This track from Autechre comes from ‘Tri Repetea’ and closes the album. This is probably my favourite album by them because of its approach to melody and structure. There’s a lot of layering going on, and with layering comes spacial awareness. You can feel the build within each track and, even though it may be obvious what is coming next, you can never be completely sure. Sometimes there’s a tangent to go off on, often not. This album came out after the ‘Anti’ EP, which was a protest against the Criminal Justice And Public Order Act 1994 “which would prohibit raves, defined as any gathering of nine or more people where rave music is played. Rave music was defined as music which "includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats". This album experiments with that approach to rhythm, it’s anything but “rave” orientated though, taking a forensic and detailed approach to the science of patterned and textured shape-throwing invocation. And it’s influence is clear on the likes of the recently-released album by Noumen, whose ‘Oion’ feels like an homage of sorts.
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