It's also one of the funkiest & most recognisably pop things they've done.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
The saga continues.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gBskxHy.jpg
49T. Slip - 64 points | 4 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DxcT9T1.jpg
48. Rettic AC - 65 points | 2 votes | 1 #1 vote
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Two fantastic tracks to start the poll. Rettic AC is a great precursor to Gantz Graf. Slip is just gorgeous, my favourite from Amber I reckon.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Monday, 29 September 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Great images too. Did you make these Leee?
albums
Tri RepetaeExaiChiastic SlideUntiltedConfieldAmberGarbageEP7LP5Anvil Vapre
closest to octobeard's maybe. agree with amber being a rough draft, should have left it off. don't care for draft.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
rettic ac was my no. 1. It sounds like footsteps in the snow with the faint remnants of a gorgeous little melody underneath. I pushed it up to no. 1 a few seconds before sending the ballot.
― cajunsunday, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Talking of pop, Slip is quite traditionally melodic as well. At some point I had the idea that the tune is a bit like "Come Back And Stay" by Paul Young. I even made a somewhat shonky pre-Live mashup to prove the point.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
ledge did the images iirc
cajunsunday that's at least 600 words too short ;) nah it sounds like something I want to hear, and will :)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
xp 'chiastic slide' is a crucial winter album for me.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Needs to hear the Paul Young / Autechre mash-up
― kraudive, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
imago is right, images are (c) ledge! And they're all awesome. He even did tracks that didn't make it, so maybe I'll dump them out somewhere because some of them are straight lolz.
rettic ac was my no. 1. It sounds like footsteps in the snow with the faint remnants of a gorgeous little melody underneath.
Totally get this now that you mention it.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
rettic ac got my vote too. and yeah it sounds like snow.
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Others (Confield, Untilted) I can't work out whether there's a concept or not.
I've read that at least for Confield, the cover image is actually a still from a (short?) animation one of the boys created (and around when it was released, it was floating around the webz as a .mov file).
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dyYB7dL.jpg
46T. Gaekwad - 66 points | 2 votes | 1 #1 vote
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/B0CPuKm.jpg
46T. Overand - 66 points | 3 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Rru5IJN.jpg
44T. Second Peng - 71 points | 3 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cfQ3OS6.jpg
44T. Eidetic Casein - 71 points | 3 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
^^ one of my favorite track titles
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
a bit hectic lately and ultimately didn't vote but I just wanted to say that...
No Amber for me, either. I fact I was surprised at how little time I have these days for the albums prior to LP5 ... Still like 'em, just never seem to listen anymore. I would say it was down to over-familiarity, but I play the contemporaneous EPs all the time. Anti - Garbage - Anvil Vapre - Envane - Cichlisuite - Peel Session is a pretty formidable run.
... is basically exactly how I feel except I'd push out the timeline to include lp5. the earlier albums clicked pretty quickly (esp. amber) but I do find them a bit played-out at this point. but I never really stopped listening to the eps, particularly garbage. couldn't really tell you why, the albums are also v solid too.
― original bgm, Monday, 29 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
feel like the ep has been autechre's best presentation format. sometimes the album sprawl works when the material is up to it but more often than not i feel like it's been a weakness.
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yes, I think that is probably why I still play thos early EPs so often.
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
You could definitely argue that most, if not all of their 70+ minute albums could stand to lose 15 minutes or so.
I always thought that Tri Repetae would have been nearly perfect if it was just the first half, and an EP rather than an LP.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Then you'd be able to dump "Overand," which I've *never* been able to warm up to.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
tri repeatae is the one I've actually struggled with the most of the years. ultimately, I think it's... pretty good.
but generally, I like the albums as a whole and don't feel like they have much filler. but the eps do seem more focused, even longer ones like garbage. keeping things at 3-4 tracks prob helps there. each track gets to shine.
― original bgm, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
*over the years
Probably a controversial opinion but "Stud" is the one I could do without; it feels like nails on my brain
IMO Amber is the best of that early period - surprised that not a lot of y'all voted for it.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
amber always struck me as perfectly composed but emotionally flat
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
images are (c) ledge
Except I outsourced the boring gruntwork of adding the text back to leee, as if running the poll wasn't enough of a chore already.
Overand pic is the hidden link between hot chip and ae, fyi.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Monday, 29 September 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
xpost
Re: Amber, for me it's the opposite: it's visceral and emotional but sometimes sounds primitive compared to what they'd be able to conjure up later
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 29 September 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Amber was my top album pick - they arguably took their sound to more interesting places later on but that's the one that works best as a complete piece for me. The Garbage EP (which I didn't actually hear until a year or two ago) makes a nice companion piece.
Hi-five to whoever had 'Gaekwad' at #1 by the way, I was the other voter for that, glad it made it in.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 29 September 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the 6ie.cr screed, imago, definitely helps in understanding the appeal to have the individual elements brought into focus like that. Although a raucous lightspeed cataract of drum sounds sounds to me more like a raucous walking pace cataract of drum sounds.
Didn't recall which one rettic ac was till I read cajunsunday's excellently apt description.
Gaekwad was my #1, will try and write something about it tomorrow.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Monday, 29 September 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
rettic ac just missed my shortlist. enjoying 6ie.cr even though i haven't listened to draft since it was released.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 29 September 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
whoa gaekwad just performed a rhythmic switcharound about 2/3 through that complete did me. amazing
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Monday, 29 September 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
dont think i voted for any of theseeidetic casein maybe
― nakhchivan, Monday, 29 September 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
eidetic casein was my #4 and is about to get a mini write-up
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
"mini."
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
idk how to approach that long lj postits not one of the tracks on d730 that i care for, or their 4/4 tracks in general or their sort of meta pop tracks but i appreciate the effort to break it downive never thought about their tracks in that sort of song-construction way, tend to prefer the abstraction and the more formless tracks (else the more formal-programmatic ones like drane)
― nakhchivan, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
6ie.cr is Draft 7.30's single, then, and it bangs - it bangs harder than more or less any straight 4/4 club anthem you could name
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y267/v_ralson/emot-colbert1.gif~original
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
hahaha oy
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah sorry lj i'm tl;dr-ing anything you post that is longer than 5 sentences, b+ for effort though
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
basically it's the sound of elves deconstructing, a very autechre christmas
really tho it's autechre's rhythmic principles - complexity, recombinations, entropy - applied to melody. now yeah melody & rhythm is a false binary esp where autechre are concerned but this track is almost all melody - intersections of tone, (dis)harmonic explorations, phrases you'd maybe expect of fucking cardiacs - it's absolutely beautiful, shows that not only can autechre write a tune but compose melodically up there with pretty much anyone you can name. it's pop, it's classical music, it's sheet music for computers & it all falls apart at the end in one of autechre's best denouements i mean what's there to hate
doesn't have remotely their most sophisticated drum programming but it doesn't need it. that one moment exactly 4:19 in where the beat suddenly stutters for one bar is the perfect framing device for its melodic collapse, demarcating the edge of descent, the victory of drone over tune. stunning
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
a lot of autechre songs do that trick though
― the late great, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah I was talking about eidetic casein there lol
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
6ie is like a lumpen idm brokenbeat sort of procrustean carcass around some quite interesting melodies
― nakhchivan, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link
needs to be said that autechre are just supremely melodically gifted in a way very few others are, even though its a talent they have never tried to overplay in their augustan period
oversteps does sort of overdo it though
― nakhchivan, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
agree with all of that
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
electro + sound art nerds
― mattresslessness, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
yep
the way melody has to do battle with nxtlvl drumprogramming in the aforementioned period leads to its greatest triumphs imo but then this poll will hopefully introduce me to some stuff without that sphere
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link