Autechre - Amber
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Artist: AutechreEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-01-24
Music Label: Tvt
Soundtracks:
- Foil
- Montreal
- Silverside
- Slip
- Glitch
- Piezo
- Nine
- Further
- Yulquen
- Nil
- Teartear
Free Music Notes for Amber
Free Music Review: Amber Is the Color of Their Energy
Hit: 5 Stars
Do you ever ponder about how machines, while just being that, just seem to be life-like? Ever thought of what it would be like if machines were actually human? Well, it's abstract, but that theme is common for me when I listen to it. That shows just what this music can do. The key is to free your mind, people. If you can't grasp anything because the written word is absent to guide you, well, I feel sorry for you.
Autechre are legendary in the field of electronic music. There's a magic in them that is not easy to figure out, much less defeat. It's the same type of thing that surrounds Nintendo games often because numerous others try to be like it, but don't have the magic (Does Mario Kart with kart racing games conjure up anything?). Your mission ends here.
Now: Here's there "magic"! WIth SNAFS!
The beats here are prevalent, sure, but it's those textures. Autechre's textures are a beauty. All of it. Heck, I think Glitch is oddly beautiful. Dreamy, glitchy, self desctruction of a computer has never been more organic. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And so is abstractness in music. This album has abstract written all over it, in case your a short-term memory loss victim (if you are, well, I helped you out) who didn't remember I already said that.
Foil is an eeire piece that buzzes and swooshes with ease. Nil is warm, odd, beautiful. TearTear's groove is undeniable, and it WILL stir up image. Slip could only be described as machines with a soul, doing something of your imagination. Silverside, on the other hand, has strings to die for. Montreal is your soundtrack to the skyline of Montreal Canada, give or take. Piezo is a prototype to the Blue Man Group's. Seriously! I'm not making this stuff up! I experienced all this kind of stuff when listening. All the images, physical relaxation, hands on! My name is Screen Names are _______ Stupid and I approve this story as being true.
I think you people should get into this music. It makes things a lot more enjoyable. If you approach this album with the fact it's just a bunch of sounds to listen to, then you won't like this album. It's called absorbing. Only when you realize just what the spectrum of music can do, you will love more and more of this album. And don't expect it to just happen (if you don't know what I am talking about, then you probably don't love music to death).
9/10
Amber Poster
The dense, mathematical music Autechre pioneered on their debut album Incunabula is given a new twist on their follow-up, Amber. While percussion took center stage on their previous works, highly evolved melodies and textures dominate here. The spirit of electro still lives in the muted beats, rhythmically complex and strangely funky. But they don't merely provide a background; they meld seamlessly into dense layers of strings, wandering synth hooks, and massive shards of white noise. It's highly intellectual, but by no means is it unemotional. While tracks like "Glitch" and "Peizo" are dense and impenetrable, most of Amber covers emotional territory from quirky and upbeat ("Slip") to melancholic ("Nine"). This highly emotional "machine music," continued to great effect on their later albums Tri Repetae++ and LP5, makes Autechre one of the few genuinely memorable artists of modern electronic music. --Matthew CorwineDance & DJ Music CDs
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