i saw this in the weekend section of the post while at work. it's always
fun to read what people who have no idea what they're writing about have to
say about music:
"For Autechre, making music that sounds odd is no longer enough; now the
Manchester duo crafts its music to sound wrong. Originally, Autechre-ists
Ron Brown and Sean Booth were stalwarts of "intelligent techno" --
electronic dance music that you can't dance to, basically. But over the
course of five albums and nine EPs -- some of them longer than most albums
-- their style has shifted from smooth and pulsing to ragged and fidgety.
"The twosome's new "Confield" is a symphony of seemingly malfunctioning
beats. The relatively lyrical "Vl Scose Poise" variously suggests rain
hitting a tin roof, a gamelan orchestra tumbling down a hill and a skipping
CD player. Actually, all nine compositions have passages that suggest a
skipping CD player; in Autechre's music, drum'n'bass's skittering beats
sometimes go utterly haywire. Like drum'n'bass, "Confield" has a kinship
with Indian classical music: Autechre simultaneously maintains and subverts
the rhythm, much as a tabla player does. There's a method to playing the
tabla, however, while Autechre clearly prefers the madness of distorted
timbres and percussive convulsions."
-- Mark Jenkins
from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A71093-2001May24.html
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