Autechre - spl9

What this video is

Released on 7 February 2013 via Warp Records as track 13 on the double album Exai, 'spl9' exists within Autechre's mature post-IDM phase, where the duo — Rob Brown and Sean Booth, formed in Rochdale in 1987 — had long abandoned conventional music video culture entirely. Exai, their eleventh studio album, was produced using what Booth described as 'the system,' a large network of software and synthesisers, and was…

Why it matters

Autechre are foundational figures in IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), a genre they helped define via Warp's 1992 Artificial Intelligence compilation, though Booth has dismissed the label. By 2013, their sound had evolved into what critics described as 'algorithmically generated sprawls that…