Album Rating: 4.5

It's great





I also shelved out for an import of Geogaddi, and then once again, they had it a year later at retail price

So good. Stud is the perfect song to get lost in.

starting to think that these guys just might be the best artists out there

Album Rating: 5.0

When people argue that BoC are the better group I simply point out that these guys consistently put out music

Album Rating: 5.0

I've heard everything they've done up to LP5. Chiastic Slide is kind of shit but other than that, yeah these guys are miles ahead of their contemporaries (from what I've heard obviously).

I don't dig their later releases at all, so I wouldn't say they are consistently great artists. This is clearly one of the best electronic albums though.

Why is that?

When people argue that BoC are the better group I simply point out that these guys consistently put out music

Album Rating: 5.0

They have entirely different sounds but they still come from the same stock, and came to prominence at around the same time



But yeah, I agree

Album Rating: 3.5

bleeep bloop am i right

Album Rating: 4.5

i like BoC but i dont think the two are comparable at all. in terms of musical significance and experimentation, as well as overall quality, autechre is easily the better of the two



if by musical significance you mean their general influence then autechre are maybe more influential. But their experimentation is totally different than BoC's. I think we can state that Autechre really pushed some boundaries while BoC produced a more solid and nostalgic universe that seems to touch many listeners.Their approach is kinda more post-modern but not in the raped sense of the word - they're something like conscious eclecticists

i can agree with that

i just think that as far as pushing the limits of musical experimentation autechre have done much more than BoC

Album Rating: 4.5

Autechre - conscious. Boards of Canada - unconscious?



Autechre have by far the most rewarding catalogue I have ever come across in an electronic artist.



But Xenakis has this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUR2qkJup0

Album Rating: 5.0

Xenakis and Nono are still the gods



But Autechre make music that will sound bizarre and avant garde in the year 4000 when insects and robots rule the earth

Album Rating: 4.5

Autechre - conscious. Boards of Canada - unconscious?



what?



and let's not take it to Xenakis if we want comparisons. Autechre have stated him as an influence though...

Album Rating: 4.5

Their approach is kinda more post-modern but not in the raped sense of the word - they're something like conscious eclecticists

Album Rating: 4.5

eclecticism is generally considered an approach that draws elements from a wide pallet of theories, styles or ideas that in the first place may not seem or be coherent. Eclecticism is also generally thought to be one of the attributes of the post-modern art. BoC's music, the amalgam of hip-hop beats, analog synths, hazy noises, obscure sampling and ghostly ambiance, I consider it to be a kind of such an eclecticism (though I confess the term is usually used for works which somehow lack consistency). They used all these elements and created this beautiful nostalgic and claustrophobic songs which constitute their universe, that imo is both coherent and elegant.



That you can say is a non-raped postmodern approach, an way of creating art with seemingly totally different elements, that in the end fit together as a whole.That is also my conscious eclecticism - an eclecticism that knows who to handle its materials, opposed to the generally raped postmodern art-products that can also be analyzed or seem like random shit put together.

Album Rating: 4.5

Autechre imo are not so eclecticists. They took their materials from a techno sound that has been shaping, and they evolved it, took it deeper and deeper. Their experimentation is usually focused on futuristic visions and on the possibilities of what can stand as dance or rhythmic music created by machines. Thus we had all those eerie soundscapes on Amber and Tri-Repetae and that offbeat,weird thing in Confield.



that of course is my take on things!



and also, Xenakis was mainly a composer and partly an electronic artist. Most of his famous pieces are orchestral works i think

Album Rating: 4.5

I understand the meaning of eclecticism, though calling it conscious or unconscious proves nothing in this instance, unless you are talking of intentions, in which case the outcome or product is not at stake, rather the process. If it is eclectic, why not leave it there, or just acknowledge that it draws on a variety of (closely related) electronic forms, instead of inserting the term post-modern only to take a vague shot at it? Eclecticism in no way defines post-modernism (eclecticism has been around for a long while). Better yet, just praise the coherence, if that is what you value.



Knowing how to handle your materials does not constitute consciousness, and this only shows that you agree with their aesthetic "universe" (which you have not explained the relative solidity of).



If you cannot sufficiently explain post-modernism, raped or pure, please do not use the term in any explanation of your position. You essentially showed raped and non-raped post-modernism to be different only insofar as you find one agreeable; in method it is either putting together "random shit" or "seemingly totally different elements".

Album Rating: 4.5

If anything, Autechre display a more post-modern approach in their deconstruction of dance music and rhythmic tradition (Confield, and so on).