i'd like to say that i truly experienced this last night. i came to a realization while listening through Peel 2 and Anti. these pieces really exhibit living and growing organisms that build and release into either something totally new, or into somewhat of a mutated formation of what it started as.

as the bartender tells the father of the dead drunk son: "he should have stopped while he was a head."

I know what you mean autpt. Autechre to me are the last 2 guys in the universe trying to make music when all other humans are extinct after they were killed by machines which they invented.

in fact, I see all their work as a chronological story of such an event, culminating in Draft 7.30. Here the machines finally take over, the awkard beats in in 'Surripere' being their best attempt to mimic the human touch. I see each sound as coming from a machine, they all get together after a hard days work and chill out and make tunes. It's as if they've learned via neural networks about how to think emotionally like a human, but they've not quite got it....

I think I maybe going mad.....

We all are Dirty H, and yes: AUTECHRE more than any other artist are mediums between the structure of things and their shape..I hope that made some sense.

i love that take on their motivations. i can really connect to the Surripere analogy. something so accessalbe presides when the culmination of the track exhibits a violent insertion of syncopated stabs. there are many examples that hint to a subconscious message of how music today is viewed by Booth and Brown. i can sense the fact that they are tired of it. they are important for our generation in that they are continuing to make important and landmark music that will be observed in the future.

it is our duty as musicians to continue to make a landmark for ourselves and to stop trying to mimick our forefathers. it's desperate for the state of music and history...it's all at stake.

i think Thom Yorke can agree with you on that as well.

I am listening to AUTECHRE on headphones tonight and I am sure I'll find new things to it. AUTECHRE never sounds the same, you always find something new on their tracks, no matter how many times you listen to them.

that's what im talking about. substance.

I was always a fan of the track "777". I love the panning it shows from ear to ear. If you have "Lp5", definitely check it out. It's a great one on headphones.

Josh...you love that track too much...

Actually I am listening to Confield tonight, no other album amazes me in the way Confield does. You don't enjoy AUTECHRE -that will be too vain and easy- you witness their music.