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Rapoon - From Shadows Sleep - 08-Dec-06 07:58 PM
Perhaps Rapoons most hauntingly beautiful release yet, From Shadows Sleep is unquestionably Robin Storeys most Zoviet-France-like set of works. Most if not every track showcases samples from the Zoviet France release Shadow, Thief of the Sun (thence the name of this CD), as well as (if Im not mistaken) Vienna 1990 and Just an Illusion. When I say "samples", I do not mean remixes of old tracks; to my ears, Robin Storey went in and dug through his original source recordings, which were used in the above-mentioned releases, but has re-used them in new and original ways. From Shadows Sleep is a must-have for both Rapoon fans and Zoviet France fans alike.

Autechre - Confield - 20-Oct-03 06:15 PM
Confield heralds a period of apotheosis in Autechres body of work that I hope to see advanced still further in years to come. Before Confield I admired Autechre and followed the releases dutifully. Since Confield -- particularly since the subsequent tour brought them to my area -- I have regarded Booth and Brown as geniuses, and awaited every new offering with breathless anticipation. The concert was musically more in line with the later Gantz Graf in its dizzying amalgamation of abstract, arrhythmic patterns and rich, broad-spectrum noise. The result was an aural experience that I can only hope to come across again. My expectations for Autechre are now, of course, very high, but I am confident that future releases will match and exceed the exaltation of Gantz Graf and Confield.

Autechre - Draft 7.30 - 20-Oct-03 05:53 PM
I must confess I was hoping for Autechre to continue the relentless thrust into abstraction and arrhythmia that Confield spearheaded and Gantz Graf perfected. While Draft 7.30 takes a step back into more familiar ground, it nevertheless, taken on its own, offers the senses both mellifluent and challenging passages.

Autechre - Gantz Graf - 20-Oct-03 05:40 PM
With Gantz Graf, Autechre rises to the heights of electronic music, acheiving nothing less than equivalence with the best, most experimental composers of the 20th Century. At the same time, Autechres genealogy as an IDM project comes through in albeit arrhythmic deep bass kicks and crackling snare perversions. To me, this combination makes for more visceral listening than the dry, academic oevres of Elektronische Musik, such as Stockhausens Kontakte (not to be overly critical of the latter).

Autechre - EP7 - 20-Oct-03 05:20 PM
Autechre has been on a path of increasing abstraction since 1995, but particularly, to my mind, from ep7 on and especially Confield and Gantz Graf. To me, it is Autechres mastery of abstract rhythm/arrhythmia that makes Booth and Brown geniuses.

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