I’m a five foot two, claustrophobic concert reviewer, which is a pretty ridiculous thing to be if you think about it, and as soon as I got to the Autechre show at the Regency Ballroom on Oct. 9, I told my friend, “I don’t think I’m going to like this.”

The longtime boundary-pushing UK electronic duo have been performing live sets in the dark for eons, but I didn’t know that until a week before producers Sean Booth and Rob Brown got to town. And I didn’t process how scary it could be until reading the warning flyer that was posted in the lobby that night.

“Please plan on being in one place for the performance and do not move unnecessarily until it has finished when the lights will come back on again,” read the flyer, in part. Lights would come back on in an emergency, and attendees in nee

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