Taking Sides: Autechre vs. Aphex Twin

oh fuck, it's on

valuable poll, frogbs

Aphex = first love, a huge influence on me at a young age, practically an obsession
Autechre = enduring appeal, seem to have risen in my estimation and never let up.

This is so tough. Definitely listen to Autechre more now, butAphex was such a big influence, almost religiously so in my younger days. This is like the Beatles vs the Beach boys.

the beach boys

sloop john b vs eutow

This is like the Beatles vs the Beach boys.

Essentially, yeah. I am kind of similar in that the RDJ album was one of those things that kind of changed my life in a way - will never forget listening to that for the first time and getting utterly freaked out. It hit a lot of weird nerves. But Ae seem to have the stronger catalogue right now.

10 years ago I would have hesitated but at this point this is a pretty easy vote for me: autechre

I will say that Autechre never annoys me the way Aphex sometimes can. But then, I never quite lose myself in Autechre the way I get lost in "SAWII." Listening to Autechre to me is kind of like, I don't know, doing math homework. Though of course I also own far more Autechre than Aphex.

It's a tough one.

I feel like I've played those aphex twin albums often enough for a lifetime, but I just never tire of autechre. I keep noticing new things.

Like this is even a competition!

Autechre are ugly as dogs! Aphex Twin is the most handsome man in Cornwall. Come on!

Ask me again in 20 years.

tough one, but it has to be aphex. love autechre, but they can be a bit overly intellectual. rdj's sense of humour makes him the easy choice for me here.

Autechre. Have consistently enjoyed them since I started listening years ago. Every album has its appeal.

autechre, duh

I was going to try to form an opinion but now I'm too busy pondering nakhchivan's q of "sloop john b vs eutow"

currently listen more to ae's 90s work to AFX's and rarely listen to either's 00s work, but since I preferred the Twin's 90s work in the 90s and his 00s work in the 00s, I... just... don't know

That's kind of what pushes it for me, I'm still waiting for him to rebound from druqks

Yeah if he'd never released druqks I wonder what my opinion of him might be today

It's not so much that album, it's his silence afterwards; I mean the Chems, Underworld, and Orbital all had questionable periods and bounced back, I just feel like he doesn't know what to do at this point or doesn't have the patience to write 100 acid tunes a year or whatever

i miss him too but he has no obligation to keep churning out LPs

also, silence, hm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2aws6EbfRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QGFFIlRtTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUjOs5jHZiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dph-bkJL_wM

videos in which the differing qualities of the respective artists are perfectly reflected:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJfHU4GoOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAt6jpBmHHM

that's a useful bit of rhetorical compression, ledge

although i think autechre have more gantz grafs than aphex twin has windowlickers

i remember that gantz graf video BLOWING MY MIND at the time. nowadays I prob wouldn't blink. I hate that there's a chewing gum ad on tv at the moment that basically wholesale rips off the beginning of windowlicker.

Aphex, forever and always

ı doubt rdj wıll ever make another serıous LP agaın. hıs dıscontent wıth the scene ıs so tangıble. all hıs releases from druqks onwards are to me the sound of someone who resents themselves and theır scene. ı don't blame hım eıther. the people who go to hıs gıgs and the general attıtude of ıdm fans ıs ımo depressıng. he's always been the prankster, but now ıt feels lıke he's just gıven up all together.

*would love to be wrong though*

Gantz Graf vs Come To Daddy videos might be a harder call (never liked windowlicker, but GG would still win).

odd that both artists are under-represented in the video front.

they ain't exactly charting acts so it's not that surprising.

xp what kind of general attitude would that be? autechre and aphex gigs attract different kinds of people in my experience. or different kinds of behaviour at least.

Never really cared for either one, but at least in the early stages of his career Richard James some decent techno bangers, so that gives him a slight edge, I guess.

"Richard James released"

Not 'cooked' then?

On the other hand, you could say Aphex Twin's influence has been worse than Autechre's, since he was the figurehead (alongside µ-ziq and Squarepusher) of the horrible drill'n'bass sound that tainted a lot of electronic music in the latter half of the 90s – and you can still hear his crappy legacy in artists Skrillex.

"in artists like"

the people who go to hıs gıgs and the general attıtude of ıdm fans ıs ımo depressıng.

I'm rarely one to complain about acts because of their followers, but in some ways this is true. I remember the day I became disillusioned with the IDM scene, some time in 2003/4 at a night at Electrowerkz. I just remember feeling horrible and embarrassed to be there for some reason. On the other hand, when I ran an IDM community prior to that, I met some of the loveliest people imaginable, so maybe it was more a sign of the scene reaching saturation point.

i love them both, but jesus, aphex, easily

yeah the whole "this is so fucking advanced" attitude kills me

the only people that listen to this in America are pretty much Tool fans

what does that even mean, Whiney

via idm dude

"Contemporary electronic music is plagued by near-universal adherence to boundaries and rules: the 4/4 dictum, standard half-dozen effects, groove fascism, dumbed-down melody and harmony, limited sonic palette, and so on. Trembling before rules stifles compositional chance-taking, which causes the dreaded “same old, same old” effect. It’s too rare these days to listen to a new track and think, “I’ve never heard anything like this before.”

That’s because e-musical creators have become too proper and boundary-kowtowing. Don’t fall into the well-behaved composer trap! You and your listeners deserve better. Cultivate, instead, a healthy disrespect for boundaries."

Hahaha! I'd say "the 4/4 dictum, standard half-dozen effects, groove fascism, dumbed-down melody and harmony, limited sonic palette, and so on" produced 10 times more good music than IDM ever did.

I'd agree with that, but "healthy disrepect for boundries" is the key here. Sometimes I feel guys like Venetian Snares and Squarepusher do these things just to do them. At least when Autechre breaks boundries they do so with some internal logic.

I do hate that reasoning because it's so easy to say "maybe seek out some better music, fuckhead?" I mean people extolling the virtues of their favorite music maybe shouldn't be comparing it to Lady Gaga or the Black Eyed Peas, which is the type of music they seem to reference above.

As someone who came to electronic music via IDM, I remember thinking that the (misappropriated) "4/4" styles of house and techno were a bit boring (I would even have gone so far as to say "dumb" at the time). My attitude back then was akin to that of a prog fan sneering at contemporary 70s rock - that it lacked refinement, imagination, musicianship etc... But that wasn't what originally appealed to me about things like Aphex Twin and Autechre - it was the sheer shock of the new, and I soon realised that IDM was starting to ossify into about 3-4 clear categories defined by the major Warp acts. So while Autechre, Aphex, BoC and Plaid WERE making exciting, original music, there were umpteen snooty little bedroom producers making carbon copies of those sounds whilst looking down on an entire universe of electronic music for being "samey". The reason Aphex and Autechre are great is because they sounded like nothing else and that there was method to their madness.

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KitevsPill, what happened to the i's in your second post?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0131/index.htm

You've got to be careful with your 'i's in Turkey: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail
(sorry for depressing off-topic link)

autechre have nothing as overwhelming (for me) as 'saw II', but in the long run ('amber', 'tri repetae' or even 'confield') they win. besides, they're also better remixers.

how do people listen to SAWII? all at once or in chunks? i've always found it overwhelming in a bad way.

passively? How do people listen to Perlence Subrange 6-36?

i want twelve eps of autechre's take on analord acid.

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srsly surprised, kind of pleased kind of disappointed cuz u know ilm

After AE rolling the last several tronica polls, I'm not too surprised.

Frankly, I prefer "Perlence Subrange 6-36" to SAWII (though I probably only have the US version).

42 cloth eared fools

Can't believe I'm in the majority, what a disaster for anti-populism.

this is versus gd afx twin tho, leee

the same aphex twin who nearly won in this poll

who is your favourite among these celebrated ppl named on ilx site new answers?

vs godard, kelis, other ilx faves

shit i missed this :(

Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

;)

(oh the link disappeared, prolly better that way)

Eh, not an RDJ fan much to begin with.

Anyway, at this rate, we could poll Autechre vs. this kitten and AE would win.

i like both autechre and aphex a lot (meaning i have like ten releases from each that i never listen to) but autechre winning it seems rather wrong imo

kinda like picking a really fine quality knife over a whole drawer of good cutlery

Is that analogy suggesting that AE's discography is one big peak and then nothing? There's good cutlery in AE's drawer. Some of the most beautiful ambient stuff in early career, sure, but I think I've listened even more to the chaotic Drafts and especially my favorite, the (relatively speaking) underrated Untilted - so funky, so fun. Lots of different aspects to them. Sure Aphex has the ambient works and his drill and bass, but he's more of a one trick guy within those two categories. Autechre's tried out different ideas for each of their albums in their chaotic, 'difficult' phase. Which most people don't appreciate as much as their earlier stuff, but back then as well there was a sense of progression and innovation for each album.

Aphex's stuff has aged much worse than Autechre's - hate to say it but it's true. A lot of the values expressed in Aphex's music: extreme eclecticism, confrontational humour (paedo jokes and whatnot), DIY production, seem very much of their time.
Autechre lacked all these, which to many 90s listeners made them seem a little dry and faceless - the typical bedroom technobods getting a sallow tan from their computer screens etc.. Whereas Aphex was always the cheeky, pranksterish face of leftfield electronica - terrorising his poor ma and pa with music made in a a tank or a bank, dressed up as a teddy, screaming at pensioners whilst simultaneously being compared to Mozart in the broadsheet supplements.
People are more attuned to the idea of the "serious" techno producer these days I guess.
There's no social stigma surrounding computers and the internet like there was in the nineties (no longer simply the domain of geeks). And lyrics like "ooh you dirty little boy" or "tampax tampax tampax" aren't so much irreverent as embarrassing in today's landscape.
Aphex Twin was the most up to date musician of his time whereas Autechre's feet were planted firmly in the future, so much so that a lot of their sounds only make sense years after the fact (I'm still getting my head around Confield tbh).

http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/images/autechremax2.l.jpg

vs

http://www.analoguesolutions.org.uk/concussor/aspics/conc2.jpg

yes! and there must be a million knob-twiddlers out there, how many people are doing incomprehensible stuff with nasa-level control panels? i guess there's a bunch of ae copyists churning out identikit max/msp stuff but that's not what i mean. sean or rob once said that with all the software out there there's no reason for anyone to sound like anyone else. it's a beautiful dream.

I've never heard an Autchre melody that had anywhere near the affect on my that Flim has.

obv melodic beauty is in the ear of the beholder but for me ae have melodies coming out of the wazoo, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zix0nqrRrJ4

Sicko, Flim is lovely, but I'd say the middle section of Arch Carrier when the strings swell into the mix is as (if not more) affecting. Then there's the melody on Pir. What about the codas to GarbageMx, Piezo, Cichli etc? All big contenders in my book. I used to have one of those stereos with QSurround (remember that?) which somehow only ever worked with Autechre albums.

i dunno dog latin, autechre sound waaaaaaay more dated to my ears. nth generation dsp fuckery and all that pseduo random nonsense seems so early 00s and isn't something that i think will ever make a big comeback. compared to crusty old tape saturated analogue techno which is one of my favourite sounds and never gets old, infact in the current context of techno, those early AFX releases sound better than ever. cf lots of recent surgeon dj sets.

it almost seems like autechre spent all their time trying to make their music random and alive in a way that just naturally happens when you walk away from the computer and start having fun and plugging things in to things. i think aphex got on to that vibe earlier than everyone else.

There's a bit in this Steve Albini AMA on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/td90c/i_am_steve_albini_ask_me_anything/) that almost veers close to this, Crackle Box:

"Digital recording systems engender a kind of production that is overly concerned with editing and manipulating the sound after recording, rather than concentrating on recording music in a flattering manner to begin with. I don't like the way this perspective tends to flatten out performance nuance. That's the aesthetic problem I have with it."

Obviously 'performance nuance' is v. different between Jesus Lizard and Aphex Twin, but I'd wager that AFX and JL are closer in those terms than AE and JL.

nasa level control panels? that's just a bunch of controllers. i don't hear anything particularly complex in autechre's music, processing wise. especially compared to the acedemics. but then again, why would they attempt that kind of complexity, they're making 'pop music' and those kind of max/msp projects take years.

i much prefer the complexity that arises with a fluctuating current running through wires and modules and your jamming around then your girlfriend puts the washing machine on everything drops a quarter tone for a second and then all your lfos and envelopes go a bit funny. ha. now that's randomness.

ledge, that idm dude i quoted upthread has this blog:

http://rachmiel.org/blog/

he's an instrument designer, very good software instruments, and he's quite passionate about all the software out there 'there's no reason for anyone to sound like anyone else. it's a beautiful dream' stuff.

xxpost Ae always insisted that there was nothing random about their music. Maybe the kind of bangin' analogue techno of Aphex's "Classics" R&S era is having a resurgence, but that's natural retromania at work. Who's to say drill'n'bass won't make a comeback at some point in the next 5-10 years?

If the DSP-fuckery thing sounds early-00's it's because so many IDM bandwagonjumpers were copping Ae's style at that point that the market became saturated and collapsed in on itself (it hurt Ae very badly during their Draft/Untilted days). But they'd been working on and honing that sound since as far back as Chiastic Slide in the mid-90s. I find something like Cichli or Rae have a greater a emotional impact today than, say, 4 or Girl/Boy Song, which I've always loved but offer diminishing returns on the whole. Of course your experience may differ. I certainly overplayed a lot of Twin back then, to the point I prob don't need to listen to much of his work again.

yeh that's why i said pseudo randomness, i.e they're always creating relationships between controller data to achieve a certain kind of complexity that most people interpret as sounding 'random'. i just feel like their music sounds too much like processes at work and that doesn't really excite me. i have the same aversion to a lot of serial music.

i guess someone like keith fullerton whitman is a well known example of someone who adopts similar techniques but his music seems to transcend the process. or something. lol. this is all wank, aphex just makes decent tunes innit

of course the flipside of 'no-one should sound like anyone else' is that everyone makes music that only they want to hear - i think this might be evinced by that dudes blog (thx for link anyway though).

CB - see I like the approach Autechre take here (and appreciate Aphex's alternative route). For me, Autechre really do take the "music is math" philosophy to its logical conclusion - the idea that machines, given the right input, can create their own art that somehow creates an impact on the organic human mind. It's like machines in a factory suddenly coming together to make a rhythm, or someone hitting on that magic number of monkeys required to write the perfect novel. I find it fascinating to think that algorithms and generative processes could move me so much, and often imagine Ae as scientists/mathematicians rather than composers, feeding numbers into the loop until it creates a mesmerising fractal image of infinite beauty - every element, be it awkward or jarring or perfect, held in a symbiotic relationship with the rest.

That's pretty far-fetched, but it's cool to think about.

"Digital recording systems engender a kind of production that is overly concerned with editing and manipulating the sound after recording, rather than concentrating on recording music in a flattering manner to begin with. I don't like the way this perspective tends to flatten out performance nuance. That's the aesthetic problem I have with it."

To be honest, editing and manipulating the sound after recording, and not the performance, is what electronic music is all about. The above comment may apply to rock bands, but certainly not to techno; when electronic acts liked The Prodigy started acting like they were a rock band, that's when things started to go wrong.

my analogy was meant to imply that

1. autechre are a one-trick pony who do one thing well

2. aphex has a much wider range and has done many things well

Tuomas and the late great OTM.

A most unlikely kids book.

It's a tempting analogy but I agree with abcfsk, there's actually a lot of range to their work. Not an awful lot in common between Amber and LP5 and Confield.

xxp I don't agree with that at all, in fact if anything I'd switch the two

Is it just me, or is "Clipper" (and I guess other bits of "Tri Repetae") the closes Autechre came to sounding a lot like Aphex, or at least not dissimilar? After that it was really off to the races for the duo.

It's not as though Autechre made an entire career out of one idea, but there's a clear philosophy and a trajectory core to their work, starting at Tri Repetae and running through to the present. Aphex on the other hand would have clearly defined jumps in style from release to release, track to track, but it became apparent around the time of Druqks that really he only had about 4 or 5 kinds of track.

one man's clear philosophy and core trajectory is another man's stuck in a rut

I also never quite got the impression Autechre was ever taking the piss, even when they probably were. Aphex, on the other hand, like many a genius, seems impressively aloof about his own work.

So aloof that he hasn't released anything of significance in over 15 years...

blow me.

blowtechre

i understand that incunabula and tri repetae and lp5 and confield don't sound exactly the same

then again neither do saw i or saw ii or icbyd or windowlicker or rdj albums

i still think it's weird to call Ae a "one trick pony". i think they've easily got the range of Aphex and then some.

this is a silly part of the conversation tbf. Both acts had a wide remit. Both were lumped into the same category, but there's actually a huge gulf between them. Weirdly, it was when I first heard Autechre (after having been an Aphex fan for a good while) that I remember thinking "are these guys taking the piss?"

Yes, but Aphex Twin is often truly taking the piss! The one time I saw him on live, lying with a laptop on the couch while three giant dayglo bears stumbled around the stage .... ?

I mean, I loved it! And it was better than listening to Autechre goof around in the dark, for sure. But I guess I've always liked their mathtronica more than much Aphex.

"Flutter" is kind of a musical joke and I'd think some other tracks too

what is great about afx is that he can "take the piss" and still end up w a sick track (windowlicker and flow coma remix come to mind)

flutter is the non repetitive beats one?

is that a joek or a *serious artist statement*?

bit of both imo

'it was advised that DJs "have a lawyer and a musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment.'

I always took it as a joke, and it's a great track besides...

Agreed that Aphex clowns around better than anyone. In fact after the first few years it's the stuff he doesn't clown around on that's lackluster (outside "Flim", obv)

give drukqs another shot, esp the acoustic stuff

Yes, but Aphex Twin is often truly taking the piss! The one time I saw him on live, lying with a laptop on the couch while three giant dayglo bears stumbled around the stage .... ?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:36 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah that's what I mean. I was used to Aphex and his pranks, but when I heard Ae for the first time my reaction to the music was totally, "You've got to be kidding me!". I think it was Fold4, Wrap5 that provoked that reaction actually.

Druqks was okay, but it was the first time RDJ's limits as a creative strength first came into view. It's like listening to 3 different albums on shuffle.

lol @ aphex not having released anything of significance in 15 years. i'm still working my way through all the released/freebie analord tracks. that music is really rewarding on repeated listens. kind of odd how overlooked it all is especially while people are wetting themselves over youtube clips of him playing pretty much the same stuff.

It's like listening to 3 different albums on shuffle.

wasn't there a story that he lost an ipod on a plane full of his music so he released a bunch of it as drukqs

also worth noting steinvord which, depending on who you ask, is either rdj, rdj+squarepusher, skrillex, or some 18 year old from spain

xp ^ lol yea

aphex twin mythos vs. autechre mythos, rdj wins hands down

The Analord stuff is okay, but it's not breaking ground in the same way that nearly all his work up until Windowlicker did. Not that that's a problem - good music is good music - but it seems RDJ is now more at ease with expanding on and deconstructing old acid and rave tropes than pioneering new ideas like he used to.

the analord tracks are really good, the best of them are as good as anything else he's done really

maybe releasing it all the Analord stuff on expensive, limited vinyl wasn't a smart move? because I would agree, that stuff is plenty good

"Chosen Lords", in my opinion, doesn't really capture the best stuff, from what I've heard. The thing is that it's really the same stuff he's always done as AFX, neat acid junk that really has the mark of a man who composes like 250 tracks a year and doesn't have much time to work on them, but I prefer the Analords to the Analogue Bubblebaths (which have awesome tracks but as a whole are kinda...eh)

Autechre's image makes people ignore the fact they do jam around a whole lot. How they physically do it in the studio I don't know but Untilted is basically a jam session, there's funk and sweat and freak-outs and it sounds pretty free-form (even if it was planned to sound free). This should've been a more natural critical approach to their music, considering hip-hop roots and all, than it has been. They're fun guys, they just don't look it.

There's no lack of great, emotional melodies in either career, by the way.

About 8 or 9 years ago I read an interview with Aphex where he said he'd thrown out a whole bunch of four-on-the-floor records saying they were useless (or somesuch). Two years ago I saw him play a set of straight-up techno bangers. Guy's pretty inconsistent in interviews, but that made me laugh a bit.

i think your definition of breaking ground is different to mine. i mean he's always taken an older style and put his spin on it. the analord stuff takes established dance forms but beefs everything up with fat analogue synths, and it's not like he's just got a 303 or a pro-1 and a few drum machines, the sound design is pretty unique to him. he's also pushing the boundaries of the form in typical aphex style. hyper dense, challenging music. the same as he's always done. and on top of all that, it bangs like a daddy.

IIRC he claimed he made RDJ album short because he thought long albums were boring, despite having already released SAWII, pretty much the epitome of "long and tedious" (as brilliant as it is!)

maybe releasing it all the Analord stuff on expensive, limited vinyl wasn't a smart move? because I would agree, that stuff is plenty good

"Chosen Lords", in my opinion, doesn't really capture the best stuff, from what I've heard. The thing is that it's really the same stuff he's always done as AFX, neat acid junk that really has the mark of a man who composes like 250 tracks a year and doesn't have much time to work on them, but I prefer the Analords to the Analogue Bubblebaths (which have awesome tracks but as a whole are kinda...eh)

― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:09 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This. I lost patience with the series as I haven't had a record player (or storage for records) until recently. Plus it's a mammoth collection to sift through. Think the series was good for obsessives, but a terrible commercial mis-step. I'm sure he doesn't give a hoot, but it completely wrongsided fans like me who'd been disappointed by Druqks and would have preferred an approach like ICBYD.

I'm not sure how much he cares about commercial success, but is he really still just living off money from his 1996-1998 heyday? It's not like he tours much.

probably.

radiohead fans

He must make a fair amount of dosh each time there's a TV documentary about the paranormal.

plus I guess pretty much everything from SAWII was licensed out

IIRC they used "4" in some kind of anti-drug advert which struck me as really odd

Orange (?) probably paid a fair few for To Cure A Weakling Child too.

didn't that series "Jam" use a ton of Aphex music

aphex still plays too and probably makes mad $$$ every time he does

afaict lots of retired or semi-retired electronica dudes make a lot of scratch hush-hush on the side doing uncredited sound design for tv, commercials, movies, video games, etc

not sure if aphex is doing that or not but i know a lot of other people are

like who

i know richard devine's stuff is everywhere but he's hardly retired or anything

xxpost I know a handful of local producers who do this - it's very common and good money. Wouldn't be surprised if that's how a lot of ex-popular musicians get their beer money.

i encounter loads of people that say they do this, but in reality they sit around smoking spliffs and maybe do a job or two a year for like an iphone game that never gets released. and there are libraries and companies that specialise in this stuff now.

That's probably what I'd be doing too if I was a washed up bedroom producer. Sounds great.

good autechre article for the geeks

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/articles/autechre.htm

<3

"The worst things are the timeline sequencers where you can see on the screen what's coming up. That really f**ks with your head when you're listening."

one prominent example would be photek - that's basically what he was doing from 2000 to 2010

another two i know about by name are neil landstrumm, who did sound for playstation games iirc, and gold chains, who basically quit recording to do sound design for mtv promo spots

http://oi45.tinypic.com/289m0e8.jpg

ae PWND AGANE by afx

http://www.synthgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/aphex_face.png

tlg PWND AGANE by SYNTHGEAR

worth a click through though

http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

i remember that. the venetian snares one cracked me up

yeah i remember hearing about that and thinking it was photoshopped, but sure enough

that face is great. and it sounds otherworldly.

the live face recognition / remapping thing also fantastic.

but i still voted ae.

Is it just me, or is "Clipper" (and I guess other bits of "Tri Repetae") the closes Autechre came to sounding a lot like Aphex, or at least not dissimilar?

Not to me. I always thought that Amber was their most Aphexy album.

In fact, I still think that "Nil" sounds an awful lot like "Schottkey 7th Path."

Keynell

... is awesome

really like the lego feet EPs, probably more than any gescom except the immortal detroit techno masterpiece that is TWO OF

Hah, listened to Confield for the first time in ages, and sure, I can see why folks might think that one is taking the piss.

oi mates some granular synthesis is all over me bloody techno lp im going to make me an orrible post about it to me ilxor chums