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Track List
01) Xylin Room
02) IV VV IV VV VIII
03) 6IE.CR
04) TAPR
05) Surripere
06) Theme of Sudden Roundabout
07) VL AL 5
08) P.:NTIL
09) V-PROC
10) Reniform Puls
01) Xylin Room
02) IV VV IV VV VIII
03) 6IE.CR
04) TAPR
05) Surripere
06) Theme of Sudden Roundabout
07) VL AL 5
08) P.:NTIL
09) V-PROC
10) Reniform Puls
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2003
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Draft 7.30 is the seventh album by the electronic music group Autechre. It was released by Warp Records in 2003. The name Draft 7.30 supposedly derives from the album being the 30th edited version of the album. The artwork for this album was created by Alex Rutterford. "Theme of Sudden Roundabout" refers to Sudden, which is in Rochdale, the duo's hometown. "Reniform Puls" was used in a television advertisement for the LG U880 mobile phone.
Around the time of the album's release, Sean Booth stated in an interview that "[rhythm] doesn't seem to limit us in the way it did when we first started".
The album received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Dominique Leone of Pitchfork Media said the album "doesn't break much new ground", but also thought that "Booth and Brown return to more straightforward grounds, even if they don't quite reach their mid-90s peak as melodic technicians". Pascal Wyse of The Guardian said, "Buried in this splintered, maths-driven world, down there with the metal insects, are shards of musical convention that keep a humanity alive", adding that the music "becomes quite a beautiful picture of the chaos of your brain".
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...heavy slurring drums like the thunder of too-close-for-comfort artillery ("IV VV IV VV VIII")...
...perhaps the most gorgeous of the ten tracks, it appears to be a section cut from a circular whole ("Tapr")...
Draft 7.30 evinces a ceaseless motion which in transit mutates, corrodes, malfunctions. It's fascinating like the first sight of stop-motion photography. The quality of movement is predominantly heavy as in mercury or cadmium - said density marks Draft 7.30 out from Autechre's previous work. This simple equation (movement/change x weight) conveys a sense of fearsome, unpredictable momentum.
Autechre map their own territories. Draft 7.30 at times conjures THX1138, George Lucas's masterpiece of sound and visual design (the police chase, the crowd scenes); at times The Brothers Quay'sInstitute Benjamenta (the abstract dances of apprentice manservants as they seek to become automata in the harsh service of future employers).
...skull percussion played with wooden fists ("Xylin Room")...
...the onset of dusk activates lighting systems in a global sweep ("P.:NTIL")...
Imagine hiphop channeled via low quality microphones into surveillance systems, broadcast inside urban defence architectures (cf City of Quartz, Mike Davis); imagine it caught and reflected in a hall of mirrors shattering in slow motion.
Draft 7.30 is the visceral chitter-chatter of machines as they function and malfunction, as they adapt to new conditions. It's the rhythm of routers and sub-net masks, of mainframes and backbones. It's the sound of the KlingKlang studio as Ralf and Florian accelerate away down a long straight on their carbonfibre frames. The robots have become software bots, viral worms; the superhighway has succeeded the autobahn.
As the complexity of systems grow, unpredictability increases. Draft 7.30 is the sound of our technological present in all its intricacy and resultant strangeness.
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Draft 7.30 is the seventh album by the electronic music group Autechre. It was released by Warp Records in 2003. The name Draft 7.30 supposedly derives from the album being the 30th edited version of the album. The artwork for this album was created by Alex Rutterford. "Theme of Sudden Roundabout" refers to Sudden, which is in Rochdale, the duo's hometown. "Reniform Puls" was used in a television advertisement for the LG U880 mobile phone.
Around the time of the album's release, Sean Booth stated in an interview that "[rhythm] doesn't seem to limit us in the way it did when we first started".
The album received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Dominique Leone of Pitchfork Media said the album "doesn't break much new ground", but also thought that "Booth and Brown return to more straightforward grounds, even if they don't quite reach their mid-90s peak as melodic technicians". Pascal Wyse of The Guardian said, "Buried in this splintered, maths-driven world, down there with the metal insects, are shards of musical convention that keep a humanity alive", adding that the music "becomes quite a beautiful picture of the chaos of your brain".
User Album Review
...heavy slurring drums like the thunder of too-close-for-comfort artillery ("IV VV IV VV VIII")...
...perhaps the most gorgeous of the ten tracks, it appears to be a section cut from a circular whole ("Tapr")...
Draft 7.30 evinces a ceaseless motion which in transit mutates, corrodes, malfunctions. It's fascinating like the first sight of stop-motion photography. The quality of movement is predominantly heavy as in mercury or cadmium - said density marks Draft 7.30 out from Autechre's previous work. This simple equation (movement/change x weight) conveys a sense of fearsome, unpredictable momentum.
Autechre map their own territories. Draft 7.30 at times conjures THX1138, George Lucas's masterpiece of sound and visual design (the police chase, the crowd scenes); at times The Brothers Quay'sInstitute Benjamenta (the abstract dances of apprentice manservants as they seek to become automata in the harsh service of future employers).
...skull percussion played with wooden fists ("Xylin Room")...
...the onset of dusk activates lighting systems in a global sweep ("P.:NTIL")...
Imagine hiphop channeled via low quality microphones into surveillance systems, broadcast inside urban defence architectures (cf City of Quartz, Mike Davis); imagine it caught and reflected in a hall of mirrors shattering in slow motion.
Draft 7.30 is the visceral chitter-chatter of machines as they function and malfunction, as they adapt to new conditions. It's the rhythm of routers and sub-net masks, of mainframes and backbones. It's the sound of the KlingKlang studio as Ralf and Florian accelerate away down a long straight on their carbonfibre frames. The robots have become software bots, viral worms; the superhighway has succeeded the autobahn.
As the complexity of systems grow, unpredictability increases. Draft 7.30 is the sound of our technological present in all its intricacy and resultant strangeness.
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