Lego Feet
Lego Feet

Taking a leap back into the past, 1991 to be precise, we'll discover that even before Warp, AFX, LFO, B12, Alex Paterson, Black Dog, and pioneering company, the first to have concretely anticipated what one or two years later would become known as the classic IDM sound - let's recall it as more of a compositional approach than a true genre - were precisely those who represented this world better than anyone else for what it should have been and actually was, (that is avoiding rules, innovating, putting the creative spirit at the center of everything, while maintaining a direct link with classical dance arts, without therefore spilling over into third realms such as academic, conceptual, concrete, or industrial ones), they were precisely Rob Brown and Sean Booth, the ingenious duo who even before giving life to the formidable creature Autechre, gave a taste of their potential through the alias Lego Feet.

Yes, Lego Feet. That rare and sought-after record, which today requires not less than 600 euros to secure a used copy. A record whose gaze into the future we can define as insane. A forward-thinking record even in its ultimately naive execution and its essential nods to Detroit. Vintage drum machines that already timidly try to escape the classic kick+snare/kick steady beat, electro-drexciyane cadences, bleep references, sought-after samples (even the click of a polaroid, where elsewhere everyone was jumping on the Amen bandwagon), enveloping synthetic analogy, hints of future cerebral-noisism supremacy, and andro-futurist atmospheres are what Lego Feet displays in its seminal - and not as recognized as they deserve to be - thirty-seven minutes.

No demonic 303 acidisms. No 909s blasted at full throttle. No four-on-the-floor R&S model kicks. No distortion and no breaks. There is absolutely nothing that would label this record as 'oldschool' or 'classic': at times, its sound could even remind one of '96 when computers were already making their way in, where tapes and samplers were already retiring, where digital was starting to emerge. Where yes, Lego Feet were already technically and mentally ahead by at least a decade over even more celebrated colleagues.

Lego Feet is the sound of the future as it would have been imagined in '91. Lego Feet is the beginning of an inspired and exciting story that we have patiently narrated, a story conceived by superior minds that most likely have not yet finished wringing out for the next, exhilarating, chapter.

A story that is already legend.