Draft 7.30

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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

Product Description
Seventh album from Sean Booth and Rob Brown on Warp Records. 2003.

Draft 7.30

Tracks:

XYLIN ROOM
IV VV IV VV VIII
6IE.CR
TAPR
SURRIPERE
THEME OF SUDDEN ROUNDABOUT
VL AL 5
P.:NTIL
V-PROC
RENIFORM PULS

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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

Album Description

Seventh album from Sean Booth and Rob Brown on Warp Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Good .......2007-07-01

Draft is another very experimental album. But not as good as confield. It has a similar sound with respect to composing techniques as confield, but still a bit different especially on the first three tracks. The third track is one of Ae's funkiest. Surripere is awesome and would not have been out of place on Confield. In short, this is still a great album. There is never an excuse not to buy an Ae album. They rule.

The masters at work.......2007-05-20

This is the masterpiece that Rob and Sean must have worked their Gonads off to achieve .Mindbending and way ahead of its time {listen carefully and you will appreciate that nothing here is random} Thought provoking to say the least.These guys have pushed the digital capabilities beyond reach.

"it sounds like broken robot music" - W. French.......2006-12-22

Yes, it might sound like it's broken, but that's what brings it apart from the rest of the music that you hear now a days. It's broken to a rythmic, melodic, glitchy, not of this world kind of way. There are a bunch of phenomenal tracks on here, including a couple not so hot tracks. But do keep one thing in mind, this is experimental music. Not intended for radio. If you want pop, go check out Justin Timberlake or something.

Three favorite tracks on album:
= Reniform Puls
= Surripere
= V-PROC

Other recommended albums by autechre:
Tri Repetae++
Incunabula

altogether fresh!!.......2006-04-15

First, let me say that i own half a dozen autechre albums, and i'm totally enamored with what they're doing, especially their more recent work. To me, this album, (along with its fantastic successor Untilted) really represents an advance towards form and composition. I can't really explain this impression, except to say that intuitively these guys seem in the throes of discovering, rather than manufacturing genuinely new forms.
Beautiful stuff, and given the kind of market driven culture we live in, it's truly amazing they've given us so much!
Listen to this album on a good strong stereo and give it your full attention. I can listen to any of the tracks several times in a row, and it keeps me enthralled.

Igloo Magazine's REVIEW.......2005-12-03

Review by: Pietro Da Sacco at [...]
(04.23.03) What else is there to say? Yet another Autechre release and one that finds the meticulous and pioneering duo of Sean Booth & Rob Brown massaging their sound-escapes with even more precision and engineering. The preceding Gantz Graf EP left the audience to wonder if Ae would further develop their mangled electronic mayhem or if in fact they'd calm down and amplify the vibe to a more earthly level. Well, Draft 7.30 tends to point closer to the latter effect; Elements of well preserved bass-rhythms and disjointed beats tumble all across the landscape while time shifts and melody chunks are casually tossed in the mix. As if almost alive, Draft 7.30 dissolves into the subconscious as a complete entity of escalated experiments going back in time and stepping directly into the future. Comparable to EP7 and Tri-Repetae, Autechre have drafted the blueprints of electronics for several years to come.. as expected.

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