AUTONOMOUS Tell Us We Can’t Fly (2008) CD

Breakcore is the genre that sounds like someone fed jungle records into a paper shredder and then ran the output through a distortion pedal, and that is not a complaint. Australian producers were doing quietly interesting things with the form in the mid-2000s, and Autonomous belongs in that conversation.

Released in 2008, Tell Us We Can't Fly sits at the intersection of breakcore, IDM, and the kind of aggressive electronic music that made sense in the same rooms as industrial and dark ambient nights. This is not background music. It is confrontational, precise, and a little bit antagonistic, which is the correct approach. The kind of Australian electronic release that disappeared too quickly and now turns up in crates where nobody expected it.

Standard jewel case CD, Australian release, 2008.

Fans of: Venetian Snares, Aphex Twin, Nasenbluten, Australian electronic, industrial, dark electronic.