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	Autechre: Confield (2001): Reviews
		Confield, Autechre's sixth full-length and its best release since 1997's Chiastic Slide, may also be its most ambitious.
		Confield promises elegant production, accessibility in moderation, and one of the most enveloping, thought-provoking listening experiences to come forth from leftfield this year.
		Confield not only documents the future of IDM; it also cements Autechre's name in the pantheon of sonic visionaries.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/autechre/confield (548 words)

	Confield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confield, released by Warp Records in 2001 (see 2001 in music), is an album by the electronic music group Autechre.
		This is the first of the group's albums with more experimental and chaotic (to some at least) sound.
		Confield at the official Warp discography (features audio clips).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confield (138 words)

	BBC - collective - Confield (Autechre)
		Confield is an album, the sort of which I had never heard before, and have never heard since, except in other Autechre releases.
		In some ways, Confield was a natural progression from their previous releases, untitled [lp5] and 'EP7'.
		Confield was a far cry from Autechre's techno-ambient roots in the early 1990s.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1047368 (513 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Mountain rescue veteran honoured
		Terry Confield, of the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team, added that all those who work to save the lives of people stuck on mountains and hills should receive the accolade.
		Mr Confield said: "Four of us took off and solo-ed up this climb and these two girls were there and had dug themselves into a snow hole as they had done on the first night.
		Mr Confield added that the call-out rate for the 42-strong team has increased from about 15 rescues a year when he started 40 years ago, to about 80 a year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/2615679.stm (288 words)

	User Comments for Confield by Autechre
		Autechre has always pushed the limits of musical definition on their albums, and even now, with the uncategorizable Confield, Autechre has instead decomposed their sound, instead of elevating it, and it sounds remarkably interesting.
		It's sound is often tiring and sometimes disturbing after the second listen and the mood, although fascinating when observed like a foreign substance under a microscope, is not as interesting as the electro-funk days of Tri-Repetae++, one of the greatest electronic albums in music history.
		So, Confield, although quite an artistic achievement on the basis that - Autechre can always come up with something new - is almost too mellow and quiet to fill the desperate need for another action-packed Autechre album.
	www.metacritic.com /music/usercomments.jsp?id_string=1225:Nb3KT6EkrqVb0bCpxT-eFw** (399 words)

	Autechre - Confield
		Vertiphon - 28-Aug-04 03:54 PM "Confield" was my first Autechre album, and while my original thoughts were that I had wasted my money, over time I have begun to appreciate what Autechre have created here.
		Arguably Autechre's most difficult album to listen to, "Confield" is not nearly as bad as some people would have you believe, but newcomers to Autechre's music would be better of starting with "Incunabula", "Amber" or "Tri Repetae".
		Confield marks their first album that almost seemed as if the beats and patterns were created radomally.
	www.discogs.com /release/4046 (1789 words)

	close your eyes: Autechre - Confield
		I bought Autechre's Confield about a year ago and never listened to it.
		Listening to Confield is like wandering around without a destination or clear itinerary and discovering things on the left and right of the road by chance.
		These descriptions - both your own and the ones you quoted - are so evocative that, not having heard the Autechre album, somebody might get inspired to make their own record based on the impressions given here.
	musik.antville.org /stories/278958 (1430 words)

	Music : Confield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Confield's name and its digitally dissected geometrical artwork are illustrative analogies to Autechre's working methods.
		To describe Autechre and more specifically "Confield" to listeners who haven't experienced this type of music is truly a difficult task.
		Suffice it to say that while the band is clearly electronica Autechre's "Confield" pushes the limits of the genre and even questions the very rules of music.
	www.prep4usmle.com /B00005BGTS/Confield.htm (648 words)

	The Oberlin Review Online
		You might try and tell me that Confield is a prime example of what is pretentiously referred to as Intelligent Dance Music, but then I’d challenge you to try and actually “dance” to it.
		Confield is what happens when you take the cheesy songs that come programmed into every Casio starter keyboard, splice them into millions of millisecond-long sound bits and then arrange them so as to balance every track on the tipping point between chaos and order, between song and randomly programmed sound.
		Confield stands out as a good example of the immense sound-manipulation capabilities at humanity’s disposal these days.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/2002.04.26/arts/heardHere.htm (1324 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The ground covered by Autechre to date has brought to the fore a signature form of electronica, relying on subtlety and interlaced patterning--a sort of drum-n-bass for contemplation and meditation.
		Confield takes this platform of starkly sculpted beats and plies an insidious, self-conscious contrariness into the works.
		Confield represents a major departure and a solid advance for this ever-inventive duo: a must-listen for fans of experimental electronica, a masterpiece for the archives of history, and a solid top-ten pick for 2001.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/review_print.php?id=9013 (349 words)

	Autechre: Confield: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To further complicate things, Confield catches the pair in the most abstract, difficult period of their nine-year recording career.
		Confield picks up where its predecessor, the four-track Peel Session 2 EP, left off-- splicing the ambient, non-musical styles of artists like Kit Clayton and Phthalocyanine into Autechre's more structured syntheses.
		Confield carries on like this until the final note-- each song establishes a personality distinct from the rest, cautiously balancing musicality with chaos.
	old-site.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/a/autechre/confield.shtml (832 words)

	Review Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In fact, the haunting, mechanical sounds Autechre makes on Confield, like on most of their albums, is timeless in a sense that one would be hard put to figure out wheat time it’s from.
		Still, their reliance on cold electronic sounds definitely gives their music a more realistic “futuristic” feel than a lot of electronic musicians come up with and Confield is no exception.
		What sets Confield apart from a lot of other ambient techno CDs, say Aphex Twin or the Orb, is the sinister feel to them.
	www.thinkinground.com /mike7.html (365 words)

	jonvon.net - autechre untilted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It sounds somewhat like draft 7.30; the vibe of their more "oldschool" works is combined with the more technical confield like sounds in their newer works.
		Where confield is a bit an uneasy record and sounds a bit to crafted, the draft and untilted records sound like their are played and improvised by a human band (booth/brown).
		Personally, for me, "Confield" was the height of their sonic-sculpting career (so far) and to immediately follow it with "Draft 7" was a personal low.
	jonvon.net /jonvon/blog/blog.nsf/dx/autechre-untilted.htm (1529 words)

	InsiderOne - 44.1kHz
		Autechre, Confield (Warp): Very likely the most highly anticipated electronic album of the year, Autechre's Confield is also one of the most hotly contested.
		Confield, with its dense thickets of evolving beats and open-ended melodies that seem more Schönberg than Chopin, is the logical extension of this progression.
		In moving even closer to creating a music of sentient computers, Autechre have stood the genre on its head, stripping it of its four-bar certainties and patching it directly — ominously — into the unreadable soul of the machine.
	www.insiderone.net /reviews/review139.html (534 words)

	AUTECHRE Confield
		Confield, Autechre’s sixth album, is yet another step forward into contemporary electronic music.
		All along the album, they work at microscopic level, to ensure the consistency of their compositions, each component of each track develops at its pace, and it is only when considered as a whole that the piece really takes form.
		Confield is the closest Autechre have ever been to the work of Pierre Henry, with astonishingly complex, abrasive structures slowly mutating, creating ever-changing, poly-textural life forms.
	www.themilkfactory.co.uk /reviews/autechre_confield.htm (369 words)

	Gridface: Autechre: Confield
		For one thing, they’re typically fairly inaccessible at first listen—the complex rhythms and subtle melodies tend to grow on me over time.
		Confield is no exception, especially since so much of it is ambient noise.
		There’s something cold and heartless about Confield, and even if some of the tracks grow on me, I have a feeling they’ll always seem distant.
	www.gridface.com /reviews/confield.html (369 words)

	Autechre
		Each song on Confield is arranged around a central, circular rhythm, which churns and bubbles across the entire track.
		All other sounds revolve around this rhythm, in much the same way a tether-ball revolves around a pole as it is being hit and spun by ten-year-old boys.
		Most of the tracks on Confield follow this pattern (though there are exceptions, such as the weird, lilting keyboard line in "eidetic casein").
	www.hauntedink.com /25/confield.html (540 words)

	Autechre
		As soon as Autechre went "major," people attacked the duo for making music like Confield, which was as dissonant as "pop" music can be, sounding at times like the digital equivalent of a Mobius strip.
		So, apparently, Autechre sucks now because their music is too alienating--as if people listen to a band like Autechre for the hooks.
		Confield and ep7 both succeeded when they managed to find ways to subvert those "classic" Autechre cliches.
	www.hauntedink.com /25/draft730.html (786 words)

	Soundtest - A Website About Music Reviews
		To be honest with you, I'm not absolutely sure what my views on Confield are; they tend to fluctuate and change as much as the rhythms and beats on a typical Autechre track do.
		Others, even those who are well-versed in electronic music, may allow the album a lot more time and patience and still never really "get it." It's a lot less accessible than some of the older Ae efforts, partly due to a more or less complete absence of conventional melodies.
		Apparently it's shaping up to be their most accessible record yet, the complete antithesis of Confield, after which, returning to familiar ground could prove to be a bit of a disappointment.
	soundtest.org /az/autechre-confield.htm (807 words)

	Amazon.com: Confield: Music: Autechre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Confield is an album that isn't going to be for everyone and you shouldn't feel bad if you can't get into it.
		I actually suffered that feeling when I first picked it up, noting some constriction in my mind and some angst in my wallet as I listened on, thinking that this couldn't be something I paid good money for.
		I was much younger when I first picked up confield, on advice from a thom yorke interview, and i remember connecting only with the first track, and then carefully relocating the album to the back of my cd carrier.
	www.amazon.com /Confield-Autechre/dp/B00005BGTS (2267 words)

	Autechre
		However, "Confield" is at times still pretty complex, and thus also in line with their recent work.
		Luckily, "Confield" is a whole, or at least made up of fine clusters, and so these tracks are each followed by a brilliant track.
		All in all, "Confield" is an austere album, but one with an identiy.
	autechre.org.ru /reviews/review17.htm (2283 words)

	Latent Quarter
		Confield stands in retrospect as one Autechre's best records.
		It's certainly not their most widely beloved or even accepted album, but it represents an important step in that it clears the slate for their entire catalog.
		The overexposed brightness of the initial melody is gone and replaced by a a static-riddled minor-key motif, and the drums collapse into a soup of rhythm similar to "Pir."
	lonelymachines.org /latent.html (3178 words)

	Re: [microsound] confield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Confield > seems exactly the sort of release that won't really reveal itself through a > "speed reading." I agree with you philip, and everyone should remember that one gets out from a record as much as one puts in...
		I'm not sure, Kim, whether your point was > simply that Confield didn't sound terribly evolved and/or compositionally > interesting, or whether it was that any user of Kyma could see through their > tricks immediately.
		Which, if it's the latter point, I think has some > interesting implications for the role of novelty and the "wow" factor in > popular reception of music, at a point when tools appear to be advancing so > rapidly.
	www.propheticdesire.us /microsound/html/2001/2001-07/msg00251.html (353 words)

	Autechre - Confield Review from Music Emissions
		If John Coltrane was alive today and got ahold of a sampler and a mixer, Confield might be the kind of music Coltrane would make.
		I have done Confield while I have been working (a great soundtrack for web work), while I have been reading, while I have been walking, and while I have been trying to sleep.
		Confield is their most obscure work yet and it will even challenge the best Autechre fan out there.
	www.musicemissions.com /artists/albums/index.php?album_id=36&artist_id=34 (298 words)

	NME.COM - Reviews - Autechre : Confield
		It would be easy to take the piss out the humanity-free artwork of 'Confield', but there is a certain purity to Autechre.
		Between the mutant Kid606-ish hip-hop of 'Pen Expers' and the iridescent chimes of 'Eidetic Casein', 'Confield' is wide-ranging and, occasionally, genuinely edgy; the closing mania of 'Lentic Catachresis' is unlistenable, riotous, idiotic good fun.
		Indeed, rather than emotionally detached, 'Confield' sounds biologically warm, as freeform as the human body, and wildly, magically imaginative.
	www.nme.com /reviews/autechre/4997 (206 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Autechre - Confield
		However, the latest contribution from Messieurs Booth and Brown falls sadly short.
		There is very little on 'Confield' that raises it above the level of listenable.
		Most of the time you wonder if a couple of kids have been messing about with the album DATs.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/0531/autechre.html (352 words)

	Autechre - Confield
		AkA - 06-Jan-05 12:14 PM Confield: Autechre and broken beat music at the highest level.
		It really is nasty and has no soul, but at the same time there's a warped beauty about Confield.
		It's been said that Confield is an album to respect but not enjoy.
	e.discogs.com /release/8434 (406 words)

	COCKSOCKET: experiments in organica
		I mean if one had already existed already, yeah, there would be a much better chance.
		I can't really say what they'd be like if I met em now cause I know em too well, it's impossible to say, and it might be the same for them.
		We're literally just putting out what we'd like to be out there, you know, I mean I buy quite a lot of music and I think the world would be a better place if Confield was in it, you know, if I could go into a record shop and buy it, I'd be pretty happy.
	www.cocksocket.org /articles/seanbooth.html (5407 words)

	InsiderOne - The Drama You've Been Craving
		Most recently, what caught my eye, and then my ear, was a review of Autechre's fascinating new album, Confield, by electronic music expert (and insiderone.net contributor) Philip Sherburne.
		Twenty-six years and many technological revolutions later, it is possible to allow the machines to make their own music, music the mastermind(s) who set them in motion can't necessarily anticipate.
		For all its clankiness, Confield feels quite human; there are passages of extreme beauty, and humor.
	www.insiderone.net /drama/drama044.html (747 words)

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