Experimental Electronic Music
A memorable snapshot of an era which many longtime Warp aficionados think of fondly as representing the very pinnacle of the label’s musical prowess, and for anyone wishing to delve further into Warp’s back catalog, a handy list of every WAP (singles and EPs with catalog numbers from 1 to 99) and WARP (albums with catalog numbers from 1 to 55) release up to that time was included inside the compilation’s CD booklet.
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, the mesmerizing compositions of Vladislav Delay, Oval, and Autechre.
One could imagine Autechre’s music as a lumbering, semi-amorphous creature cannibalized and synthesized with parts from electro, hip-hop, industrial, noise, free jazz, and plain old experimental music.
…I like to think of Chiastic Slide and LP5 as the last albums Autechre made on planet Earth before gliding into another dimension.
On Tri Repetae they found the magic formula to organize noise into pleasant tones that fill the entire spectrum of sound. Groundbreaking in its simple […]
PLUS reads like a counterpoint to the prior album’s emotive, warm and introspective narrative with its abstraction, playfulness and generative bounce. A deeper window into […]
SIGN is a comprehensively beautiful and surprisingly comfortable land in this ever-expanding continent of sonic weird. Autechre’s melody is back in full, but their sound […]
With the news of Autechre hinting at two albums for 2020 composed of “roughly 750 hours of jams” produced in 2019, and having revamped the […]
