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- {{{EP Title;}}} Anti EP
- {Artist;} Autechre
- {Label;} Warp ref WAP54
- Tracks; A Lost
- Djarum
- B Flutter
-
- Picked this one up yesterday on
- a whim, without a pre-buy listen
- and it turns out to be pretty
- damn good.
-
- The gimmick of course is the
- Anti-Criminal Justice Bill bit.
- Quite clever really. The cover
- is sealed with the sticky info
- label with a warning that some
- of the tracks contain repetitive
- beats; and breaking the seal and
- playing them may result in
- prosecution under the Bill.
- However one of the tracks
- _Flutter_ has NON-repetitive
- beats so you can play this one
- as loud as you like, wherever
- you like. But with a (mock?)
- disclaimer stating that you may
- need a musicologist and a lawyer
- on hand to prove this to the
- police (conjouring up some
- amusing scenes).
-
- As for the music... _Lost_, the
- first track doesn't do much for
- me at all bog standard
- _Incunabula_ stuff, chords with
- a bit of percussion. The real
- stormer is _Djarum_. This is
- the one that Autechre played
- live at the Megadog here, the
- one that filled the dance floor
- and sent everyone skipping/
- bouncing about like hyperactive
- 8 year olds who've just necked a
- tartrazine/speed/acid mixture.
-
- It's got a really deep almost
- echoey sound. I like to think
- of it being 'embossed' if that
- makes any sense. A totally
- addictive slow pianoey melody
- creeps in over this bassy sound
- and loads of top fast scrapey
- percussion, which weaves in and
- out...I love it. _Flutter_ on
- the face of it sounds like a
- recipe for disaster, with it's
- non repetitive beats, this after
- all is not what dance music is
- about... But it actually works
- really well and is also one of
- the few records you can play at
- 33 and 45 sensibly. It starts
- off with these raw stumbling
- (err, not one to beat mix)
- beats, then has this
- embarrassing cheesy melody
- (better at 33) then more percus-
- sion and finally a deep bassy
- 'growl' noise. Once the melody
- is 'hidden' under everything
- else, this track really takes
- off, very skippy. It also
- sounds VERY much like AFX stuff,
- at both speeds, with those mad
- beats and the
- arrangement...almost uncanny.
- And it finishes with the most
- ridiculously long fade ever,
- must be several minutes.
-
- Check it out!
-
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