Anyone interested in latter day Black Dog should check out Radio Scarecrow.
Very respectable digital techno for nerds with a dubstep influence ie catnip for me.
― pattern loader, Sunday, 8 April 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
The chem. bros wins for me
power,precision and grace with acid friendly touch.
as a trance hater rock guy in 90's isra(trance)hell ,the chems, along with aphex,prodigy &meat beat manifesto were my electronica of choise
― nakamura, Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
pff
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 9 April 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― jed_, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
if this poll was done on ilx ten years ago daft punk takes it over basement jaxx w/ autechre maybe not even getting third over boc right?
― balls, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
i never vote in any of these polls, despite commenting.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
WOT NO MIKE N RICH but really I couldn't let this stand:
haha none of the ones i was expecting to see are in the list, i automatically thought of male/female trip-hop duos like portishead, moloko etc― lex pretend, Monday, April 2, 2012 12:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Monday, April 2, 2012 12:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Portishead were 3+ people! (Barrows, Gibbons, and Utley, and maybe MacDonald.)
― Où sont le Lord Custos d'antan? (Leee), Monday, 9 April 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds about right. I didn't really see this result coming at all, there are one or two Autechre tracks I've liked but generally I find the early stuff pleasant but not particularly interesting whilst not really able to find a way into anything from Tri Repeatae onwards.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Monday, 9 April 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
whereas i only deeply love the stuff from LP 5 onwards. the problem with the poll is that Ae are some prog/avant crunchy head music for me - "head" isn't the right word, what i love about the later stuff is its physicality of sound - but comparing them to say anybody making genuine dance music is a category mistake really
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 April 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's not an unexpected result, given the commenting. But still. It feels kind of unfair that people went for the head music over the dance music. (Though despite all the cavilling on the thread, it was about "electronic" acts, not about "dance" acts so there you go.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
there is plenty of "dance" music i wd choose over "head" music depending on what day it is but it didn't appear in this poll really
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 April 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
Well it's a bit stymied by being specifically and only duos.
(And I'm not just saying that because I think Mr Twin would have wiped the floor with Autechre.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
Be an interesting one that - I kinda feel like a lot of aphex records haven't dated so good tho
― coal, Monday, 9 April 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's not a poll I would trust myself to make.
Aphex Twin or Autechre pick only one:
o Aphex Twino I am stupid and should have rusty nails driven through my eardrums, but I prefer Autechre
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
perhaps SAWII is timeless but yes, some of his later, more famous records haven't exactly held up
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
I rest my case.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
the aphex twins were the best electronic music duo of the 90s
― crüt, Monday, 9 April 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I still encounter people who still think "they" are two people.
― tanuki, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
what is your case, exactly?
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
― mh, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah its probably actually the later 90s stuff that hasn't help as well
― coal, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
that was supposed to say "hasn't held up as well"
― coal, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
exactly, I do feel as though Autechre will probably hold up better. with Aphex, I'm hearing a lot of really cool or unique ideas that aren't really that much fun to listen to
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm probably in the minority in thinking RDJ's post-2005 acid techno turn is the best stuff he's done
― tanuki, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'd agree with that. I enjoy the analord stuff way more than his 90s stuff, which hasn't really aged that well for me.
― silverfish, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
iow drill n' bass was a bad idea
― tanuki, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
even though he did it 1000x better than anyone else excepting squarepusher, maybe
aphex twin could've stopped after doing both volumes of the selected ambient works and it would be enough to place him over autechre
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 9 April 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Best 90 electronic music duo: THE FINAL BATTLE
― Tuomas, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
re analords, I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F-GF3Hx7s
the bit around 2:40 is one of my favorite AFX moments
― tanuki, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Flim and the Richard D. James Album are still all-time for me.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Flim, yes, but RDJ really hasn't held up for me lately
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
We played I at record club a few months ago and I loved it, though the two of us who knew it well agreed that it sounded far less radical than we remembered.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
I don't give a monkey's if a record sounds radical, I care if it sounds beautiful, or moving, or if it makes my ears sit up and go boy howdy. All of which RDJ does.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
wow @ results, really thought one of the bigger names would take it. also the crystal method got a vote, arf.
― ledge, Monday, 9 April 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
haha who voted for The Crystal Method
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
I guess we won't know
― mh, Monday, 9 April 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
I don't give a monkey's if a record sounds radical, I care if it sounds beautiful, or moving, or if it makes my ears sit up and go boy howdy. All of which AE does.
dere u go.
― Où sont le Lord Custos d'antan? (Leee), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't vote but if i did it would've been chems
― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
lol results
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
I pull out Tri Repeatae every year or so and get really, really bored by about track 4. Though "Eutow" is still incredible. I wonder what I'm missing.
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, April 2, 2012 11:56 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Alright, I decided to crank it in my car and I think I figured it out; where do you go from here?
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
onwards and upwards
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
envane is a nice lead-in to chiastic slide, if a bit more dancefloor friendly (kinda) than that or tri repetae; if chiastic is too weirdly crunchy then skip on to lp5.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
chems really snubbed
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 13 April 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
Right on - will do. I have their first two as well and generally enjoyed them but now I'm starting to realize why they're spoken of so highly here. The music on TR really feels monolithic at points, especially on headphones, but given more space it's incredible just how much there really is to *hear* on it. My problem is that I'd focus more on the abrasion of it, especially up front (still don't like "Stud", by the way). Besides maybe Aphex Twin I haven't really heard anything like this so yes I'll be on my way to checking those out!
― you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
guys guys
i forgot funkstorung
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
Funkstörung was a German Autechre whose work was at least half remixes of Wu Tang, Bjork, etc...right?
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I think they had like two singles/videos that had some minor hype and some interesting packaging design but all their best work was remixy stuff
― mh, Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Nah I rate their (all original) appetite for disctruction album, autechre esque but with a stronger electro vibe, real rapping n everything.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 26 April 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link