Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, I didn't see this poll. Would have probably voted for Windwind, although I haven't heard any early Autechre in years.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 21 October 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
bike
― sam500, Thursday, 21 October 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
autriche and bronchus are the weaker tracks on this, but surprised no vote for windwind and i have a soft spot for maetl
― ¸¸.·´¯´·he'd sail across the bubbling waves·.¸¸.·´¯ (another al3x), Thursday, 21 October 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprised at the vote for "Kalpol Intro," which would've made a nice thread-title pun, come to think of it.
― Homo Sabean (Leee), Friday, 22 October 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Doctrine
― corey, Friday, 22 October 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Listened to this when I woke up this morning. Perfect for cold winter mornings when you're still creaky. Lowride and Maetl are the best tracks I think in the end.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 22 October 2010 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Again with the Lowride! I find this love for it odd not because it's 'jazz', obviously that's just a personal bete-noire, but because to me it's just not Autechre. You could argue that they have other jazz-esque moments, e.g. the 'twelve notes in search of a melody' thing on Cichli, Draun Quarter, and others, but those just don't have the pongy jazz odour of Lowride. It scares me to imagine an alternate reality where they go more in that direction, and instead of being one of my best loved groups, become one of my most hated.
― ledge, Friday, 22 October 2010 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Linking to the next poll for sake of posterity: Y'all don't have any idea of what's POLLING on -- Autechre :: Basscad :: EP1
― Homo Sabean (Leee), Saturday, 23 October 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The cover photograph depicts mountain formations from CapPOLLdocia -- Autechre :: Amber :: LP2
― Cliff Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Kalpol Introl was the first Autechre track I ever heard, via the Pi soundtrack. I remember listening to it on headphones at night on a train platform in college and thinking "Wow, electronic music can be DEEP and SOULFUL"
― your favorite homoerotic savior imagery (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
still come back to this one. Best Autechre record.
― undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
I just listened to it again yesterday! Despite Ae's reputation as a flagship IDM act I feel like this is the only release that really fit into that scene. There's actually a pretty standard house breakdown bit on "Doctrine" that is so weirdly unlike them. I mean as messed up as bits of this album are, in retrospect it's only been a springboard to the whacked out things they'd try later.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
So, the 'jazz piano' bit in Lowride is a sample from DJ Premier's In Deep Concentration by Gang Starr. Which is itself, according to contributors to whosampled dot com, a combination of a replayed phrase from The Awakening by Ahmad Jamal Trio (this seems like speculation) and a sample from Summer Madness by Kool & The Gang.
The Autechres wearing their Gang Starr fandom on their sleeves there, I guess. Still, it does whiff strongly of that era of Mo' Wax ersatz jazziness, and of course it was included on one of those Headzzz compilations. I like to think of James Lavelle taking the blame / credit for that sample.
Also, is this the only song they've released with identifiable TR-808 sounds (if that's what they are)?
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Thursday, 30 August 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
sorry, you don’t like trip hop?
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link
what’s not to like about trip hop?
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
autechre were big early supporters of mo’wax
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1k_BrA8CI
― linee, Friday, 31 August 2018 06:58 (five years ago) link
Finally an answer to what links Miles Davis, Autechre, and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, 31 August 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
apart from their collab “Sahara Dance (So Wicked) turbile casual” of course
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 31 August 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
um mowax rules sorry
― brimstead, Friday, 31 August 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
true
― the late great, Friday, 31 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
'ersatz jazziness' is jazziness
― macropuente (map), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
ftw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnGd4Jv5hxM
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
the shame is that there isn't more Ae in that vein.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
yep
― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
this lp was 30 years old on 29th November
― koogs, Saturday, 9 December 2023 20:39 (five months ago) link