[electronix] Autechre @ Radio Nova 06-05-09

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Blip, buzz, zap: Sean Booth and Rob Brown, the two knob- twiddlers behind Autechre, were among the leaders of the electronica renaissance of the mid- '90s, blending the cool minimalism of '70s pioneers such as Kraftwerk and Brian Eno with stark avant- garde noise, plus a touch of the block- rocking intensity of '80s hip- hop and electro- funk. As with Aphex Twin, Mouse on Mars, and other innovators, their treatment of electronic dance music is at once a cerebral deconstruction that demands close listening on headphones (and far away from a dance floor) and a challenge to other experimental music makers to produce work that can elicit a physical, sexual response. No wonder it's called intelligent dance music.

The group began slowly, with smart if unexciting ambient watercolors on Incunabula and Amber that give no indication of the innovations to follow. On Tri Repetae ++, Booth and Brown hit a stride that carried them through nearly a decade of intensely challenging music. Pushing the limits of danceability, the album squeezes faster, tighter, and more bizarre rhythms out of an arsenal of tones ranging from the squiggly and percussive to the breezily melodic. The soundscapes, made of complex patterns that alter and intersect in ever changing ways, retain an excitable pulse while veering dangerously out of orbit and into a noisy outer realm where there is no disco ball and no bar.

So how do you top a visionary work that chal-lenges the very nature of dance music? Unfortunately, you don't. After Tri Repetae, Autechre albums have a mind- numbing sameness despite their minute-by-minute ingenuity. Like, say, Chicago, they basically made the same album—and the same EP, and the same remix—many, many times. Chiastic Slide is a dull sequel, but LP5 kicks in with faster and more jarring rhythms. Confield and Draft 7.30 continue in familiar patterns of crunching, robotic rhythms and clean, spacey melodies that swarm in and out of focus. Mindlessly repetitive, yes, but in the best sense possible. (BEN SISARIO)

From 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

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