Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven - Am I the only one that likes Autechre?

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by Fullofkittens 06/18/2003, 10:04am PDT

WTF? Okay - give me three Amon Tobin tracks to download. When we did this last year, Vagizseni or somebody said, you like IDM, go forth and get Amon Tobin, and I did, and it SUCKS. Yet, every track I hear by Autechre is fun and good. I think the thing that I like about them is that their IDM is really (I)DM - they're pretty close to EBM or robot disco (which are my two other favorite styles) and they don't let their gigantic brains wreck the enjoyment of their music (I'm talking to YOU, mu-ziq!). They're smart dance music, but not "Intelligent" in that song-fucking anti-musical way.

The two Tobin tracks I downloaded were really, really boring. I don't mind slow electronic music if it has either A: interesting timbral progression and non-repetitive programming (Aphex Twin) or B: a luscious, edible surface texture (Boards of Canada), but Tobin had neither of these. I'm very suspicious of him.

FoK