I would say, for example, that Boards of
quoted 2 lines Canada's work favors ...I Care Because You Do more than anything
> Canada's work favors ...I Care Because You Do more than anything
> Autechre has put out.
i agree with you, hear, but as for this...
....Keep in mind that ...I Care
quoted 2 lines Because You Do came out in '95, that was before a lot of Ae's more
> Because You Do came out in '95, that was before a lot of Ae's more
> definitive work had surfaced.
well, i'd argue that you can hear shades of what autechre would become on
'incunabula' and 'amber', but 'anti' came out in 1994 and 'garbage', anvil
vapre' and 'tri repetae' were released in 1995. i think autechre had a
fairly well-defined aesthetic by this time.
i think booth and brown have a sense of purpose in their music that the
post-ae crowd and indeed many of their own peers lack. the bands that
'sound like' autechre, eg funkstoerung, merely sound like them. they've
appropriated some very objective signatures, such as the stuttering beats,
fried textures and quirky, 'downer' melodies, without a regard to the
subjective, less obvious traits. slippery and smudgy thing that language
is, i have difficulty trying to explain it, but there's muscle beneath the
autechre membrane for which these bands do not account.
i'm not saying that they should, mind you, but very few of the bands i've
heard that are bandied about on this list have a certain, erm,
teleological quality about them that makes them truly distinguishable from
others (i'm not just talking about ae soundalikes, here). it's the thing
that makes vladislav delay or various artists stand out when one might
lump them casually with everyone in the chain reaction/basic channel/pole
clique and that which prevents me from claling bola, gescom or freeform
'just another skam band'.
autechre, i suppose, possess a sense of craft that i find lacking in too
many bands these days. regrettably, i can only define the symptoms of
that state - ae at their best knew when complexity became muddy or
undisciplined, alternately they could distinguish the minimal from the
unfinished. of course, i'm a fan of autechre, and i might see this more
clearly if i were a fan of some of those other bands that don't do it for
me. but - 'cichli', for example, is more than a fucked-up melody in
ten/four meter. i hope the moderator of the autechre community on onelist
will forgive me for referencing him without permission, but i feel he
describes it best:
----
a good portion of the majesty of Ae's music lays in their ability to stir
the soul, to move a human through mechanical, aural means. it's not all
about the odd time signatures, and the samplers that chew on themselves,
but about the ability to transcend these barriers separating man & machine
and find that we have much more in common than we think.
----
with that, i'll let you go. this was longer than i had intended, sorry.
=====
yours,
niall.
.. . . . . . . . . .
aleph null a simple insinuation around silence
music: 'two and a half days in love with you, six by seven
text: 'moscow to the end of the line', venedikt erofeev
film: 'two lane blacktop', monte hellman
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