Draft 7.30 is great. Venetian Snares has always been good too but they are totally different. Even though they both have harsh noises and tons of them, Autechre creates landscapes that set you in a positive hypnotic trance. You will feel the noises drill in your head. The loud pitches will remind you of pain. Autechre works with a huge palette of sound, rhythms, ideas, melodies, and patterns.

Autechre's album is both music and art..don't disimiss their new stuff (post confield) just yet. If you concentrate on their music as a whole and not just the freaky beats you will find that the music is constantly evolving in patterns... in waves of ambience. Some people just can't handle complex ambient and must have minimalism. Initially Draft 7.30 might seem really complex but EVERYTHING is in its right place -- sounds are specifically placed and are not random!

Dont hate their sound because it may at times seem more artsy than musical. AS a piece of art, this new album is extremely stimulating, emotional, and downright groovy. It will take you places way ahead of your time.

Buy Draft 7.30 right now. It is incredibly worth it. They take ambience to a new level.

honestly, I don't see how you could even mention venetian snares and autechre in the same paragraph, other than they are both experimental artists...I do agree with you that this is a very groovy album, but I don't agree with the ambience part...yes, in the past they brought it to another level, a new level, but now, it seems they've branched apart from their "ambient" side and went totally experimental (i.e. Confield) but Draft 7.30 adds the experimentations of Confield and puts more of their traditional hip-hop beats behind it...

All of autechre is ambient. IT is atmospheric and melodic in a repitious way. The reason I dont stick Autechre in genres like IDM (which is a incredibly stupid name) or experimental is because at the heart of all of autechre's tunes is one repeating ambient melody. It is often dressed up in complex disquises but the disquise itself it an intricate part of the ambience that each song tries to evoke.

The definition of ambience is "atmosphere of a place". Autechre is creating atmospheres, not dynamic opuses. The atmospheres they choose to create just happen to be dynamic. However, at the heart of all of them is the emotion that the atmospheres suggest.

I listen to a lot of ambient music (cuz its so much better than trance, jungle, and house). Autechre is one of my favorites.

agree..
i haven't listened to the other records yet,
but Amber (a little old accepted: 94) is the album
fitting your descrition above..
waiting for the current one...

just listen to the last track on the "Garbage" EP, or the last song on the last disc of Tri Repetae ++ (both the same song)...I've never heard anything else like it from them and its one of my favorite tracks of all time...just a long ambient melody submerged until it breaks through dangerously...very nice...the track name is "Vletrmx21"

slagged? c'mon, give it to me right

i think the first half of surripere is the best part of the album if i ever make a movie that's going to be played during the opening, whatever it may be.

surripere=marvelous

anyone else have impressions of Draft 7.30 they would like to share.. nEbody wanna add something better than "been there slagged that"?

well, i find it very entertaining, a hell of a lot better than Confield...this one sounds like they just didn't program everything and push play, especially during a live performance...this sounds more hip-hoppish, yet still very "autechre"