You do know they made it by attaching a contact mic to a mortar and pestle and just spent 4+ mins grinding up mustard seeds, don't you?
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
pls. trenchancy and autechre separate
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
dog latin you have never entirely understood anything and this is why i like you
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Gantz Graf works brilliantly as a piece of audiovisual art and I find listening to it without the video a bit like steak without chips.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
^^ Agree strongly with this. Never quite enjoy it when it's just the audio. CapIV on the other hand ...
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Spotify playlist for those who use it:
http://open.spotify.com/user/gcwright/playlist/1Pk2WQhUw0flBVYpNXRXhi
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
i'm not sure it's fair to say later autechre is more complex than earlier autechre
isn't a lot of the "complexity" of later autechre just semi-automated dsp doing its own thing?
― the late great, Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BpfrcVj.jpg
18. Acroyear2 - 123 points | 6 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
afaik only confield made use of their generative patches in max/msp, still, they're the ones that built the patches, and were directing their behaviour with parameters.i don't see why that means complexity needs scare quotes, both the process and the results are more complex than the earlier work
― cheeseburger, Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
i see quotes but not care quotes. regardless, complexity is something i rarely seek out in music although i'm reasonably open to it.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
scare
"complexity" in "scare quotes" because i don't believe in a hierarchy of musical complexity
― the late great, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
nobody here is arguing that more complex music is better, chill out
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
i think some people are!
― the late great, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
in it for the narrative and the synthesis. something complex and well-realised will always impress me. something simple and well-realised will do likewise. something that is both simple and complex and also well-realised maybe best of all ;)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Acroyear2 and 777 are the tracks I tend to skip on LP5
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Lol at "care" quotes
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
the caveat is that sophistication, synthesis and the multivalent narrative imo suits this band
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
wire are one of the greatest bands in the history of music
Elastica > Wire.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
next song pls
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
Only once you admit to Justine Frischmann's indispensable position in rock history.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/woYGdAb.jpg
17. Maphive 6.1 - 129 points | 6 votes
woot
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
track has serious """"vibes""""" if u will
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
think i voted for acroyearcould really have voted for any of lp5maphive is sick
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
quite a high ranking vote from me.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
i love acroyear. had it top 5 i think.
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/or85ahQ.jpg
16. Fold4, Wrap5 - 139 points | 5 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
i thought it would be top 5.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Find myself whistling the needling melody of acroyear2 quite often.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Would gamble on rae and arch carrier making the top ten.
― If a job's worth doing it's worth doing, Horatio (ledge), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah i could have voted for fold4, the elastic tempo, the chiming synths, the pointillist percussion which identifies all of the lp5 tracks
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
always thought the bpm version of shepard tone thing in fold4,wrap5 is too much of a conceit/"trick".
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
wow nakh u are good at play by play
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
arch carrier for sure although i think i cut that one
just a very consistent lp
a solid 9.5 from any sort of pitchfork boys who would review it if it happened to be reissued today, even if ryan only gave it a sick, but not quite epic 8.4 back in the day
http://web.archive.org/web/20050404023546/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/autechre/autechre.shtml
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
just trying to incorporate the influence of ryan schreiber and brent discrescenzo into all of my i love music posts from now on matt -- expect more crisp summaries of autechre tracks in the hours to come
n.
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/MmzTjU8.jpg
15. 444 - 141 points | 5 votes | 1 #1 vote
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZvVQKRaAa8
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
finally home
maphive 6.1 is awesome
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
like, really really awesome
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
first one on this poll i hadn't heard that would have made my ballot, and quite easily too :)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
"444" is my #1, probably as much a matter of sentiment than anything. I honestly couldn't say that it's an ambient techno track that the early IDM class couldn't have come up with (Global Comm, B12, Balil-style Black Dog/Plaid, RDJ if he felt like slumming), but it tunnels straight into my reticular activating system, the closest thing to a guilty pleasure here. As dated as it may sound (although it's the freshest track on Incunabula), it's still sumptuous with the main melody plus the different layers floating in and out, and it's one vocal sample away from being Autechre's "Halcyon." Maybe the one aspect of this that points to their aesthetic-to-come is the little synth-squeal right at the end, like the air being let out of a balloon.
xp Curse you, LJ!!!!!
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
o sorry :( gr8 writeup, will listen to 444 next
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait you're talking about "Maphive," nm.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
this is why all of these claims about when autechre got good, or worse, 'became' themselves are invalid, because there are signs of greatness even in their very earliest work, even before '444' which i love
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
444 is the best Ae track prior to Tri Repetae and the only pre-1995 track to make my ballot. It has this transcendent quality that is simply epic. One of these years I'd love to drop this in a DJ set and just see how people would react.
― octobeard, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
They would get up and dance! Unfortunately, no waltzing.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
this is v cool and more instantly arresting than anything on amber, imo
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if we can historicize that -- Amber being the stereotypically dark album coming after the Criminal Justice Act, whereas Incunabula collects their material from the halcyon(!) days.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
halcyon is an excellent track, as is belfast, chime, etc but it doesnt gesture towards the sublime in the way that 444 does using the same fairly simple material
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link