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
it's not their halcyon, it's their little fluffy clouds
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
Leaves on the Line off of Lego Feet is divine. And that's 1991 era shit. Ae have always been good. They also have never given a fuck.
― octobeard, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
yeah the first track i voted for was 91
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
fold4, wrap5 is very lovely indeed. dog latin sort of has a point in that it just stands there like some gorgeous monolithic avian upon its perch, doesn't suggest to me deeper worlds or w/e bullshit i project onto autechre. anyway yeah it's vv pretty, an ornament
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Under BOAC is utterly brilliant, however, let me pre-emptively say - takes that gorgeousness and runs on with it some, does more with it. clearly going to be top 3
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
lol xpwhat sort of avian?
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
an avian i would gaze at thru binoculars and handle carefully
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
under boac like drane2 seems like a response to the come to daddy ep, the intricately odd percussion seems to inhabit a similar sort of antiseptic high-functioning space within the universe of the sadly named 'drill'n'bass', even if it bore only an incidental relation to jungle
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
oof, acroyear 2 is great as well (and is also quite driving/pulsing high-tempo - fits in with your lineage of afx answerbacks)
think i might be coming around to this album
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
acroyear 2 is panicked, chaotic, menacing, dare i say millennial
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
this is a bit of a digression but going back to some old aphex after syro, that ep really stands out for its production which is so far ahead of the 97 norm in the same way that lp5 is a year later
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
I can here that, but seeing as I prefer "Halcyon" many orders of magnitude more than "Fluffy"... :D
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
wait
acroyear 2
i swear i said millennial BEFORE realising this
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Also yall some prescient MFs.
http://i.imgur.com/mOaonaT.jpg
14. Under BOAC - 142 points | 7 votes
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
yeah, next ;)
(i did say 'clearly gonna be top 3'...malfunctions in the limbic system brah
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
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lol i like the imagethink ledge might just have GISd British Overseas Airway Corporation
― C21H23NO5 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Just you wait for the second-place image.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
you actually managed to find a p.:ntil?
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
No spoilers.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link