Best 90 electronic music duo: THE FINAL BATTLE

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To add to that: maybe Idiology sounds a bit like indie rock, but that was in the 00s.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 06:30 (twelve years ago) link

Really like Iaora Tahiti and Autoditacker, plus some of the earlier singles (Bib and Frosch). Can't be arsed with Autechre.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 06:59 (twelve years ago) link

i have a copy of that lamp, most of the mixes are kinda redundant BUT the in the nursery remix is gold

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link

also WTF is david byrne doing on this thread get out of here w/ that indie shit

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link

this thread is shit enough without one of the shittest record labels of all time shitting up the place

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:38 (twelve years ago) link

Love both of these, but voted for the cold steel of Autechre over the softer charms of MoM.

French Cricket in the USA (NickB), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:47 (twelve years ago) link

I've never liked a single things by Mouse on Mars. I listened to Iahora Tahiti like 1.5 times before selling it. Autechre on the other hand, I voted for in the other thread, so...

EDB, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 10:04 (twelve years ago) link

Iaora Tahiti is their worst 90s album, IMO: kinda too simplistic and bleepy, but it doesn't have the trance pleasures of its predecessor either. With Autoditacker they managed to refine that new sound into something more detailed and idiosyncratic. So I wouldn't give up on them based on IT alone.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago) link

Warp Records and IDM in general were big among 90s indie kids too.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:28 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah idm was big w/indies i guess is the point, because it was intelligent and therefor ok to like lmao

lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

worst music genre name EVER

lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

drumNbass was indie big too

lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

i know because i was an indie, the shame

lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

i like both iaora tahiti and vulvaland and own them, sold my copy of autoditacker, might buy it back BUT i also went and saw them on their tour w/ the live drummer and it was deeply embarrassing watching a room full of like sea and cake fans do the fug to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyuWFl8Kaug

^^ voting autechre

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link

That tune is from the 00s though.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link

yeah but the germ of that tune was there in the 90s

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

the part reflects the whole DO YOU SEE

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link

I agree that MoM took a deep dive downwards in the turn of the decade, but the stuff between Vulvaland and Glam is unfuckable-with (and Niun Niggung has its moments too).

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Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link

i kinda tune out after autoditacker but i agree, the first couple albums are pretty great in their own way

it's just too ... slight (?) for my liking, kinda like audio wallpaper or a poor man's atom heart

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link

Haha, that's funny, because "audio wallpaper" is how I'd describe Autechre. After the initial, more technoish tunes (which I actually like), they just went overtly abstract, like some pointless geometric patterns on a wall. I can admire how their tunes are constructed, but because they seems to about the construction itself and nothing more, they don't move me in any way, but their music is still too busy to form the sort of directionless ambience one can immerse in, so it just feels pointless. Whereas MoM, even though they're always busy too, at least have some kind of a point, some emotional drive to all the vectors in their tunes.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

later Autechre is best appreciated on headphones out in the open air i think. the austerity and the abstraction aren't the point, for me, but they help to create this thick textural sound wherein lies the pleasure. i listen to it more like i'd listen to noise stuff or Nurse With Wound or other sound collagists - and great moments emerge from within the initial rush of sound, but i guess it isn't really about the journey from A to B for me

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link

I have always found Mouse on Mars to be really, really boring

God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

it would be like some kind of op-art wallpaper that would fuck with your brain and make it hard to think though, i find it hard to focus on latter-day autechre (post ganz graf) but also impossible to ignore (in a bad way, all that excessive MSP fuckery and grating noises drives me up the wall, it's like an endless feedback squeal)

the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

that's why it reminds me of Merzbow i suppose

red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

(I will say though that I hadn't realized Panacea sampled MoM's "Elli Im Wunderland" on his bad-ass "Untitled B Side"; that is the first thing about them I've found interesting)

God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

this thread is shit enough without one of the shittest record labels of all time shitting up the place

gtfo this thread is perfect

Lamp, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link

voted for mouse on mars cuz of von sudenfed and i don't know shit abt electronic music really

Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

autechre youtubes are so sad

windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 15 April 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link

^^^ All '90s output, all beautiful without the "abstraction" strawmanning (which is definitely more applicable to their '00s stuff).

Où sont le Lord Custos d'antan? (Leee), Sunday, 15 April 2012 04:59 (twelve years ago) link

i had no idea autechre had so many songs

windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 16 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link


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