In our Pioneers series, we illuminate the genius of the most influential artists and producers in musical history. This month, we take on Autechre, a widely revered duo that has spent three decades at the frontier of experimental electronic music-making.
Electronic music is a spectrum. On one side, we have the crowd-pleasers, the big-room bangers, the tunes you might hear on an AI-generated playlist at the gym, soundtracking your spinning class. By and large, these follow many of the same rules as conventional pop music; tonally, timbrally and rhythmically colouring within familiar lines to produce familiar - and often brilliant - results.
