Autechre

Autechre are an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, the duo are one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records. Their music has exhibited a gradual shift in aesthetic throughout their career, from their earlier work with clear roots in techno, electro and hip hop to later albums that are often considered more experimental in nature, featuring complex patterns of rhythm and subdued melodies.

The Autechre live experience is a classically pitch-dark mind-warping audio affair.

Rob Brown and Sean Booth invented music that some might dub “abstract.” This is misleading, but then again not. The northern English duo have been working together under the name Autechre since 1987, forging their music more or less exclusively with zeros and ones, with programmed sounds, with devices they soldered together, or with software they wrote themselves. Much of what you hear arises out of nothing; some things emerge by leaving a gap. Their music quotes no other, built entirely within and upon itself, yet it is steeped in the history of dancefloor culture and collective ecstasy in the strangest and most fascinating way.