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Would you want to see Picasso reduced to producing stamps? Gaudi to designing a beach hut? Whoever it was who did the maze in Hampton Court to pottering about in the garden? That was my first impression when I heard that the new Autechre album Quaristice had twenty tracks, at an average of just over three minutes each, as opposed to the likes of Draft 7.30 and Untilted (which number among my favourites) with eight or nine at an average of eight plus. What a waste, I thought. But then again…say you really really wanted a stamp? Or a wooden shack on Whitstable Bay, or a well-trimmed hedge? Maybe you would want Pablo, or Antoni, or, um, the fella with the big shears. You’ll be left with something pretty special, that is for sure.
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