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From:
Gonzi (Fresh)
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Date:
Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:33:11 -0800
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Re: (idm) Autechre 1993 - extended jams
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quoted 5 lines From a rhythmic standpoint, however, Autechre is doing some of the most> >From a rhythmic standpoint, however, Autechre is doing some of the most > interesting stuff in recent years. The 'Key Nell' EP, some of 'Chiastic > Slide', and a couple of the tracks on the Ae Radio broadcast are prime > examples of this - non-four-on-the-floor shit that still keeps your head > noddin.
I think their rythms have evolved somewhat and become perhaps a bit more complex, but fankly how different is what they are doing now from the Anti EP? Not a whole lot. It's not necessarily that I'm against the lack of structure in some of their songs, it's the fact that what they're doing now compared to what they were doing years ago is too simmilar to my ears. The one thing that must be avoided at all costs if 'this' music is to be a constantly innovative and expanding genre is the relaxation into a comfortable mode where its sufficient simply to deliver the product that everyone expects from a given artist. This has already happened with FSOL, I think (among a few others) and I would hate to see it happen Autechre. Perhaps I'm being overly paranoid, but it's the one thing I think that seperates IDM from becoming an overly insular form of art music that churns out the same tracks to the same indoctrinated fans for year after year. _____ / ,-,_) /,_) (/ RESH Live & Direct from the G-Spot, Orange County, California, USA Luke Vibert RA show + : http://www1.linkonline.net/fresh/fresh.htm