Re: (idm) Gescom vs Autechre

From Sharon Maher
Sent Tue, Jun 1st 1999, 18:23

Again, for those of you who missed it first time around:

"Gescom's not just me and Rob,” explains Booth. “Its a whole load of us. There's
probably about 30 people that do stuff" Gescom's most intriguing figure is its
anonynimity. With earlier releases, both Booth and Brown were less forthright
about who was involved with Gescom, and if it were actually them to begin with.
While the releases were attributed to them, Brown once even commented, with
regards to the “Motor” EP on Germany’s esteemed Clear “It might not even be us
on that record.” 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."


Nick Zavriev wrote:

> > Take for example this stuff off of Gescom-1 that I'm listening to at the
> > moment. A not-too-long-ago thread mentioned that Darrell Fitton (aka:
> Bola)
> > occasionally contributed to the Gescom project.  Can I get an aye aye
> here, or
> > do some of the Gecom-1 trax have a Bola-ish feel to them?
>
> Oh, yes. When I was listening to Soup for the first time I couldn't help
> thinking "It sounds exactly like Gescom 1, Darrel must have written the
> whole album in good old 1994!". And their second EP may have so strong
> hip-hop flavour because of Maddocks' participation. But Motor EP is just
> Sean and Rob and it sounds so different from the usual Ae stuff, that
> puzzles me :) I think that maybe gescom is something more conventional (like
> techno, electro and hip hop), though I don't mean anything negative by
> conventional :) And the Ae stuff is more experimental and IDMish, but
> Minidisk doesn't fit into this frame :)
>
> Nick.