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Amazon.com The fertile sonic imagination of Autechre wanders through the digital wilderness on Draft 7.30, burying understated melodies with dense noise from the avant-garde fringe. Since their more mainstream dance beginnings, Autechres Rob Brown and Sean Booth have operated in the same non-rhythmic, wired turf occupied by Oval, Plaid, and other experimental techno artists. But theyve always retained an echo of their earlier accessibility, using recurring themes that give their music a Boards of Canada-like elegance. On the other hand, recent work like 2001s Confield has involved a more cerebral mix of order and chaos that lacks such carbon-based ballast. Draft 7.30 goes even further off into the land of 1s and 0s, manipulating theories and formulas with a fascination usually reserved for higher math classes. Your ability to listen and enjoy will depend on your tolerance for difficult concepts and willingness to embrace chaos. --Matthew Cooke Review (Warp) Autechres duo status is apt, as producers Sean Booth and Rob Browns abraded compositions gestate and alternate between antitheses, generating evenly split opinions. With Draft 7.30, Autechres seventh LP, Booth and Brown settle on neither ideal, though they play both against the middle. Opening with hollowed jungle drums and cracked-leather creak, unsteady as if momentarily dazed by glint through damp tropical canopy or the porthole of a sweltering galley, they plod into the equally wafting "IV VV IV VV VIII." "6ie.cr" welcomes the chunky crunch of rotted robo-funk (revisited on "V-Proc") before "Tapr" descends into the off-kilter obtuseness of their last outing, Confield, sounds swelling, contorting and flailing. Drafts second half will hold more sway over those pining for the minor-key melodiousness of works through Tri Repetae++, summing up these DSP surgeons whose swarming nano-bots question whether to rend or repair. Tony Ware -- From URB Magazine