POSSE! YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE! It's the 1990s ELECTRONIC ALBUMS poll results!

love this thread, felt like i wasn't knowledgeable enough to vote and i'm enjoying discovering to the albums i'd never heard before. really loving burger/ink on first listen, right up my alley, can't believe i had never heard this before. it's fantastic !

Put on Exit Planet Dust last night after not hearing it for probably well over 10 years and WOW, it's LOADS more energetic than I remember it. In my mind I'd had it pegged as a downtempo, kind of smokey-pop album with lots of triphop beats, but on the whole it's BANGERS!

Yeah the guest vocalists on Leftism work because the production feels so of-a-piece throughout and it has that DJ set flow throughout as well, by and large. Later attempts by various 90s acts to rope in guest vocalists tended to focus on getting an indie singer in to to the psychedelic one, an undie rapper in to do the vaguely hip-hop one, Hope Sandoval in to do the dreamy one etc etc. But because Leftism is rooted in dub and reggae none of the vocalists feel out of place or shoehorned in, even Lydon.

(Should probably save this discussion for later really)

This ^^^ Fat Of The Land was probably the worst example of it letting an album down.

At least The Fat Of The Land sounded broadly coherent, there are some later Chemical Brothers albums that are all over the place, to the extent you wondered why they were even bothering.

what's up, Fatlip?

It would make me so happy to see Dettinger's amazing Intershop (1999) make this list... It was Kompakt's first single-artist release, and it's still one of the highlights of that entire catalog for me.

Skrillex posted Flim to Facebook, mentioned it was a favorite, his fans were uh nonplussed.

STILL W8IN 4 DA DROP~~WTF SKRIL??

http://fakewalls.com/storage/Skrillex-Aphex-Twin-Facebook.jpeg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1326799659144

I hope Skrillex put Tuan Sy Dau down humanely.

i'm going to take the url literally on that being fake

I've been super busy today, I'm not sure if I have the time to post anything. But if not, I'll continue tomorrow and try to finish these results by Friday, so we can get to tracks poll results next week.

It would make me so happy to see Dettinger's amazing Intershop (1999) make this list... It was Kompakt's first single-artist release, and it's still one of the highlights of that entire catalog for me.

Sorry to disappoint you, but this wasn't even nominated.

Really keen on the singles results.

But agree with everything about the Chems here, I felt the same way looking over their records for this.

25. Autechre - LP5 (Warp Records, 1998)
107 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/lp5.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/7zlbMdBS3J2YQRDuMMT9u4

mindless crap is what my dad said after listening to a bit of LP5 but for me it's great background music and also when your fucked up...

― Kevin Enas, 23. huhtikuuta 2001 3:00

With Autechre, they are still Warp's mainstay tendril in the future of sound, but sort of by default. Booth/Brown's fascination with the "science fiction" aspect of creating music will always throw them forward . Sure, it's hyper-math, but so is the symmetry of the fucking cosmos, you know? The major complaint that I hear most is that their newer stuff is "difficult to listen to," as compared to earlier music. I think that specific major complaint sort of lets us perceive the fact that there is something going on with them...a type of progression, a deliberate evolution of sorts. I know people who couldn't even begin to try to relate to the opening track of LP5 who , (what? how many years later?) , now bop their head to it rhythmically. Maybe the are lost in their maths, maybe we are behind in our adaption to the future of sound. ok, babble babble.

― Gage-o, 24. joulukuuta 2001 3:00

My favorite Autechre is LP5 without a doubt. There's something especially alien about the sounds on that album, but at the same time it has this strange accessibility. When those melodies and beats get in your head, it's hard to get them out. The repetition is never too much as it can be on some other Autechre albums.

― lou, 15. huhtikuuta 2002 3:00

autechre would've been godhead if they retired after LP5.
LP5 would've been pristine if not for the hidden track.

― Sir Leee (Leee), 30. syyskuuta 2003 0:48

24. Autechre - Amber (Warp Records, 1994)
109 points, 6 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/amber.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/7EfhvG3RwdhzXrFlkDVxg4

Well, technically it's not about the city, but Autechre named one of their earlier songs Montreal. (This was on Amber when the songs had melodies and their titles were pronounceable) Someone told me it's because they first tried ecstasy when they played here in '93 or '94 ....interesting.

― Elliot, 11. helmikuuta 2002 3:00

That's what I always hear about Amber, but that never struck me as a melodic record. More of a drifting kind of thing.

― Mark (MarkR), 24. syyskuuta 2002 22:35

Autechre's 'Amber' album would sound good with some hip hop lyrics over it here and there

― stevem (blueski), 11. huhtikuuta 2003 13:13

that's how i feel about autechre's "amber" which is another album that i've spent an unhealthy amount of time with.

i think to myself, now this is a declaration of intent if i've ever heard one. simply massive...

i think my favorite thing about "sawII" and "amber" is the way they reference nature.

― tricky disco (disco stu), 7. huhtikuuta 2004 4:11

23. Autechre - Tri Repetae (Warp Records, 1995)
114 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/trirepetae.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/0ioIXXMV89w0qC39FpxYnL

personally, subjectively, they were brilliant on _tri repetae_. almost a perfect piece of work, i think, with all of the more traditionalist melodic bits of their first two albums clashing with the beginnings of the DSP shitstorm that was to come on later releases.

― your null fame, 23. huhtikuuta 2001 3:00

I guess you might call them "anal", but I don't think that makes them dull by any means. Tri Repetae in headphones while drowsy is the absolute juice. Their music somehow makes so much sense; I won't use the word "architectural", but it's very visual, like slowly moving your eyes across a complex surface and suddenly noticing that the surface isn't just a pattern - it has *depth*, a depth that reveals even more intricacies, relationships between sounds, varieties of grain, than you noticed at first. No matter how close you look, there are always more - little soundworms wriggling around, burrowing and digging, eating each other, multiplying. You go from imagining what the surface feels like to imagining what it's like to be inside the lattice itself - I swear you can almost *feel* this happen on certain tracks (especially on Tri Repetae).

― Clarke B., 18. huhtikuuta 2002 3:00

I read two books, wrote an essay, went out, got high, got sat on by the same drunk girl twice, cooked a huge spinach/garlic lasagne, saw Pirates of the Caribbean, and hurt my flatmate's feelings by listening to Tri Repetae on full blast while she was playing guitar.

Would have been one book and half an essay if ILX hadn't been down.

― Herbstmute (Wintermute), 5. syyskuuta 2003 21:41

Listened to Tri Repetae last night for the first time in ages. Ten perfect little steam-punk sonatas. Is it really ten years since that came out?

― NickB (NickB), 15. helmikuuta 2005 13:32

Thought that would be much higher

Sorry about the quick succession of posts, but that's all I have the time to post today. I guess you can see why I posted those three results back to back, though...

I thought Tri Repetae would have been top-ten for sure...

Autechre fans be splitting votes.

more like Snoretechre fans be voting for the wrong albums

Nice to see Exit Planet Dust show up, after all this time Leave Home is still one of my fave Chems tunes.

SERIOUSLY GUYS DO YOU LISTEN TO ANYTHING OTHER THAN AUTECHRE

LOL

I srsly feel like Pipecock right now.

NO; THERE IS ONLY AUTECHRE

I did vote for Amber, have to admit.

This poll...

Blimey....and we haven't had Incunabula yet.

Didn't vote in this, was it kinda hidden? BUT yeah, I've been listening to Autechre tonight.

Autechre isn't even the most popular artist in this poll, I think there are two or three acts with more overall votes...

Bomfunk MCs better be one of them

Motorbass aren't even going to get into the top 50, are they? :-(

ILX overrating the shit out of Autechre as per.

And rightly so!

How can you rightly overrate something?

Pretty sure the only Autechre record I've heard in full is Incunabula and it wasn't really that interesting to me, moving away from melody was probably a good move because they weren't really that great at it.

Their melodies are gorgeous and they didn't really move away from them till Confield.

LP5 was my number 1. The first time I heard it I thought they were taking the piss - a track like Fold4,Wrap5 felt like pure cockwaving: "look what we can do" etc... But the fact this track sounds like it's speeding up and slowing down at the same time is only a superficial gimmick that belies how beautiful it is. That's why LP5 is their very best album - it's that perfect biting point between techgeek indulgence and aesthetic indulgence. There are so many moments on this album that make the hairs on my neck rise, my eyes prickle a little: The musical-box coda on Rae; the way Vose In sounds like someone rapidly fading a radio in and out; 'Is it washable?'; the fucking strings on 'Arch Carrier' (possibly my favourite bit of electronic music in the world). There isn't a moment on that album that isn't fascinating, thrilling. The whole thing is a puzzle to be unravelled and I'm still hearing new details in it some 13 years after the fact.

Pretty sure the only Autechre record I've heard in full is Incunabula and it wasn't really that interesting to me, moving away from melody was probably a good move because they weren't really that great at it.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 1 November 2012 09:56 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Incunabula isn't really representative of Autechre's main body of work. It's very much a warm-up album in the vein of Artificial Intelligence-era Warp. Good for nostalgia's sake, with several cool, almost jazzy, spaced-out moments. Their evolution from Amber through to Confield is one of my favourite career-runs from any act pretty much.

Oh, and saying they weren't good at melody = madness

We need geirbot to arbitrate this melody dispute.

I'm basically going solely on Incunabula here. I do like Clipper and Arch Carrier but I've had 15 years or so to explore further and I haven't been motivated to do so.

I don't dislike Autechre but the number of amazing albums that will not make the cut because every fucking 90s autechre album will be on here is pretty ridic.

There are 22 albums to go...

While it's quiet..

I did get Squarepusher's "Feed me weird things" album as a 'freebie' back whenever (it was old by then too), didn't get it at all.

Anyone know if it's supposed to be a 'wow' album or not? etc?

There are no 'wow' Squarepusher albums. 'Hard Normal Daddy' is probably the best but none of them belong anywhere near this list.

that's a bit harsh, I think. He can be a bit free jazz noodly, but Hard Normal Daddy is p great. Vic Acid EP is the single best thing he did though, IMO.

Fair enough, thanks.