
vekoS appears on Exai (Warp Records, February–March 2013), Autechre's eleventh studio album and most expansive release to that point at over two hours across two discs. The album was composed primarily in Max/MSP and grew out of trial runs of the duo's live performance system. The Exai era represents a mature phase of Autechre's post-IDM identity: rigorously algorithmic, radically extended in duration, and…
As a key track on Exai — widely regarded as among the most significant IDM releases of the 2010s — vekoS exemplifies the duo's mature generative compositional method. The visual's radical stasis and duration is itself a genre statement: IDM's historical resistance to pop-video spectacle, carried…
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