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

at least that means u are digital rather than analogue

maybe if u hear confield first it just programs u like this

been feeling like an artifact myself lately, a lot

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070609183440/simpsons/images/9/9b/Jasper.png

Sitting on #11 right now because the day is only half over for me. Do people want to see 10-6, and leave the top 5 for Friday?

y

so true, j

nooooo we want it all today

nice timing Leee. TGIDSP. i know i haven't contributed but this has been a blast.

line em up!

if that's an option yeah just post em imo we can all get synaesthetic about them after post individual ballots tomorrow move on to xtc

lol you ravenous lot.

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11. Gantz Graf - 165 points | 7 votes | 1 #1 vote

speaking of synaesthetic

I had a clear top 4 from lp5, decided to pick two and it was more or less at random, under boac lost out but the drum breakdown is next level unfuckwithable.

Woah leee giving a bit of zing to my cipater image. From look back in anger, well if an anticipater looks forward... Surripere is some Latin conjugation of steal, image is from Whistle and I'll Come to You, Michael Hordern suffering the consequences of his inadvertent theft. Fyi.

think ledge might just have GISd British Overseas Airway Corporation

Sometimes you just gotta go with the obvious.

anticipate means 'act before' so a cipater is one who merely acts, but then look back in anger is a play ;)

that surripere image is great
gantz is just perfect, just a total immersion, into the void
its the sort of track even bobby gillespie could understand

surripere image yeah. and the gantz image has me a keen anticipater of the cap.iv graphic

gantz is great with or without the brilliant video and feels like a manifesto of sorts

Woah leee giving a bit of zing to my cipater image.

When I added the text to the original image you gave me, the palette got confused and was saved with the Miami Vice colors. Dawned on me that preserving the interesting glitch would be well in keeping with the poll.

Didn't vote for gantz. Might take that with me to my grave.

as someone who likes to revive really terrible ancient ilx threads from time to time, i must say that most of the early refs to confield and gantz get it fairly well, including dj martian who included confield in his top 250 records of the first half of 2001

well he was avowedly very forward-thinking

haha

the gantz image has me a keen anticipater of the cap.iv graphic

*muffled cough*

lol

post flagged.

So I put Cipater as my #1. I think it encapsulates everything I love about Autechre, and is also a significant track nostalgically for me as well. The opening crunchy hip hop beat is immediately engaging, and really builds on everything I enjoyed with Tri-Rep but with more expressiveness. The atmosphere is quietly ominous and the analog lead synths are sublime as they drench the background of the track with reverb and different percussion elements begin to fold into the mix. The opening grooves. A lot. Almost more so than any early/mid period Autechre. Additional elements come in play both rhythmically and melodically, and finally this bubbling undercurrent of squelchy synth tone comes in and the beat begins to start to mutate. You can tell these guys wanted to do more and have these pieces constantly evolve instead of evolving step by step; revisiting Chiastic really does seem to predict Confield and Draft. More and more does Cichlisuite and LP5 seem to awkwardly stick out in their catalog.

But that transition. When the breakdown happens my favorite synth tone Ae has ever produced fades in... the reverberated analog bass (see Medrey/Key Nell 3/Teartear for other examples of this bass... might be a Juno-106?) comes in menacingly and then begins to solo into the one of the most gorgeous melodic progressions these guys have put out. And then the beat reconstructs into a stronger groove and the layered snowy synths fade in as the lead bass continues to solo onward and upward in quite a syncopated, swing heavy flow. It's fucking gorgeous... and then the melody climbs an octave, the original bassline returns and the melody expands into becoming a nearly sustained arpgeggio. At this point, I usually always get chills.

Older Ae has always had this transcendent, almost spiritual melodic quality that I've always valued above their synaesthetic, sculptured, and "jazzier" material post LP5, and Cipater has always been that song for me that perfectly embodied this as well as having one my favorite beats they've ever produced. The Psi Onyx remix and Keynell 4 also exhibit these traits and are all in my top 5.

✓

Cipater and Maphive 6.1 are my favourite discoveries today, maybe Acroyear2 as well

Never been a fan of Cipater but will revisit after reading octobeard's post

Maphive is amazing, a medieval battlefield of a tune to which someone brings a broken piano during half time oranges

And its true. Chiastic Slide anticipates post-Confield Ae far more than LP5 or EP7. Those records are like a detour in some ways.

Last one for the next few hours (still have to process the last several images).

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10. Drane - 168 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote

thanks Leee,

Drane was high on my ballot!

great image too.

this is a ballad about cicadas

also it's brilliant & a shame i was turned onto it only after ballots were handed in. utterly gorgeous

the same source also alerted me just now to the existence of 'netlon sentinel', which is straight-up astonishing & should have resulted in the immediate abandonment of the radiohead electronica project

I have no idea why I didn't vote for "Drane", it might be their best ever "dramatic, slow-building epic".

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

I don't know anyone who listened to them in the 90's who would say this.

that is reassuring to me

drane is the best thing they did in the 1990s, thus one of the very best things made by anyone in that decade and ✓ to whoever voted it #1
the numbering of my list was mostly quite arbitrary, think drane was second, voted for another #1 largely because of the genereal preference stated above

my number 1 isn't coming anywhere, sadly. it's a gescom track.

I don't know anyone who listened to them in the 90's who would say this.

hi

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9. Garbagemx - 178 points | 7 votes | 1 #1 vote

Baffling to me that "Garbagemx" outplaced "Bronchusevenmx," because the former takes FOREVER to get past the noodly bits before it gets interesting (which is the sparkly ambient sparkles that's otherwise in full effect in AeG).

(And yes, I lied, I have a few more images available right now.)

bronchus was my number 2. perhaps i should have made it number 1. Garbagemx is great but Vletrmx is better.

I can't listen to "Drane" on headphones, the clicks are too sharp, but it's almost worth it just to hear that glorious, skyscraping drone. And it's great on speakers.

idk about "attained sublimity" but i feel like it's common for longtime Autechre fans to believe they started doing something special and new with Confield, right?

xposts

they attained sublimit, y

Their 90's peak bought them almost limitless fan loyalty -- it came in handy for "Confield" and "Gantz Graf", which are a lot less immediate than what they'd done up to that point, IMO.

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8. Pen Expers - 184 points | 8 votes | 1 #1 vote

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7. Rae - 199 points | 9 votes