take 8 Frozen Modules' track "Acute Episode" and play it at a faster tempo. if you que it up on WMP, select the Fast playback option. you will realize the Autechre in the track...at least i did. i am finally convinced that there are some Ae'ish elements to the track. i still say it's more Devine than anything though

oh, and Matt Arnold aka Mr. Projectile likes to use a particular technique quite effectively. i notice that he reverses at least 70% of his layers..

does Jimmy Edgar rap on his albums? if he does, he should stick to instrumental arrangements.

Interesting----- will check them out.

i am listening to 'VL AL 5' on Draft. This track is so so so soooo very good. I love these tracks where you just lose yourself totally and forget how long you've been listening to them for!!! Gescom's 'Slow Acid' is another one.

There really can be no doubt as to where Autechre got their inspiration from on these tracks. I do think 'VL AL 5' truly comes as close as any sounds to represent your state of mind when tripping.....

i was just listening to that myself.

I was too, no kidding. I've been listening to this track frequently lately. Draft 7:30 is still very intrigueing.

I know AE do pot, but i don't think they are heavy on hallucinogens this days. I think they get their inspiration from their own complex, intrincate, dark, cold, sentimental, twisted, loving heads.

Who doesnt?

I don't know Dave Segal but this this is the kind of AE albums' reviews that irritates me, because they don't even try to really embrace Autechre and instead decide that they are just too crazy and bizarre for the average listener.

It's like if I have to review a real legend unfamiliar to me, I try to embrace him and his music or at least don't give up easily...a critic is not an average listener, that is why he got the job.

The world would be a better place if more people listened to autechre and/or everything which beauty isn't obvious and superficial.

Autechre

Draft 7.30 (Warp)

BY DAVE SEGAL
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 After Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown issuedConfield in 2001, many fans wondered if the British duo had lost its mind in a labyrinth of software plug-ins and hallucinogens. That disc and its follow-up, 2002'sGantz Graf, set new standards in anti-social digital-sound splatter and polarized the electronic-music community. The scuttlebutt: Either the lads were executing an elaborate hoax (and banishing all traces of "music" in the process), or they were so far ahead of their time that it would take humans at least five years to understand this new direction.

Draft 7.30 won't convince haters that Autechre has returned to its (altered) senses. If anything, Autechre has practically transcended genre here -- but, to give you a toehold, this CD's roots are in electro. Granted, it's a grotesquely mutated form of electro. More helpful signposts include Iannis Xenakis' ominously dissonant compositions, Edward Artemiev's eerie soundtrack to Andrei Tarkovsky's sci-fi epic Solaris, Coil's diseased atmospherics and explosions in video arcades. Draft 7.30 is sonic chaos arranged with maniacal attention to detail, and it's all the more disturbing for how precisely it evokes madness.

I dunno.