{"id":90943,"date":"2012-06-16T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90943\/autechre-bt\/"},"modified":"2012-06-16T09:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T13:56:43","slug":"autechre-bt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90943\/autechre-bt\/","title":{"rendered":"AUTECHRE &amp; BT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Autechre&#8217;s debut album (Incunabula) was brilliant!\u00a0 Sean Booth and Rob Brown were still going strong, in the mid-nineties &#8211; after two more albums and four EPs.\u00a0 However, their &#8216;music&#8217; became increasingly abstract and abrasive towards the end of the decade.\u00a0 Their descent didn&#8217;t stop there.\u00a0 Each subsequent album has been worse than the previous one.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised they have any fans left.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">I was one of Autechre&#8217;s most avid fans &#8211; and I even communicated directly with the Mancunian duo (I remember discussing musical equipment with them).\u00a0 I continued buying the albums, right up until 2005.\u00a0 However, I couldn&#8217;t quite figure out why I was buying them (I still wonder if there are subliminal messages on each album; something along the lines of YOU WILL BUY OUR NEXT ALBUM repeated over and over in reverse).\u00a0 There have been two albums since I stopped collecting them.\u00a0 The plot was lost a long time ago (along with the rhythm, the melody and everything else musical).\u00a0 It is beyond avant-garde.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a horrible noise.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RajczqaE6bU<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">BT has been somewhat more consistent &#8211; and accessible.\u00a0 Brain Transeau started making music around the same time as Autechre.\u00a0 His debut album (Ima) was produced by Perfecto (Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne).\u00a0 The &#8216;progressive trance&#8217; label was attached to BT &#8211; and it stuck, when the follow-up (ESCM) proved to be even more progressive.\u00a0 Layer upon layer of stomping rhythms, euphoric melodies, bouncy bass-lines and swirling sound effects put Mr Transeau in a league of his own (this was years before Hybrid).\u00a0 There is more variety on ESCM.\u00a0 A lot of thought and effort went into the creation of this album.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BT - Remember (Offical Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KY2GLBrLh2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">On Movement In Still Life (1999) BT added elements of hip-hop to the formula.\u00a0 It is still essentially a trance album.\u00a0 However, the addition of hip-hop and breakbeats kept BT one step ahead of his contemporaries (eg. Paul Van Dyk, Way Out West and Chicane).\u00a0 After the singles collection (10 Years In The Life), Emotional Technology was less impressive &#8211; and less successful.\u00a0 It appeared he had settled into mediocrity; merging basic trance with soft rock.\u00a0 This Binary Universe (2006) is very different though.\u00a0 It is a gentle instrumental album (accompanied by a DVD).\u00a0 It is the sound of BT maturing (he created this album shortly after the birth of his daughter &#8211; and he had also started composing music for films).\u00a0 BT released his sixth album (These Hopeful Machines) in 2010.\u00a0 There are a couple of good songs but it&#8217;s a step backwards for BT (he seems to like the rock elements but they don&#8217;t mix well with trance).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BT-Never Gonna Come Back Down\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tGcKVNDoiI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Babble was an underrated band.\u00a0 Not many people know about Babble.\u00a0 Both albums are among my favourites though.\u00a0 Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie essentially renamed Thompson Twins &#8211; after the 1991 album (Queer).\u00a0 They moved to New Zealand, stocked up on drugs and created an airy blend of ambient trance and dark pop.\u00a0 Babble was born.\u00a0 The Stone (1993) is relaxing chill-out music, but the composition of the songs is typically pop (intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, etc).\u00a0 Ether (1996) is similar but darker (the drugs appeared to be taking their toll by this point).\u00a0 Sadly, Ether was Babble&#8217;s last album (probably because nobody was buying them).\u00a0 Perhaps the husband and wife duo wanted to keep it &#8216;low key&#8217;.\u00a0 Tom Bailey continued working behind the scenes, producing music for various artists.\u00a0 Tom and Alannah are now divorced and continue to work on various projects.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Babble Hold the Sky\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GM-rktLbcck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"4\">Further listening<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GESCOM- Slow Acid\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xl93h7eRHzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G49E-Q3iBYg<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YepfoPEbT5Q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autechre&#8217;s debut album (Incunabula) was brilliant!\u00a0 Sean Booth and Rob Brown were still going strong, in the mid-nineties &#8211; after two more albums and four EPs.\u00a0 However, their &#8216;music&#8217; became increasingly abstract and abrasive towards the end of the decade.\u00a0 Their descent didn&#8217;t stop there.\u00a0 Each subsequent album has been worse than the previous one.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5477,5478,5479,108],"class_list":["post-90943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-autechre","tag-babble","tag-bt","tag-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}