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  • Audio CD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • ASIN: B00000J8C1
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 317,914 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Thick fractals of bloops, blips, flutterings, and kerrangs are combined on EP 7, Autechre's least textural, most rabidly experimental release yet. At this point, Autechre's music pretty much exists within its own, idiosyncratic subgenre of the experimental techno subgenre. Their music invites hyperbole rather than external comparison: one could easily imagine that the discordant bleeps of track 4 are the sound of R2D2 flipping out on angel dust or that one segment of track 9 captures the demon baby from It's Alive devouring a microphone. While some tracks approach sublime chaos--where a dense, hard-to-grasp internal order is revealed after multiple listens--most of the pieces are perfectly content to resemble indecipherable alien transmissions. EP 7's 60 abstract, knotty minutes will clear most any dance floor but, by sheer force, cleanse the brain of all but the most primitive functions. It's fabulous. --Mike McGonigal

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have CD, 4 Jul 2002
This review is from: EP7 (Audio CD)
First of all, forget the title- 'EP7' is no EP at all at more than 60+ minutes of music.
Secondly, the material is easily some of Ae's best work, combining the difficulty of later works with the accessiblity of their earlier stuff. It really is a superb listen.
Forget the [single] tab, this is an album crucial for any fan of Autechre.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Sheffield metallurgists are at it again, 21 Jul 2000
This review is from: EP7 (Audio CD)
ep7 is a complex, multi-layered journey that represents the most de-humanised extremes of techno.

The cover is the vision of how the music sounds- a swirling, intricate net of fine lines exploding in your mind.

The textured sounds of Maphive6.1 feel like a dust storm on Jupiter, while the alien, cut up chatter on CCEC is the nearest thing to human input.

The watercolour relief comes in the form of the swirling sounds of pir, where the delicate fabric of light is in danger of being broken up by the barely heard- but certainly felt, bass booming intermittently in the background.

The complex, sometimes seemingly random beats occasionally come together into a truley breathtaking climax unheard of in much music of this genre.

The last 4 tracks are the nearest modern electronica has come to realising the 'musique concrete' experiments of Stockhausen in the '70s.

However, there is emotion in the sound, often touching in ways you never thought it could when you first listened.

Listen, focus on different planes of existence- the journey into perfection starts here...

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind-blowing, 14 Sep 2004
This review is from: EP7 (Audio CD)
At first I found it difficult to get my head round this album, but, as suggested in many of the other reviews, I persevered. I don't know how many times I'd listened to it, but suddenly it hit me just how spectacular ep7 is.

It's like no kind of music I've heard before, even from Autechre. In fact, it's hard to call it music, as it seems to defy most of, if not all, the conventions that would govern what "music" actually is. It seems to my ears like some entirely new, yet highly evolved (stay with me) kind of alien art form that hasn't yet been given a name. The blips, beeps, hisses and scratches make me imagine intelligent machines making sequences deliberately too complex for humans to understand, in order to spite their creators.

It's a hugely complex and intricate arrangement of sound that initially confuses, but eventually works it's way into your mind, and somehow seems "right". It still remains utterly mind-bending in it's convolution, however. It's impossible to really describe what ep7 sounds like, because it sounds like nothing else in existence. You simply have to hear it for yourself.

ep7 is incredible. I just wish I knew someone who appreciated it as much as I do.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Secret Track: read on...
Although billed as an EP, this has enough tracks to constitute an album proper. The distinction is in the fact that the tracks are more sketchy and demo-ish than their usually... Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2007 by A. Gilmartin

2.0 out of 5 stars Auticktockhre
I used to enjoy Autechre - as with much of the ambient bleeps of the Sheffield Warp label. But, I bought this along with a couple of other Warp albums and I was surprised that it... Read more
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