Common Grackle
The Great Depression
Sonically unwrapping an Autechre album is a delicate, overwhelming and sometimes unnerving process — so why should an Ae mixtape be any different?
In anticipation of their March 2010 album, Oversteps, the duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth have released a DJ mix for Fact Magazine. “No tracklist either, so spotters, please do you worst.”
Alright, I did.
Covered in manipulated, over-and-under-saturated, tempo-nudging production, MC’s such as Sensational, Guilty Simpson, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Q-Tip and Percee P meet undulating electro, early ’90s breaks, a reworking of Meat Beat Manifesto’s “Radio Babylon” , throbbing squelch ‘n’ bass and a gamut of plug-in tweaks; that is, subjecting the majority of the tracks to the same unraveling processes that make Ae’s oeuvre so distinct.
Note: may contain traces of new Autechre works (pay attention after the extended cut and paste Black Metal segment).
Hurry, …
Friday, Sept 25th:
ORGANIZED KONFUSION with PHAROAHE MONCH and PRINCE PO, reunited for their first NYC Show in Over a Decade! With special guests POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS.
3 certified classic albums: 1991’s self titled Organized Konfusion, 1994’s Stress: The Extinction Agenda, and 1997’s The Equinox. Organized Konfusion got 4 mics in The Source (back when the Source was cool, before Benzino ruined it). Matty C said, “Prince Poetry and Pharoahe Monch flip the illest off-beat rhyme style to come out since Ultramagnetic’s Kool Keith.”
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