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Autechre - Gantz Graf
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Artist: Autechre
Album: Gantz Graf
Company: Warp Records
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Ripper : team pyt Supplier : NOYB
Genre : Electronic Style : Electronic
Rel. Date : 10/12/2002 Streetdate : 00/00/0000
Quality : 192kbps / 44.1kHz / Full Stereo
Grabber : EAC Encoder : lame 3.92
Songs : 03 Playtime : 19:17 min
Size : 26,5 MB
Url : n/a
Type : EP Source : CDDA
Language : English
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At press time, there seem to be two predominant attitudes
about Autechre. The first is that they're one of the
brightest, most consistently interesting outfits in IDM, and
records like EP7 or LP5 define the present state of
electronic dance music. The other is that Autechre's overly
clinical approach puts them in grave danger of running their
busy-beat shtick into the ground. 2001's Confield, despite
its mention as one of Pitchfork's 20 best albums of last
year, practically defined what it means to get mixed reviews.
You could almost split its audience down the middle into
those who were down with the avant-trip, and those who found
it unengaging and devoid of visceral emotion. I like the
album, but even I would admit that emotion isn't the first
thing that comes to mind when listening to it.
So when you're not sure whether you've stimulated or
alienated your audience, what do you do? In Autechre's case,
they've gone back to basics. The music on their freshly
released five-inch, three-song EP, Gantz Graf, finds them
revisiting the 'D' in IDM, as they have to varying extents on
just about every release prior to Confield. Does that mean
they were listening to their detractors last year? Or does it
mean that they simply had some groove left in their brains
after so much abstraction? Who knows? Maybe they were just
dicking around in the studio and felt like releasing an EP.
Gantz Graf's opener and title track wastes very little time
hitting you with over-the-top beats and a distorted mix.
There's a punchy melody comprised of successive synth jabs
and some of the usual glitch trickery. But this track will
immediately catch the ears of folks expecting more random
chin-stroking music, as during its first half it features
actual recognizable beats. Even the overdriven production
can't obscure the clear rhythm. Of course, about a minute
into the tune the beat begins to disintegrate, leaving only
the melody to twinkle in the gaping void. Then, a while
later, even that gets consumed by the twitching computer
noise, and by the track's end, Autechre have locked us back
inside their signature confusion and manic drill-glitch.
"Dial" is the most straightforward song of the three, with a
fast bounce-beat featuring some goofy organ patches and that
snappy, Autechre-patented vacuum-pop rhythm track. If this
song has any place in the canon of a band who were said to
have sold their souls to the chaos theory devil with
Confield, I don't know where it is, what with its similarity
to 80s new wave quirk. It's a bit on the speedy side,
otherwise you might even consider dancing to it. And deep in
the mix lie some very treated vocals, though I can't decipher
whether they're saying anything or just getting chopped up
for the sake of filling out the arrangement. But at a runtime
of just over six minutes, this is probably the closest the
duo has come to straight club music since 1997's Chiastic
Slide.
The final track is the epic "cap.iv," which finds the sound
only slightly more abstract-- at least at first. The tempo is
similar to that of "Dial," though the beats are considerably
more cluttered due to what sounds like a couple of competing
electro-figures running concurrently. A straightforward piano
line and an announcer who sounds stuck in a cavernous airport
terminal play beneath the chattering percussion, adding a
subtle but affecting texture. The track makes the Autechre
strategy plain: lay an attractive backdrop behind restless,
seemingly chaotic (emphasis on 'seemingly') blips and clicks.
The backdrop here, however, is somewhat prettier than usual,
and I wonder whether the beat that obscures it was only
placed in front to appease fans of the tried-and-true
Autechre way. As the track wears on, the intruding rhythms
grow progressively louder and busier, and a good nine minutes
later have utterly overwhelmed the other elements.
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01.gantz graf [03:58]
02.dial. [06:17]
03.cap.iv [09:02]
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19:17 min
26,5 MB
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