... 6. Calbruc 7. Recury 8. POLL 9. Nuane -- Autechre :: Chiastic Slide :: LP4

'Tewe' but as per the Tri Repetae poll I don't expect my favorites to be a majority winners

I think it's worth noting that autechre is the only techno I had ever bought and wasn't influenced by liking any other techno before I picked up autechre albums. I might be the only person here who can say that. At some point in my autechre collecting I did buy a couple ambient albums by brian eno and tangerine dream... maybe that affected my pallet

IMO autechre's hey day is Tri-Repetae - Confield (save one track on Gantz Graf)

really close tie between Tewe and Cipater for me though

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maybe their most coherent album... might privilege the first and last for that reason, but think i'll pick cipater for being the best track to get from a kinda down feeling to thoughtful. also for the way the drums switch up, and the tiny bass in the beginning to the more expansive sound in the second half. and one of their best wandering synth lines

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

Closer than I thought! Also:
POLL4, Wrap5 -- Autechre :: LP5 :: LP5

Even Hub got a vote!

Is Pule really 8 and a half minutes long?

Sad that no one voted "Calbruc" though. "Pule" sux~!

Calbruc is too "WHHOOMP WHOOMP KAH!" for me.

Listening to Pule out of context... I think this is the reason the second half of the album drags for me. I like Ae's more shimmering, ambient fodder (Uviol and Overand spring to mind), but this goes on for ages with very little going on other than some nice echoey high-ends.

Hub is underrated.

I've managed to acquire all the reissues of the first three albums and it's great to finally spend some quality time with Incunabula, which I've never really done.

Hoping they release Chiastic/LP5/EP7 soon. Is this on the cards? OHMIGOSHIWILLDIE

PS - Hub is underrated. Definitely one of the weirder things they'd done up to that point.

did i mention Hub is underrated?

speaking of Hub, I'm sure I can hear, very faintly, the tune of 'The First Noel' playing in the background

I've had it up to here waiting for Warp to reissue Chaistic / LP5 / EP7 / Confield. Is this even on the cards? I'd love these on vinyl.

is this their best

one of them

crunch crunch crunch

it's super gorgeous and one of the most truly winter albums i know of

which is crunchier though, this or Tri Rep?

Rettic AC is incredible, especially for the time

Tri Rep crunches more, but this is def their most wintery one imo.

"pule" underrated in this poll

Literally 'dicks' in Romanian.

Carry on.

melody is just a bunch of poppin' boners

CIPATER

I think this poll would get more votes today

Found a jazz version of Pule, which isn't very appealing but at least someone has transcribed it and presumably understands how to count it.

Their Cichli is better, but it's just such a great piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22JX0lsK-Y

I don't know if its their best overall but IMO its their best 90s album. it's held up really well. it also seems like one of their biggest evolutionary leaps, to me this is where the rhythms really started to loosen up and swing

Remember when these were difficult albums to get into? Lol

the way the beat shift in "cipater" just completely changes the center of gravity of the song, gah

its their best 90s album. it's held up really well.

no need to let time prove worth, this was obvious twenty (fuck) years ago

I don't know if its their best overall but IMO its their best 90s album

yep this sounds right! right up there with untilted and exai for me

every second of "Nuane" is just omfg life

otoh if you told me in 2001 that I'd one day prefer confield to chiastic ...

ignore me, back to loving this fantastic album

I remember that AMG had a 3/5 review for Chiastic for a long time, which definitely colored my perception. Conversely, I think the heads on the Warp forum checked this album the most as Ae's best.

Calbruc is too "WHHOOMP WHOOMP KAH!" for me.

― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2010 00:49 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

It is exactly the right amount of WHHOOMP WHOOMP KAH!

Oh I love it now. I mumble that 'WHHOOMP WHOOMP KAH! NyyyyeeeeOOOWWW' thing to myself and get funny looks in Tesco

'What is your favourite Autechre bit to sing to yourself while shopping' would be a good thread idea

The Acroyear2 melody is definitely my idle whistling tune of choice.

'Gelk' is their catchiest melody I reckon.

d sho qub would be in my head for weeks

Every time I listen to this album it reminds that that random autechre track that keeps popping up in my head once every couple of weeks is called "Hub"

that one conjures up an image of being on a chessboard with a huge chess knight stomping towards me and then retreating.
I love medieval Autechre. Maphive6.1 fits into that schism too.

love "maphive6.1," wish they had a few more like that one

having just now listened to all of it, if we're discussing best autechre albums of the 90s, my vote would go to ep7

it's so good. along with lp5 it's my fave. Just gets overlooked because they class it as an ep

is there another artist that mines similar territory to maphive? 🤔

not exactly the same but maybe the Tim Exile album on Warp?

thanks, I'll check that out!

really unique track for them. the way is morphs to-and-from sequences that sound almost "live" and untreated (for them) makes it sound like a bit tortoise ae remix or something. I wish they'd done a whole ep in this style.

I also hear an actual glitch in both acroyear and rae on mine. Definitely feels like an issue with the master and not the physical pressing. Anyone else hearing this? Might try and record my copy. Otherwise it's a good sounding pressing. The analog format absolutely softens the digital textures in a good way

got the reissue on now and man I forgot how crunchy every track on this album is. every single beat is sick. I can't believe this LP wasn't sampled constantly. and people thought this was a step down from Tri Rep? get outta here. "Recury" alone is so far ahead of everything they'd done to this point.

Just found out that "cichlid" is a type of fish that includes tilapia

also krib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvicachromis_pulcher

My wearing autechre t-shirts to find other fans strategy had a near miss - someone wearing a draft 7.30 shirt walked past at high speed and went into the supermarket by the bus stop i was waiting at. i then saw him through the window in the queue, he caught my nts shirt and we exchanged a thumbs up, then the bus came. he looked like he was about 12 - ok maybe 18, idk - so not sure how i would have handled any potential conversation.

Xp no way. 25 years of Autechre lore fandom and I had no idea they were such big fish stans

(last week i crossed someone on the street wearing a uniqlo "Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre" t-shirt whilst wearing my uniqlo "Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake" t-shirt but he didn't notice and i didn't say anything)

xp All the tracks on Cichlisuite seem to be at least tangentially fish-related.

"Characi(dae)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characidae

"Pencha" is the Bengali word for "owl" and "Bhutum Pencha" the Brown Fish Owl specifically: https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Owl

"Yees Land" is an aquatic-themed level from the Sega Genesis game Space Harrier II where you fight enemies that resemble jellyfish, clams, and frogs https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Space_Harrier_II/Yees_Land

That last one is kind of a stretch but seems very on-brand for Autechre.

dunno how many times i must've heard Hub over the years but i've never noticed that second noise in the background before, like a piccolo played on the next room, underneath all the thumping from the 4th minute or so.

Yeah I've aways been fascinates with that part since I noticed it a whole back. To me it sounds like it's playing a version of "The First Noel", particularly the "Christ was born on Christmas Day" part, and It's totally offkey with the rest of the tune.

I love 'Hub'. Makes me feel like I'm standing on a massive chess board with gigantic pieces being moved around

Chiastic slide, then I hit it double time
Then I hit a spin 'cause we spun their block a couple times

a version of "The First Noel", particularly the "Christ was born on Christmas Day" part

those words do not appear in that carol?

i guess i can hear something that could be similar to 'born is the king of israel'

this has always been one of my least faves on chiastic but listening to it with confield ears does start to open it up.

yeah that bit, sorry

chiastic and confield are close cousins, i'd say