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Definitely. Unlike the sound-design conscious works in minimal where the idea is to produce something lush, spectrum filling, ear-candy, Autechre got ever more thin and grainy, difficult to describe in words but very noticeable in the actual music. I don't view that as a bad thing per se either.

I doubt I'll ever be converted to the charms of "Untilted", but I totally understand the problem of influence when writing/producing music. The number of times I've spent days refining a piece towards some (apparently) abstract end point, only to discover when I get there that its an exact rip...

I thought it was more alien than cold, and I like alien, it leaves room for creating new forms of beauty, rather than merely alienation, glistening and surreal rather than blankly modernistic.

In terms of their personal creative narrative I guess, rather than any innate progressive qualities within a given style. The last two albums just seemed banal to me at least. Perhaps its not a question of direction as much as skill of execution, (difficult to tell of course). The almost...

Yeah I'm not a hater of Autechre's abstraction (I loved Confield) but of their last two albums which seemed to be a retreat, a backwards step to some less interesting position. And their earlier more straightforward stuff fails to resonate. I wish they had gone even further into alien-concrete...

I dunno, their last album was utter wank as far as I could tell. Totally unevocative, tired, dull sounds, formalistic technical tricks and a backwards step (the last two albums actually). Although the idea of jamming it al out live (which I believe they attempted on Untilted) is a sound one, the...

My knowledge is equally rudimentary but a Pakistani journalist friend of mine informs me that broadly speaking the country is utterly doomed and will basically collapse/fragment...

Its perfectly fine, Burial is an excellent craftsman. But at some point, some juncture fairly imminently, he must change his palette of percussive sound sources, as surely they have been rinsed absolutely dry?

Err yeah that covers it. But why the sudden rush of posts in the last few months about the correct term for electronica/idm etc? Seems a bit weird given that few are actually claiming that anything vital is being produced in this field anymore.

Electronica would be the best term had it not been used by a load of American music journalists to describe big beat/Moby in the late 90s. I always used that term to refer to what others call IDM. Personally I loved Autechre way more than Aphex Twin, by the late 90s they inhabited a far more...

Yeah "White Flash"... probably the most beautiful piece of music he's been involved in for a very long time, genuinely affecting... Proof if any be needed that he needs a firm hand to avoid slipping into laziness as has been readily apparent with his main band for a long while actually (ie...

This load of remixes as a whole though are a great improvement on his rather underwhelming album (ie- they fix what was most wrong with it, not Yorke's voice which as an instrument describing a certain kind of aching wounded baby-grizzling misery is unparalleled, but rather the thinly engineered...

There is always that. Im in 100% agreement with HMLT that where the democratic process only leaves room for different flavours of the same shit that total negativity must be the order of the day. Then the only interest this election has is the same as celebrity gossip. Also wasn't Clinton in the...

Isn't this the argument as to why if anything it is better to have a republican in the white house than a Democrat, as both essentially follow the same policy objectives, but the Republicans kick in the door and rile the rest of the world up due to their flagrant obnoxiousness, whereas the...

Been reading this thread with interest. To be fair this has been the most entertaining thing this Christmas (sad I know, but rather than shaking my head in shame I find an HMLT/Tate smackdown fest to be quite a bracing proposition). HMLT's fundamental point before the pedantry is undoubtedly...

This stuff is the good stuff. Apple isn't even 4x4 is he...? More broken/soca? The rest is indistinguishable from house ordinare as far as I can tell anyway...

Best sound moment of 2007 tho? The sound design on Lynch's "Inland Empire"-- absolutely stunning terrifying and beautiful in equal measure. For all the anti-cinematics of the post you-tube DV visual stylings and the almost aleatoric method of writing/construction, musically/sound wise this was...

This year seemed to be lacking in any decent song-based records (ie- last year had an abundance of treasurable albums: Scott Walker, The Knife, Junior Boys, Hot Chip etc)... so I was left listening to a lot of predominantly instrumental based music. Which meant that overall it was a slightly...

Yes definitely.

Is this the best of 2007 thread then...? Ok... best/favoured/of note albums: Gui Boratto - Chromophobia Pantha du Prince - This Bliss--- the most haunting album of the year, near perfect emo-techno. Whilst others may have mined the bell-riff angle on minimal (cf efdemin) none sounded like...