Mind you, it's not as if those guys have never sounded faintly like Autechre in their turn. That hissing, those faraway synthesized tones, that arrhythmic percussion-surely we've heard these before? The sensation recurs again and again when you listen to Oversteps: "d-sho qub" suddenly comes on like a Plaid track with more aggressive beats the combination of squealing and deep bell-like tones on "known(1)" is like a more abrasive example of Mike Paradinas' work circa Royal Astronomy I could swear I've heard the fuzzy, foreboding opening of "Treale" somewhere before (a video game?) and the closing "Yuop" makes for an impressively glacial. The similarity isn't necessarily in compositional terms (although with artists as protean as Autechre and Aphex, it's hard to say what would qualify on that count), it's about the actual sounds being used. So why does, for example, "os veix3" sound like a lost remix from Aphex Twin's Ventolin EP? Brown and Booth have created a vast, confounding, often brilliant body of work that spans everything from the relatively gentle, melodic likes of Amber to the generative abstracts of Confield (the latter having a reception and impact within the annals of electronic music akin to the first widely-heard free jazz records). I doubt I need to tell most of RA's readership why Rob Brown and Sean Booth's work is both important and widely acclaimed, nor why it's sometimes been harshly criticized. Autechre doesn't stand in anyone's shadow.
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