This came out in 2002 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The au in Autechre could stand for audio. Or automatic. Or, better still, audacious. The tech is for, well, you can figure that one out. And the re could do double duty — as in reliably remarkable.
Put ’em all together like some cheerleader and you get the ambitious avant-techno U.K. duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth. And if you like your sonic entertainment on the high-IQ side, go one step further and get Gantz Graf, the twosome’s new two-CD multi-media set. Disc 1 has nearly 20 brain-cramping minutes of scratchy, squishy, skittery post-industrial spewage, with nary a beat, bar, melody or key in sight. Disc 2 has three cutting-edge videos that are every bit as cerebral, detached and trippy as the first disc’s music. All of which serve to remind you of another thing that the au in Autechre stands for: The elemental symbol for solid gold.
