Cap.POLL -- Autechre :: Gantz Graf :: EP8

Pretty sure "Cap.IV" is going to take this.

Pet theory: Dial is inspired by the Countdown (channel 4 programme) theme, especially the rising six notes at 26-28s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHIU8RGphlY
Clue is also in the name.

Also my least favourite.

Pretty sure "Cap.IV" is going to take this.

really? i didn't think this could be anything but the title track...

Hahaha I've got to stop predicting the winners, so far I am zero for however many.

gantz graf is more widely known because of the video, but yeah, cap.iv is just phenomenal

cap.iv for crazy geiger counter crescendo

gantz graf is more widely known because of the video

rightfully so imo... this was released as a dvd!

cap totally bores me tbh. lentic catachresis way more interesting for the random sputtering stuff

gantz graf is more widely known because of the video

well, and for the song too! it's a great song, i mean. I just <3 cap.iv a little bit more.

for a pretty long time dial was my absolute favorite autechre track. I still kind of think this ep is the best thing autechre have done, a peak between their two best albums (confield and draft 7.30). I do realize I'm possibly the only person who thinks this.

I can't stand the kind of industrial noise that's the MO of "Gantz Graf" (the video does nothing for me, too). "Dial" is tedious too, though that may be because it's twice as long as the title track, but at least it's listenable.

"Cap.IV," then, is kind of a revelation for me on this EP. Weird squirrelly with ghostly vocal samples processed beyond legibility and a muted melody -- this is my idea of a 21st-century Autechre track.

Other than the video, there's little I remember about Gantz Graf other than it was Confield jumped up a few gears. The title track was controversial to fans, even after Confield had been served up. I remember one guy on WarpComm saying it sounded like chainmail being dragged over a metal sheet. Without the video, I'd have been inclined to agree, but it makes so much more sense with the visuals. It's a shame Confield was never released in a visual format.

Tough call between 1 and 3 for me. Dial, I get what's going on but the endlessly rising motif, while a fun aural illusion, doesn't do anything for me heart or me brane. Gantz Graf is small but perfectly formed complex brutality. Cap.IV is of a kind with Lentic Catachresis, perhaps a fraction more haunting at the start and a fraction more dissonant at the end? Last time I spun this I thought it all broke down maybe a minute too soon, the noise went on too long, this time it seems fine.

"Cap.IV" is the best Autechre track of the past ten years. Easily.

my favorite ep of theirs, and this is the one I loan out to older friends who've cut their teeth on computer music classics and debate Bayle vs. Risset or what a turning point Harvey's 'Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco' is but can't bring themselves to listen to anything with a 'beat' -- i.e. beats have changed since the last time you heard them

and what do they think?

They think it sounds like robot insects.

I bet they wonder where the melodies are, amirite?

Last night I was reading this thread and listening to Cap.IV downstairs...
GF (from bathroom): What's that noise?
ME (from downstairs): Just some music.
GF: Oh, I thought it was insects!

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Last night I was reading this thread and listening to Cap.IV downstairs...
GF (from bathroom): What's that noise?
ME (from downstairs): Just some music.
GF: Oh, I thought it was insects!

Dog, you should try the same thing, but with Mira Calix's Nunu instead.

[q] Last night I was reading this thread and listening to Cap.IV downstairs...
GF (from bathroom): What's that noise?
ME (from downstairs): Just some music.
GF: Oh, I thought it was insects!

Dog, you should try the same thing, but with Mira Calix's Nunu instead.

― leTeReL (Leee), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 05:27 (1 hour ago) Bookmark[/q]

Last night I was reading this thread and listening to Cap.IV downstairs...
GF (from bathroom): What's that noise?
ME (from downstairs): Just some music.
GF: Oh, I thought it was insects!

Dog, you should try the same thing, but with Mira Calix's Nunu instead.

― leTeReL (Leee), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 05:27 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

http://begoniasociety.org/irenemoon.php

POLLence subrange 6-36 -- Autechre :: Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae :: EP9

Intersting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQH-k8flgM

Sounds nothing like the OG, imo.

Nothing like as good imo.

Cap.IV reassembling my auditory cortex
sounds like a track from My Life In the Bush of Ghosts which was fatally scrambled by a matter transporter

For some reason I really dislike all the non-Gantz Graf songs on this.