On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Pascal Haakmat wrote:
quoted 8 lines James Skilton wrote:> James Skilton wrote:
> > Autechre. Oh come on, need I say more. Autechre's 4th album
> > is due for release in the new year.
>
> I think Autechre's music is very boring since most of their tracks are
> nothing more than a bunch of loops smeared out forever. The build-up of
> an Ae-track seems to usually involve a new sample every 128 bars.
>
I think you might be missing the point. IMHO, Autechre is one of the few
outfits who create sounds/noises/rhythms that are actually worthy of being
looped.
Take the beginning of the first track off of Tri Repetae. That's
a completely original loop, which-to my ears-is not only incredibly
interesting but really grooves.(There are people who would make an entire
track out of just such a loop and a few chords.) And when Autechre lay on
that wicked second loop six bars later, it sounds like an electronic
abstraction of those crazy distorted old Mike P. drum loops. On top of
this, they slowly build a melody/chord progression that I think *defines*
"dark brooding atmosphere." And this is just one track.
I assume you're exaggerating when you say 128, but Autechre is innovating
in this respect as well. Listen to track 1 of the Garbage EP for stuff
that'll confuse your tapping foot. At the end of track 2 of Key Nell, the
strings are in one tempo, and the fucked-up cut-up voice rhythms are in
another. The last track on Key Nell has a chord progression that's 18 bars
long instead of 8 or 16 like you would expect.
quoted 4 lines Also they don't seem to have released anything interesting before Tri> Also they don't seem to have released anything interesting before Tri
> Repetae (which, I assume, means 'three times as repetitive') so I just
> don't get the excitement.
>
...are we faulting them for getting better?
my $.02
-Arjun