Re: (idm) Re:(techno)daltonmeredith/Autechre/Plaid

From Andrew Duke Cognition
Sent Wed, May 26th 1999, 22:53

Daniel: I wish Autechre would do more material at an electro tempo.
You can only pitch stuff down or up so much! I used to play *a lot*
of Autechre out in electro sets years back, but the new stuff is either
quite downtempo or quite uptempo. The first track is likely to make
it into an electro set of mine, but the rest... Psychosomatic, the track
Danny Low Res/Crank Zelonky and Juan Atkins did on the Model
500 album, Mind And Body, is a perfect example, for me, of material
that is not straight up electro, but at an electro tempo and adds a
nice bit of spice to a techno electro set. Andrew

daniel wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Andrew Duke Cognition/In The Mix wrote:
> <snip>
> > the new album from labelmates Plaid (Rest Proof Clockwork;
> > 15 tracker with their usual quirky links and a bucketload
> > of funk, most at instrumental hip hop speed, but there's
> > an electro cut that would fit in a regular ol' electro set
> > and a nice downtempo techno number too. The biggest
> > thing I noticed was that there's quite a bit of scratching
> > on this, but I don't have any info on who's doing it.
> > Chris? Greg? Anyway, it's out June 21, check it out).
> > Thanks. Andrew Duke :)
> >
>
> heard bits of the plaid album last night.  From what I heard I was
> impressed.  My complaint that plaid when not remixing has no emotion is no
> longer applicable (at least to the bits I heard).  Lots of funk on this
> one.  I listened to the nothing CDR promo so it should be available state
> side.
>
> Also, listened to the new autechre (again a CDR promo on nothing) and I
> liked it.  Not as dense as LP5 but some of the same thoughts/ideas
> (definitely evolved though) are there.  And I do agree that there is a
> definite down tempo/hip hop feel (though it is really twisted).  I have
> really been enjoying autechre's output since the envane ep (probably more
> so than their earlier output). It is amazing that we have all these bands
> who sound like autechre while autechre doesn't sound like autechre
> anymore.
>
> -daniel
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