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

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

I *hated* this song when I first listened to Chiastic, because its limping breakbeat seemed so far from my favorite parts of LP5 and Tri Repetae and I hadn't yet reconciled Autechre's enduring love of hip hop. (Also, the AMG pan pre-biased me against the album.) (Of course Chiastic is probably my favorite album simply for its melding of texture and melody.)

The second half is like the soundtrack to a Soviet-era cartoon about marching ants.

Cipater is wonderful. All the songs this evening have been wonderful, actually.

oh shit what's happening to this song

It's the ants, Comrade!

that was...astonishing

shit, uh. these'll place?
bike
eggshell
laughing quarter
tewe
dropp
altibzz
irlite get 0
YJY UX

you guys are missing a very obvious one

spotify has 'montreal' as much-heard, is that the obvious one

garbagemx

Really? That's my least favorite from AeG by far.

xylin room

xp take your floucing to the Radiohead poll

jks obv

if xylin room makes it i will be delighted and amazed

I'd expect Montreal to place. There's one I like more on Amber that hasn't shown up yet though.

Don't really have much sense of the general popularity of Autechre tracks, personal faves could be sleepers, or not.

http://youtu.be/7uTUnTGb15c

set set set setitov

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

12. Surripere - 151 points | 6 votes

aw was holding out for top 10 but knew it'd land soon. my #3

i defer to my august colleague

surripiere reminds me an old spanish galleon capsizing off the galapagos while the dashing galician captain is effing the living daylights out of a cabin boy below decks

― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, December 11, 2010 1:37 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't even care that the track gets lost in fog towards the end. that's the whole point. it's the journey whence you may not return, the vast coldness of doom

and the beat-drop at 4 mins that triggers it all....no words

VI scose poise
Arch Carrier

surely

Lowrider?

lol forgot arch carrier

vi scose poise....idk. i voted for it but i just get the feeling it won't