IS IT WASHAPOLL? - ILM ARTIST POLL #57 - AUTECHRE - RESULTS thread

track has serious """"vibes""""" if u will

think i voted for acroyear
could really have voted for any of lp5
maphive is sick

quite a high ranking vote from me.

i love acroyear. had it top 5 i think.

http://i.imgur.com/or85ahQ.jpg

16. Fold4, Wrap5 - 139 points | 5 votes

i thought it would be top 5.

Find myself whistling the needling melody of acroyear2 quite often.

Would gamble on rae and arch carrier making the top ten.

yeah i could have voted for fold4, the elastic tempo, the chiming synths, the pointillist percussion which identifies all of the lp5 tracks

always thought the bpm version of shepard tone thing in fold4,wrap5 is too much of a conceit/"trick".

wow nakh u are good at play by play

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

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.

http://i.imgur.com/MmzTjU8.jpg

15. 444 - 141 points | 5 votes | 1 #1 vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZvVQKRaAa8

finally home

maphive 6.1 is awesome

like, really really awesome

first one on this poll i hadn't heard that would have made my ballot, and quite easily too :)

"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!!!!!

o sorry :( gr8 writeup, will listen to 444 next

Oh wait you're talking about "Maphive," nm.

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

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.

They would get up and dance! Unfortunately, no waltzing.

this is v cool and more instantly arresting than anything on amber, imo

this is v cool and more instantly arresting than anything on amber, imo

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.

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

it's not their halcyon, it's their little fluffy clouds

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.

yeah the first track i voted for was 91

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

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

lol xp
what sort of avian?

an avian i would gaze at thru binoculars and handle carefully

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

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

acroyear 2 is panicked, chaotic, menacing, dare i say millennial

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

it's not their halcyon, it's their little fluffy clouds

I can here that, but seeing as I prefer "Halcyon" many orders of magnitude more than "Fluffy"... :D

wait

acroyear 2

i swear i said millennial BEFORE realising this

Also yall some prescient MFs.

http://i.imgur.com/mOaonaT.jpg

14. Under BOAC - 142 points | 7 votes

yeah, next ;)

(i did say 'clearly gonna be top 3'...malfunctions in the limbic system brah

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lol i like the image
think ledge might just have GISd British Overseas Airway Corporation

Just you wait for the second-place image.

you actually managed to find a p.:ntil?

No spoilers.

http://i.imgur.com/5nMkoV5.gif

13. Cipater - 149 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote

True to its name.

hate to be that guy, but let's do this

dead certs:

cichli
rae
parhelic triangle
pen expers
surripere
gantz graf
cap.iv
eutow

maybes

drane
sim gishel
pro radii
loads of early shit ;)

someone with more knowledge of the early shit add to my dead certs pls