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Since we're discussing the electronic musicians that look for a strategy to function outside their eras, we mustn't forget about the exceptions to the rule. One only has to look at Autechre to hear what I mean. Sure, they belong to the 90's electronica boom, but they didn't really fit there, since they were way too idiosyncratic for that movement. Of course, this quality has gotten only more pronounced after that, which resulted in some of their greatest work. NTS Sessions 1–4, their latest, could be counted among that, because they continue to discover the uncharted venues of the idiom. While you can recognize the typical elements of the style, Booth and Brown put them through a variety of prisms, so they become quite uncanny.