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

it maketh one to pop the body

just catching up with the poll. vose in really should have placed higher. what i love about lp5 is how clean it is. they manage to rinse a ton of emotion from these actually quite simple saw-tooth wave forms on this one. something about the way the 'melody' wraps around those chords.

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26. Second Scepe - 100 points | 4 votes

what i love about lp5 is how clean it is

― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2014 00:44

yeah

voted 'second scepe' very high, it just, i never get tired of it. the click-it sound makes me shiver.

oh shi i meant second scout wah wahhhhh

maybe anvil vapre will all make it!

Scepe is the unsung hero on Anvil Vapre IMO, with that spooky vocal sample getting cut up in a way that is very reminiscent of the Garbage sound.

(Bad Vilbel gets most of the attention, of course.)

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25. Silverside - 104 points | 5 votes

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24. Leterel - 105 points | 4 votes | 1 #1 vote

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23. Drane2 - 108 points | 5 votes

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21T. Recury - 110 points | 4 votes

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21T. Stud - 110 points | 4 votes

this is getting a bit closer to the essence

not sure i even remember what recury and stud sound like, but i love the first three of those. drane2 is their answer to bouncing bucephalus ball. leterel does that cool chord thing they do that i like.

"Leterel" used to be my favorite just because I used to be dead-simple to impress with strings. Plus, that wheezing percussion.

I was so proud of liking "Drane2" in the early '00s.

"Stud" is cool, it always sounded like a metal chain rippling across asphalt.

"Leterel" used to be my favorite just because I used to be dead-simple to impress with strings.

lol, yeah me too.

stud is cool actually... not really what i listen to autechre for, but it's got a nice stalky groove.

god i used to love the strings in leterel, otherwise its a little bit plodding and diagrammatic
cant imagine how great it would have sounded in 1995

jeez have people forgotten how to enjoy trip hop?

really surprised stud and leterel got more votes than rsdio too

here are some tracks i voted for

vose in - for me comes down to the melody. just one of the most straight-up beautiful songs (riffs?) they've ever written. especially the killer synth solo 3:00 mins in. and the part where it all falls apart at about 3:40 sounds really incredible on a system with a good soundstage. sounds bouncing around in the room in 4d.

flutter - i remember when this came out i was pretty blown away. it's got a beautiful melody and amazing drums. and at the time i couldn't have told you this but it's like the first "skittery beats" autechre i heard (presaging lp5 sound) and also some of the earliest stuff i might tag "drill and bass"

as noted by dj food, "flutter" goes down well with "laughable butane bulb"

whoops "butane bob"

i did not vote for either of the envane tracks mentioned so far but i remember the first time i heard it like people remember stuff like assassinations

played in store at m-theory records in berkeley by early allmusic contributor s34n c00p3r to a small crowd of awed skaters with tortoise in their record bags

what i love about lp5 is how clean it is

yeah this is part of what i like so much about vose in. don't remember where or who but someone said hearing lp5 was like seeing the polished chrome skeleton beneath the layers of sound from chiastic slide

I had draun quarter at 2 and leterel at 6, second scepe and silverside down the bottom. guess i'm still a sucker for simple & emotionally manipulative strings - but y'know leterel has those fat synths and the dentists drill going on too.

the nearly three minute long "gravity defying wind down ending" ((c) nme 1997) of draun quarter is hands down my favourite of their many many excellent fades.

love drane2 as well. stud and recury two holding pattern tracks that don't do so much for me.

I should be asleep, but here's a little bonus for our British/European friends.

not sure what to say about "second bad vilbel". guess you had to be there?

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19T. Piezo - 115 points | 4 votes

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19T. Gescom - Keynell 4 - 115 points | 4 votes | 1 #1 vote

these are coming at some chaotic times of day :D

ooh columnar jointing i was just learning about that

YES. Keynell 4 is a goddamned minimal masterpiece of a chord progression. Looking forward to finding who picked that as their #1

Was my #6

Never cared for Second Bad Vilbel much. Noisy fecker though, possibly better @ 33. I got the second 12" first and I don't think it was labelled so what I assumed was the lead track, and the one I've voted for here, turned out to be the last one.

Piezo and Keynell 4 at #9 and #8 for me. Two more excellent long drawn out endings. It's a simple trick maybe, fading out the percussion to leave the harmonic & melodic elements hanging there but damn it works well. Plus Keynell 4 ultimately drops out all the elements one by one, a mirror image of the beginning where they all get individually introduced.

I had 'Stud' at #3, that's one I really came around to while putting my ballot together - conjures up the image of some sort of tiny mechanical creature burrowing through layers of earth.

I like 'Leterel' but when the string melody changes at about 4:45 I always want to start singing the chorus of 'The Mercy Seat' over it.

'Piezo' was my #2, it's one of those classic 'whole album condensed into one track' songs.

This poll is wiping me out. I sit at work all day and nothing, then as soon as I leave it all kicks off and I end up staring at ILM all night as well. Oh well, can't be helped.

Piezo is one of my favourite early Ae tracks. A real highlight off Amber, and it's all about that wolf/owl/howling noise that rises and falls from over the sand dunes.

I don't know Keynell. How is this? I guess I never really invested in Gescom all that much. Really like Go Sumo though.

go sumo is ok but go sheep's where it's at

YES. Keynell 4 is a goddamned minimal masterpiece of a chord progression. Looking forward to finding who picked that as their #1

hi!

I guess most people didn't vote for non-AE tracks in the main poll seeing as there was a separate poll for non-AE stuff. So maybe I had a different voting strategy than other people (i.e. who didn't want to vote twice for non-AE tracks, even though the rules specifically allowed for it) but I honestly can't think of a better AE/non-AE track (or EP) than this one.

People have been praising LP5 for sounding so "clean", but I prefer Autechre when they're sludgy, foreboding and intimidating. "Teartear" was my #2 , the hyper-aggressive "Basscadet (Bcdtmx)" was my #3, and two tracks from "Anvil Vapre" made my top 10.

"Keynell 4" is a kind of successor to "Teartear" with its chunky, lurching beats and then the synth parts pile on and on, striking this odd balance between peaceful sounding church organs and horror movie sound effects. The beats drop out far too soon (the best tracks are always the ones you wish would go on for another ten minutes, and since they don't, you have play them on repeat endlessly) but it's just the start of the second half of the song -- the most beautiful coda they ever recorded. And despite what I said earlier, this track technically never ends btw (the vinyl finishes with a locked groove).

go sumo is ok but go sheep's where it's at

oh no, that's the kind of farty jazz I just can't deal with.

Keynell is far and away the most definitely ae sounding of all the gescom releases from that period and 4 is the obvious highlight, no question 4 wasn't going in my top ten.

the vinyl finishes with a locked groove

really, what with? the cd version ends with a kind of digital insect buzz that zooms off into a high pitch, and there's a tiny coda of piston effects.

Go Sheep sounds exactly like a screensaver or a level on a point and click adventure involving a sheep.

Ha, I think I might have got Go Sumo & Go Sheep mixed up earlier. Go Sheep is OK but yeah, Sumo.

I'm sure I wrote a track back in 2000 that ripped off Go Sumo note for note. Good techno!

really, what with? the cd version ends with a kind of digital insect buzz that zooms off into a high pitch, and there's a tiny coda of piston effects.

It's the same as the CD version, but with the piston effects in the locked groove.

So I can't help but indulge in some top ten speculation. Lack of incunabulera so far worryingly suggests it might dominate.