment of grief of the mourners whilst soil slowly fills the grave.

A beautiful and profound work. Nothing like anything AFX has done in theme, approach or content, nor anything he's ever tried to do, to be fair.
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
I hate the way they can't just do a proper beat like a normal person. That's the most annoying thing. Just be normal and stop trying so hard. That's what I'd say to them if I met them.
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
luka said:
I hate the way they can't just do a proper beat like a normal person. That's the most annoying thing. Just be normal and stop trying so hard. That's what I'd say to them if I met them.
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proper beat like a normal person you say...

well, let me introduce you to an alias of theirs.

 
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mvuent

Void Dweller
i had a moment of cognitive dissonance when i first found out rob and sean were really into hip hop etc.

i had figured that they, being nerds, just didn't understand the visceral appeal of "normal" beats but were too unimaginative to realize you could leave them behind entirely--resulting in an awful vestigial middle ground.

but once you realize they know normal electro rhythms like the back of their hand, you realize that by complicating the groove they might actually be intensifying it, not diluting it. the more you close listen to their stuff the more you realize that that really is the case.

(for the record, basically whenever i mention autechre i'm thinking about 2000s and especially 2010s autechre, not 90s autechre)
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
mvuent said:
i had a moment of cognitive dissonance when i first found out rob and sean were really into hip hop etc.

i had figured that they, being nerds, just didn't understand the visceral appeal of "normal" beats but were too unimaginative to realize you could leave them behind entirely--resulting in an awful vestigial middle ground.

but once you realize they know normal electro rhythms like the back of their hand, you realize that by complicating the groove they might actually be intensifying it, not diluting it. the more you close listen to their stuff the more you realize that that really is the case.

(for the record, basically whenever i mention autechre i'm thinking about 2000s and especially 2010s autechre, not 90s autechre)
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it's also that most normie rhythms are rock rhythms today. that was kind of the joke of that macky g link.
 
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mvuent

Void Dweller
formula for a dissensus autechre thread:
-third and i explain how they basically make dance music (convincing no one)
-version talks about which of their albums he likes best
-craner drops by to say that he liked the early albums but the rest is just banging on pots and pans
-droid talks about how amazing they are in a live setting
-corpsey says he just gave them a shot and wasn't impressed

probably forgetting someone but that all happens every time! it's like a groundhog day type situation.
 
droid

droid

Well-known member
lol. Its like some tragic eternal loop that once served some type of function but now just cycles sadly through infinite minute variations and mutations... kind of like an Autechre tune.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
mvuent said:
formula for a dissensus autechre thread:
-third and i explain how they basically make dance music (convincing no one)
-version talks about which of their albums he likes best
-craner drops by to say that he liked the early albums but the rest is just banging on pots and pans
-droid talks about how amazing they are in a live setting
-corpsey says he just gave them a shot and wasn't impressed

probably forgetting someone but that all happens every time! it's like a groundhog day type situation.
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Or a metal pole being run through the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
This thread was different cos I found one piece of good music by them, proving that they aren't completely useless after all.
 
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mvuent

Void Dweller

"You have to listen for the ghosts. And then once you started hearing them, they were always there.” Maryanne Amacher
 
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