Next to staggering and stumbling yet incredibly grooving beat structures (reminding of GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER at his best) there are wounded glitch hop beasts and crunk pumping tech-step mutants the whole lot of them are constructed so subtle and delicate that it hurts to get sucked into. On the other hand they are working with divers techniques of sound- / rhythm- / room-morphing / fragmenting / -pullulating, making the unfolding scenes incredibly dense and eclectic, and the rhythmic so complex that it’s hard to sync and merge in the triggered body completely (in this regard AUTECHRE are playing in the first league together with a few others such as RYOJI IKEDA, ALVA NOTO, NHK and KEIICHIRO SHIBUYA). It also is very inviting and tempting as AUTECHRE have achieved a new balance between accessibility und experimentalism: On the one hand we have melodious fragments and historical hints, AUTECHRE‘s very own signature sounds and beats with a scene-connected basic form. Now the 17-storeyed monstrosity is available in both double CD format and as 4-LP vinyl.Īgain AUTECHRE come out with a mind-blowing sonic mutant created by a rhythmical, soundwise and dramaturgic ingenuity that is without equal and that requires you not only to listen to it isolated and, well, loud! But also in the maximum of your intentness and vigour – and endurance if you decide to undertake the whole two-hour-trip.īut Exai is not only absolutely challenging. So after milestones like LP5 (1998), Draft 7.30 (2003) and Untilted (2005), and 3 years of absence it maybe was no accident that shortly after the link to the activated Exai-download-link circulated Warps online music store “Bleep” collapsed. Rooted in early hip hop, b-boy culture and warehouse rave, and highly influenced by industrial monument COIL, their working with algorithmic composition and digital sound design made them not only one of the Warp label mainstays but also main figures both relevant to the psychedelic research field of electroacoustics/ambient/drone and to club cultures body politics… always avid for and with great pleasure in deconstructing all the rules and genres spooking through these institutions.
With their 11th album, Exai, AUTECHRE again create their very own psycho-acoustic galaxy, one of their most scenic ever, built by breathtaking immersive and dynamic soundscapes that are populated by morphing heavy beat mutations.įrom the beginning of their now over twenty years counting collaboration as AUTECHRE Manchester based Sean Booth and Rob Brown rank among the most adventurous, influential and – since 2001 – controversial producers of advanced electronic music.
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