Autechre Exai

annoyed this release is still a month off... they gotta give us a little somethin, or SOMETHING. tide us over

sheet music here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/4011063078_ebb3af554d_o.jpg

Memories of their full frontal assault that was their 'Oversteps' tour

damnit the first time i missed them live since 97.

Spectre of hip hop through blasted circuits... Track 2 they give us a wee melody... That review was straight out of the "new Autechre album review" generator!

How are their two most recent albums holding up? (Quaristice and Oversteps). Naturally there's a hell of a lot of buzz in the weeks (months!) leading up to a new Autechre release. Just wondered whether all that hype was justified now that the dust has settled on those two albums.

I still maintain Oversteps is among the best of their work. This one is very good, but perhaps the first time I've felt like I'm not running to keep up with them. More a continuation and refinement of their sound - which is arguably a first for Autechre.

Both flawed but worthy - Quaristice too patchy (but part of a sprawling set of album, deluxe disc and digital EPs totalling 4+ hours); Oversteps quite subdued in the complexity department; neither very melodic. Apparently Exai is much more complex, coherent and melodic so COME ON WARP RELEASE THE DAMN THING ALREADY.

Oversteps quite subdued in the complexity department; neither very melodic.

You think? I saw it as a return to form really. I did enjoy Quaristice but it felt like a bit of an undertaking whereas Oversteps felt much more accessible, but still very interesting and just the right amount of melodicism to keep my attention.

Neither of those hit me like Untilted.

I've gone back to Quaristice lately. It's better than I remembered. A bit patchy for sure, but the good stuff is really good.

quaristice is great; eg. this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJr3baPOtU

the sound of computers farting

that is great indeed, i have an album by them, i think it is the one before quaristice and it was kind of challenging so i didn't follow them after that.

ah, the confield/draft7.30/untilted holy trinity

i am still listening to the quaristice remixes. the last pile of them. (haven't yet been too into the album itself.) and move of ten.

confield is fantastic

yes, it was called confield.

I'd call LP5/EP7/Confield their holy trinity. But I find something incredible on everything they have released, with the exception of Incunabula. I agree Oversteps is accessible, which isn't really what I want from them, I like a challenge.
C'mon Warp. Let it out!

The only LPs I would group together in terms of some kind of thematic progression as opposed to random orthogonal shifts are Amber/Tri Repetae/Chiastic Slide. But in terms of quality the quintessence is Amber/Tri Repetae/Chiastic Slide/LP5/Confield.

Chiastic/LP5/EP7 is their best run for me, even though Chiastic is kind of patchy. Still haven't managed to quite embrace the Confield/Draft7.30/Untilted era.

What I felt was the joy of Untilted is they really fkn went for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtC-iN_PFlM

That and the funky party jams http://youtu.be/xb6Drqycw1U
and the melodies http://youtu.be/h5SSliqSfg8

Ok I'm pretty sure Untilted is my favorite Autechre album

tbh never really liked quaristice but the quaristice.quadrange.ep.ae is awesome, esp perlence subrange 6-36

come on put the album somewhere for the rest of us we will buy it anyway

The live shows from the Untilted tour, like this one, are awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoD68ak3mw8

fuck yeah

yeah, those sets kill.

I think I saw them (well, heard them; they played in the dark) back in 2008. What tour was that?

quaristice

omg

nice surprise in the email this morning, yes

17 tracks - 2HR 32SEC

huge download just for the mp3, got a meeting in half an hour ;_; it's a tragedy i tells ya

"irlite (get 0)"

Yes. Mighty.

Going for the 24bit so ... this will take a while

got a server error ...IT BEGINS

raaaaaaah

this is sick m8s

The Bleep page is down. :\

mine's here, flacs, 690MB

kinda cursing the fact I have a chromebook, would pay £8 for access to a stream

meanwhile if you could all just post your reviews here that'd whet me nicely

I'm trying really hard to procure this legally (the vinyl in particular), but I haven't been able to add my credit card to Bleep yet. Anyone else having luck with this site?

Finally got it. Preeeeetty excited. Not sure if this'll make for good listening while I work, though.

Having just a BIT of trouble getting my download started.

ditto. damn i should have dropboxed it from work.

I've been trying to purchase this for the last couple of hours. Finally got my credit card info entered, am now attempting to download. In the meantime I found a torrent of this and am already listening.

mp3s a big 'un, 238mb and still going

Incredible.

They're waging war on my ears and brain.

haaaaaaang

now i know why it's called 'bleep'