Any other group/artist with the same run of quality albums as ae?

  On 2/10/2013 at 9:51 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

I'll most likely catch quite a lot of shit for this but I find Venetian Snares has fairly decent quality control if you ignore the last few releases he's done. Not every track or every album is good but it is plentiful and prolific and most of it is pretty good.

  On 2/10/2013 at 3:44 PM, lumpenprol said:

agreed...plaid are like the Ben Affleck of IDM

Made me lol

  On 2/10/2013 at 9:51 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

I'll most likely catch quite a lot of shit for this but I find Venetian Snares has fairly decent quality control if you ignore the last few releases he's done. Not every track or every album is good but it is plentiful and prolific and most of it is pretty good.

I concur.

  On 2/10/2013 at 3:28 PM, eugene said:

bardo pond

Nice, I didn't think anyone else here was into Bardo Pond. I fucking love them. Their catalogue is so vast, I probably haven't listened to half of it... but pretty much everything I have (which is mostly their 'big label' albums, less of the self-released stuff) is very very strong. Definitely one of my favourite bands.

Radiohead with a 7 album streak and numerous eps and single tracks that remain high quality.

(insert favourite band/bandit)

I'd add Radiohead, Beatles, and Steely Dan if they had put out more excellent albums, but they top out at like 5 or 6 only

Honestly i think there is no other artist(s) that followed the same route as Ae album-wise. It was really special until after Untilted. There was even a strong myth of some cutting-edge shifting with each release. Pop music inhabitants (i.e. anyone oriented on album format) don't operate this way.

Talk Talk

Talking Heads

King Crimson

Bob Dylan

Neil Young

Nick Cave

about every jazz master.

about every classical master. I'm not even trying hard to search

Cmon dude.

@joshuatx

Who's the second one from the top?

  On 2/10/2013 at 5:20 PM, xox said:

 

 

yeah this is honestly the only musical artist I can think of whose career spanned over 20 years, and put out not only consistently incredible work, but also moved the entire scope and understanding of music as an art form forward in their lifetime. That is really hard to come by. I'd say 80% of John Cage's music is unlistenable shit, but he's probably one of the 20th century's singular influences. Yeah Sonic Youth and Scientist have great strings of albums, but let's get real here, they've done NOTHING as conceptually powerful and forward thinking as what booth and brown have done since cavity job.

this ulgy guy. only 2 real masterpieces but about 15 good albums (i don't remember) ...

muslimgauze

  On 2/10/2013 at 8:58 PM, xox said:

@joshuatx

 

Who's the second one from the top?

Scientist. There's actually quite a few dub and reggae artists I could up there, I'm quite partial to that genre though.

JS Bach (though obviously not "albums").

Other than that, maybe Coil?

  On 2/10/2013 at 7:41 PM, joshuatx said:

 

I'd add Radiohead, Beatles, and Steely Dan if they had put out more excellent albums, but they top out at like 5 or 6 only

You'd count REM but not Beatles? Madness.

I've pretty much never heard a bad Sun Ra album and that guy's got one of the most prolific discographies known to man... if you don't count the novelty records he was involved in during the late 50s, he had a pretty solid career.

i think a lot of jazz artists win just because they put out so much. if you can improvise beautifully on a standard you don't need to compose nearly as much of your own work to put out an album, and that saves a lot of time.

or for that matter if you improvise for nine minutes on a track when you generally had to put out 40-50 minute albums.

so shall we say Herbie Hancock?

I would say :zoviet*france: is the one to come the nearest.

Any other group/artist with the same run of quality albums as ae?

No.

Or rather that Autechre are nearing :zoviet*france:, who has been at it for over thirty years; for at least five years before Ae.

  On 2/10/2013 at 11:47 PM, tardbarker said:

I would say :zoviet*france: is the one to come the nearest.

  On 2/10/2013 at 11:16 PM, solarion said:

i think a lot of jazz artists win just because they put out so much. if you can improvise beautifully on a standard you don't need to compose nearly as much of your own work to put out an album, and that saves a lot of time.

 

or for that matter if you improvise for nine minutes on a track when you generally had to put out 40-50 minute albums.

 

so shall we say Herbie Hancock?

no because herbie hancock has like 3 great albums and about 7-8 ones where he fell for disco hook line and sinker