Autechre - Confield
Autechre - Amber
Autechre - LP5
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
Oval - 94Diskont.
Biosphere - Substrata
I've previously been scared off by Autechre. My introduction to the "band" was through their uncompromising 2005 Untilted album - a grating uncompromising assault on the senses.
However it is time for a reappraisal - the 3 albums here are all excellent and I'm now really starting to "get" Autechre. Amber is the earliest one (1994) and the gentlest (there is even some conventional easy listening (relatively) ambience on here), Confield is probably the most challenging and the latest in this selection (2001), and LP5 comes in between both in sound and time (1998). It is complicated music but rewards detailed listening.
Another fine album by Tim Hecker and two new listens for me - the glitchy Oval and the very pleasing ambient Biosphere. The latter's album Substrata is listed in some "greatest ambient lists" I am inclined to read and the former's 94Diskont. is explained in great detail in this excellent article >>
https://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/9730-a-glitch-in-time-how-ovals-1995-ambient-masterpiece-predicted-our-digital-present/
However it is time for a reappraisal - the 3 albums here are all excellent and I'm now really starting to "get" Autechre. Amber is the earliest one (1994) and the gentlest (there is even some conventional easy listening (relatively) ambience on here), Confield is probably the most challenging and the latest in this selection (2001), and LP5 comes in between both in sound and time (1998). It is complicated music but rewards detailed listening.
With its hypnotic machine music based on the sound of CD skips and errors, German experimental act Oval’s album 94diskont always seemed to be looking ahead to what the world would become—and now that world is here.
Mark Richardson, Pitchfork
Another fine album by Tim Hecker and two new listens for me - the glitchy Oval and the very pleasing ambient Biosphere. The latter's album Substrata is listed in some "greatest ambient lists" I am inclined to read and the former's 94Diskont. is explained in great detail in this excellent article >>
https://pitchfork.com/features/resonant-frequency/9730-a-glitch-in-time-how-ovals-1995-ambient-masterpiece-predicted-our-digital-present/