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

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.

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.

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!

Anyone here for #6?

http://i.imgur.com/FH0tLE3.jpg

moar

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?

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.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--2n_GV3oO6k/UQ5JpndfWUI/AAAAAAAAJHc/QC5d_LiaWnk/s1600/best-cry-ever.gif

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.

^ only found out about that the other day, need to process it more.

cichli
parhelic triangle
arch carrier
cap.iv
eutow

-parhelic
+Vletrmx
+Basscadet

Also apparently there's an spl47 due on a compilation next month. Not to mention the album and tour next year - maybe.

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.

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.

Rae is simply beautiful. The first Ae track I fell in love with.

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.

Does rae have vocals?

The little hesitant melody that comes in at 2:31 sounds vocal to me, whether it is or not I'm not fussed.

to be clear, "Drane" is the one off the Peel Session correct?

yh

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.

Chiastic Slide was what got me into Autechre (along with Envane) and remains a favorite. I was less into LP5 when it came out.

Slide sounds to me like Untilted-lite. I don't mean that in a patronizing way though. Maybe like Untilted, untangled

chiastic slide i rather ignored for some time but i played it extensively this summer
as an album it has quite a distinct unifying aesthetic, less a telelogical stepping stone than its own hermetic soundworld
it has that staticky noise filigree all over it but it isnt particularly dissonant, it has some of their prettier and catchier melodies like cichli
i 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 distinct
fairly sure this has a lot to do with the very rapid advances in software generally in that period and for autechre especially

http://i.imgur.com/2swSdWD.jpg

Well good news Jasper because...

6. Clipper - 205 points | 9 votes

http://i.imgur.com/VUuDOA0.jpg

Surprise! I voted for dael, could've voted for that. A great opening pair and statement of intent.

those tracks always seem linked to me, they both represented a sort of naive blade runner type of futurism to me as a callow adolescent

first ae track i ever heard (downloaded via kazaa)

The beats on "Clipper" are just amazing, a pristine crystal lattice, everything is so precisely ordered and a big counterpoint to Autechre's future experiments in entropy.

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZOAAdnneBs

good song. i had it at #6 on my list too.

A+ dn, cajun.

hehe

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

*muffled cough*

http://i.imgur.com/3Afdkdb.jpg

5. Cap.IV - 207 points | 8 votes | 1 #1 vote

zing!

http://i.imgur.com/yHzTb1q.jpg

4. Arch Carrier - 213 points | 8 votes | 2 #1 votes

Arpeggiator ahoy!

ffs lol

Should've gone knight rider for the arch carrier pic.

Yeah in hindsight I should've run the Cap.IV image through blingee or something.

my prediction was Arch Carrier at #1

real talk now tho

cap.iv is straight up one of the great artworks of our time & was only beaten by 6ie.cr on my ballot cos I'm different and special, also clairvoyant & I knew it wouldn't make the 50 without a #1

anyway, cap.iv. what is there to say? it is monolithic, spellbinding, self-contained yet infinitely suggestive, emotionally devastating, entropic, grandstanding, vaster than comprehension, summative, ineffable, fundamental. it makes me feel the pang of being intensely in love, but with no other human involved - it has hacked the highest synaesthesia (lol) of them all. I have been caning it all week and each listen brings more than the last. perfectly bittersweet and perfectly clinical at once. accelerating granular oblivion awaits us all. only beauty lies between. out

that advert is all wrong
if i were to associate 'clipper' with a car it would be a 95 vintage nsx

cap.iv was my #1 and i wouldnt have expected it to get so high here

no emotional logorrhea? cmooon just this once

VW also had an ad with Hoover(phonic) around the same time.

I'll simply say that Cap.IV is one of those rare pieces of music where, whenever it plays, I just have to stop whatever I'm doing and *listen*

http://i.imgur.com/cmM79jB.jpg

3. Vletrmx - 262 points | 11 votes