IS IT WASHAPOLL? - ILM ARTIST POLL #57 - AUTECHRE - RESULTS thread

this is the legit & unassailable sound of lentic catachresis occurring

IMO it's one of the three or four strongest on the album, but yeah, it's got a very Ur-Confield sense from it. The frenzied end is where it makes its money.

also my #9

the melodies in the first two minutes are absolutely sensational, some of ae's best songwriting. the rest...is the end of history

As much as I have grokked later Ae after initially disliking it, I have never really enjoyed Lentic Catachresis. The pure wall of sound, lack of overt textural/sonic progression, and missing beat has made this always a non-starter for me. Can someone give me a compelling reason to like this track or possibly explain how they got into it?

Corc more devisive than I'd have expected! I like it a lot.

Lentic is OK, but I prefer CapIV when it comes to the this particular style

only my 4th favourite from confield too! could have put it higher tbtffl

missing beat???? omg the beat is there, and it's sick. and the finale has this unstinting hihat sound holding it together right until the end

http://i.imgur.com/dxA6oEm.jpg

34T. d-sho qub - 83 points | 5 votes

i'm impressed by the high number of votes this far down the poll.

how many polls did you get, Leee?

idk what that even is

Yes! Glad something from Oversteps made it. And it's a huge tune! Didn't expect 5 votes for this but mine was one of them.

^^^ #7 on my list. d-sho qub is an absolute latter Ae masterpiece. The ending with the synthesized vocal choir is eerie as fuck, and made me realize these guys still have some fantastic all timer tracks left in them.

how many polls did you get, Leee?

20 ballots, jed_.

Right now, Oversteps is the ae album I don't quite 'get' ... too many shimmery generative-sounding tracks I think.

yeah its too glossy and not edited enough

ta.

Lentic is my second fave off confield, not that it made my ballot. Love the alien processed voices at the start but not sure there's enough of interest in the second half.

Lentic is OK, but I prefer CapIV when it comes to the this particular style

Yeah capiv definitely similar and just a bit stronger.

Elvis is all sho qub.

Love Oversteps. Felt like a little revisit to the LP5 sound but with updated production.

Okay not a missing beat per se. It's a classic example of turning the beat into texture, morphing a major element into a completely different one, and that I enjoy. The thing that kills this track for me is the pure lack of progression after the first 2 minutes. All the other tracks on Confield are these pristine organic structures that slowly and often unpredictably evolve into new forms over the duration of their performance. This metamorphasis is much more subdued on the last 6-7 minutes of Lentic, and I get bored with the inert minimalism coupled with the lack of overt rhythm outside of the hihat. There is an interesting and buried melody but it's not enough for me to derive any sort of appreciation for the track. When I first started enjoying Confield, I thought of this track as a concept song expressing the "ghost in the machine", where Ae setup the parameters for the initial beat and it just collapsed in on itself and created this whole movement they didn't initially predict and felt that the idea of putting a song on that was an "emergent" tune was pretty compelling (not sure if that's how it was indeed composed). In any case... it's the most boring tune on Confield for me. Something I never listen to when I play it, in fact.

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.

was just listening to oversteps for like 15+ minutes and it was actively angering me. reminded me most of all of fucking Rain In England, haha

see on see is beautiful but formally otiose like a lot of oversteps

voted for ilanders though

IMO the best parts of Confield are the transitions between tracks.

the transition between track II and III of gantz graf is exquisite

pro radii into augmatic disport is nxtlvl

nakh otm as well tho, my god

Oversteps rules, it's like the rest of their boring Supercollider 00s wankfests but it has tunes

http://i.imgur.com/9WnjRkJ.jpg

32T. Bronchusevenmx - 84 points | 3 votes

http://i.imgur.com/PuDrGyN.jpg

32T. spl9 - 84 points | 4 votes

Can someone give me a compelling reason to like this track or possibly explain how they got into it?

love lentic/capIV. it's similar to what I get out of harsh digital noise - the sounds are sharp and vivid but the the gradual build is disorienting and anxiety-inducing and it all kinda just flattens my brain out. the net effect ends up being sorta relaxing.

"Bronchusevenmx" is the sound of water dripping from stalactites over the eons and thus is the ideal brooding music for moody would-be goths.

Listened to spl9 and was enjoying it, but now cloudline is playing and I'm enjoying that way more, wonder if it's going to appear here

voted for spl9
its not the most amazing track but its a lot of fun

last two graphics very apposite

31. Second Bad Vilbel - 87 points | 4 votes

http://i.imgur.com/mabehct.jpg

The part where this track comes back in but slower is immense

Bronchusevenmx was my number 2, i'm a goth!

goths don't use exclamation marks.

Second Bad Vilbel has worn on me but it's kinda iconic and not just because Radiohead ripped it off.

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).

Sure...

Move Over Ten Steps

01. r ess
02. rew(1)
03. Treale
04. pt2ph8
05. see on see
06. no border
07. d-sho qub
08. iris was a pupil
09. os veix3
10. yim0
11. st epreo
12. krYlon
13. 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".

Glad to see spl9 made it, btw. I had a tough time keeping that and Flep from Exai off my ballot.

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.

spl9 is HARDCORE. I would risk slipping it into a straight techno set perhaps.

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.

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.

redfall is the oversteps standout for me

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