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Autechre | Confield

CD, Warp

Tekst: Bas Ickenroth

Publicatiedatum: 24 mei 2001

What section is appropriate? Beats or Mars? Dance or experimental? Exercise your booty or your brain? Does it really matter? No. But to make a long story short: if you can shake your booty to this, you're not really human. Don't deny it. But then again, is Autechre's music really human? Because this is difficult stuff, to put it mildly. Autechre are the true godfathers of the IDM (together with Aphex Twin), and has gotten many followers over the years. Many tried, like Radiohead for example, but no one came near. On Confield they give us nine new sonic masterpieces, but I wouldn't dare to call it songs. The sounds on this record are weird, frightening, moving, dissonant, bizarre, chaotic, melancholic, industrial. It screeches, it bleebs, it glitches, and I'm convinced that many people don't find this is music anymore. But what is music? One definition sounds like this: "An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color". And no matter how strange, weird or bizarre Autechre's music is, it really is music. It's just not your typical 4-to-the-floor housetrack or conventional verse-chorus-verse popsong. Sometimes it may appear like Autechre has put more effort in mastering their electronic equipment, their technique. But hidden underneath all that static and illogical rhythms there are quite often beautiful and touching melodies. You just have to make an effort to uncover the scheer beauty of their dissonant melodies. A true masterpiece, not only for the IDM, but for the music in general as well.

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