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Concretise The Oddness: Lee Gamble Picks His 13 Favourite Records
Jennifer Lucy Allan , September 27th, 2017 09:22

With his first album for Hyperdub en route and Unsound appearance impending, Lee Gamble guides Jennifer Lucy Allan from 80s beatboxing to some of 2017's best releases through the medium of his 13 favourite records

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Autechre - Oversteps

With an album like this, as a producer, when I listen to this I feel like I’m always playing catch up, it makes me want to get better. I haven't been making dance based music or grid based music for that long really, only since around 2011-ish. My new album has more phrases in, it's more musical, and I've been using systems to help me to do that, because I’m not going to all of a sudden become Herbie Hancock. So I have this technology and it's better than me, so let the technology do it. So I've been learning these generative systems, and this Autechre is an album that when I listen to it it's just an incredibly developed piece of music. It reveals itself differently every time you listen to it. It's beautifully musical and it feels like computer music.