Toby Driver is modern music's biggest badass, mainly because Kayo Dot, MOTW, Tartar Lamb and his solo projects are so amazingly innovative and different from each other that he's practically reinventing himself on every album.
In terms of pushing their sound forward, Autechre is much better than Aphex Twin's stuff. Autechre have went from cute ambient classics from Amber and Incunabala to all out mind****s like Confeild and Draft 7.30. After LP5, they've never really stayed the same, and on every album they change. Aphex twin disappeared off of the face of the earth six years ago and the last things he's released (analords) all kind of sound similar. they were fun, but not innovative. I think after reinventing himself so drastically on DrukQs, he might not be able to go any farther, and his only option would be to go back to his earlier ambient roots.
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