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Various - Omnipresence - 28-Jan-04 09:42 AM
The sounds are like straight from 1970's Jarre albums or sci-fi films or something. However the composition of the tracks clearly bears the development of electronic music since and the rhythms and structures are quite 2000's IDM. What all this amounts to, is of course sweet and warm melodic sounds in music that ought suit well the taste of fans of today's electronic listening (and why not some dancing) music. One in my top 5 in 2003 absolutely, and it was not a bad year.

Locust - Wrong - 24-Jan-04 06:56 AM
I think listening to this album on two cd players is worth the trouble. It does make an acoustic difference if the both sounds are coming from the same spot (as in a mixed-together-version) or "as instructed" from different directions or even cd2 playing in another room. Actually I suppose it could be interesting to compose more music like that, taking up more room, literally. Maybe some 5.1-or-even-more system could sort of work like that but Locust's Wrong does this relatively easily and accessibly. I suppose experiments are always a bit troublesome although usually rewarding. But still, the discs are as well interesting enough to listen to separately.

Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto* - El Baile Alemán - 06-Jan-03 11:21 AM
Cover versions of Kraftwerk classics performed by a (non-existent?) latin band - you never know when it's Atom Heart in question. Awesome!

Autechre - Confield - 06-Jan-03 08:14 AM
I remember Derrick May saying in some interview that many electronic musicians do not know how to end their tracks. Autechre for sure knows how to end their albums! Lentic Catachresis is one of the most mind expanding tracks ever made. It is a culmination of the structures of the album, a climax of aural experience that leaves you wanting for more. Get yourself good comfortable headphones, sit down and listen the whole thing straight through. Or alternatively, do the same thing except go take a walk around some busy urban environment.

Autechre - Chiastic Slide - 06-Jan-03 08:01 AM
Chiastic Slide is the most balanced of the "old" Ae, mixing melodies and simple aesthetic pleasure to complex structures. But not complex in the maybe difficult manner of Confield, for example, that some find even unpleasant - thus I call it the old Autechre.