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  "slug": "autechre",
  "name": "Autechre",
  "description": "Autechre appears 5 times in our IDM, 1994, and Warp lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/autechre/",
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    },
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      "slug": "nineteen-ninety-four",
      "name": "1994",
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      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/autechre--flutter/",
      "title": "Flutter",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Warp",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Written so that no two bars repeat, in order to be legal under a British law that had just banned gatherings around repetitive beats. A protest record whose method became the duo's entire career.",
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    {
      "trackKey": "autechre--gantz-graf",
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      "title": "Gantz Graf",
      "year": 2002,
      "label": "Warp",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Rhythm dissolved into texture and then reassembled, at a level of detail that only makes sense on headphones. The furthest this music travelled from the drum machine it started on.",
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      "title": "Flutter",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Warp",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Written so that no two bars share a tempo, specifically to be legal under the Criminal Justice Bill's definition of repetitive beats. A protest record whose protest is encoded in the rhythm programming, and it opened a door the genre went through.",
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      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "No two bars at the same tempo, written that way to be legal under the Criminal Justice Bill. A label with a hit single putting out a piece of legislative protest, which is the clearest evidence here that the A&R was not commercial.",
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      "trackKey": "autechre--gantz-graf",
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      "title": "Gantz Graf",
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      "label": "Warp",
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      "whyItMatters": "The end point of the argument this list makes: music arranged past the point where a listener can hold the pattern, released by a label that began with a dance twelve-inch. Whether it is enjoyable is not the claim. That it was released is.",
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