Autechre - Draft 7.30
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Artist: AutechreEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Warp Records
Soundtracks:
- XYLIN ROOM
- IV VV IV VV VIII
- 6IE.CR
- TAPR
- SURRIPERE
- THEME OF SUDDEN ROUNDABOUT
- VL AL 5
- P.:NTIL
- V-PROC
- RENIFORM PULS
Music reviews of Draft 7.30
Music Review: Autechre's Heralded Return to....um....a less amorphous form.
Rating: 5 Stars
Essentially, Draft 7.30 is Autechre's return to pop. After an expedition into a black hole (Confield) and an experiment in testing their audience's tolerance (Gantz Graf EP), Draft 7.30 is a return to the less abstract, more mainstream compositions of ep7. That's obviously quite a paradoxical statement, as ep7 was about as mainstream as Merzbow lately; sure Merzbeat tends to resemble traditional musical form, but you will never hear anything from that album played on your average radio station or at your average kegger.
That being said, I have doleful news for anyone still hoping that Autechre will ditch the glitch and return to their legendary ambient sound, or even their relatively accessible LP5 modus operandi: Draft 7.30 only harkens back to the ep7 sound, not the halcyon Tri Repetae era, or even the harmonious feng shui between the method & the madness typical of the Chiastic Slide era. While Draft is much more chipper than Confield and infinitely more restrained than Gantz Graf, it's still more DSP-wankery than compositional finesse. Frankly, uninitiated listeners (folks who can only guess what I.D.M. stands for, as well as folks who stopped listening after Anvil Vapre) will probably be terrified, or convinced that Draft has no method to its madness.
To be honest, I wrote Draft off on my first impression of it. I theorized that Autechre essentially just warped a sample of a basic hip-hop beat through Granulab, interjected some stochastic generative Max/MSP FM-synthesis, finagled with the results in Digital Performer until the had chopped an hour or so of the audio into song-length tidbits, twiddled some knobs sporadically for each separate track, and finally enlisted some wizard named Noel Summerville to tidy up the mess until it appeared just organized enough to seem intentional.
I swore that was the case until my ears happened upon the 5th track, "Surripere". It halted me. There was some indisputably convoluted devilry occurring here, but that devil was possessing very precise details. It was intelligible! It made sweet lucid sense! As the track progressed, it gradually morphed into something very gnarled, but it was a logical progression. I was bewildered. I quickly rewound to the 1st track and listened intently, resolved to decipher more of this cryptic computer-babble. And I was triumphant. A lightbulb suddenly flickered on, then promptly imploded. It sucked me in and engulfed me whole.
I can't possibly describe in feeble words what my experience was, but I can say that it was esoteric, practically Gnostic. It was an enlightening epiphany, like a vision-quest or a manifestation of Elohim himself. Yes that's hyperbole, but not entirely. For the first time since I heard Confield, my perspective was dramatically altered. Confield demonstrated to me that the most gorgeous beauty sprouts from the most hideous dirt. Draft 7.30 showed me that there's no such thing as abject chaos; something can be obliterated infinitely, but it will always be governed by order at some level.
Once I discovered that order, Draft 7.30 began to sound like a pop album. Abrasive, yet compelling. Iconoclastic, yet engaging. Atonal & arrhythmic, yet catchy & danceable. Also, unlike the moribund Confield or the obnoxious Gantz Graf EP, the mood of Draft is inexplicably affable, as if the colossal machines the sounds insinuate are not programmed to terminate all human lifeforms, but to repair your car then boogie with you at the club. That mood, combined with the brazenly standard 4/4 hip-hop groove of many of the songs, makes Draft 7.30 infinitely more approachable than anything Autechre's released since ep7. So while staunch TriRep enthusiasts will certainly despise everything except maybe the calmer initial portions of "Surripere" & "Reniform Puls", anyone disappointed in Confield's mordant minimalism or Gantz Graf's relentless skronk (as well as the obstreperous paranoia of that single's B-sides) will find relief in the generally more congenial & contained music of Draft 7.30.
Now! I can't wait to see how Autechre will outdo themselves next time...
So...
Coming soon to Amazon page near the other ones listing Autechre's oeuvre, the moment that no one on earth has been waiting for... my review... of Untilted.
Description of Draft 7.30
Seventh album from Sean Booth and Rob Brown on Warp Records. 2003.The fertile sonic imagination of Autechre wanders through the digital wilderness on Draft 7.30, burying understated melodies with dense noise from the avant-garde fringe. Since their more mainstream dance beginnings, Autechre?s Rob Brown and Sean Booth have operated in the same non-rhythmic, wired turf occupied by Oval, Plaid, and other experimental techno artists. But they?ve always retained an echo of their earlier accessibility, using recurring themes that give their music a Boards of Canada-like elegance. On the other hand, recent work like 2001?s Confield has involved a more cerebral mix of order and chaos that lacks such carbon-based ballast. Draft 7.30 goes even further off into the land of 1s and 0s, manipulating theories and formulas with a fascination usually reserved for higher math classes. Your ability to listen and enjoy will depend on your tolerance for difficult concepts and willingness to embrace chaos. --Matthew Cooke
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