The part where this track comes back in but slower is immense
― A solid little house from the p-funk boys (I am using your worlds), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
Bronchusevenmx was my number 2, i'm a goth!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
goths don't use exclamation marks.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
Second Bad Vilbel has worn on me but it's kinda iconic and not just because Radiohead ripped it off.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
As someone who got into Autechre at the time of Chiastic Slide, worked my way backwards through everything before that, and listened to everything through Confield before hitting a wall and barely listening to them for the last decade, I've been really enjoying this poll - I didn't feel remotely qualified to vote, but I'm listening to everything here and wondering why the hell I haven't been listening to them since about 2003.
Great images, too!
I enjoy a lot of Oversteps and Move of Ten but feel both have utter duds, too. I have a "custom" album called "Move Over Ten Steps" that combines my favorites of the two. If I could have voted for that custom album, it might have made #3 or #4 in my album ballot.
― octobeard, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12:01 AM
Would be interested in the tracklist for this (having failed to really get into any album since Confield).
― toby, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Sure...
Move Over Ten Steps
01. r ess02. rew(1)03. Treale04. pt2ph805. see on see06. no border07. d-sho qub08. iris was a pupil09. os veix310. yim011. st epreo12. krYlon13. Yuop
Total time: 1:04:41
It's an even more ambient record with this flow, and some of the transitions work really well naturally - d-sho qub going into iris was a pupil for instance. Obviously a subjective list, but these tracks to me make a really cohesive record, with a beginning, middle and end, sonically consistent and thematic... to the point where it's up there with Untilted and Chiastic Slide for having a strikingly unique sonic fingerprint - even more so than before. Some tracks I enjoy individually I kept off intentionally in order to maintain what I felt was a better "album".
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
Glad to see spl9 made it, btw. I had a tough time keeping that and Flep from Exai off my ballot.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 07:33 (nine years ago) link
voted for spl9 its not the most amazing track but its a lot of fun
half right. could've been my number one (was my number three), seems to be for me the perfect sweet spot between abrasive noise and dancefloor smash. it never stands still, every minute sees a switch in rhythm or texture. and again - again! a classic fade out, the beat stutters into oblivion over a hollow, deathless breath of air. they really are masters of the fade.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 08:05 (nine years ago) link
spl9 is HARDCORE. I would risk slipping it into a straight techno set perhaps.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 08:42 (nine years ago) link
Thanks octobeard - giving this a go right now, and I think it could be a good path for me into more recent Autechre - I'm really enjoying it, in fact.
― toby, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
skipping through oversteps again d sho-qub definitely a highlight but a couple of the more ambient ones stand out too, os veix3 and yuop. Curiously more than half of the tracks (and quite a few on move of ten as well) end abruptly but with about 10 seconds of ghostly reverb floating out over the end, giving an amazing sense of space.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 09:15 (nine years ago) link
redfall is the oversteps standout for me
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
the chords in dial. from gantaz graf, which seem to ascend forever, are an example of a shepard-risset tone:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
not sure how dial missed my ballot, dj stingray working it into a detroit techno set at the autechre atp is unforgettable
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
am totally convinced this is the inspiration for dial (from the er dial to the rising tones at the end):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
Eidetic Casein sounds kind of Shepherds Toney to me.
― Larbo-larbo-larbo! (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
New display name btw
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
Dial. is so good, I've overplayed it at this point and so even though it made my ballot, it's in the teens rather than near the top. But for a good couple of years it was definitely my favorite autechre song.
There is the Shepard tone which immediately draws you in, but there's so much more going on. The vocals, all those chaotic sounds which try to follow the main ascending tone throughout the song. In many ways a perfect autechre song.
― Larminard Darzingargle (silverfish), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
dial. unplugged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb19d08Lnec
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rWKnPNY.jpg
30. Flutter - 91 points | 5 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
They sure stuck it to The Man there.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Another one that's much better at 33rpm. I voted for it.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
I voted for two-thirds of that EP. Is the microscopic fadeout a sound-engineering feat? Because it's pretty damn awesome.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zrQ9fba.jpg
29. Krib - 94 points | 5 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
In the lower reaches of my ballot along with pir; a firm personal fave but didn't feel meaty enough for the top ten.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I love that graffiti spray can rattle.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
spl9 is a bomb.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
this is true for me too, and i did vote without being remotely qualified. i suspect it's probably true for a lot of people coming at them from a similar place. something about how the internet and electronic music broke open post-2000 made what ae were doing not as exciting as playing catch-up or getting into various areas of "realer" shit for dilettantes like myself. i agree it is very pleasant to pick them up again and realize that they haven't necessarily changed anything about what it is they do but aren't stale, they've grown with the music and it can still sound very exciting even with the relative duds which seem pretty subjective anyway.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Krib = Carrib as in Caribbean as in steel drums
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
It's also a fish
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Of the cichlid family
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Wah!
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
does anyone rate or care about the album sean booth did with mika vainio and kouhei matsunaga (nhk) a few years ago
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Looking at some reviews, nope. I don't really care about the hafler trio stuff even though I bought it.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
its not really going to appeal to idm people
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
which is a good thing
its more like asmus tietchens later stuff than rephlex
its not like the hafler records either, those are fairly unexceptional drone stuff although i should probably revisit them
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
idm people drive like this
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
was listening to all the stuff from the rly early EPs to place here of late. it's cool music but doesn't hit my intense synaesthesia zone quite hard enough rly - back on cap.iv now and yeah I mean
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
maybe the early stuff needs perseverance as much as the later stuff tho
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
I think the latest thing I voted for was from confield. Some of the later stuff I find perverse, even grotesque but mostly I didn't vote for it because I just don't care about it. I became more of a homo at that time also although I'm not blaming rob and sean for that although Sean is cute.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
it needs appreciation of dope phat and/or tight beats iirc xp
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
thats what i referred to in the prior post, a lot of people here voting heavily for the 90s idm period when autechre defined that term more than were defined by it, and a lot of that was very good music so it's not really a pejorative lest anyone consider a wounded another response
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
lol jed i also became more gay after confield thus developing an aversion to electro
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
haha.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
there is at least one track on the early lps that deserves consideration with their later works and which will probably appear here
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
but do you agree that Sean is cute, more to the point?
xpost (or is it?)
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
got that north face swag
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
truth
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
sean, as above, has crazy messageboard sass. enough for me.
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
i'd north his face
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
I think this thread could use some focus.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link