Clicks + Cuts

by Various Artists

Clicks + Cuts cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: January 2000
  • Label: Mille Plateaux
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:03:31
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This critically revered compilation essentially codified the emerging glitch and microhouse movements within electronic music. Focusing on artists associated with the Mille Plateaux label, it highlights a distinctly post-digital aesthetic where microscopic errors, CD skips, and software failures are repurposed as rhythmic foundations. The expansive collection defined the intellectual, highly reductionist era of European IDM.

Genres

Descriptors: minimalistic, repetitive, bassy, ticking, electronic

Tracklist

  1. Shelving A Tempered String (Intro) (1:00)
  2. RN4-09 - Short Version (5:36)
  3. Object 02 - C&C Cut (4:26)
  4. Isolex 03 (4:01)
  5. Repeatedly - Video Edit (4:41)
  6. Bear In. Warm-Noiz - C&C Fade (3:32)
  7. e.coli (4:12)
  8. BAKETO - C&C Cut (4:18)
  9. CXEMA (3:48)
  10. Inner - C&C Fade (5:28)
  11. Eitec Aa - C&C Fade (3:14)
  12. Sweaty Psalms (4:22)
  13. w (3:59)
  14. Scrypt (3:43)
  15. Il (Outro) (1:24)
  16. Clicks & Cuts 5.0 - Album teaser - 20 seconds of each track (5:40)

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