(amb) (Fwd) Autechre, Music Box, Manchester 15th October

From Timothy Fothergill
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Autechre, Music Box, Manchester 15th October

My first experience of Brown/Booth live so I didn't really know what 
to expect. They were only on for a very short period of time, 
something like 45 minutes definitely less than an hour. They were 
good while they lasted, though.

I'm afraid I'm not very good at intrument spotting. I suppose I 
should be better being on an instrumentation M.Sc. course but I have 
only just started. There was a box in between the two of them which 
had lots of cable coming out the top of it, which had Yamaha written 
on the side of it. Apart from that they each had some sort of 
computer plugged into an old TV of some sort.

Very much in the same vein to LP5 and EP7. What appeared to be 
improvised electronics. If it wasn't they went to a lot of bother to 
make it look as if it were. A slight diversion was the use of what 
you might call "retro" samples, for want of a better phrase. Almost 
as if they'd plundered Jimi Tenor's sampler. This only appeared in a 
couple of "tracks", out of a total of five or six.

They very much gave the impression of two little boys playing with 
their (hi-tech) toys. Herein, though, lies their talent, for me at 
least. If they were just two grown up boys playing aimlessly they 
would sound like two boys playing aimlessly. There is definetely 
something more there, the Autechre essence if you will.

One thing I didn't really expect was the amount of THC consumed by 
both performers and audience. I suppose thinking about it now it 
doesn't seem that suprising.

Good night overall even if I would have liked them to have played 
longer. I will certainly be attending the next time I'm anywhere near 
where they're playing.

Hope this hasn't been a complete waste of bandwidth. 

Tim
Timothy Fothergill
DIAS
UMIST
Manchester