Album Rating: 5.0

let me invalidate your opinions one by one here:



sublimit is honestly one of my least favorite autechre tracks. it's about eight years long and it's really just a beat collage, which is cool i guess but the transitions are so abstract and meaningless they may as well not exist. feel free to disregard this considering untilted is my second least fav ae (incunabula worst obvs)



rsdio is cool but kinda cheesy, just like literally all of tri repetae (2nd most overrated idm release behind selected ambient works 85-92). from a sound design perspective it;s cool as fuck, and the development of the track is excellent, but as far as autechre goes it's really straightforward.



kman is almost on the money except his dumb ass didn't say drane2 which is the only correct answer to this question. i'll let it slide since you own quaristice on vinyl and claim that the mix has stuff that isn't present on the digital mix. autechre does this style of ambience really well, and the power combo wraps up quaristice perfectly, but it's not nearly as groundbreaking as drane2. it's more about flexing the sound design and spatial synesthesia (one of the two has some kind of spatial synesthesia i'm p sure). gantz graf is pretty much just a max/msp delay workout, and outh9x is pretty much a "lets see what weird places we can put these noises in the mix" workout. not that either are bad songs, both are 5/5, but:



seriously drane2 is pretty much the culmination of everything autechre had done up to that point from a song structure/sound design perspective. it has obvious melodies and subtle buildup, and the bouncing ball effect (which is kind of cheesy in its own right) is used absolutely fucking perfectly. if anyone is wondering why they kind of went off the deep end after LP5 (not that them going off the deep end didn't rule, but you can definitely tell that they went in a totally new direction), it's because drane2 closed the fucking book on ambient techno. ep7/confield-style weirdness was the only route. drane2 completely fucking shattered any possibility of anyone, including themselves, from ever creating anything to compete with it.

Album Rating: 5.0

holy fuck tl;dr

sublimit rules tho

Album Rating: 4.0

lol dude if untilted is your least fav something is definitely wrong wit u

Album Rating: 5.0

insert hyperion's thing about how every ae album has someone claiming it's their fav and someone claiming it's their worst and how that's the mark of a truly great group



idk, it just doesn't push my buttons like most of their outpt. besides my issue with the compression (holy fucking shit everything is so fucking compressed oh my god)(like i get that it's (probably) intentional but idk i prefer my autechre with dynamics) i'm not a huge fan of how most of the tracks develop. I love LCC and Ipacial Section, but pro radii gets on my nerves after a few minutes, augmatic disport kind of does the same, iera does nothing for me, fermium has cool sound design but i wish it were shorter. the trees is very confield in that it just exists as a living organism. i like the trees.



sublimit just feels like a bunch of different beats stitched together (it doesn't help that the time signature changes are fairly awkward) to the point where i can't really enjoy it. it doesn't feel like on cohesive song. the time signature change from 4/4 to 5/4 about three and a half minutes in is ridiculously jarring, and it doesn't help that it takes a few measures of free time to make the switch. then the 5/4 to 6/4 switch just feels like a dj crossfade between two different tracks. i guess my main complaint is that it's more of a beat collage than a song, and the transitions don't feel well-executed.



and even at the end when they finally settle on a beat and develop it in proper autechre fashion, it just feels like a weaker version of a confield track. also it has a fadeout at the end and fuck fadeouts.

Album Rating: 5.0

jesus fucking christ i am just spraying walls of texts this morning. whatever. distracting myself from writing a track because writing music is fucking hard. lately all i can manage is like one cool minute of stuff and then writer's block hits me hard

Album Rating: 5.0

http://lonelymachines.org/2006/09/09/but-ours-go-to-11/



weird article and he talks about oasis lmao but



and yeah i definitely get that. idk i definitely prefer modulation-based autechre to linear-beat-development autechre.

hasn't quite clicked with me yet but i'll listen to this again today

Album Rating: 4.0

linear-beat development ok



dude where are your ears and sense of diving deep past shallow listening

awwtexture

sweet post someguest :D

Album Rating: 5.0

linear-appearing, i realize it isn't actually linear. and i have dived (dove?) deep with it, it's not my fav style of autechre. i love that you assume i'm shallow listening to it though, thanks relinquished. hell, by playcount it's my third most listened autechre album. i'm going to keep revisiting it every once in a while but i'm done trying to get into it for now.

took me like 2 years to finally start appreciating oversteps tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

sublimit > drane2bh

honestly nofour is my favorite Ae closer

Album Rating: 4.0

Reading this thread is making me want to get back to these dudes asap, so gj guys.

@Danielito Odd that you'd consider something "straightforward" like Rsdio as an inherently negative thing. I can agree on parts of Incunabula and even Amber being corny, as with a lot of early IDM, but the bulk of that period still rules, even the dated stuff like Ptolemy. But Rsdio is one of the most serious, unfuckwithable beats I've ever heard and yes, the sound design gives me a pulsating vascular rager. Know that I think about it though, Cap IV is probably tied with Rsdio as my fav closr, maybe just a little behind.

@deathschool sick, check the Garbage EP first, it's easy pretty easy to digest and might be AE's most emotive release.

Album Rating: 4.0

“These idiots listen to their music through iPods or cellphones or car stereos.“ (danielito's link)

Album Rating: 4.0

Btw, classical fans are the most OG when it comes to sound quality. Some of them completely dismiss the idea of recorded music and demand that tax payers spend millions of euros on concert halls 4 their aural pleasure

You don't really need hundreds of euros for good sound quality speakers, I think these could do the job http://www.amazon.com/Micca-MB42X-Bookshelf-Speakers-Tweeter/dp/B00E7H8GG2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427564994&sr=8-1&keywords=mb42x I'm not too familiar with towers, but those will def give you more power if you need it, but bookshelves like those and the Pioneer SP-BS22-LR should do the job for the most part. With decent amplification and proper positioning (and a powered sub if you need powerful low frequency response), you wouldn't be disapointed.