From Tomas Jirku Sent Fri, Mar 5th 1999, 00:11
>created. My point being is although Autechre were the pioneers of this >"type" or "sound" of music the artist who follow are not necessarily >Autechre clones. IM(very)HO: i agree that they are not autechre clones, but only for a completely different reason: if in fact these musicians are attempting to rip-off autechre's style (which i feel they are) they are failing miserably. autechre does not have a "style", but rather each of their songs unique and what these clones are responding to is the supposed "cruchy-beat" sound that we have all seen mentioned in reviews far too often. autechre never repeat themselves, so for any other musician to do the same is to entirely misunderstand autechre. [yes, i am their biggest fan. why do you ask?] > The Autechre sound is now part of a large list of >sub-category's under the term "IDM". In my opinion Autechre have been >breaking new ground with every release which opens the door to new >artist putting a new twist to this sub-category of IDM. this categorization mentality must be stopped; it is what breeds these clones. tomas