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

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.

parhelic + all of untilted missing out is weird, but a superb poll, ty ledge, leeee and all

-e

seconded

crazy how much i've listened to autechre and i had no clue what would be in the top 5. cichli would have been my vote as well.

but yeah have gotten a ton out of this poll, better part of 20 years with autechre and i feel like i'm listening with new ears, thanks all.

Didn't see that coming ...

Listening to Cichli right now & it's cool, has a lovely logic to it. Extra measure in the beat gives it an almost proggish jaunt

Eutow is an astonishing piece of modern classical composition that IMO deserves & perhaps even needs to be 2 or 3 times longer. I wouldn't suggest it needs to even develop much, just inhabit its soundworld more emphatically. Its outro has the feel of a mid-track transition. Compare to something like Drane, which keeps coming and coming until you're emotionally & intellectually wracked

N.B. I much prefer Cipater to Cichli but then Cichli is the more uncomplicated, more conventionally ornate 'banger' I guess haha, it's still gr8 don't get me wrong

Vletrmx, then

what is this shit where are my drums

;)

Ambient apostate!

this is truly delightful in fact

like eutow, file under 'some of the best modern classical I've heard'

like, it's not notated but it could be. someone transcribe it pls

clipper is other ppl's autechre business but that's ok. (actually, it gets incredibly deep around 6 minutes in - i can see why it's so beloved now, even if it's practically an orbital song ;))

some real finds itt, esp from lp5, ep7 & the peel sessions, with a smattering from earlier still. again, ty everyone

Damn, even the tracks I thought I knew well I have to hear again to properly recall and grasp. Cichli was my #4 and right now I can't recall it at all. Not surprised it won but the poll threw up enough other surprises and had a good spread across their catalogue - the feared incunabula clean sweep never happened, I thought basscadet was a cert.

"Basscat" sounds *really* dated, as do a number of others from LP1. "444" is 4ever though (see what I did there).

like eutow, file under 'some of the best modern classical detroit techno I've heard'

xp You say dated, I say nostalgic.

Thanks leee, thanks to everyone who wrote about their fave tracks even though all music writing is horrible, thanks to everyone who used the word "synaesthesia".