Free Downloads and New Music From Warp Records

Massive UK-based electronic and indie music label Warp Records is hooking everybody up with free tunes today.

Affiliated online music retailer Bleep partnered up with the Barcelona music festival Sonar to launch a series of free MP3 downloads, which feature fellow UK-based artists that will be playing the music festival and their exclusive tunes. Among the list is Hudson Mohawke, Broadcast, The Blessings, Roska, and Fuck Buttons, the latter two of which are available now, here. Also premiering today is a new track from IDM pioneers Autechre’s forthcoming ten-song release, Move of Ten. Stream the song “y7” over here.

On a related note, keyCMND favorite Flying Lotus also hooked the world up with an unreleased piece of music, called “Heave (n),” which is only available to hear streaming in that player up top.

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AutechreOverstepsWarp Records (2010)Genre: ElectronicRating: BIf you had some worry that Autechre was going to sacrifice any of their tech-fuzz oddities with the new decade, Oversteps should be a reassurance. Always one to attract the far-fringed contingent of the dance music scene, Sean Booth and Rob Brown’s new record is just as crooked as before; mystifying breakbeats, big washes of austere strings, bubbly, bare-bone synths consistently hovering just below the crackly beat. This is Autechre alright. Like the rest of their career, Oversteps is inherently focused on album aesthetics, transmitting a dark, unfriendly environment over its hour-long trajectory. The unbridled ferocity of the noise freakouts (“r ess,” “O=0,” and the like) poke their head through the rave quite a few times, never letting the listener get complacent with the coma-throb shimmying beats—always having far more in common with Aphex Twin than Daft Punk. When they do allow everyone to get on the floor (as on “known(1),” “qplay,” and “see on see”), it’s through the cerebral urging of counterpoint bass-trembles and gravedigging keyboard plunks. It’s actually pretty amazing how, nearly two decades after its inception, Autechre continue to be the one of the most forward-thinking electronic acts on the scene. They still make dancing to thunderstorms, coral-reef chimes, and twisted, inside-out time signatures seem second nature. You couldn’t say Booth and Brown are as fresh as they once were, but you’re unlikely to hear many 2010 producers mustering up much better. -Luke Winkie Autechre on Last.fm

Autechre
Oversteps
Warp Records (2010)

Genre: Electronic
Rating: B

If you had some worry that Autechre was going to sacrifice any of their tech-fuzz oddities with the new decade, Oversteps should be a reassurance. Always one to attract the far-fringed contingent of the dance music scene, Sean Booth and Rob Brown’s new record is just as crooked as before; mystifying breakbeats, big washes of austere strings, bubbly, bare-bone synths consistently hovering just below the crackly beat. This is Autechre alright.

Like the rest of their career, Oversteps is inherently focused on album aesthetics, transmitting a dark, unfriendly environment over its hour-long trajectory. The unbridled ferocity of the noise freakouts (“r ess,” “O=0,” and the like) poke their head through the rave quite a few times, never letting the listener get complacent with the coma-throb shimmying beats—always having far more in common with Aphex Twin than Daft Punk. When they do allow everyone to get on the floor (as on “known(1),” “qplay,” and “see on see”), it’s through the cerebral urging of counterpoint bass-trembles and gravedigging keyboard plunks.

It’s actually pretty amazing how, nearly two decades after its inception, Autechre continue to be the one of the most forward-thinking electronic acts on the scene. They still make dancing to thunderstorms, coral-reef chimes, and twisted, inside-out time signatures seem second nature. You couldn’t say Booth and Brown are as fresh as they once were, but you’re unlikely to hear many 2010 producers mustering up much better.

-Luke Winkie

Autechre on Last.fm

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Free DJ Mix From Autechre

Getting any sort of material from the elusive duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown (collectively known as Autechre) is cause for celebration, especially when albums are usually three years apart and there’s just about no word from the producers in the meantime. So this all comes as sort of a one-two punch: Autechre will be releasing their tenth album, Oversteps, March 22 on the long-standing Warp Records, and the duo just contributed a DJ mix to FACT Magazine in anticipation of the new full-length.

The mix is just about exactly what you’d expect from Autechre trying to make people dance—wonky electronics washing over bubbling techno all ran amidst leftfield hip-hop jams with bits of “WTF?!” moments peppered in for posterity. Booth and Brown held out on a playlist for their genre-jumping mix (though we make out plenty of Stones Throw cuts and some Wu-Tang affiliates among other well-known classics), citing “it’s just some tunes [they] like,” but, really, there are enough effects and tracks running simultaneously to just about nullify any kind of average tracklisting. Check out the free mix here, and the details for Oversteps here.

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