This one goes out to all the heads in Detroit who be hurtin’ from the economy and the failing auto industry.
I once had what basically amounted to a spiritual experience upon hearing Autechre’s cut Second Bad Vilbel at volume completely out of nowhere on a pristine system at Cloudwatch, an old Baltimore ambient/experimental recurring rave type thang. So even though I am not a HUGE Autechre fan (outside of that track at least), I definitely appreciate what they do. Despite that, though, they’ve never really seemed to me to have much connection to dancefloor techno, and when I think of Detroit I think first of dancefloor jams. Anyway, point is, Autechre just wants to tell you techno music cats from the D “how good you are.” Download and sample this (ganked directly from the “Universal Techno” mini-doc) into a track.