Autechre is POLLitically non-aligned: Autechre :: Anti

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Repetitive beats below (except, of course, for "Flutter").

Poll Results

Option	Votes
3. "Flutter" 9:57	5
1. "Lost" 7:24	3
2. "Djarum" 7:19	1

― Cliff Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

This one is very easy for me: at a time when techno to me was Orbital, the Chems, and the Prodigy, the first time heard I heard "Lost," I thought it was TEH FUTURE (corny as it sounds). And it STILL sounds like nothing I've ever heard since, as far as I'm concerned.

― Cliff Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

It's a two-way between Lost and Flutter for me. Lost is grebt as one of the few ae tracks with recognisable vocal samples but I think Flutter wins it with its bouncy melody, those huge bass growls, and of course the non-repetitive beats.

― ledge, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:35 (fifteen years ago)

btw courtesy of discogs:

Run-out groove B-side: 'FUCK OFF TRAINSPOTTER'

― ledge, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:36 (fifteen years ago)

^ ack, should be on 'amber' thread.

― ledge, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:37 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, this is all about "Lost" vs "Flutter". In truth, I don't think this EP has aged all that well. What they were striving for with "Lost" was perfected on later releases like "Anvil Vapre". "Djarum" was always a bit ho-hum and "Flutter"'s impact is lessened now that we're 15 years removed from Criminal Justice Act -- it just seems like an odd-sounding curiosity now, albeit one with some pretty mad (non-repetitive) beats.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 09:58 (fifteen years ago)

^^agree about lost. did flutter have any impact at the time? on individuals or otherwise? i give it an extra point for trying anyway. the drums still sound great and i wish they did more in that vein. also has one of their classic extended beatless fadeouts. voting for that

― ¸¸.·´¯´·he'd sail across the bubbling waves·.¸¸.·´¯ (another al3x), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

Ditto. I wish Autechre did more stuff along the lines of either "Lost" or "Flutter" or the stuff on Garbage (which I think is aesthetically closer to Anti than Anvil Vapre, e.g. cavernous/mountainous ambient vs., I dunno, industrial proto-glitch).

― Cliff Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Bump.

― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:55 (fifteen years ago)

I've always loved Flutter, but when I dug it out again for this poll I was surprised by how much I liked Djarum, which I'd never really paid any attention to before. So I'm going to be its single vote, I reckon.

― what is he like? the guy's a juggalo, man (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 31 October 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

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

― System, Monday, 1 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

POLLBRMX19 -- Autechre :: Garbage:: EP3

― Ou sont les cankles d'antan? (Leee), Monday, 1 November 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

"flutter" is just astonishing

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 30 April 2018 14:26 (seven years ago)

kinda love how the "non repetitive beat" thing became this sort of protest gimmick, and not the sort of track that Autechre probably was gonna make anyway :)

― frogbs, Monday, 30 April 2018 14:34 (seven years ago)

i mean correct me if i'm wrong but at the time (anti came out before amber) it wasn't yet necessarily "what they were going to make anyway"

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 30 April 2018 14:41 (seven years ago)

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Autechre is POLLitically non-aligned: Autechre :: Anti :: EP2

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