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

^ 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

tomorrow when i am at home i might write about that track and confield/gantz if i have been drinking enough by mid-afternoon

love vletrmx and voted for it

when hurricane charlie/frances came through my town and we were without power for a few days i had a burned copy of garbage ep and a portable cd player, and now associate that track with intense humidity and candlelight

Another one I had to learn to love, I think because it's kind of atypical for an ambient track, at least in its choice of using a brassy tone as the main melody and mixing it so high (and while I was trying to summon this in my mind, I kept getting it mixed up with "Drane2").

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*

Tbh this may be why I haven't spent much time with it and didn't consider it for my ballot. Enjoying it seems like an investment. And I'm pretty lazy, even in my music listening habits apparently.

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

2. Eutow - 269 points | 9 votes | 1 #1 vote

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

1. Cichli - 313 points | 12 votes

yesssssss

whatevs ... lowride #1 4 eva

this is an outrage.