NTS Session 1 by Autechre; Label Link: NTS Sessions 1-4.
Number 8 in the wire magazine Top 50 releases of 2018.
Number 8 takes a bit of explaining, and will take all of this week’s commutes (and most of next week’s) to listen to.
Earlier this year the band Autechre had a residency of sorts on the online “radio” platform, “NTS.Live“. They performed 4 sessions live in the studio.
This album is the result, and clocks in at around 8 hours of pure, unadulterated, Autechre fun.
Autechre, if you are not familiar, are a fairly experimental electronic music duo, who, perhaps, are most often excoritated as being music which could be generated by algorithms or the easy listening soundtrack of a race of androids.
I think that is a bit harsh.
Their music is primarily percussive. And they do tend to use synths, rather than samples. Still, it is easy to hear the master’s voice in the mix.
Even being about only half way through the first recording of the NTS Sessions, there is enough light hearted squelchy fun, that I am looking forward to a couple week’s of suspension rattling ambient electronic danse muzak.
The first track, in particular, is an enjoyable side trip down a parti-colored mutant version of Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk.
Sqwalck!
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