Copyright © 2002 Warp
1. GANTZ GRAF
2. DIAL
3. CAP.IV
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Attempting to find "new dimensions" in an artistic movement mainly governed by novelty, Autechre put three tracks of their most absurdist and noisily violent music to CD with a release whose fundamental theory is to put forther a sonic cloud of diverse and scattered noises, creating within it several looping structures which internally guide each motif until it can transfer to another by introducing a new sequence of sonic textures. There is beauty underneath the noise, in the same way some death metal bands weave melody into battering noise, but mostly what makes this intriguing is form itself. Allusions to "normal" drum-n-bass and extreme hardcore techno fill the later two songs, with the gentle slow-building keyboard melodies for which Autechre is famed building under a chaotic assault of rhythmic change and texture. Although relatively short, the album covers an impressive amount of ground given the narrowness of its target aesthetic, and with the minor key harmonizations of a subtle yet enduringly friendly sense of melody, and as such leaves a lasting impression of ambience meeting metallic, mechanical reality.
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