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

this is a bit of a digression but going back to some old aphex after syro, that ep really stands out for its production which is so far ahead of the 97 norm in the same way that lp5 is a year later

it's not their halcyon, it's their little fluffy clouds

I can here that, but seeing as I prefer "Halcyon" many orders of magnitude more than "Fluffy"... :D

wait

acroyear 2

i swear i said millennial BEFORE realising this

Also yall some prescient MFs.

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

14. Under BOAC - 142 points | 7 votes

yeah, next ;)

(i did say 'clearly gonna be top 3'...malfunctions in the limbic system brah

)

lol i like the image
think ledge might just have GISd British Overseas Airway Corporation

Just you wait for the second-place image.

you actually managed to find a p.:ntil?

No spoilers.

http://i.imgur.com/5nMkoV5.gif

13. Cipater - 149 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote

True to its name.

hate to be that guy, but let's do this

dead certs:

cichli
rae
parhelic triangle
pen expers
surripere
gantz graf
cap.iv
eutow

maybes

drane
sim gishel
pro radii
loads of early shit ;)

someone with more knowledge of the early shit add to my dead certs pls

I *hated* this song when I first listened to Chiastic, because its limping breakbeat seemed so far from my favorite parts of LP5 and Tri Repetae and I hadn't yet reconciled Autechre's enduring love of hip hop. (Also, the AMG pan pre-biased me against the album.) (Of course Chiastic is probably my favorite album simply for its melding of texture and melody.)

The second half is like the soundtrack to a Soviet-era cartoon about marching ants.

Cipater is wonderful. All the songs this evening have been wonderful, actually.

oh shit what's happening to this song

It's the ants, Comrade!

that was...astonishing

shit, uh. these'll place?
bike
eggshell
laughing quarter
tewe
dropp
altibzz
irlite get 0
YJY UX

you guys are missing a very obvious one

spotify has 'montreal' as much-heard, is that the obvious one

garbagemx

Really? That's my least favorite from AeG by far.

xylin room

xp take your floucing to the Radiohead poll

jks obv

if xylin room makes it i will be delighted and amazed

I'd expect Montreal to place. There's one I like more on Amber that hasn't shown up yet though.

Don't really have much sense of the general popularity of Autechre tracks, personal faves could be sleepers, or not.

http://youtu.be/7uTUnTGb15c

set set set setitov

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

12. Surripere - 151 points | 6 votes

aw was holding out for top 10 but knew it'd land soon. my #3

i defer to my august colleague

surripiere reminds me an old spanish galleon capsizing off the galapagos while the dashing galician captain is effing the living daylights out of a cabin boy below decks

― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, December 11, 2010 1:37 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't even care that the track gets lost in fog towards the end. that's the whole point. it's the journey whence you may not return, the vast coldness of doom

and the beat-drop at 4 mins that triggers it all....no words

VI scose poise
Arch Carrier

surely

Lowrider?

lol forgot arch carrier

vi scose poise....idk. i voted for it but i just get the feeling it won't

even i voted for it.

Surripere is great - i can't say i've really listened to it.

ok i'm just going to do this now in lieu of what will probably be a bunch of tracks they did before lp5 placing, and since this countdown is happening so slowly and sporadically or else i'm just being impatient (thanks for all your work everyone!). what they managed to do texturally with electronic sound machines is just extraordinary, before iirc a lot more of their production chain became dependent on desktop environments of the time and they were more free to get trickier with their sequencing. the quality of the sound on those releases is just incredibly funky in a way i've never been able to articulate properly. obviously they've always been very good and interesting at composition and arrangement but in my opinion there was a special magic that coalesced around the 93-97 era when their talents for arrangement and sound design melded with a tradition that incorporated what kraftwerk and disco a generation before and techno contemporaneously knew about very basic properties of rhythm, tempo, funk, limbic movement aligned with heartbeats. the space that can be created from that kind of pulse is the reason i love dance music and electronic music and what makes some of their tracks, again mainly from that era, so timeless. it has been a pleasant surprise to return to recent releases and find they never completely lost that magic.

Surripere: http://youtu.be/J9ZesSEEOP4?t=1m7s

I forget if that's cued to the exact track for Iceland that "Surripere" sounds so much like.

I think Draft requires my attention.

great post, matt - will have it in mind when listening to their earlier stuff in future :)

I forget if that's cued to the exact track for Iceland that "Surripere" sounds so much like.

― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:56 (3 minutes ago)

yeah i was rereading the thread about that in order to see context for my dog latin parody c&ped above and milton parker notes that resemblance

Reniform POLLs -- Autechre :: Draft 7.30 :: LP7

don't think it will place, but "outpt" off ep7 really affects with the repetition and that reedy, sort of woody modem chord-drone. and its unnameable sorts of liquid sky/sucking/light sounds.. maybe one of their "easier" tracks

autechre were always great but they attained sublimity when they largely concealed that syncopated/crunchy sound of the mid 90s and went further into granular synthesis and the excessive, abstracted process music of confied/draft/gg

yeah that's my position too, but hearing some of the (admittedly mostly not much) earlier stuff & really being taken along with it has been a total thrill, this evening especially

surripere is one of the least 'difficult' of those tracks but it has an extreme dysphoric quality above just about anything they did

voted it really high obv

yah it's rly synaesthetic

autechre were always great but they attained sublimity when they largely concealed that syncopated/crunchy sound of the mid 90s and went further into granular synthesis and the excessive, abstracted process music of confied/draft/gg

disagree!

yeah i noted your case for the 90s stuff upthread and 'being there' probably counts for a lot
confield was probably the first thing of theirs i heard, envane sounds like an artifact