Autechre poll -- ILM ballot poll #57

A surely incomplete listing of compilation tracks and rarities:

MCR Quarter
Nonima
Konlied MX
Bronchus One.1
Puch
Stop Look Listen
Lanx 3
PIOB (Mix #2)
Inhake 3
Medrey

is there a place we can get all the possible tracks?

my itunes library

this was my go-to but it's four years out of date now: http://perso.numericable.fr/autechre/

compilation tracks etc, too weary to youtube them

/]{- /](||) Excerpt
All Tomorrow's Linoleum
Carni
Coenc3 1
Inhake 3
Konlied MX
Lanx3
Medrey
Naftwa4
Nomina
P.I.O.B. (mix two)
Puch
Silversub 1
Stop Look Listen
Ts1a
Untitled (hidden track off 0161)
extended ambience sample from a resonant structure

is there a place we can get all the possible tracks?

vast majority - Warp stuff anyway - is on Spotify

remixes, some of questionable provenance

8, AE Mix (Autechre)
9 (Autechre Remix)
Autechre (TR7AE Remix) vs. Jurgen Paape
Autechre Remix of Spangle by Seefeel
Beaumont Hannant - Psi-Onyx (Psix Million Dollar Myx Oscar Goldmans Bonus)
Buck Tick - Iconoclasm (don't X-ray Da Dat mix)
Cylob - Sanq (Autechre mix)
Dalglish - Ou (Autechre Remix) [excerpt]
Dj Food - Sexy Bits (ae9v Mix)
Dominique Dalcan - Aveugle & Sourd (Autechre mix)
Earth - Coda Maestosa in F(flat) Minor (remixed by Autechre)
East Flatbush Project - Tried By Twelve (Autechre Mx)
Edge of Motion - Earth Ball (Autechre mix)
Freeform - Autechre's A.T
Hellbent - 3d (Autechre Mix)
Higher Intelligence Agency - Speech3 (Conoid Tone reformed by Autechre)
Impulse - One-Six-Four-Seven (Numbers Rammed down My Ear Mix by ae)
Jello - Neph (Autechre Ultamatique 6 mix)
Jimi Tenor - Take Me Baby (Fucked Up remix)
Kruton - Smallfish PA (Autechre remix)
Lamb - Gold [Autechre mix]
Lexis - Hypnotise [Autechre Remix]
Mari Hamada - Aira Kawaya
Mark Broom - any no. between 1&17 (autechre remix)
Medium - Celsius (Rebuilt by Autechre)
Merzbow - Ecobondage [Ending] ae remix
Microphone Fiend
Mike Ink - Paroles (Autechre Repoles)
Nav Katze - Happy? (Qunk mix dub autechre)
Nightmares on Wax - Sal Batardes (Purple Mix by Autechre)
Palmskin Productions - Evolution of the Beast (Autechre mix)
Phoenecia - Odd Jobs (Autechre Systems Mono Version)
Push Button Objects - Non-existant (keyed in by Gescom)
Saint Etienne - Like a Motorway (Skin up You're Already Dead mix)
Schaft - SKF10047 mixed by Autechre
Scorn - Falling (Autechre - 'FR 13' Mix)
Sensational Meets Kouhei - Sensachre 10 Mix (Autechre remix)
Silvania - 1belm (Autechre mx)
Skinny Puppy - Killing Game Autechre mix (Bent mix)
Slowly - On the Loose (For Internal Use Only)
Soft Ballet - Jail Of Freedom (Jailtilsli) remix by Autechre
Spacetime Continuum - String of Pearls (Autechre mix)
Squarepusher - Two Bass Hit (ae Mix)
Stereolab - Refractions In The Plastic Pulse (Feebate Mix)
Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These (Autechre Remix)
Team Doyobi - Push Chairs For Grown Ups (Autechre Remix)
Tortoise - Adverse Camber Mixed and Made by Autechre
Tortoise - To Day Retrieval Mixed and Made by Autechre
Unique 3 - The Theme (Autechre Remix)
V - Vliezwei (Vliegenbos Morning reproduced by Autechre)
Various Artists - 8 (Autechre's AE mix)

The Bug - Skeng (Autechre Dub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-hAzVnhIA

also this, off bleep 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ84hKQPTAA

I don't know enough Autechre to vote in this, but I love that ^^^ bleep 10 track.

Should there be a separate EP side poll? If not, we'll combine that with the albums.

In which case Tri Repetae would exclude the Garbage / Anvil Vapre bonus CD.

> 8, AE Mix (Autechre)
...
> Various Artists - 8 (Autechre's AE mix)

fail.

Not averse to a joint ep/lp poll, ep7 makes it a false dichotomy anyway.

yeah, it's impossible to separate EPs and LPs with Ae

how many tracks, albums, etc. are we putting on our ballots?

Voting for "Xvvv(8i3IIIIIIi."

lol

trenchant techno commentary

I'll devote more time to this poll once Radiohead is finished, but this has been my jam since it came out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYBrEShzsLY

Damn. This one then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdYuhr62-bM

could have guessed tbf

how many tracks, albums, etc. are we putting on our ballots?

20 tracks following usual point system.

The side-polls: let's say 5 each, unless there are strenuous objections.

I just realised that EP7 is the last album I really paid attention to, so I have a LOT of catching up to do.

This is going to be a challenge. So many good songs. So many weird songs.

Thanks for finally starting this up, Leee!!

I don't know enough Autechre to vote in this, but I love that ^^^ bleep 10 track.

― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Monday, September 8, 2014 6:47 AM (Yesterday)

You will love post-Quaristice Autechre then. Particularly Exai.

No prob, octo! Were you not around for our first run of Autechre polls?

I don't think I was on the board at the time but those threads were awesome, so much to talk about with these guys

spl9 is p dope

Considering #1ing it. It's the only post confield track on my ballot tho.

Not averse to a joint ep/lp poll, ep7 makes it a false dichotomy anyway.

― ledge, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:16 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it's impossible to separate EPs and LPs with Ae

― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:37 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK: albums side-poll will involve EPs as well! Perhaps a mod can edit my top post?

Combining EPs and albums makes sense. But man that makes whittling down to 5 HARDDDDDD.

Making this up as we go along: 10 entries for the albums/EP sidepoll.

Got the first ballot! Thanks, whoever!

No worries! I avoided agonising over it too much, but there were still some tough cuts to be made. Looking forward to the results.

Here's another one to consider: Gescom - "Bronchusix".

Thought this was closing this week for some reason. Hooray, another 10 days to spend pointlessly agonising over arbitrary track ordering!

I need to admit that as much as I like Autechre, I can never remember a single track title.

You mean you can't remember "/]{- /](||) Excerpt" off the top of your head?

Same here Sund4r

I know most of my absolute faves, 20-30 or so. The rest I'm like "which one's that again? [plays smippet] oh yeah".

submitted! found it fairly easy to make a top 30, and a top 10 within those. cutting it down to 20 and final ordering was pretty arbitary. tried to be as even handed as possible across their oeuvre though i clearly prefer a particular 7 year stretch.

ah forgot about this! it's hard to pick faves without a longlist of tracks.

don't you... have a music library?

not at work

long list in rough chronological order

Accelara 1 & 2
Cavity Job
Crystel
The Egg
Chatter
Kalpol Introl
Bike
Autriche
Bronchus 2
Basscadet
Eggshell
Doctrine
Maetl
Windwind
Lowride
444
Foil
Montreal
Silverside
Slip
Glitch
Piezo
Nine
Further
Yulquen
Nil
Teartear
Lost
Djarum
Flutter
Second Bad Vilbel
Second Scepe
Second Scout
Second Peng
Garbagemx
Piobmx
Bronchusevenmx
VLetrmx
Dael
Clipper
Leterel
Rotar
Stud
Eutow
C/Pach
Gnit
Overand
Rsdio
Medrey
We R Are Why
Are Y Are We?
Cipater
Rettic AC
Tewe
Cichli
Hub
Calbruc
Recury
Pule
Nuane
Yeesland
Pencha
Characi
Krib
Tilapia
Goz Quarter
Latent Quarter
Laughing Quarter
Draun Quarter
Untitled (hidden track)
Acroyear2
777
Rae
Melve
Vose In
Fold4, Wrap5
Under BOAC
Corc
Caliper Remote
Arch Carrier
Drane2
Untitled (hidden track)
Stop Look Listen
Rpeg
Ccec
Squeller
Left Blank
Outpt
Dropp
Liccflii
Maphive 6.1
Zeiss Contarex
Netlon Sentinel
Pir
Milk DX
Inhake 2
Drane
VI Scose Poise
Cfern
Pen Expers
Sim Gishel
Parhelic Triangle
Bine
Eidetic Casein
Uviol
Lentic Catachresis
Gelk
Blifil
Gaekwad
19 Headaches
Gantz Graf
Dial
CapIV
Xylin Room
IV VV IV VV VIII
6IE.CR
Tapr
Surripere
Theme of Sudden Roundabout
VL AL 5
P:Ntil
V-Proc
Reniform Puls
Konlied MX
/]{- /](||) Excerpt
All Tomorrow's Linoleum
Carni
Coenc3 1
extended ambience sample from a resonant structure
Inhake 3
Lanx3
Naftwa4
Nomina
P.I.O.B. (mix two)
Puch
Silversub 1
LCC
Ipacial Section
Pro Radii
Augmatic Disport
Iera
Fermium
The Trees
Sublimit
Zurich 2001
IO (mons)
90101-51-4
Blyz Castl
Altibzz
The Plc
IO
plyPhon
Perlence
SonDEremawe
Simmm
paralel Suns
Steels
Tankakern
rale
Fol3
fwzE
90101-5l-l
bnc Castl
Theswere
WNSN
chenc9
Notwo
Outh9X
Nu-Nr6d
Altichyre
The PlclCpC
IO (mons)
Phylopn
Perlence range3
SonDEre-ix
Tankraken
fol4
90101-61-01
chenc9-x
nofour
The Plc ccc
Perlence range 7
Perlence Suns
90101-51-6
9013-2
Tkakanren
90101-51-19
Perlence subrange 3
chenc9-1dub
9010171-121
Perlence losid 2
notwotwo
Perlence subrange 6-36
Etchogon-S
y7
pce freeze 2.8i
rew(1)
nth Dafuseder.b
iris was a pupil
no border
M62
ylm0
Cep puiqMX
r ess
ilanders
known(1)
pt2ph8
qplay
see on see
Treale
os veix3
O=0
d-sho qub
st epreo
redfall
krYlon
Yuop
Ts1a
Fleure
irlite (get 0)
prac-f
jatevee C
T ess xi
vekoS
Flep
tuinorizn
bladelores
1 1 is
nodezsh
runrepik
spl9
cloudline
deco Loc
recks on
YJY UX
tac Lacora
M39 Diffain
Osla for n
newbound

wow! thanks ledge!!!

now for the hard choice between pt2ph8 and Outh9X

It's so much easier just going down and ticking all the ones I know I like. It also throws into sharp relief how great LP5 and EP7.2 really are.

I mean that run from Maphive6.1 to Pir is just perfect in every way

Once I get to the track titles on Quaristice though, I'm utterly lost.

Amazing list, someone needs to read it aloud like a Schwitters-esque sound poem

Ned Raggett to thread

i take it the tracks poll is 20 votes?

Yep.

ledge and Snoopy Doggy Dog Latin, got your ballots! We're at 3!

how do i shot ballot? do i need to assign points or just rank 20 tracks best to not best?

If you rank them 1-20, I'll assign the points.

Using the following scheme: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12

4 now if you get mine

sent

Gotcha both I presume, brings us to 5!

I wasn't going to because I'm not as hugely into them as I was but, y'know, 5 polls is terrible. Just spent a lovely two hours putting a 20 together.

Leee, got my poll number 6?

Yes, thanks k!

i know what i'm doing this weekend

I do expect more to come in later this weekend. I kind of expect ~17 total in the end.

never voted in one of these but i shall scribble something together for this

just voted. This was fun.

are we supposed to refrain from discussing our ballots until the results come out?

In general terms, it's fine, e.g. "Ranking my top 5 is IMPOSSIBLE," but I think that people would like to preserve the element of surprise.

oh ok

we vote for 20 remixes? what if i haven't heard 20 remixes, how do i vote?

It's so much easier just going down and ticking all the ones I know I like. It also throws into sharp relief how great LP5 and EP7.2 really are.

― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin)

i did this too, was also surprised by how much it clustered around a few albums

we vote for 20 remixes? what if i haven't heard 20 remixes, how do i vote?

Remix and non-Autechre side-polls are up to 5 tracks each, but the album/EP poll will get up to 10.

ah thank you

Partial remix reference: REBUILT POLL: Because what is ILM without an AUTECHRE poll? THE REMIXES 1994-1999

Never done on of these before, but I want in! To clarify: I just list my favourite 20 tracks in top-down ranking order?

yep. and, if you like, top 10 albums/eps, top 5 remixes, top 5 side project tracks (gescom etc).

leeee, mine is in ranking order btw.

@ledge - thanks!

ledge got this on lock.

You're The Man Now Dog Latin, understood!

Have you got my ballot Leee? Sent it on Tuesday I think.

I don't see it, Gavin.

Did you get mine? I sent it earlier today.

Got it, BB!

got mine?

Yes, both the tracks and the side-polls.

Have re-sent mine, let me know if you haven't got it.

Still not seeing it, Gavin. Can you try ILX-mailing me, either with your ballot or email address?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

http://i.imgur.com/9t3MRIQ.gif

Sent mine earlier today, but just realised I didn't include my ILX username *slaps forehead*

I'll send a follow up email ...

Still not seeing it, Gavin. Can you try ILX-mailing me, either with your ballot or email address?

Done!

i'm going to do a ballot even though my frame of autechre reference is tiny

it shall be based entirely upon the four or five years in which they basically revolutionised music

*ducks, scarpers*

✓

the display name

btw I'm listening to Untilted rn to cull some trax from it - good album tbh

dog latin & kraudive & NoTimeBeforeTime, you only listed 5 entries for the album + EP polls. You can resubmit with up to 10, if you'd like!

so did i

alright i will resend 10

dog latin & kraudive & NoTimeBeforeTime, you only listed 5 entries for the album + EP polls. You can resubmit with up to 10, if you'd like!

Adding nakh!

xp thanks nakh!

sent. let the record state that i cut 'pen expers' right at the end, RIP that li'l song

Got it. We're at 13 track ballots!

14!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Anyone here who could do with an extended deadline?

This is proving to be really challenging, nostalgic, and a lot of fun. Very excited to submit my ballot.

I would also have no issues with extending the deadline (would allow me to "check my work" with fresh ears the next day or two)

Great, take your time, the extension might be a couple days, in fact.

Don't say you're planning on rolling out this weekend, I'm gonna be away!

I might try to do a ballot if the deadline is extended by a couple of days.

^^^

I might try to do a ballot if the deadline is extended by a couple of days.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, September 22, 2014 7:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― mattresslessness, Monday, September 22, 2014 7:39 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No problem: Deadline for ballots will be September 25 (Thursday), 8:30 PDT.

Did mine make it through?

Steve Reich, your ballot has been counted!

Much obliged!

"move of ten" is p good, had no idea it existed

yeah, move of ten went mostly unnoticed when it was released. It is pretty good, possibly better than oversteps. I voted for one of the tracks in this poll.

i only voted for early / mid period autechre, have a feeling people are either going to do that or vote mid / late autechre, and the mid-period (say, chiastic slide through ep7) is going to take it in a walk

some of us are only voting for mid period!

Good, that balances out some of us who only voted early period.

yeah apparently autechre released some records in the 90s?

i was always an early/mid fan too but i'm really enjoying some of these later tracks finally. wish i'd warmed to the post-confield albums sooner. strange to think that period is now a few years longer than the 90s run and with just as much variety too from the sound of it.

my ballot is almost exclusively late period. Only 4 tracks from the 90s. Kind of weird to consider everything post ep7 to be late period. That's more than half of their total output.

I don't think I put anything released after 1999 (minus remixes, possibly).

I think a lot of nostalgia is guiding my my top 20, but there's just a ton of recent stuff that is just pure ear candy for me... like Flep off of Exai (didn't make my list) or M39 Diffain off of the latest release L-Event (which did make my top 20). These newer songs are utterly amazing and have much more sophistication and are possibly even more expressive, but some simpler and older songs like Key Nell 4 (by Gescom) or Inhake 2 just bring me back my youth and cloud my judgement (though they are epic, and incredible tunes in their own right)

It's almost like we're merging two bands into one poll.

I think I'm going to be more interested in everyone's individual lists than the tallied totals!

there are exquisite tracks on most of their releases since 94 or so

two bands into one poll.

i think everything post-ep7 is their "late period"!

to me it makes more sense than thinking of it chronologically because they seem to me infinitely more settled on a sound post-gantz graf than they did in the early days.

imo "early period" is when they sounded like a lot of other early idm (i.e. not terribly distinct from b12, for example), then "mid period" is when they were radically switching up the vibe on every album (tri-repetae through confield) and then "late period" it pretty much all sounds like a blend of lp5 and confield

maybe i'm wrong about that though - "l-event" brings tri repetae and anvil vapre to mind, somehow

'Fold4,Wrap5' ftw.

Oversteps and later seems like a different period to me, but yeah it's not like the jump from Tri Repetae to Chiastic.

i got into autechre when "garbage" came out and i remember that following autechre releases was like following a comic book with a fast moving plot. every release was something new, sonically and visually. can't say i've felt that way since gantz graf.

i keep changing my #1 and #2 around :( they're so incredible but in different ways, also they're on the same album which makes it harder. also considered bumping my #5 to the top spot, and it's on the same fucken album too

there was a sense that they were revolutionary because of their production / sound design leaps. listening back now though the progression seems less dramatic somehow, i get this sense that the "musical" elements that make them who they are have remained pretty consistent since the mid 90s. xp

'Fold4,Wrap5' ftw.

― Welcome To (Turrican), Monday, September 22, 2014 1:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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imo there's a clear, clear leap from LP5 to Confield - the former just doesn't grab me in remotely the same way, doesn't seem three-dimensional or sublime. but then I probably need to listen to it more, and this poll will probably succeed in making me do this

lp5 sounds the most 'dated' to me.

I think of them as four periods:
Early AI era: Incunabula, Amber etc
Mid/peak era: Tri Repetae to EP7
Experimental wilderness years: Confield thrs Untilted
Return to form: Quaristice onwards

dog latin's post making me feel more comfortable in my voting range

thats a fairly specious distinction

Imago LP5 is my favourite and I always found Confield to be a bumpy ride at best. But I can see if someone were to approach these albums in achronologic order how it could feel the other way round. I love the cleanness of LP5. It's like listening to CAD or something.

exai is a 'melodic' 'engaging' 'return to form', otherwise their work since 2005 is not appreciably less ambitious than before

I've sort of been categorizing them synesthetically lately -- starting with the bright neon of LP1 until they get to the gray-scale LP5, then it turns either putrefying purples/blacks on Confield or blistering metallic (copper?) on Draft.

lp5 has certain drum sounds i associate w bad folktronica of the time + 'pretty' autechre is one of my east favorite things they do, cichli aside

that is a much better way of categorising them xp

that should read exai oversteps is a 'melodic' 'engaging' 'return to form', otherwise their work since 2005 is not appreciably less ambitious than before

Draft is copper wires and trees tbf, it's a child's transmission tower (yes, I still haven't finished C)

Actually, Amber is pretty cavernous and dark. Rats.

they each sound like their album covers, duh

mostly true

LP5 was my first, and will always be my favourite, but doing my ballot made me realise how much I like Draft 7.30 ... really feel it's the peak of the post EP7 output.

For me early period = incunabula, mid = amber thru lp5, confield is the game changer's game changer and everything after that is late. And I still struggle with the late period sound. I love confield, will happy to listen to it in one sitting, but though its sound echoes through their later works when I come across a particularly confield-esque later track I feel like I don't have the time for it. But every release has at least something to keep me interested, except for draft and quaristice (main lp, I found some of the side releases a tad more interesting).

Also, Untilted is MASSIVE.

i can't help but feel i've been sleeping on quaristice.

just listened to quaristice str8 thru and it's cool, had a couple of lovely little bits. but yeah it's not the beast untilted is

Untilted felt like such a letdown after the genius of confield-ganz graf-draft 7.30. I've since come to appreciate it more, but I still can't completely shake that initial disappointment.

nah it's in the same ballpark IMO. sure it doesn't fuck with the beat quite so much but it has other subtleties and its song-structures are extraordinary. it's delicious. i've been listening to it this evening and have some changes to make to the ordering of my ballot as a result ;)

well, just one really

i mean yeah obv it's not as good as the other albums you mention (would have it just ahead of gantz graf purely on amount of content brought) but it's still wonderful and necessary and so forth

I think of them as four periods:
Early AI era: Incunabula, Amber etc
Mid/peak era: Tri Repetae to EP7
Experimental wilderness years: Confield thrs Untilted
Return to form: Quaristice onwards

― zip it shrimpy (dog latin)

dog latin and I are totally on the same page. Though I have come to really enjoy Untilted, especially performed live in recent years. The recording from the board at Glasgow on May 5th, 2005 is simply intensely powerful. I love that b-boy side of Ae in all its glory.

I also feel Untilted is one of the more consistent and uncompromising albums, but there's not in the much of what I would consider standout tracks. I'm not sure any song on it will place in my top 20, but it certainly will place in my album poll.

Just listening to Quaristice now and realising I could have submitted a completely different top 20. Every period of Ae hits the spot, just depends what mood I'm in.

Save for maybe a few moments, I found the Confield through Untilted era pretty hard-going and bleak. I'd fallen in love with Ae based on LP5 and EP7 then worked back, really enjoying Amber but stumbling a bit around Tri Repetae (save for Eutow and Leterel) and Chiastic Slide (save for Cichli).
Confield came out and it was just so divisive among Ae fans I knew - quite a lot of people decried it as being total shit. I thought it was especially tough-going but assumed it would one day click. It never really did, but at least I can say each track has its own recognisable 'character'.
Gantz Graf worked better as a piece of audiovisual art than an individual EP/track. Draft 7.30 and Untilted were texturally interesting but lacked a lot of the grace and melody of previous albums - Untilted is almost entirely rhythm and texture in that respect. A few decent tracks though - love the stiff funk of V-Proc from Draft. However it was the beginning of me not really being able to discern which track was which - I can pretty much recall what most pre-Draft tracks by Ae are which just by looking at the track names. Anything after and I'm pretty much fooked, and that's one reason the later stuff is going to miss out in this poll.
By the time Quaristice came out I was nearly set to abandon the Ae cause but I was pleasantly surprised by the shorter tracks and the diversity on offer. Felt they really peaked with Oversteps, which is possibly my favourite album of 2010. Exai was pretty brilliant too. The latest stuff would rival the LP5/EP7 era for me were it not for the sheer volume of music they've released - so many EP-length b-albums and double albums it's dizzying and way too hard for me to digest in the same way as those earlier LPs. SO instead I just find myself putting everything from Quaristice to L-Event into a playlist and putting it on random, which means I don't really think about whether I like this track or that track better. Again, this is going to impact on the poll I think.

I think I must be one of those people who likes 'pretty' Autechre. Which reminds me, I should be lobbying for Krib off the Garbage EP. It's kind of their Nannou and unabashedly pretty.

Krib is off "Cichlisuite"

so it is, my bad.

Confield was the first Ae album I heard so in a way it defined what I thought of as the 'Autechre sound' - after exploring the rest of their catalogue it feels more like a transitional record but it does have some great tracks (and dog latin is OTM about the tracks sounding distinctive from each other). Untilted and Draft 7.30 both impressed me on first listen but after a while they started sounding kind of arid to me.

I only know the albums up to Untilted so I'm not sure if I'm going to vote in this, but I've been going through a lot of Ae lately and man do these guys rule at pretty much every turn. "Calbruc" from Chaistic is the one that's most recently made my jaw drop, it's absolutely stunning (plus the segue in is very good), but I've been listening to Untilted a lot lately and it feels like the sort of album I could listen to every day, so many cool things going on and once you get to know the tracks a little it's a lot of fun. I love how a lot of people point out their favorite bits like "2:25 when the deep bass pings around while the beat crumbles upon itself", which are things that I never hear in realtime, but while listening I come up with a list full of "that was really neat" moments that other people don't notice.

I voted in the radiohead poll with scant knowledge of the last 5 of their 8 albums. get in there!

yeah frogbs, you really don't need to know much past Untilted to vote. The stuff that came after is all great but I've a feeling it won't do too well in the poll.

I'll probably do just tracks instead of albums. All their albums are of roughly similar quality to me. IMO the EPs should count as albums proper, I think it would be more interesting that way.

yeah you can vote for EPs in the albums poll.

just realized I meant "Recury" from Chiastic, this is difficult ;)

The second half of Chiastic Slide is DEEEEP! Must have sounded like nothing else when it came out. I'd even say it's a more difficult and abstruse listen than LP5 or EP7. Shame it feels ever so slightly disjointed as Cichli eclipses everything else on it, but I really like Rettic AC as a preview of Gantz Graf.

Yeah especially now Chiastic feels like the key album in their discography. I feel their first four albums and several EPs were about hearing patterns form up out of the rather disparate elements that made up the tracks, stuff that generally made more sense the more attention you gave it. Later work to me feels like it turns all that on its head and toys around with the melodies and rhythms in ways that generally haven't been thought up before, the internal logic of all of it feels very abstract but it's definitely there if you're looking for it.

'internal logic' - yeah this is what i love about Ae most of all: The feeling that within all the machinery and electronics there's a central organism at work, or an all-encompassing God-like particle dictating the whole thing that's too advanced and mathematical for the human mind to fully comprehend but is nevertheless awesome to behold. I like the idea that the tracks aren't so much 'composed' in the traditional sense, rather grown from just a few ingredients - you add the algorithms, step back and watch what happens. A pleasing organic/inorganic fusion.

I wouldn't call Chiastic the 'key' album myself but it's certainly the first one they did that fully crystallised the Autechre sound.

Just realised there's quite a correlation between Tri Repetae and Untilted, thematically, as they both rely heavily on rhythm and texture with a big b-boy/hip hop influence going on throughout. Always had trouble with these but I think I might try em again soon.

know what you mean about the 'internal logic' but to me they're, at best, fabulous & instinctive composers with as Leeee says above a synaesthetic grasp of sound-as-construction

yes, and I definitely get that from albums like Exai where a full picture is being built up in my mind from a track like 'Bladelores' or something. If LP5 is Starfox - all vector graphics and polygons and fractal patterns, then Exai is a top-spec PS4 game where the mountains look like real mountains and the programmers have got cinematic lighting specialists in etc...

octobeard and frogbs, your ballots have been received and counted!

http://i.imgur.com/9dGIQ4Y.png

No, itunes. That's not right.

I'll hopefully send something tomorrow night. I've listened to the first 6 LPs. Next up: EP7!

Hm, it turns out that I like these guys, have listened to them for a long time, and have seen them live, but am not quite in a position to make a ballot at the end of the day. Looking forward to the results though.

You have till Thursday evening, Sund4r!

Similarly I have everything but can't pick anything.

Have just been through the EP box set (£7, hmv) and the one disk that was envane and first peel session was, for me, the high water mark.

do you people not have favorites or something?

I like the one that goes "dun dun dun-dun drr nurr"

octobeard and frogbs, your ballots have been received and counted!

Did my ILXmail come through in the end Leee?

I like the one that goes "dun dun dun-dun drr nurr"

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it's hard to think of another group where how much I like a specific track changes on a monthly basis. it's especially hard to rank albums, I suppose I'd pick LP5, Untilted, and Amber as the 3 best of those I've heard, but I couldn't answer "why not Tri Repeatae? or why not Confield?"

attention leee: I just sent my ballot

I like the one that goes "dun dun dun-dun drr nurr"

Is that Drane? The last track on Peel Session 1? Sounds like bassline. Or it could be anything, really.

Last minute track pimp: this remix of a Beaumont Hannant track is in my top 5.

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

(that was the point. the tracks have no lyrics and seemingly random names. i lack the brain capacity to remember which goes with which. Dael is great. Laughing Quartet also great. start and end of Lost is wonderful. can't be bothered going through the other 11 lps to find other favourites though.)

Gavin: your ballots were caught in my spam filter, but yes, I did get your ILXmail.

cajunsunday: I think I got yours. Just for bookkeeping's sake, can you email me your ILX handle too? Also, if you listed 5 items in the Album side poll, a reminder to you and all future voters: You can vote for up to 10 albums AND EPs in the combined lp/ep poll.

Ballot count at 18!

Did you see a message from me, Leee?

So, there's just the one combined lp/ep poll, not a separate album poll as well?

Yes, Noel, got your ballot, and yes, combined EP+LP poll, in which you can vote for up to 10.

submitted, Thanks Leee

I didn't realise it was LP/EP combined and only voted for 5 LPs, I'm happy with that though. I don't want to think about changing it at this point, I don't have the time!

i basically voted for "all the pretty things".

Got it, jed_!

i'm resubmitting now fwiw

Re-absorbed, LJ.

cheers!

Every track on my ballot has a different score now haha, hope you haven't had to shuffle too much around

No worries, it's just c+p'ing.

Just over 10.5 hours left to the deadline!

When are you planning on rolling out?

I could dump out the lesser side polls tonight, and do the albums tomorrow. And if people are anxious, I could start the tracks on Saturday.

Noooooooooo

I'm gonna be away from tomorrow till Monday in an area of crappy phone reception. Don't delay the whole thing on my account but would be grand if you could wait till Monday for the tracks.

go with whichever timetable minimizes ledges contriution then

Monday sure, I'm going to be out and about as well, come to think of it. Unless there are strenuous objections...

xp lol nakh ledge has been a big help behind the scenes, it's the very least I could do.

just bantz, leee

bantz graf

i just tried to "like" that^

sent

jed_: same!

mattresslessness: got it!

everyone should play gantz graf again before they vote

6.5 hours...

1 hour!

gantz graf is fantastic

i voted for a track off it

i voted for two, and one of them very, very highly indeed :)

✓ ✓

why not just roll everything out tonight?

VOTING CLOSED.

We rallied at the end to make 20, thanks everyone.

Reason we're not rolling things out is because some late drama necessitates last-minute preparations.

well i'm excited to see the results

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