Lentic is my second fave off confield, not that it made my ballot. Love the alien processed voices at the start but not sure there's enough of interest in the second half.
Lentic is OK, but I prefer CapIV when it comes to the this particular style
Yeah capiv definitely similar and just a bit stronger.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
Elvis is all sho qub.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Love Oversteps. Felt like a little revisit to the LP5 sound but with updated production.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Okay not a missing beat per se. It's a classic example of turning the beat into texture, morphing a major element into a completely different one, and that I enjoy. The thing that kills this track for me is the pure lack of progression after the first 2 minutes. All the other tracks on Confield are these pristine organic structures that slowly and often unpredictably evolve into new forms over the duration of their performance. This metamorphasis is much more subdued on the last 6-7 minutes of Lentic, and I get bored with the inert minimalism coupled with the lack of overt rhythm outside of the hihat. There is an interesting and buried melody but it's not enough for me to derive any sort of appreciation for the track. When I first started enjoying Confield, I thought of this track as a concept song expressing the "ghost in the machine", where Ae setup the parameters for the initial beat and it just collapsed in on itself and created this whole movement they didn't initially predict and felt that the idea of putting a song on that was an "emergent" tune was pretty compelling (not sure if that's how it was indeed composed). In any case... it's the most boring tune on Confield for me. Something I never listen to when I play it, in fact.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
I enjoy a lot of Oversteps and Move of Ten but feel both have utter duds, too. I have a "custom" album called "Move Over Ten Steps" that combines my favorites of the two. If I could have voted for that custom album, it might have made #3 or #4 in my album ballot.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
was just listening to oversteps for like 15+ minutes and it was actively angering me. reminded me most of all of fucking Rain In England, haha
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
see on see is beautiful but formally otiose like a lot of oversteps
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
voted for ilanders though
IMO the best parts of Confield are the transitions between tracks.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
the transition between track II and III of gantz graf is exquisite
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
pro radii into augmatic disport is nxtlvl
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
nakh otm as well tho, my god
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:30 (nine years ago) link
Oversteps rules, it's like the rest of their boring Supercollider 00s wankfests but it has tunes
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9WnjRkJ.jpg
32T. Bronchusevenmx - 84 points | 3 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PuDrGyN.jpg
32T. spl9 - 84 points | 4 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
Can someone give me a compelling reason to like this track or possibly explain how they got into it?
love lentic/capIV. it's similar to what I get out of harsh digital noise - the sounds are sharp and vivid but the the gradual build is disorienting and anxiety-inducing and it all kinda just flattens my brain out. the net effect ends up being sorta relaxing.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
"Bronchusevenmx" is the sound of water dripping from stalactites over the eons and thus is the ideal brooding music for moody would-be goths.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
Listened to spl9 and was enjoying it, but now cloudline is playing and I'm enjoying that way more, wonder if it's going to appear here
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
voted for spl9 its not the most amazing track but its a lot of fun
― Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
last two graphics very apposite
31. Second Bad Vilbel - 87 points | 4 votes
http://i.imgur.com/mabehct.jpg
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
The part where this track comes back in but slower is immense
― A solid little house from the p-funk boys (I am using your worlds), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
Bronchusevenmx was my number 2, i'm a goth!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
goths don't use exclamation marks.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
Second Bad Vilbel has worn on me but it's kinda iconic and not just because Radiohead ripped it off.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
As someone who got into Autechre at the time of Chiastic Slide, worked my way backwards through everything before that, and listened to everything through Confield before hitting a wall and barely listening to them for the last decade, I've been really enjoying this poll - I didn't feel remotely qualified to vote, but I'm listening to everything here and wondering why the hell I haven't been listening to them since about 2003.
Great images, too!
― octobeard, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12:01 AM
Would be interested in the tracklist for this (having failed to really get into any album since Confield).
― toby, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Sure...
Move Over Ten Steps
01. r ess02. rew(1)03. Treale04. pt2ph805. see on see06. no border07. d-sho qub08. iris was a pupil09. os veix310. yim011. st epreo12. krYlon13. Yuop
Total time: 1:04:41
It's an even more ambient record with this flow, and some of the transitions work really well naturally - d-sho qub going into iris was a pupil for instance. Obviously a subjective list, but these tracks to me make a really cohesive record, with a beginning, middle and end, sonically consistent and thematic... to the point where it's up there with Untilted and Chiastic Slide for having a strikingly unique sonic fingerprint - even more so than before. Some tracks I enjoy individually I kept off intentionally in order to maintain what I felt was a better "album".
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
Glad to see spl9 made it, btw. I had a tough time keeping that and Flep from Exai off my ballot.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 07:33 (nine years ago) link
half right. could've been my number one (was my number three), seems to be for me the perfect sweet spot between abrasive noise and dancefloor smash. it never stands still, every minute sees a switch in rhythm or texture. and again - again! a classic fade out, the beat stutters into oblivion over a hollow, deathless breath of air. they really are masters of the fade.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 08:05 (nine years ago) link
spl9 is HARDCORE. I would risk slipping it into a straight techno set perhaps.
― Non-Stop Hongrotic Cabaret (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 08:42 (nine years ago) link
Thanks octobeard - giving this a go right now, and I think it could be a good path for me into more recent Autechre - I'm really enjoying it, in fact.
― toby, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
skipping through oversteps again d sho-qub definitely a highlight but a couple of the more ambient ones stand out too, os veix3 and yuop. Curiously more than half of the tracks (and quite a few on move of ten as well) end abruptly but with about 10 seconds of ghostly reverb floating out over the end, giving an amazing sense of space.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 09:15 (nine years ago) link
redfall is the oversteps standout for me
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
the chords in dial. from gantaz graf, which seem to ascend forever, are an example of a shepard-risset tone:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
not sure how dial missed my ballot, dj stingray working it into a detroit techno set at the autechre atp is unforgettable
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
am totally convinced this is the inspiration for dial (from the er dial to the rising tones at the end):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
Eidetic Casein sounds kind of Shepherds Toney to me.
― Larbo-larbo-larbo! (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
New display name btw
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
Dial. is so good, I've overplayed it at this point and so even though it made my ballot, it's in the teens rather than near the top. But for a good couple of years it was definitely my favorite autechre song.
There is the Shepard tone which immediately draws you in, but there's so much more going on. The vocals, all those chaotic sounds which try to follow the main ascending tone throughout the song. In many ways a perfect autechre song.
― Larminard Darzingargle (silverfish), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
dial. unplugged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb19d08Lnec
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rWKnPNY.jpg
30. Flutter - 91 points | 5 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
They sure stuck it to The Man there.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Another one that's much better at 33rpm. I voted for it.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
I voted for two-thirds of that EP. Is the microscopic fadeout a sound-engineering feat? Because it's pretty damn awesome.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zrQ9fba.jpg
29. Krib - 94 points | 5 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
In the lower reaches of my ballot along with pir; a firm personal fave but didn't feel meaty enough for the top ten.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I love that graffiti spray can rattle.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
spl9 is a bomb.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
this is true for me too, and i did vote without being remotely qualified. i suspect it's probably true for a lot of people coming at them from a similar place. something about how the internet and electronic music broke open post-2000 made what ae were doing not as exciting as playing catch-up or getting into various areas of "realer" shit for dilettantes like myself. i agree it is very pleasant to pick them up again and realize that they haven't necessarily changed anything about what it is they do but aren't stale, they've grown with the music and it can still sound very exciting even with the relative duds which seem pretty subjective anyway.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Krib = Carrib as in Caribbean as in steel drums
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
It's also a fish
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link