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Aphex Twin - Drukqs - 17-Dec-06 07:39 AM
This album was my first real introduction to IDM/experimental electronica. I was into other electronic music, like Fatboy Slim, Leftfield and Orbital, but when I heard this album for the very first time I suddenly discovered what REAL experimental electronic music was all about.

I remember it clearly when a friend of mine a couple of years ago come into my room with Drukqs in his hand, and said: "Man, you just have to listen at this!" And when the crazy beats of the track "vordhosbn" mixed with a beatiful melody and weird sounds started streaming from my speakers, I was completly blown away! I had never heard anything like it! I thought, "What the hell is this?!". But I fell in love with the music instant.

I wanted more, much more. So I started some research at the web, (and it was this way I discovered Discogs by the way), and I discovered that Aphex Twin was a big (and still is!) electronic artist. Very big. So I decided that I wanted to collect everything he had released. So I did. And soon a completely new world in electronic music started to emerge in front of me. I started to use Discogs frequently, and I discovered other big artists like Autechre (which is now one of my absolutely favourite bands btw), Squarepusher, Boards Of Canada, Bola, Amon Tobin and so on. I discovered how important Warp really have been for electronic music, and I discovered smaller, but of course very important labels like Skam, Rephlex, Ninja Tune and Planet Mu.

So now that's my story how I discovered real experimental electronic music. I still keep discovering great artsists, and labels, that push the genres to limit. When I think I have heard everything, a new artist comes around that just blow me away! I just can't get enough! Maybe someday I will sit down and start to make some electronic music myself, who knows?

But this albumm, Drukqs, and Aphex Twin has a very special place in my heart today. Thank you Richard D. James, and thank you Discogs!

"Thank you for your attention, bye!"

Autechre - Incunabula - 20-Jul-04 04:35 AM
I really don't know if I should give this album 4 or 5, but it's a rally great album nonetheless. Incunabula is another album in Warp's Artificial Intelligence series and it's a very good idea checking out the other albums too.

The opening track works well as an intro (this track was also used in the strange movie "Pi"), before the next track, and the album's first highligt, Bike. This is one of the more chilled tracks ae has made and has a really sweet, lovely melody. The other highligt on this album is Doctrine, and I think this is one of the best tracks from the old ae style. It opens with some strange sirene-sounds before some of the most beatiful synth layers I have ever heard comes in. Then you have Eggshell, also a good old ae classic. The last three tracks end this album perfect with 444 as a finale.

This album should really be in everyones IDM/Ambient/Chillout collection and is a very good place to start with if you are new to Autechre.

Autechre - Anvil Vapre - 19-Jul-04 03:20 AM
Much like "Garbage" was to "Amber", this EP is to "Tri Repetae". It has the same harsh, metalic style, and it even says "Tri Repetae" in the cover sleeve!

Every track is really good and if I should pick out some favourites, it must be Second Scepe and Second Peng. Second Peng has some heavy and sharp beats, and also a really interesting use of cut up female vocals and piano-like melodies. Also check out the video to Second Bad Vilbel by Chris Cunningham.

So if you have Tri Repetae you should really get this EP too!

Autechre - Tri Repetae - 19-Jul-04 01:50 AM
In this album you can hear that the machines have taken more over the minds of Sean and Rob. In fact, Tri Repetae feels and sounds like a big, living factory on some alien planet.

The first track, Dael, opens the album perfectly with metalic sounds and beats. When I hear it, it feels I'm standing in the middle of a big machinery which moves in time with the music. The next track, Clipper start with some sharp noise and then some realy heavy beats kicks in, before some silent, but interesting ambient layers start to move back and fourh. Next up is Leterel, another good track with strange blip-blop sounds messing around in the background. Another tracks worth mention is Eutow and Overand. Eutow is a really lovely futuric synth track with makes me feel I'm flying over this big factory that is Tri Repetae. Overand is a really dark and hypnotic ambient track and it makes me feel that I'm wandering outside the factory at nigtht in the dark, with lots of alien creatures far away making strange sounds and noises. Stud and Gnitare also good tracks while Rotar dosen't do much to me.

4/5

Autechre - Garbage - 02-Apr-04 03:45 PM
If you got Amber, then you need this too! As already mentioned, this are most likely the leftover tracks from Amber. And if you look inside the coversleeve, you can see there is a blurred picture of the desert-like picture from the Amber cover.

Also here I find all of the tracks very good. Piobmx has some odd vocal sounds that actually work as a part of the track itself! And for me the best song here is the last track, Vletrmx. I think it sounds like a revelation of some sort.

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