Concréte Sound System – autechre.bÆts

We start September in fine style with an exclusive guest mix from one of our presenters, Primus Luta under the new guise of his Concréte Sound System (CSS) live setup. The mix is a retrospective/homage to Autechre and the 90′s IDM scene (regardless of what you make of the name). It’s quite a superb mix that deserves your full attention especially if, like me, your knowledge of Autechre’s back catalogue isn’t extensive.

Here’s what Primus had to say on the subject:

In the coming years the importance of the 90′s era IDM will become more and more relevant to the music of today. Then like now were a bunch of artists unaffected by trends and fashions, freed from the typical concepts of musical success to work within the realm of technology based music in means few before had ever explored. Today many of the sounds which they uncovered have become the catalyst for genres, trends and fashions. Making it my prediction that as those genres, trends and fashions consume themselves it will be the aesthetic as much as the music which proves to be the legacy of the era.

Picking out one artist to represent any era of music is fundamentally impossible to do objectively. So make no mistake that the choice of Autechre here is quite the subjective one. Perhaps the most influential artists upon my own work it was a pleasure going through their massive catalog to pull together this mix. bÆts is a collection which aims to show that the two perhaps better known for their ambient and melodic work can throw down block rocking beats with the rest of them. Of course since we’re talking Autechre nothing is quite straight forward, but be clear it makes for one helluva ride.

This mix also inaugurates my new live set Concréte Sound System (CSS). Like the mix itself you can expect the future of CSS to be breathtakingly relentless.

So there you have it, an hour long ride into the world of Autechre done in a way you’re unlikely to have heard before. As always the mix is available to download and/or stream below or just subscribe via RSS/iTunes and you’ll never miss a show.

Stay tuned for more guest mixes next week from Ol in Russia and SATO in Japan before the regular shows kick in the following week.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 10:13 am. It is filed under Guest Mixes, Podcasts and tagged with Autechre, Concrete Sound System, Primus Luta. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.