Autechre - Flep

What this video is

Released in March 2013 as track 7 on Autechre's double album Exai (Warp Records, WARP234), 'Flep' emerges at a moment when the duo — Rob Brown and Sean Booth, formed in Rochdale in 1987 — had fully consolidated a two-decade move away from accessible IDM toward rigorous algorithmic abstraction. Exai was produced using what Booth called 'the system,' a large network of software and synthesizers, and the album spans…

Why it matters

Autechre are foundational to IDM (intelligent dance music), a label Booth himself has called 'silly' but which accurately describes the genre they helped define via Warp's early-90s Artificial Intelligence series. Exai, and 'Flep' within it, represents the mature, maximalist phase of that…