Quaristice
What:
Quaristice
Who:
Autechre
On:
Warp Records
Where:
Bleep
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Gen-X shadow masters Autechre remain unclassifiable even on their own terms. While new records often have that samey, 'desktop' production sound, this veteran UK duo remind of the truly spectral power of digital music, circa 1990s / Warp label hysterics. Their sound is huge, yet robotically detailed, with all the dry austerity and imagined purpose of a theology, geometry or drug-certain perception.
Pouring over new sonic combinations at speed - like a computer's brain dredging pure data - Autechre run smooth as a Search function turning up Find results at Techno's event horizon.
Like the strangely metonymic song titles 'SonDEremawe', 'bnc Castl' and 'Theswere', ninth album Quaristice suggests synthesis with unexplainable meaning. Tracks shift from blurry reverb zones into brainy territories at cross rhythms, with only the marked glitch of 'Simmm' and keeling, enharmonic sequencers of 'chenc9"' identifiable as Autechre blind. The rest of the twenty tracks here exist in an exciting, cauldron state of becoming; bookends 'Altibzz' and 'Outh9X', for instance, are glassy, ethereal pieces few could label 'IDM', while 'Perience' is surely something off the Liquid Sky soundtrack?
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist
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