From Sharon Maher Sent Wed, May 12th 1999, 19:36
From Sharon Maher Sent Wed, May 12th 1999, 19:36
This is from an soon-to-be-printed Autechre article i wrote: Gescom, which stands for Gestalt Communications, is the mysterious Autechre side-project. "Gescom's not just me and Rob,” explains Booth. “Its a whole load of us. There's probably about 30 people that do stuff" ... As it turns out, the ethic behind Gescom is a continuation of the crew ethic of their teenage tagging days. Instead of crediting themselves and the other individuals responsible for a particular Gescom release, "all we do is put the crew up," Booth explains. "We don't write our names, we just offer the crew." While Gescom displays the same attention to texture and detail that Autechre does, it conveys, at least to Booth and Brown, a very different headspace, one mediated by the involvement with other people. Simply explained once by Rob, Gescom is "us not being Autechre." Graham Voice wrote: > Rob, Sean, Darrell Fitton, Andy Maddocks and Mark Van Hoen are all > credited on the Gescom Skam records...who are the mysterious other 2 (or > 4) i wonder?