mobb deep hell on earth followed by draft 7:30 is a good listening combo btw
― original bgm, Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
2nd half of 6IE.CR is gorgeous.. the album feels so inconsistent (2nd half of it), yet it's my favorite of theirs.
― Palpatean Mists (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 4 December 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 5 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
relistening now and still love this
― Princess TuomTuom (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 December 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
can't remember if i voted in this.. guess not since i probly would've gone reniform. kind of odd to me that this is made out to be the most maligned... thought that would be untilted. draft isn't one of their top albums in retrospect, but i listened to it a lot, from the promo cassette rip (which reinforced milton re: integrating old influences i think) to the actual cd release. 6ie, v-proc, and p.:ntil all have sick beats imo. xylin and suriepere also good, rest are basically throwaways outside of the album context
― straight old fashioned, virgin (another al3x), Monday, 6 December 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
POLL Radii -- Autechre :: Untilted :: LP8
― Leeeline Supplement No. 74 (Leee), Monday, 6 December 2010 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
& I'm always going to wonder re: 'Surripere' if it's a direct reference to Richard Pinhas' 'Iceland: Part 3'. It's a basic enough drone those two tracks are working themselves out on, but I love the idea of those two guys checking out my favorite Pinhas album and thinking 'let's do this again with an 808 kick'
Listening to Iceland for the first time, and I can sort of here the ambient drone of "Part 3" in "Surripere," but isn't the beat copped from "Part 2" as well?
― Leeeline Supplement No. 74 (Leee), Monday, 6 December 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd like to hear this album REALLY loud on massive speakers in a huge room.
Xylin Room makes me think of being in the quarters of a huge creaking pirate ship.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Monday, 6 December 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Whereas most Ae albums make me think of futuristic stuff, this album sounds old, ancient. It sounds like the soundtrack to a saga or sea voyage to me.
― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
surripiere reminds me an old spanish galleon capsizing off the galapagos while the dashing galician captain is effing the living daylights out of a cabin boy below decks
― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"IV VV IV VV VIII" is the music that's playing in the head of a giant turtle as she gnaws on the bloated corpses of the sailors
― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
man, lj is going to be crazy intense tomorrow
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 November 2010 19:38 (1 week ago)
Cap.IV was unfuckingbelievable btw - absolutely wondrous music
Am now listening to Draft 7.30 crtsy of utube and so far so excellent - didn't Autechre say they were going to be making music more organically and less programmatically after Confield? Certainly feels that way to me.
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ok how the blazing fuck cd people hate this album, it's a christ-goddamn work of wonder
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Saturday, 11 December 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
2nd half of 6IE.CR is gorgeous
― Palpatean Mists (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 4 December 2010 22:24 (1 week ago)
yes
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Saturday, 11 December 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
surripere randomly came on today when I was driving just as I was entering a fairly long tunnel. That was perfect.
could only have been better if the tunnel started collapsing towards the end.
― peter in montreal, Saturday, 18 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a motherfucking motherfucking all-time work of genius, and it's becoming even more so with each second it graces my headphones
how did this happen. how was this allowed to happen
― once a week is ample, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Must admit I sometimes wonder if Ae really are 8 years ahead of their time. I swear albums like Draft fit waaaay better into today's musical context than back in '03.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
I found Arch Carrier to be a bit dull and Gantz Graf to be completely superb, ban me
rly wanna hear Cap.iv, youtube it is. I shall presently fall asleep to it. Goodnight
(but are all of those on YT? if so I will trawl (when I wake))
― underrated aeroflot disasters i have wikisearched (acoleuthic), Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:32 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking
id probably rate oversteps just after draft (their sunniest and darkest respectively)
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
still unsure abt quaristice which is a total outlier
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Quaristice's inconsistency is what i like about it. Prolly my fave, followed by untilted, draft, and amber.
There are some annoying-ass (stilted) rhythms on draft... but some beautiful moments. Reniform Puls starts off dope, turns into shit.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
Oversteps is by far my fave of their post-Confield material
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
Appreciating Untilted more these days. Tangibly solid & heavy. Meaty. Also funky.
― the fey monster (ledge), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, untilted might be my favorite popst-confield as well. 'iera' is the track that's really been doing it for me lately.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
Did we ever poll all the winners from all the various Autechre polls? I'd like to make a playlist.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
this is ilx, you'd imagine so
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Cannae find a link cap'n!
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
i find this album very difficult. i guess a lot of people do. rewarding, but difficult. "xylin room" obviously a banger. "surripere" obv an 11 minute trip through the electromagnetic field, it's sick. love the way the beats disintegrate from a funky wholes into fragments rubbing against each other. but i still can't quite... figure it out
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, December 11, 2010 6:40 AM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
this strikes me as correct
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pQ1BMBB.png
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
"61e.CR" really goes also
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
^my favourite autechre song
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
also how dare they have a normal song title on this particular album
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
but it isn't actually normal lol
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
sudden roundabout is my *father*'s name!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:44 (three years ago) link
their recent releases have had more real words in them but not once have they remotely risked making linear sense
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
it's pornographic for there to be any clarity at all in the sea of text that is an autechre tracklisting
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
'north spiral! yesss'
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
'but wait -'
https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/2028/rochdale-clearly-not-in-bloom-at-sudden-roundabout
― Kieran Arse (Noel Emits), Monday, 5 October 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
holy fuck :o
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
actually i take it back, this record is less difficult than i implied, i think "iv vv iv vv viii" just throws me, my brain can't wrap around what it's doing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
perhaps its working title of 'prince moth mothy moth moth' will reveal its secrets
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
Still think of this as sparse, sonically and conceptually. time for another relisten i guess.
Also, reniform puls(e): kidney bean.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 07:54 (three years ago) link
Anyone else seeing these revived polls pop up and getting hyped for LP14?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
def need a new new lp thread
"xylin room" obviously a banger
i can't see this as a banger, where are the bangs? feels more like a confield texture piece, except the pieces on confield go places with furious intent and this kind of wanders around lost in a wood. which could be a good thing idk. should i try and find the bangs or appreciate the lost in a wood vibe, or is life too short for either of those.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
iv vv etc, still lost in the wood, getting angry and beating up some trees.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
6ie.cr: making a log cabin
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
much of this album has woody, knotted feel for me. It's all creaky floorboards and complicated pulley systems
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
i can't see this as a banger, where are the bangs?
new board description
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
the pattern that opens the track and rules it for most of its runtime... knocks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
george_michael_bluth_with_woodblock.gif
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
i find it hard to imagine loving Untilted but not being as into Draft7.30 - they feel something of a pair to me.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
hmmm not sure i agree. inasmuch as confield, draft, and untilted should be def grouped together, sure. but the beats on untilted are considerably more linear (as much as you can say that about anything autechre produced in this period), whereas for the first half of draft it's mostly morphing aquatic lifeforms
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 12 October 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Untitled really threw me at first in that it's so beat driven and there was very little in the way of tonal sounds. it's grown on me loads since of course. B-boy breaks for impossible robots in a gigantic stadium
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
But then something like V-Proc is very breaksy. you're right that the start of Draft is all about implacable ebb and flow though
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 12 October 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
I listened to this again after Brad said he had trouble with it. I think I do prefer it slightly over Untilted, but they make a nice pair:
Untilted's beats are hard, bouncy and metallic. It makes me think of that old Amiga game Speedball in that it sounds like a futuristic spectator sport set in an enormous stadium. By comparison the beats on Draft7.30 are crunchy, wooden and brackish. I've always felt like there's a slight maritime theme on this one - especially the first few tracks which make me feel like I'm in the hold of an old wooden ship, the textures propelled by the ebbing of waves, the creaking of floorboards and ropes being pulled tight, the wind blowing everything along in gusts. There's something really interesting about the quality of the beats they've used on this one comapred to the gigantic pinball machine of Untilted.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
This is the Autechre album that has risen the furthest (and slowest) in my estimation. It's taken 20 years but I unequivocally love it
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link
please don't tell me this record is TWENTY YEARS old, it's part of the "new Ae" for me.noting for the record that "xylin room" as a title is a nod to the wooden sources they used for a lot of the sounds on the album.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link