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
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
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
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 3 October 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
that is reassuring to me
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
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 #1the numbering of my list was mostly quite arbitrary, think drane was second, voted for another #1 largely because of the genereal preference stated above
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
my number 1 isn't coming anywhere, sadly. it's a gescom track.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
hi
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KARtlX7.jpg
9. Garbagemx - 178 points | 7 votes | 1 #1 vote
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
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.)
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
bronchus was my number 2. perhaps i should have made it number 1. Garbagemx is great but Vletrmx is better.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
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?
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― ugh (lukas), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
they attained sublimit, y
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 3 October 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1UaWfeS.jpg
8. Pen Expers - 184 points | 8 votes | 1 #1 vote
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dqrFOnc.jpg
7. Rae - 199 points | 9 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
amazed myself by cutting this off my ballot at the last second (in favour of vi scose poise). it's really good though - just not one of my confield preferences. the ending as will have been pointed out is absurdly brilliant. the polyrhythms are pretty good fun. good organ sounds too. a criticism? feels a bit more up-front than some of their other stuff of the period - not as subtle, mysterious, buried, meditative, gorgeous* or contradictory - it's a fairly full-on assault, and it works
*the organ melody is lovely tho
uh, pen expers obv
rae i heard earlier and it was delightful & vv pretty and i won't hear a word said against it
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
cichliparhelic trianglearch carriercap.iveutow
PLUS ONE MORE
am now slightly doubtful about parhelic triangle? nah surely
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
rae is almost a str8-up ballad as well, w/o drane's mesmeric insectoid quality
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
"Rae" is so luscious despite working with the same gray-tone palette that the rest of the LP5 uses. It has the same low-contrast sumptuousness of The Passion of Joan of Arc. It's a neat trick how they do that.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
And that really is it for now.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Final 6 tomorrow then?
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
I ~could~ post them in a few hours.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah thats enough for now, rae a plaintive whimsical lil bookend
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
imo wait for more ppl to be online tomorrow afternoon/evening, only fair
if you wanna sneak out #6 in a bit tho then by all means. i will be asleep
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
is eutow really that popular? i thought for sure I'd be the only one voting for it
― the late great, Friday, 3 October 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
Pen Expers was my #1. It just feels chaotic at first, then you have this beautiful melody slowly peeking through. Eventually the melody envelops the beat completely and somehow everything that seemed so random and chaotic at the beginning makes total sense. Then the melody disappears, but everything still seems perfectly structured and even though the melody isn't there anymore, its presence and effect on the rest of the song is still felt. It's a neat trick. A beautiful song.
― Larminard Darzingargle (silverfish), Friday, 3 October 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
eutow & c/pach were in my top 10... kinda wish they were treated as one song. I really don't like listening to one without the other.
― octobeard, Friday, 3 October 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
also voted for
maphive 6.1 - more jazz! around four the minute mark it starts doing that mid 90s electro spy jazz thing, like early emissions-era two lone swordsmen. not sure how to describe the first two movements!
― the late great, Friday, 3 October 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
Anyone here for #6?
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FH0tLE3.jpg
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 05:23 (nine years ago) link
moar
― the late great, Friday, 3 October 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
Lee, have you ever wished for a 24-minute version of "444"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZvVQKRaAa8
In a way you're right -- "444" could have been recorded by just about anyone on R&S' roster at the time -- but that's kind of the point. It's a stab at vaguely club-ready trance-y techno that they never attempted before or since, and that's what makes it special.
The skittery beats are pure 1993-style Autechre though, that just about nobody would have attempted on a track like this. And dare I say that the rapid-fire pseudo-hihats, strange bird-chirping rhythms, and wet blanket kick drum make up one of the funkiest rhythm tracks they ever recorded?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 3 October 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
Barry, yes, I've seen the extended 444! Have to find the time to give it the proper attention though.
The rest will have to wait for tomorrow.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Friday, 3 October 2014 06:13 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--2n_GV3oO6k/UQ5JpndfWUI/AAAAAAAAJHc/QC5d_LiaWnk/s1600/best-cry-ever.gif
― the late great, Friday, 3 October 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf1pJ-7GNV8
Not sure this compilation track was mentioned in the first thread - did anyone have this on their ballot? Love this one.
― octobeard, Friday, 3 October 2014 06:50 (nine years ago) link
^ only found out about that the other day, need to process it more.
-parhelic+Vletrmx+Basscadet
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Friday, 3 October 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
Also apparently there's an spl47 due on a compilation next month. Not to mention the album and tour next year - maybe.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Friday, 3 October 2014 07:31 (nine years ago) link
Drane is great but I find some of the frequencies too piercing. Off Peel I would choose Milk DX for the strange muted sax rap, a sound I was obsessed with for its linguistic properties.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Friday, 3 October 2014 08:52 (nine years ago) link
444 is a total jam but I wouldn't have rated it any higher than the other Incunabula jams (basscadet, eggshell, doctrine, maetl, windwind), listening again maybe it is funkier and more sumptuous. But I was hardly listening to normal dance music at the time so I wouldn't have seen it as being "a stab at vaguely club-ready trance-y techno", and it still seems very much of a piece with the rest of the album.
Rae is so gentle! Ever since hearing an acapella mix of it I always remember it as having more vocals than it does, but the little stutters it does have are quite soothing, and the drums are pillowy soft. And the slowing down without pitching down always seems like magic to me (see also: Belfast).
Pen expers - feels a bit more up-front than some of their other stuff of the period I think of the first three Confield tracks as a kind of mini suite, each one more aggressive than the last. Only afterwards does the full on synaesthesia experience start. My #5 btw.
Drane, I can and do lose myself in its vortex.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:04 (nine years ago) link
Rae is simply beautiful. The first Ae track I fell in love with.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
I find Pen Expers just a bit brutal to be honest. Wish they'd let it breathe a bit. I find a lot of tracks on Confield to be blunted and claustrophobic which was always my main problem with the record.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:07 (nine years ago) link
Does rae have vocals?
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
The little hesitant melody that comes in at 2:31 sounds vocal to me, whether it is or not I'm not fussed.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
to be clear, "Drane" is the one off the Peel Session correct?
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 3 October 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
yh
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Just something I was wondering... The people who prefer '00s Ae, what's your take on Chiastic Slide? In some ways that album feels closer to the Confield/Draft/Untilted sound than LP5 does.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 3 October 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
Chiastic Slide was what got me into Autechre (along with Envane) and remains a favorite. I was less into LP5 when it came out.
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Slide sounds to me like Untilted-lite. I don't mean that in a patronizing way though. Maybe like Untilted, untangled
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
chiastic slide i rather ignored for some time but i played it extensively this summeras an album it has quite a distinct unifying aesthetic, less a telelogical stepping stone than its own hermetic soundworldit has that staticky noise filigree all over it but it isnt particularly dissonant, it has some of their prettier and catchier melodies like cichlii dont relate it to confield at all because however chaotic and overdriven that era is, those recordings sound much more sterile (a good thing), the individual elements more distinctfairly sure this has a lot to do with the very rapid advances in software generally in that period and for autechre especially
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link