From radiofreepolygon.blogspot.com:
"Autechre.ws live broadcast from April 10th, 2005. It's about 305 MB, encoded at 96kpbs mono (which was the original broadcast quality.)" Available via bit torrent here
Jason Forrest, an artist formerly known as Donna Summer, is a celebrity among electronic artists; featured by magazines all around the world, he is one one of the most brilliant Plunderphonic artists who has ever walked the Earth. He samples, deconstructs and reconstructs himself into a rage while driving audiences to the verge of madness.
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Autechre: The Master Draftsmen
TEXT Anna Chapman IMAGES David Axelbank
Since 1993, British duo Autechre have embodied experimental techno’s bolder agenda: to disrupt the listener and presage the shape of sounds to come. Their Siskel-and-Ebert-style critiques of technology, pop music and society reflect their love-hate relationship with the world around them-one in which they continue to forge significant breakthroughs in how we think of and hear electronic music. More
Autechre interview in "Sound on Sound" from 1997
Autechre's own take on techno is so far from the mainstream that the duo, Rob Brown and Sean Booth, can scarcely understand why anyone shares their tastes. The fact is that they do, in their thousands. CHRISTOPHER HOLDER heads to Sheffield to work on his studio tan. More
Autechre - Recording Electronica - "Sound on Sound" April 2004
Didn't read it yet, but looks very technical. More
Several live sets from the new bleep festival 2003 can be downloaded from the official homepage. I don't know many of the artists, but some of them appeared on donna summers show at wfmu.
Balding, slightly overweight journalist and WFMU DJ named Jason Forrest, Summer works in a manner encompassing every IDM-trend to come along in the past decade-- drill-n-bass, gabba, tigerbeat6-esque laptop trickery, plunderphonics-- all are fair game for Summer to destroy and recontextualize. Part of a loose collective of sample-fiends, including Giorgio Marauder (AKA END) and Duran Duran Duran, all working under the nom de electronique "cock-rock disco," Summer and crew are proponents of what Forrest refers to in a recent Vice Magazine piece as "the new computer music." Musically speaking, these acts have little to do with traditional disco, and while computers surely factor in heavily, things never get too tech-geeky.
Are you an Autechre hardcore fan ? Than head to xltronic.com. More than 170 remixes, done by fans (I guess) are waitin' to be downloaded. If don't have enough bandwith or patience, they can also be ordered on CD-R.
Jason Forrest is an artist, radio dj for WMFU and owner of Cockrockdisco who records and broadcasts as Donna Summer. His music would be best described as plunderphonic which combines electronica, hip-hop , death-metal and more to a wild mix.
Califone is the direct descendant of the late great Chicago blues-rock band Red Red Meat, whose four albums of rackety, helter-skelter and roll madness were crucial documents of the '90s post-Stones indie underground, which also included the likes of Royal Trux, The Grifters, and Railroad Jerk. After RRM disbanded in the late '90s, gravel-voiced frontman Tim Rutili began pursuing a new musical project (as well as running Perishable Records with fellow ex-Meater Ben Massarella) he dubbed Califone, after the audio supply manufacturer.
Sean Booth and Rob Brown are one of the UK's most dedicated "techno" acts, remaining at the cutting edge of the genre through the 90s and onwards with a series of innovative releases that have eschewed the more commercial aspects of dance music. Having first started experimenting with mix tapes at school, the duo's early demos of tracks such as "Crystel" and "The Egg' brought them to the attention of Warp Records, who included them on a compilation set. [Read More]