I think Chiastic Slide was around their peak, for my musical tastes. This one and LP5... I hear a lot of ppl talk abt how their newer stuff is genius and has just gotten better and better. Maybe I’m not smart enough to get it, but for my money, the mid-late 90s was peak Autechre.
You know, since I wrote this, I’ve learned how to approach the more recent stuff. It’s more like audio sculpture at times. Genius really. I was just stuck in a traditional rut. I also think listening to Sign on a head full of acid helped me to start getting the picture.
@@mola55e5 preferences are ok! It was their more traditional stuff that hooked me, then the more intense psychedelic sounds fascinated me enough to dive into the sonic unknowns they're pioneering
Yeah I know, I could never really get into BoC's music except for their one song Orange Romeda. My favorite artist from off warp is Squarepusher by far, his music just feels absolutely timeless
Exact ! J'ai le même sentiment quand j'écoute Confield (comment est-il possible que cet album ait presque 18 ans ?) / I have the same feeling when I listen to Confield (how come this album is almost 18 years old ?)
I had this on CD years ago and never really got into it, however, I had forgotten about this track. It is really nice. Speaking of which...wtf happened to that disc? Must've left it at my mates house.
'Nuane' is the only track of theirs I know that kind of plays with a 'known' genre/language too - the flutey jazz bits at the end of it. Not many bands you could say that about - having that level of individuality.
Yeah one of the huge problems is that the rising popularity of dubstep convinces a great many people that all downtempo music is trying to be dubstep, and alternatively this either drives people away from things that aren't totally dubstep, or shoes people away who don't like what poppy dubstep has been doing to the EDM scene if there's even a hint of the downtempo bass feel in it. That avenger album definitely has some dub elements in it, but I wouldnt just say "it's a dubstep album".
Also, check out Hecq, kind of down the same alley in both respect of experimental ambient/glitchy shit, and recently did a dubstep album that totally trumps all the latest bullshit that's come out under that genre recently.
Chop/screwed, trap hi-hat retriggers, dubstep LFOs.. a lot of it came from IDM. idm concepts get on the radio in pop music like 10+ years after it's been exploited in the idm scene
