Confield by Autechre

Pros: Textural innovation and moments of brilliance.
Cons: Their yen for arrhythmic beats goes way overboard on many tracks.

Autechre has made a career of pushing the rhythmic and textural boundaries of electronic music, and consequently going way over most people's heads until a year or two later. Their songs take quite an effort to chew and digest, as their abstract rhythms...

Pros: Mind-altering, mind-bending, mind-shattering hyper-rhythmic music.
Cons: About as accessible as Fort Knox to a blind one-legged bank robber.

If you are a fan of electronica and have never heard autechre's music, do yourself a favour and check out some CD samples from amazon.com, or hop onto your favourite peer-to-peer network client and listen to some tracks.

The first autechre...