
Released in February–March 2013 as part of Autechre's eleventh studio album Exai on Warp Records, 'deco Loc' embodies the duo's commitment to autonomous, algorithm-driven music production with no guest performers or vocalists. Exai was written, produced, and performed entirely by Rob Brown and Sean Booth using what they describe as 'the system' — a large network of software and synthesisers. The album drew on the…
Autechre are foundational figures of IDM (intelligent dance music), a genre they helped establish via Warp's 1992 Artificial Intelligence compilation. Their later work, including Exai, pushed beyond IDM into fully abstract algorithmic composition. 'deco Loc' is representative of their mature 2010s…
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