Pick only 1 from Tri Repetae and the ++ EPs, and then face them off against each other

dael

clipper

c/pach

Also feel free to discuss the album, since I think this is the first topic made about it. It's currently my favorite electronic album (second if you count Another Green World as electronic); and although Autechre has made a number of tracks that are equal to the ones here, I think none of their albums are as consistently great as this one.

"Stud" has this awful sound playing through it that I can actually FEEL in the back of my head - I can't get through it. Rest of the album is great, though, "Clipper" being my favourite

Eutow vs garbagemx

Eutow wins. I've always thought of the two as one big album, as I have the double cd, nevertheless, makes for a great 2 hours and 20 minutes of so.

eutow over garbagemx? crazy. eutow might be my least favorite track out of everything here actually.

i've always had ++ too but the album and the eps have pretty distinct life cycles for me and they definitely exist as totally different entities.

it's tough to pick just one from tri repetae since like three or four are equally woah: i'm torm between 'stud', 'overand' and 'rsdio'. but since this thread is about playing g.i. joe by yourself with autechre tracks, i'll go with 'stud.' i can't believe how alien this sounds STILL. you can hear their later time measure clusterfucks in that shuffle but it manages to be so graceful and subtle about it. and all its little caustic and whirring parts are slotted together with the most bizarre and obsessive logic; it really sounds like an alien life form...

anvil vapre's really tough too since i think it's one of their most integrated statements, but i'll go with 'second peng,' the last one, cuz the main riff is so meaty and sinister and that's how i'm feeling right now.

i'm eliminating 'garbagemx' from garbage to make this more interesting, since it's completely unbeatable in my book and probably my favorite autechre track. that leaves the embers on the second half, of which "Bronchusevenmx24" is my fav on most days because of that pulse, which is like random chatter or chinese water torture w/ acid.

stud vs. second peng vs. bronchusevenmx24

those would sound pretty good back-to-back actually! my heart really can't choose, but my mind tells me 'second peng' drops out leaving a draw between the other two.

a dozen years out and eutow + 2nd bad vilbel are the only two that I think I'd be able to recognize as being autechre instead of some random wanker's blittered diminished-chord dickaround demo used in some gadget advert

strgn do you enjoy the way your voice sounds inside your head when you have a terrible cold?

I'm just a little boggled at how your picks are exactly the three I probably find least appealing. takes all kinds though

woah, i don't know? they pretty much all appeal to me. i think eutow is a little boring. but 2nd bad vilbel rocks, its pretty much the only autechre track i'll put on a jogging mix. i get what you're saying about the diminished chord dickaround thing, but the thing is none of these have diminished chords in them, except maybe rotar. i mean the minor keys start to blur together on tri repetae, but i don't think it's a big melody album anyway, not that autechre couldn't do melodies when they wanted to. and, yeah, i have a weakness for head-cold-y sonics and high pitches, but everything here has head-cold-y sonics! i don't get how you can be really selective with this stuff because... they all sound like variations on the same sets of ideas? i mean the approaches to building a track are the same, the sonic palette is the same, a lot of the 'types' of 'things' going on are the same...

what do you think of garbagemx?

some random wanker's blittered diminished-chord dickaround demo used in some gadget advert

If you view this album that way, how do you feel about Confield (as I would describe Confield similar to your terms, but Tri Repetae and their best early work as quite beatiful)?

soooo i'm listening to quaristice right now because of this thread and it's reminding me of tri repetae more than anything they've done in years

ok maybe not

i can't get into it (though i've only listened twice so it could change). and i even liked untilted.

garbagemx is pretty neat but it suffers from being used as the blueprint for a bargeload of utter dreck from wannabes that came after, even morseo that a lot of other tracks on the album. I sometimes worry that's my biggest problem with these, which ties into the following paragraph.

belldog I guess I hear the beginnings of what I most dislike abt autechre in a few of the things on these - most tracks sound closer to amber than not, but when it starts to get particularly glitchy I get a bit of a nervous twinge recalling my disappointment in basically everything that came after. chiastic slide was heralded at the time but I was rather put out by it.

xpost yes I think I might actually get 4istice for that very reason, there's a couple on there that sound like son of eutow and revenge of vletrmix.

thanks for making me go back and listen to this (besides the two I mentioned already) again though!

While I am a huge Autechre fan understand this is a really popular album, I've always found it a little dry compared to the others. Only Eutow and Leterel (on the album proper) seem to have that sweet melodic aspect that I crave from their stuff and is especially apparent on albums like LP5. I see it as a transition album from the techno ambience of Incunabula and Amber onto the devastating mindfuckery of what came after. A lot of the tracks sound very repetitive and clunky to me, much like the leaden robot creatures in the videos.

I like the EPs quite a lot. Garbagemx36 is especially lovely, particularly towards the end, but it takes a while to achieve catharsis. Vletrmx is an interesting beatless track (maybe the only Autechre track that sounds anything like it) and makes me think of the composer Gorecki.

I had no idea there was a track called "Medrey" available on Japanese import - must get!

Overand is a nice ambient track - do like that one.

that post was a bit Geir

a track called "Medrey" available on Japanese import

is it a medley?

First three tracks are one of my all-time favourite album openings of all time. I like the dentistry noises on Stud but I do prefer the tracks with a bit more drive. I mean I love Amber, but Tri Repetae has always seemed more heavyweight than that, and the more ambient tracks slow it down just a little too much for my liking. Which is pretty daft really as there's more or less a 50/50 split between them.

Overall would have to pick Leterel as it's the pinnacle of their minor key melodic dickarounding. Key changes in it are awesome.

eutow might be my least favorite track

Eutow is beautiful! You crazy.

In my big Autechre phase circa LP5, Tri Repetae was my favourite, but I put it on recently and found it slightly hard work. The EPs are gorgeous though. Don't think I can remember the titles too well, but "Second Scout" is one of my favourite Autechre tracks.