From sun rob and his arkestra Sent Tue, Jul 27th 1999, 03:10
well well well. for reference's sake: the first autechre i heard was tri repetae++; and my favorite AE thus far is LP5. followed closely by cichlisuite and amber. EP7 is quite amazing. a few tracks wander off a little far into the digital noise and sonic grit territory that worked so well to bridge the tracks of LP5, but here they seem to be intended to stand alone. eh. but the good tracks...wow. the opener 'rpeg' is the best thing AE has done recently, possibly ever. hypnotic, echoey, digital and organic/underwater/fluttery at the same time. and that stuttering at the end kills me dead. 'ccec' is pretty nice, too, almost sounding like a gescom track (weird distorted hip hop) remixed by the more abstract version of AE (squeaky squiggles and minor keys shifting in the background.) basically, i think it's great, and it's in the process of modifying me as a listener on how to hear it, kind of like LP5 did. there's some stuff on here that will probably take a long time to warm to, but then there's stuff that's immediately accessible, at least in autechre terms. big drawback is that nothing (i have the domestic) savaged the back cover art. i don't care too much, but when an artist takes such care with the total package and the design, putting a giant logo that clashes with the miniaturized type everywhere else is kind of crass. the nothing logo is at least ten times bigger than even the word "autechre." and a great booklet full of those angular squiggle drawings, probably the best visual counterpart to AE since chris cunningham's sinister vibrating machines. rob btw- the post is referring to my review, not the EP! it sounds fresh to my ears...aligned with LP5 but not the same, as some have claimed. even if AE is using some of the same equipment or processors or whatever--people, james brown used bass, guitars, drums and voice for decades and nobody complained. sheesh.