Gescom
Keynell Remixes

THE REVIEW

"Keynell / Keynell" (or Keynell Remixes if you will) is the only Gescom release under Warp. Autechre presents us with two 'remixes', finally under their own name, of "Key Nell"... quotation marks are mandatory since rather than remixing an actual track, what they do is recycle the synths and style from the four versions that appeared on this last EP, generating two completely new pieces.

The first, as happened with the original version, recalls the style of "Silverside" (from "Amber"), i.e., chopped rap in frenetic modes (so that it sounds more like a rhythmic groove than a vocal, a solution still proposed by numerous artists today) and cryptic riffs of mysterious and warm synthetic analogy. I also find that this de-fragmenting of rap samples is a sort of homage to the 'flow' issue, the words in rap that form the groove, the famous 'can you feel it the funk?', a thesis that could be substantiated by the fact that the two profess to be great aficionados of the genre. On the second remix, a sweet music box-style melody is gradually enriched by additional micro glitch-vocals and an inspired beat, rarely so regular in their production, once again approaching hip-hop, and which will then make way for a classic ambient close of a good 4 minutes, as often happened in their nineties; it is one of the most 'song-like', most melodic, and human tracks Autechre have ever composed.

If "Key Nell" was labeled as a perfect release, on "Keynell Remixes" we are beyond perfection.