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

lol forgot arch carrier

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

even i voted for it.

Surripere is great - i can't say i've really listened to it.

ok i'm just going to do this now in lieu of what will probably be a bunch of tracks they did before lp5 placing, and since this countdown is happening so slowly and sporadically or else i'm just being impatient (thanks for all your work everyone!). what they managed to do texturally with electronic sound machines is just extraordinary, before iirc a lot more of their production chain became dependent on desktop environments of the time and they were more free to get trickier with their sequencing. the quality of the sound on those releases is just incredibly funky in a way i've never been able to articulate properly. obviously they've always been very good and interesting at composition and arrangement but in my opinion there was a special magic that coalesced around the 93-97 era when their talents for arrangement and sound design melded with a tradition that incorporated what kraftwerk and disco a generation before and techno contemporaneously knew about very basic properties of rhythm, tempo, funk, limbic movement aligned with heartbeats. the space that can be created from that kind of pulse is the reason i love dance music and electronic music and what makes some of their tracks, again mainly from that era, so timeless. it has been a pleasant surprise to return to recent releases and find they never completely lost that magic.

Surripere: http://youtu.be/J9ZesSEEOP4?t=1m7s

I forget if that's cued to the exact track for Iceland that "Surripere" sounds so much like.

I think Draft requires my attention.

great post, matt - will have it in mind when listening to their earlier stuff in future :)

I forget if that's cued to the exact track for Iceland that "Surripere" sounds so much like.

― cichleee suite (Leee), Thursday, 2 October 2014 22:56 (3 minutes ago)

yeah i was rereading the thread about that in order to see context for my dog latin parody c&ped above and milton parker notes that resemblance

Reniform POLLs -- Autechre :: Draft 7.30 :: LP7

don't think it will place, but "outpt" off ep7 really affects with the repetition and that reedy, sort of woody modem chord-drone. and its unnameable sorts of liquid sky/sucking/light sounds.. maybe one of their "easier" tracks

autechre were always great but they attained sublimity when they largely concealed that syncopated/crunchy sound of the mid 90s and went further into granular synthesis and the excessive, abstracted process music of confied/draft/gg

yeah that's my position too, but hearing some of the (admittedly mostly not much) earlier stuff & really being taken along with it has been a total thrill, this evening especially

surripere is one of the least 'difficult' of those tracks but it has an extreme dysphoric quality above just about anything they did

voted it really high obv

yah it's rly synaesthetic

autechre were always great but they attained sublimity when they largely concealed that syncopated/crunchy sound of the mid 90s and went further into granular synthesis and the excessive, abstracted process music of confied/draft/gg

disagree!

yeah i noted your case for the 90s stuff upthread and 'being there' probably counts for a lot
confield was probably the first thing of theirs i heard, envane sounds like an artifact

been feeling like an artifact myself lately, a lot

at least that means u are digital rather than analogue

maybe if u hear confield first it just programs u like this

been feeling like an artifact myself lately, a lot

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070609183440/simpsons/images/9/9b/Jasper.png

Sitting on #11 right now because the day is only half over for me. Do people want to see 10-6, and leave the top 5 for Friday?

y

so true, j

nooooo we want it all today

nice timing Leee. TGIDSP. i know i haven't contributed but this has been a blast.

line em up!

if that's an option yeah just post em imo we can all get synaesthetic about them after post individual ballots tomorrow move on to xtc

lol you ravenous lot.

http://i.imgur.com/IsU30XG.jpg

11. Gantz Graf - 165 points | 7 votes | 1 #1 vote

speaking of synaesthetic

I had a clear top 4 from lp5, decided to pick two and it was more or less at random, under boac lost out but the drum breakdown is next level unfuckwithable.

Woah leee giving a bit of zing to my cipater image. From look back in anger, well if an anticipater looks forward... Surripere is some Latin conjugation of steal, image is from Whistle and I'll Come to You, Michael Hordern suffering the consequences of his inadvertent theft. Fyi.

think ledge might just have GISd British Overseas Airway Corporation

Sometimes you just gotta go with the obvious.

anticipate means 'act before' so a cipater is one who merely acts, but then look back in anger is a play ;)

that surripere image is great
gantz is just perfect, just a total immersion, into the void
its the sort of track even bobby gillespie could understand

surripere image yeah. and the gantz image has me a keen anticipater of the cap.iv graphic

gantz is great with or without the brilliant video and feels like a manifesto of sorts

Woah leee giving a bit of zing to my cipater image.

When I added the text to the original image you gave me, the palette got confused and was saved with the Miami Vice colors. Dawned on me that preserving the interesting glitch would be well in keeping with the poll.

Didn't vote for gantz. Might take that with me to my grave.

as someone who likes to revive really terrible ancient ilx threads from time to time, i must say that most of the early refs to confield and gantz get it fairly well, including dj martian who included confield in his top 250 records of the first half of 2001

well he was avowedly very forward-thinking

haha

the gantz image has me a keen anticipater of the cap.iv graphic

*muffled cough*

lol

post flagged.

So I put Cipater as my #1. I think it encapsulates everything I love about Autechre, and is also a significant track nostalgically for me as well. The opening crunchy hip hop beat is immediately engaging, and really builds on everything I enjoyed with Tri-Rep but with more expressiveness. The atmosphere is quietly ominous and the analog lead synths are sublime as they drench the background of the track with reverb and different percussion elements begin to fold into the mix. The opening grooves. A lot. Almost more so than any early/mid period Autechre. Additional elements come in play both rhythmically and melodically, and finally this bubbling undercurrent of squelchy synth tone comes in and the beat begins to start to mutate. You can tell these guys wanted to do more and have these pieces constantly evolve instead of evolving step by step; revisiting Chiastic really does seem to predict Confield and Draft. More and more does Cichlisuite and LP5 seem to awkwardly stick out in their catalog.

But that transition. When the breakdown happens my favorite synth tone Ae has ever produced fades in... the reverberated analog bass (see Medrey/Key Nell 3/Teartear for other examples of this bass... might be a Juno-106?) comes in menacingly and then begins to solo into the one of the most gorgeous melodic progressions these guys have put out. And then the beat reconstructs into a stronger groove and the layered snowy synths fade in as the lead bass continues to solo onward and upward in quite a syncopated, swing heavy flow. It's fucking gorgeous... and then the melody climbs an octave, the original bassline returns and the melody expands into becoming a nearly sustained arpgeggio. At this point, I usually always get chills.

Older Ae has always had this transcendent, almost spiritual melodic quality that I've always valued above their synaesthetic, sculptured, and "jazzier" material post LP5, and Cipater has always been that song for me that perfectly embodied this as well as having one my favorite beats they've ever produced. The Psi Onyx remix and Keynell 4 also exhibit these traits and are all in my top 5.

✓

Cipater and Maphive 6.1 are my favourite discoveries today, maybe Acroyear2 as well

Never been a fan of Cipater but will revisit after reading octobeard's post

Maphive is amazing, a medieval battlefield of a tune to which someone brings a broken piano during half time oranges

And its true. Chiastic Slide anticipates post-Confield Ae far more than LP5 or EP7. Those records are like a detour in some ways.

Last one for the next few hours (still have to process the last several images).

http://i.imgur.com/0i8W97u.jpg

10. Drane - 168 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote

thanks Leee,

Drane was high on my ballot!