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If you think electronic music is simply mindless "oonce", download "Clipper" and try not to be swept away

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    Autechre's Tri Repetae was a last gasp of full-fledged normalcy for the duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth before a chiastic slide into more abstract realms. But what a gasp it was: "Dael" and "Clipper" are twin godheads of mournful IDM, mixing light industrial rhythms with synthetic melodies punched in by crying robots. But why shouldn't they be? Brown and Booth had been building the same sorts of tracks for the past three years, and the album sounds like it. Tri Repetae is a culmination. We've done all we can…now what?

    Of course all we can means that we've got little slices of perfection on offer throughout: "Overand," for instance, has synths splashing like raindrops in the stereo field that somehow grow larger and larger as they fade away. And "Leterel" is the sound of Nero playing his fiddle as assembly lines below him burn. Where Amber and Incunabula were beautiful and naïve experiments littered with moments of uncertainty, Tri Repetae is the duo fully in command of their sound, weaving hard and soft together effortlessly. If you think electronic music is simply mindless oonce, download "Clipper" and try not to be swept away.

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