Few electronic acts have managed to stay so fearlessly experimental, evolving in style but untainted by musical fads and still remained so revered as the Rochdale duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth. With some of their rarest material painstakingly hard to own, home label Warp have issued a 47-track compilation of Autechre's EPs between 1991 and 2002.


Opening track 'Cavity Job' might surprise the casual Autechre fan, originally released on Hardcore Records in 1991 and previously unavailable digitally, its breakbeats, acid bassline and hardcore vocals resurrect the gritty glory of the UK rave scene. The more typical Autechre crystalline textures appear from 1994's 'Basscad EP', their mind shuddering tactics still reign strong with tracks like 'Lost' and 'Flutter' from their 'Anti EP'.

Traversing through the spacious sinister hardcore territories of the 'Garbage' EP and the bit-crushed junglist beatscapes of 'Anvil Vapre', the vacuum pressured beats and ebbing synths of the 1995 'Peel Session' to the skewed scratching of 'Goz Quarter' from 1997's 'Envane', those beautifully perverse sounds and rhythms of 'Cichli Suite' and 1999's epic 'EP7' seal Autechre's signature abstracted dystopic vision.