For fans of: Innovators in Electronic Sound

It's not too much of an exaggeration to state that 1990s electronic music was largely defined by one label, Warp Records, and their genre-establishing "Artificial Intelligence" compilation series. From this compilation of non-dancefloor music of sometimes baffling utility, three artists then came to define the 'Warp sound'. Boards of Canada, the various productions of Richard D. James as Aphex Twin, and the Sheffield duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown who continue to release music as Autechre.

This month sees the duo release a new set of albums. Their working methodology recording, mixing and retooling tracks from separate locations, through their self-designed system called "the kit" is detailed by the New York Times in a lengthy interview, "Autechre Worked in Isolation for Decades. Now It’s Unintentionally Timely". The most recent fruits of this process have produced the brooding sounds of the largely granular and modular-synthesis album "SIGN" (out now), and it's more viscera-agitating and dynamic companion, "PLUS" (out 11/20). - (JP)