Autechre Exai

http://warp.net/records/autechre/exai

I get excited, you get excited too

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

17 tracks, QR code/Ad Reinhardt cover, nice

i hope i'm not the only one scanning the track names in anticipation/dread of what the inevitable poll is going to be called

Ah 17 tracks over 2 CDs - I thought we were doing a Quaristice here but it looks like track's'll be long, excellent

exai = album name for dummies

Well Oversteps was my 2010 album of the year, so I am anticipating this one highl

nice!

exai = XI = their 11th album.

p.s. hi xlm!

uhhh, hi ilx :(

haha awesome transposition

Cipating. :\

01. FLeure
02. irlite (get 0)
03. prac-f
04. jatevee C
05. T ess xi
06. vekoS
07. Flep
08. tuinorizn
09. bladelores
10. 1 1 is
11. nodezsh
12. runrepik
13. spl9
14. cloudline
15. deco Loc
16. recks on
17. YJY UX

FLCTSFLYJYUX

love these guys but seriously fuck off with those track titles

06. velkoS

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4066/doyouknowexaiel0.jpg

recks on effect

*retags a buncha phoenecia tracks as the new autechre album, posts on slsk*

heh

*retags a buncha bieber tracks as the new autechre album, posts on slsk*

*retags a buncha plumbing noises from recent toilet explosion, posts on slsk*

big anticipation over at WATMM.. 100+ page thread. one person has a promo copy, and everybody asking questions regarding the sounds/style/content etc. kinda rad that it hasn't leaked, but it's only been a week since promo copies went out.

I've had a promo for a couple weeks, it's dope

that all? c'mon, you tease us - a pithy line or two about style/content wouldn't be amiss

It's better than the last two: dark, chaotic, jumbled. Every song is kind of its own universe

I know that wont make anybody happy as a description, but there it is. I've been a fan for ages and its my fave since Confield.

AE speak their own language at this point

YJY XU was a fave

I wasn't being a dick initially, I just didn't have time to say more

dear god that watmm thread. anyway you are completely failing to manage my expectations here raymond, i'm starting to get too excited.

maybe I'm too trusting but I really think Autechre could totally nail a two hour album. after all this is the biggest gap in their discography, length wise isn't it?

Move of ten was 2010, so just over two years? I don't see it as big gap personally.

i guess you're right, Untilted -> Quaristice was about 3 years as well. but the Quadrange EP was even longer than this.

Leaked. Its on slsk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q4F-kvWY7A

i guess you're right, Untilted -> Quaristice was about 3 years as well. but the Quadrange EP was even longer than this.

― frogbs, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:31 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They just press a button and the machines do it all for them, anyway. The amount of time they spend between albums is neither here nor there.

Scratch that.

exai = XI = 11. 11th lp. (just thought of that, might be old news)

ilm pre-covers lp anyone?

old, news. yes. props to cheeseburger.

what's that on the cover btw? a monkey? bloke in gasmask?

http://media.warp.net/images/h59px_WARPCD234_Packshot_480.jpg

damn. i think it is a monkey

ah cool, sounds like they've gone back to a more ambitious composing-style, gonna devour this when it comes out

yeah, pretty psyched as well!

those of you Acroyear2 fans are gonna shit for this record. it's super-complex, beat driven, but not at all in a boring way. i'mloving it so far on first listen.

have u got a promo dl?

got it today *bragging*

aww congrats <3

In other things people have probably already worked out, if you treat the 11x11 grid of the front cover as a series of 11-bit binary numbers, they add up to the release date as YYMMD (13034). Or the release date spells out something which the front cover also adds up to.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AougnYAALBAvdHI0MTNBNm1ZbldiN29ISHFBUWp4WVE

Why 13034, and why that particular configuration from all the ones that add up to 13034? No idea. Looking forward to someone cleverer running with this idea.

woah

https://soundcloud.com/failme/failcast-issue-019-mayan

track from the new album @ 1'5" (one hour, five minutes in. approx.)

dog latin, are there traces of the oversteps/move of ten production qualities on the new one? do the tracks have that big/spacious/crisp sort of definition going on? is it lush?

& does it sound like Amber? because that's probably the only reason i'd listen to it.

On first listen I'd say it's a bit of a cross between LP5 and Untilted. It's very rhythmic, lots of hiphop influenced beats, startling sound design (ghost noises looming out from aural blind spots in a 'did I really just hear that?' way) - sort of reminds me of tracks like Acroyear2 and UnderBOAC off LP5 (which i'm very happy about) and yeah, it's got Oversteps' stateliness in there too, but then it's very long and I haven't quite digested the whole thing.

goddddd... !

spoilers!

can't wait to hear 'Flep'

'1 1 is' clearly indicates a new and fresh direction

I wonder if Autechre themselves could even identify track w/ title at this stage.

this sounds incredible

We need a best-of, with remixes and art book, all the bells and whistles

Boy, I'd love to hear this.

There's a track that's total Stereolab dots/loops: " T ess xi"

Ugh.

How bout a review of "bladelores" ?

Like the funky drummer break slowed down about 10 times until it's just this humungous unrelenting thwack echoing into a bottomless chasm. Dirty, gritty little acid squiggles weave around the beat and after a while these great plumes of almost trancey/housey chords start breaking through like the sun coming up on a sodden morning. It's actually a really beautiful piece of music in the same way that Cichli or Garbagemx36 start out quite ugly and malformed but slowly form into a cohesive something or other. Of course as soon as you think everything's going to go full on chorale bliss, Ae pull it all back under and it's back into the boggy marsh, before repeating the whole trick again except this time we're treated to an extended outro of washy church-like organ chords.

Why do I suspect that reading dog latin's description might be more enjoyable than listening to the actual track!

Isn't that how it always is?

thanks dog latin! the wait is too long.

still nothing on slsk — a few ppl have some tracks but they're never online long enough to download them

they're fakes

nobody bump this til it leaks, the hope is killing every time u click ;_;

:C

the fakes are just mp3s of silence.. the Oversteps anticipation/debacle was complicated by (convincing) fake "leaks," like the mis-labeled Altered Carbon album and the (well done) WATMM faeks. a lot of people were fooled. and then the actual album came out, and people thought it was fake.

how is it possible that so many people with promos could be so fucking stuck up and uptight on such a massive scale?

yeah I was actually fooled by one of the Oversteps fakes.

if you had a promo, would you really put it up on soulseek??

no. to be honest I was just making that post in the hopes that someone would see it and feel guilty. haha.

This is the first review I've come across.

http://www.failme.net/2013/02/polyrhythm-nation.html

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'

now amazonaws is hanging

lunacy

180 Kb/s

bugger this crap, going to work

everything else downloads at 1900 Kb/s, but fortunately i have got all fucking day

I dunno what happened to them today. I spent about an hour and a half trying to get it for some perverse reason. Now I've got it and I'm happy.

if i chose to steal it i would be listening to it by now

I paid for it and then stole it, which is ridiculous but at least I'm listening to it

none of y'all being str8-up, maybe the record isn't either

if draft 7.30 is comfortably in my top 20 albums of all time, will I like this

you have 01 days to comply

It's 2 hours long and it's not their most accessible record. Going to take a while to say anything definitive.

half-formed impressions are preferable to definitive thought-out opinions, this is autechre

(i.e. I find their music to be purely psychedelic and right-hemisphere-seeking, despite the obvious mathematics, algorithms of the whole thing - it inspires something visceral, the pure response of joy-without-thinking - it's maths-as-art rather than art-as-maths, which you could say the majority of verse-chorus music is)

My 1st impression (as someone who basically shares your impression of Autechre) is that this is exactly that.

oshit, can't wait to get home!!!

first/second thoughts, all subject to revision. pre-confield autechre aka pop autechre is dead. they're not coming back. get over it. (this is a note to self more than anything.) echoes of draft and oversteps all over this. 1st disc more beat-happy, 2nd more ambient and hasn't hooked me in yet. cloudlines would not belong on amber. bladelores is lovely, ok maybe liking those fat synth waves is the easy option, i don't care.

"irlite" is totally Chiastic Slide. Catchy as hell. Liking the 2nd half more on first listen. Several big tracks, first listen didn't reveal much sense of an album, but maybe not the point.

After my initial excitement, I'm rather concerned that a lot of the sounds I'm hearing are very reminiscent of Oversteps.

xpost

totally the figure at the beginning irlite is lovely. waiting for them to destroy it. it's currently waiting anxiously in the corner.

Only played a few tracks so far. Seems quite brutal.

2nd more ambient

might have been lying here

spl9 is just ripping my face off anyway

second listen

"irlite" is totally Chiastic Slide. Catchy as hell.

totally the figure at the beginning irlite is lovely. waiting for them to destroy it. it's currently waiting anxiously in the corner.

both otm

i just did a rewind on jatevee C, can't remember doing that on an autechre album for a while

Sounded great very loud this afternoon.

i'm not heaps far into this but it's already impressive. 'T ess xi' is gorgeous.

i came here to post just that.

ace

oh man, "jatevee C" into "T ess xi". so good!

just got to "recks on" - daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

tess xi has the worst beat, ever. amybe worse than "akunk"

This album is a joyful listen.

some of their best work imo

i like "akunk" xps

I could imagine Momus singing over the first 29 seconds of T ess xi.

Does this work better on headphones or speakers? I really wish I could listen to this just a bit louder.

speakers is best IMO. Better sense of space.

Odd question, but are you guys finding this album, uh... challenging compared to previous albums?

no

not at all

why have I still not heard this? oh it's because I own a fucking Chromebook

but then I'm so used to late period autechre that I know how to read it xp

that's how i felt. usually i have to spend a few weeks retuning my ears and getting to grips with a new autechre album. this feels relatively easy to listen to and i don't know if it's because i'm used to their style now, or if it's because they've settled into a groove, or if it's because right now there's a lot of music around now that riffs on similar things as Ae - slipped beats, nucleic breaks, stuff like Zomby, Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never, DJ Rashad... I don't know whether this familiarity is a bad thing either. It's actually quite nice enjoying Autechre like a favourite meal rather than an acquired taste.

agreed on several points - this goes down pretty smooth, there aren't too surprises, and I don't really think that's a bad thing. still forming my impressions but I certainly like this and time will tell if I love it.

the closer could easily slot into lp5

their sound palette kind of sets them apart, terminally. they're sounding bigger, shinier, and more spacious than ever, but the quality of their late-period tunes is questionable. that said, the first twelve minutes of exai is top-notch shit, the horns on irlite recall the tuss (shiz ko e), kinda. irlite's got a good swagger to it, for lack of a better word. the dry, grainy synthesizer sounds throughout disc 2 are great. i get a strong move of ten (production) vibe from the second half, and a sort of hodge podge, odds-n-ends (ep7 textures, etc.) feeling from the latter part of disc 1. with the exception of bladelores.

this feels relatively easy to listen to and i don't know if it's because i'm used to their style now, or if it's because they've settled into a groove, or if it's because right now there's a lot of music around now that riffs on similar things as Ae

As someone who's pretty much gotten off the bus circa Confield, I'd say that Exai is qualitatively different from the recent vintage, even Oversteps and Quaristice. Which makes ledge's warning, e.g.

pre-confield autechre aka pop autechre is dead. they're not coming back. get over it.

... a bit misleading! Not a complaint, because I like the idea of enjoying a new Ae release.

Wow the beginning of "vekoS" sounds exactly like the average between Confield and LP5.

Gotta agree with the consensus that this is "standard" late period ae - and the only sense in which I'm used to this period is that I don't fully digest or appreciate their albums for a long time, if ever. Still don't have a decent settled memory of Oversteps tbh (haven't listened to it for an age though). There are a definitely a few immediate standout tracks, maybe a couple of shouts from beyond the grave of pop autechre, but on the whole I'm still finding it difficult to get a purchase on this.

the quality of their late-period tunes is questionable

Gotta co-sign this - it's what I mean by pop ae being dead, really. When did we last get something as basically catchy as acroyear 2, rae, arch carrier - to cherry pick off just one album?

Depends on what you mean by catchy. Post-Confield Autechre is catnip for me- instantly accessible and enjoyable, a dependable easy listen. Understand not getting a full grip on the albums as the three last one have lacked a very clear identity, although this one sticks out because the tunes are a lot stronger than on Quaristice and Oversteps.

Untilted was an album's album, though.

Yeah that definitely has a really solid identity and character.

Agree that Untilted was the last album that felt like an album rather than a chocolate box of material you can just sift through at random. The idea of listening to Exai for any extended period of time in a strict order feels like an exercise in exhaustion.

gave this a proper listen late saturday night, thought we'd got to the end and we were only about half way through(!) haven't properly listened to ae since draft 7.30 (i think, the one that came with a dvd and a big thick blue cd case).

really like the restraint in the sound palette, really like the length. really like the mood. this seems to fit in quite nicely with a lot techno/electronic music i've been enjoying lately. should probably give oversteps a go, but i think i'll be happy with this for quite a while, there are already a bunch of 'bits' that i'm looking forward to hearing again. it's quite, um, easy listening, compared to how i remember autechre, not sure if that's my ears or if they've just got better at organising their sounds.

as basically catchy as acroyear 2, rae, arch carrier

d-sho qub? not on the same level, i'll admit.

That was always my fave off oversteps, but yeah, it's not like Arch Carrier where there's a central 'gimmick' going on. Much more free form.

Man, what a great band.

as much as I like the tracks like arch carrier and acroyear 2, I think the direction they went after that with Confield and the following albums is much more interesting. This new one seems like it's about halfway between those two styles. I've only listened to it once all the way through so far though.

http://youtu.be/j_JCt0jv86I

extra track (keyosc) on the japan release

doesn't sound too autechre-like to me, but i LIKE its relaxed vibes. kinda similar, tonally to "pt2ph8," from oversteps, but simpler.

there's a WATMM inside joke about an autechre album called KIOSK, and this track title somehow references it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=Bs6W3vL8Gwc&NR=1

1 1 is sounded great on the train home this evening. Second half espec.

Wonder if t ess xi has any relation to ts1a off the japan benefit album. some similar sounds, the later track is the simpler one but evolution doesn't always increase complexity.

the closer could easily slot into lp5

Fantastic track.

http://www.factmag.com/2013/02/18/autechre-exai-fact-review/

interesting - a lot of reviews go "hey, we all know that the first three albums were the best, but..." I don't have a problem with Ae resting on their laurels a bit at this point! They've certainly earned that right.

like there are just so many Autechre tracks that make me wish they did more along those lines

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17691-autechre-exai/

Fucking wow. Burn at the stake.

havent gotten in very far but wtf @ this

In the last decade, the Manchester duo rewrote their own rules, leaning on the risks of their early works until, by their eighth LP Untilted, it was clear that their intention was no longer simply making bodies move

because why? that intention was clear by confield? chiastic slide? amber? doesn't strike me as an overly unfair review tbh.

hopefully gonna get to finish my review tonight. no point in rushing these things as there's so much to take in.

i dont think "simply making bodies move" is even accurate about Incunabula

That review sells the album really well, which wasn't its intention (or, was it?)

Still dying to hear it, not a question of cost but of format

that PF review seems to make some very strange assumptions about Ae. The guy seems to know enough about them, but it's like he got the wrong end of the stick all along.

I've never tried dancing to "Kalpol Introl." Should try that out tonight.

their debut is as much of a 'dance' album as SAW 85-92 is. you can only dance to Autechre if you're willing to get really freaky with it.

c'mon you square, just get on the floor and shake those hips

I guess Basscadet is kind of danceable...

i know traditionally autechre gigs contain one guy thrashing around like he's on pcp and another hundred just standing there stroking their chins, but it's not like a great deal of their tracks don't have some kind of regular rhythm at a reasonable tempo.

that review is a little strange but I can def see how this might be too much ae for someone that isn't totally on board

that's exactly right, the thing with Autechre is you really have to be 100% on board to really enjoy them, they don't meet you halfway sometimes the way someone like Aphex will. not judging if this is good or bad but Autechre are really 100% up their own asses in that regard.

5.8 is a pretty brutal score taking that into consideration.

*even taking.

I agree with that reviewer that a 2+ hour autechre album is a bit too much. I like this album, but I don't listen to it from beginning to end (mostly because of time constraints, but I think it would be the case even if I had plenty of free time). There's only so much new autechre one can take in at once. I think I prefer the album + EP approach they took with their last couple of releases.

although for all I know, they are going to release a 4 hour EP in a couple of months

who gives a shit about a pitchfork review

A bit off topic but I got bought the 100 track Bleep100 comp for Xmas and didn't quite know how to listen to it. eg burn it onto CDs, play in alphabetical order, jump to the artists whose names I liked etc. Should probably start a thread and review everything on there.

although for all I know, they are going to release a 4 hour EP in a couple of months

they kinda did that for quadrange

http://mappedbywhatsurroundedthem.blogspot.de/2013/02/album-review-autechre-exai.html

a positive review, features a few tracks. "bladelores" on soundcloud.

either way, this review is way better than the one they did for Untilted. That one made me tear up a bit.

my review http://thequietus.com/articles/11482-autechre-exai-review

an impressive career straddling four decades

shut up!

hahah, quite a lot of people found that perturbing, but 1987-2013 technically straddles four decades so it's not wrong.

dog latin otm, stfu ledge u pleb

i'm just not used to record reviews making me feel old & question my mortality.

80s autechre is my favourite

early quaristice demo from 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmD0dd3NV38

LOL Has there been any 80s Autechre released? When was Lego Feet? That was '91 IIRC but I'm sure something must have been released in 1990... Christ, I was 10 years old in 1991.

sprog latin

20 years ago I didn't know what an Autechre was, and now I Ae one.

(what a horribly formed "joke")

good review dog latin. the album is amazing, can't really talk about these guys anymore.

http://autechre.ws/exai/

what's this countdown all about?

(scroll down)

two more discs?

Two countdowns ... video? Tour dates?

I think it's the length of the next EP

Isn't it the US/UK release dates for the physical media? Not sure

it's 20:00 on saturday evening (GMT) so i doubt it's the physical release, that'd be a monday morning (tuesday in US)

It'll be a 12 hour webcast or whatever.

hope so those things are always great!

an accompanying EP would be sweet as hell

http://www.factmag.com/2013/02/28/autechre-to-broadcast-two-extended-radio-shows-to-celebrate-the-physical-release-of-exai/

Ah there we go.

AUTECHRE RADIO THIS WEEKEND

TX TIMES:
Saturday 2nd March: 1200 hrs LA, 1500 hrs NYC, 2000 hrs UK, 2100 hrs CET, 0500 hrs (3rd March) Tokyo
Sunday 3rd March: 1200 hrs LA, 1500 hrs NYC, 2000 hrs UK, 2100 hrs CET, 0500 hrs (4th March) Tokyo

http://www.mixlr.com/autechre [link not yet live]
http://autechre.ws

Autechre will be broadcasting a pair of extended radio shows this weekend on Mixlr.com ahead of the release of new album, ‘Exai’.

The upcoming broadcasts follow their 2010 ‘Oversteps’ radio show that brought together over 180,000 listeners from 114 different countries.

Anyone else here traces of "Krib" in "1 1 is," especially the beginning?

internet party

10 minute warning...

All the classics currently being rolled out. Nice.

this is addictive.

missed the first two hours.

past my bedtime.

dman.

oh man

5:15 ftw

5:26 - face detaches

5:31 :DDDDDDDDD

5:43 flutestep, cannot get any better than this. ledge out.

YeSssss Milestone, chat was fun too

No doubt there'll be a download floating around at some point. Back on at 8pm GMT tonight!

dman

meant damn btw

is there a google docs tracklist?

Part 1 (of 3): http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/90225559/file.html

south of almaty

fuck n/m

ive been playing exai at very high volume all weekend and i like it a lot

lol

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Alpd5T07zNgAdElEdVg1ejFvUGRaeGduNERNNkpMYmc#gid=0

Another review: http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/autechre-exai/2993

3:54 if this is tangerine dream then i need to check out some more tangerine dream

4:07 <3333333

slicing it all to shit now

xps basically get all the albums from force majeure to poland

yeah i've only ever tried their early/mid 70s stuff before.

4:30 immense jarre
4:36 IMMENSE eno

4:46 brief glimpses of the man behind the curtain

>xps basically get all the albums from force majeure to Poland

Ha ha Whoah There Now

I mean, ok fine that's the spirit (I was listening to Le Parc last week for the first time in a decade and laughing at the PPG sounds but also kind of digging it)

The last 10 minutes of 'Through Metamorphic Rocks' is definitely one of my top 5 TD moments

Are they not playing concrete stuff this year or has no one filled in those tracks yet?

mostly concrete stuff from what i've heard/read, just a couple of wtf sections.

way past my bedtime but i can't turn this off

5:09 sweet transition

OK PEACE OUT YO

sick deployment of FSOL there

uh ... under their 808 state pseudonym

This week I will mostly be listening to the mixes again from the top. So far they're suffering only marginally from missing the stream of idiot chat about stickers and skrillex, lack of rape jokes a bonus.

btw you can stream them from mixlr.com - http://mixlr.com/autechre/showreel/

Digging all the Residents in the Sun Mar 3 show ... does anybody know what the track at the 6hr mark is, sounds like Soft Cell talking about a 'hypermodern label' 12" that's haunting him?

that description sounds like the black hit of space by human league.

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

Yeeeeeeeah, cheers

holy fuck what a playlist

Wow man thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YO9ZY5V461c

hmmm... dunno why that didn't work. Watch it, it's hilair.

Actual funny, or funny for Autechre?

Both?

hmm good question

Is it washable?

Not anymore!

bladelores popped up on mp3 player on the way to work yesterday and i had no idea what it was.

did you think "holy moly what is this slab of awesomeness"?

had to dig the mp3 player out of my pocket as i was curious who it was, thinking it was one of the more progressive dubstep artists...

only just realised that there's an blindingly obvious human league sample running through deco loc.

Not intimately familiar with Human League outside of the Dignity of Labour tracks... care to link to the original?

Being Boiled, not sure which version. would be surprised, and a bit envious, if you were hearing this for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbM-Yh-G9Vc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Boiled

not really a shock given that they are a couple of years older than me and growing up in and around sheffield, that they'd be all over the future / human league mk1 / caberet voltaire etc. i think the exai radio thing had a few of these tracks in it.

and i think the second half of deco loc has another sample in it, the vocals, but i'm not sure what it is.

I love this album, man do I find it a slog to get through the whole thing at once!

*but

i dont think this was conceived as a single sitting sort of lp

tend to think of autechre lps from quaristice onwards in this way, maybe because of the amount of alternate version on quaristice quadrange &c making the structural integrity of their lps something of a fiction........so just play what you want when you want

i wish they would mark which tracks are basically dirgey slogs

dirgey.slog.mx:w32:3.14159265385

slogid lopater

goslo4

ono girdicon

777.77777777…

d(rg)

glu moper

ofr fks aek

fksa c.o

fksa starong

often fksai

ofr dub sk2

mon tfm nf

tres répétitive
ZZZ.ZZZzzzzzz

the human league thing, i had a google to see if i was imagining it and there's one other reference to it on the entire internet, some mention of a german interview on an autechre message board, followed by a couple of posts by people saying that they couldn't hear it.

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/77548-exai-reviews/page-10#entry1959059

While we're on the subject of listening to recent Autechre releases in chunks, a few months back I decided to reconcile the songs I enjoyed from Oversteps and Move of Ten to create a custom mix called "Move Over Ten Steps" which combined the two to form a much superior listening experience imho:

01. r ess
02. rew(1)
03. Treale
04. pt2ph8
05. nth Dafuseder.b
06. os veix3
07. see on see
08. d-sho qub
09. krYlon
10. iris was a pupil
11. qplay
12. Yuop

so what do you think is the sample, koogs? i hear a possible bit of phil oakey sericulture stuffing at 1:35, is that it? not that much of an HL fan, i haven't internalised being boiled.

stopping, not stuffing. apparently.

starts about 56 seconds into that HL video i posted above, those two bass notes and a bit of the drum clicks that follows vs 4 seconds in on the au track. it's chopped to shribbons and as distorted as fuck, but...

that 1:35 sample does sound a lot like oakey. the 2:00 sample is different though, and unfamiliar.

but mainly it's those notes. (and dig up the Future / Human League lp on spotify if you can)

pretty confident about the 1:35 vocal sample, not sure about the bass/drums but i'm ain't clear enough about what to listen for.

Do you mean this lp?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Hour_of_the_Future

version on spotify looks v different to the one in that link - 1200 alternative versions of dance like a star and a handful of other almost entirely different tracks. and oakey's vocals on dance like a star are killing any possibility of enjoyment.

didn't know of the paler-covered sampler ep (and can't do spotify here), but no, not that one, the wikipedia linked one.

i'm ain't clear enough about what to listen for or how to talk proper.

New EP being released end of October.

http://autechre.ws/l-event-ep/

Talk about prolific. Guessing the family life is boring for these two or they need to tour soon, or we're going to get a triple album in 2014

nah this is standard operating procedure for them

actually sorta wish they'd cut exai down and released 1 LP + 2 EPs

Well a double album the size of Exai is not normally SOP. That alone eclipses the sum total output of the Move Over Ten Steps era. However I somewhat agree with you on the editing of Exai. I'd honestly cut maybe 4-6 tracks total from the record, which would not be enough to get it down to a single disc/2xLP release.

In any case, early Ae EPs were my favorites, but since EP7, I've not really enjoyed any non-album Ae releases up until Move of Ten.

early Ae EPs were my favorites, but since EP7, I've not really enjoyed any non-album Ae releases up until Move of Ten

otm

the quaristice extras are better imo. well the quadrange ep.

In any case, early Ae EPs were my favorites, but since EP7, I've not really enjoyed any non-album Ae releases up until Move of Ten.

to be fair there really haven't been a lot

well the quadrange ep

i knew someone was going to say this! i've only listened to the long ambient thing, didn't like it. i'll try the rest.

Peel Session 2, Gantz Graf, Quadrange and Digital Exclusive EP (also circa Quaristice) were all meh or worse to my ears. All the tunes from that time just sound like unfinished doodles or imitations of Autechre with a few exceptions (Simm comes to mind). In fact the whole Quaristice era is my least favorite of their career. Considering how much I love the new record, I've got some hopes for this upcoming release

All the tunes from that time

By "that time" I meant Quaristice. blech

Peel Session 2 is ALL TIME - Gelk and Gaekwad anyway.

Gelk is really great

I still think the Gantz Graf EP is one of the best things they've done. Autechre at their noisiest.

I love the first and last tracks but dial really rubs me the wrong way, countdown theme music not the best inspiration for a tune imo.

I agree that dial is probably the weakest track, but I'm just a sucker for that endless staircase thing and it seems like I enjoy almost every song (by anyone) where that has been used.

Okay, yeah Gelk and Gaekwad are neat. Remember them playing early versions of those two live at the first Coachella in 1999

Exai took stamina to get through when it came out, I'd be maxed out by the end of one disc let alone both. it takes me about 15-20 minutes to drive to work, and going through it over the course of a week made me realize that I love every track on it. when this thread woke up again I put it back into drivetime rotation & this time through, 15 minutes isn't enough. this stuff sure does creep on you. can't wait for the ep.

Cap.iv is the only track from the 2000s or 2010s that I wholeheartedly love.

I recommend spending some time with Exai, it's deep.

there was some dubious maths thing with the cover of exai, that the blocks in binary said something (just looked like a monkey in a gasmask to me). the new one is 16x16 but i can't see anything in it.

String b = "0000100110010000" // 4620 / 2448 /   0990    ..     
         + "0000101101010000" // 5520 / 2896 /   0B50    .P
         + "0001110010011111" // 16237 / 7327 /  1C9F    .. FS
         + "0000110110011111" // 6637 / 3487 /   0D9F    ..
         + "1000010001101111" // 102157 / 33903 / 846F   .o
         + "0000001101100000" // 1540 / 864 /    0360    .`
         + "0000001001010001" // 1121 / 593 /    0251    .Q
         + "1111111110011011" // 177633 / 65435 / FF9B   ..
         + "0000001000000100" // 1004 / 516 /    0204    ..
         + "0000000111000100" // 704 / 452 /     01C4    ..
         + "0110010000100000" // 62040 / 25632 / 6420    d
         + "0101111101111111" // 57577 / 24447 / 5F7F    _
         + "0101111100000000"  // 57400 / 24320 / 5F00   _
         + "0010010011011000"  // 23330 / 9432 / 24D8    $.
         + "1000010011011100"  // 102334 / 34012 / 84DC  ..
         + "1100000000000000";  // 140000 / 49152 / C000 ..

that's binary // octal / decimal / hex and ascii. adds up to 284916...

Probably taking the piss as with the "interlocking" tiles from Daft 7.30.

(the above code snippet is from something I wrote to see if the pixels themselves made any sort of pattern when displayed at different widths. no dice.)

(that said, I wonder whether the other three orientations would yield anything)

http://ge.tt/70Z4ePt/v/0

real? fake?

trying too hard fake

Not trying hard enough fake

shit is dope(d)
http://news.velonation.com/Men/Road/Va_Vl/2011/original/Vinokourov_Alexandre_surgery_july11.jpg

streaming:
http://www.spin.com/articles/autechre-l-event-ep-stream-hack-website-warp/

I'll be listening to this tonight... always excited for new Ae

exai = xi = 11
l-event = eleven two

mind blown

damn, "m39 diffain" is killer

man they are in majestic mode as of late

yeah

the new ep reminds me a bit of the quaristice era

It's not blowing my mind at this stage... Sounds like they're revisiting familiar territory. Could be wrong..

Disagree. Most of this EP totally blows my mind, contains textures, rhythms and especially nice progressions I felt were lacking in the Quaristice era.

Feels like a tighter progression of Exai. Loving it.

they packed in a lot of sharp textures, odd spaces, and wild envelope/panning action on the first couple tracks. Osla for n is a bit of a slog, however.

EP may be better than the album, honestly

Still waiting for it to sink in. Although my surprise at not having any recollection of track 2 disappeared when I released my iphone had decided to shuffle in something from a quaristice ep instead.

Osla for n has the confield-like hermetic thing going on. Burrowing away at some deep, hidden, private coalface, unconcerned with the outside world.

don't tell anyone, but i'm skyperviweing these guys tomorrow. any questions from the big ilx fans?

You could ask if they would ever consider releasing some of their live recordings

"How do you pronounce Autechre?" is definitely one they haven't been asked before.

You could ask if they would ever consider releasing some of their live recordings

... in a more regularly accessible way than one-offs/bonus tracks/etc.

new 4-track single is £8.50 bought from bleep. (7 + 1.50 postage). seems a lot.

(boomkat was similar, amazon was £8 with no p&p)

Over 3 minutes of music per pound spent!

which is more than i'm paid

It's about half an hour long, just imagine its a short album

$6 USD at my local shop. already purchased the mp3s at BLEEP for $4... I've no problem shelling out dough for an act that continues to put out quality material. the packaging is real crisp, too

"Ask Autechre Anything," five day marathon interview on WATMM, 150+ page thread. concluded earlier today

i'll go ahead and include the link: http://forum.watmm.com/topic/81109-aaa-ask-autechre-anything-sean-and-rob-on-watmm/

legends

Very cool! Thanks!

i'm only on page 2 but I like this answer (and wish more artists would think this way)

Have you ever considered "going back to the roots" for an album, and make it heavily inspired by your earlier works? (Incunabula, Amber, Tri Repetae etc.)

it's kind of impossible, we're not the same people, it would be a pale imitation

leave it to people who find it natural

Considering that that stuff is 15-22 years old by now, hard to (honestly) answer otherwise!

Going to sit a spell with that Q&A. ^_^

yeah, i only got a few pages in last night before going to bed. wish someone would isolate just the relevant questions and answers, format it nicely, and post it somewhere!

https://docs.google....p=sharing#gid=0

member "jasondonervan" has been compiling it.

errr, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alpd5T07zNgAdFZHaEFjOWZTVWN0T0hIUXdMS0dPNVE&usp=sharing#gid=0

sweet, thanks!

Gantz Graf being recorded before EP7 is the most o_O thing for me so far. I've generally bought into the theory of progression (not necessarily linear) between their releases, this kind of blows that out the water, or at least demonstrates how much the preconceptions you bring to a piece of music affect how you hear it.

I thought they said it was recorded before EP7 was ~released~?

What do you think about the all the hip-hop that has been getting a alot of
people have been talking (hudson mohawke, drake, asap, kendrick, odd future
etc)? do you like any of it? Basically I would be interested to hear a new hiphop
song you like (if any)!

most surprising to me was where sean states that ~2/3 of their released material is solo tracks by either member

I thought they said it was recorded before EP7 was ~released~?

ok, still throws the conventional timeline out of whack tho.

Sean pls, any light you can shed on this Boards of Canada interview quote:

"We were in Germany with Autechre and we were all pissed off 'cos we hadn't been provided with a trailer. Sean from Autechre broke into someone else's trailer and stole loads of champagne, distributed them to everyone then got so plastered that he rugby-tackled a certain electronic artist into the mud!"

yeah it was really muddy, like insanely muddy, and i was already somehow covered in mud, and i was really beyond drunk at that point cos we didn't have to play (our tent was flooded and cancelled) and i had already downed a couple of bottles of champagne - i thought it would be a really good idea to try and push mike paradinas into the mud (he seemed to be really concerned about getting any mud on him at all). anyway it failed and i ended up face down in a load of mud next to him, but he got pissed off about getting some mud on his wrist, so I WIN

Have you guys noticed how the first tracks on several of your albums (probably
all) sound like boats, ships, seas, water, pirates, wooden decks, sailing and
basically evoking an overall nautical theme of adventure on the high seas? A
classic example of this being Xylin Room?

reads like something dog latin would say

Quite enjoyed bits of that then it did my head in.

Haha haha! Nilmar, otm xylin room is totes a pirate ship tune.

Wasn't me btw.

o u mad cuz i'm xylin on u

SO I only went and interviewed Ae about their latest work. And not a pirate ship in sight: http://thequietus.com/articles/13899-autechre-interview-exai-l-event

great read, thanks dude

Gantz Graf being recorded before EP7 is the most o_O thing for me so far.

I can definitely see it. Gantz Graf always sounded like LP5 outtakes to me!

thanks cheeseburger

I like how accessible a group I always found mysterious made themselves, but they both kind of went heavy on internet-speak/phraseology. It spooks me a bit. Do you think they hang out on /mu?

that was a good interview. I think this is true for most music but it is a little ridiculous for 90% of the critical consensus on your album to happen in the first two weeks, isn't it?

Yup. I'm still getting my head around Confield and I've had that album longer than I've known a lot of my best friends.

btw didn't they say in the WATMM thread that they were surprised by Confield's reception? didn't see it as a big break? that seems crazy to me.

xpost i guess that's one of the good things about EOY lists. they add a bit of perspective in some respects.

good work dog latin

thanks all <3

no mention of this?:

https://bleep.com/release/49321-oberman-knocks-dilankex-ep-inc-autechre-remix

http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/21/autechre-remix-oberman-knocks-dliankex-for-new-12/

it's fuckin nice.. haven't heard the original track, but the remix starts out dry, tactile, not unlike "tac lacora," but more spare, getting more packed and elastic as it progresses, w/tendrils of melody gradually forming. hearing traces of quaristice (fractured, jagged wafts of reverberating sounds) and untilted (spidery, "iera"-like skitter) in here. honed, ear-rubbing brain chisel, 17 minutes worth.

tom ravenscroft played the whole thing on his show on friday (6music).

I've been playing Oversteps a lot recently. A lot of easy, rich, satisfying textures on that one, like Tri Rep-era simple pleasures. Dug out Confield last week and it didn't do much for me beyond track 1. Haven't listened to Exai for months. But they're all still there and I know I'll get something out of them at some point. Chiastic Slide got loads of play at the start of the year.

Got a lot of time for Exai and I don't think it suffers from being a double album. The whole thing is pretty solid.

Slightly obsessed with the noise barrage that is 'spl9'. Just when you think it can't get any heavier, it changes direction again for a final 90 secs of extreme noise terror. I love it. God knows what any of my family thought if they heard me listening to it. One for the headphones methinks.

Oversteps is a billowy beaut, especially in the context of Exai, which feels brittle and contained (direct) in comparison.

Spl9 is a stormer, y'ain't wrong.

YJY UX is a top tenner... percussion all fleshy and water-logged, melodies comprised of neon vapor clouds w/pixel-y cascades of matter. reminds me of the luminescent, nutrient-rich water in TRON, and the sort of synaesthetic sensations you get from drinking it. shit's hella tactile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ84hKQPTAA

SYptixed from the new Bleep10 compilation

emo for ostracized autobots

exai still hitting the spot. disk 2, with its hard, dark kicks and the brittle-ass trashcan snare of nodezsh. runrepik is kinda skippable/goofball

appreciating this album heavily rn for some reason

very groovy. dope beats. totally epic. off the hook, bros. whats that weird smell oh well.

This record is a masterpiece really. I'd say their crowning achievement but by no means an instant classic. more like a tapestry which will hopefully be disinterred in years to come and held up as an example of sheer human achievement.

it really warmed up Oversteps for me, listening to that more nowadays.. still finding Exai a bit unwieldy, sorta big and knotty with a few weak tracks. I suppose that's how all their albums are. the flow of disk 2 feels pretty inconsistent, though it's got its fantastic parts. still sounds alien as ever, pretty much like nobody else. Draft 7.3 is still shaping up as a favorite.

can't get with runrepik, or T ess xi.

t ess xi is one of their prettiest tracks though!!

the beat kinda fucks it for me, and there's an icy sort of mini-stab that occurs with the rhythm that further fucks the beat for me. the background ambiance sure is nice, though. a similar track might be qplay, on oversteps. again, very pretty vapors/pads, but i find more interesting spaces in it. there's a lot of negative space to the beat. t ess xi feels locked up/rigid in comparison.

oversteps felt like an instant classic for me. won me back over to them again after having lost my faith somewhat. It's sort of a thing now among ae fans that you get into the one you heard before their latest one. In that respect I'm really starting to appreciate the draft/untilted era a lot more than I did before.

oversteps felt like a *big* change to me, after falling for a couple fakes (the Altered: Carbon album, mainly), it finally leaked it, and it sounded very fresh (and massive) compared to their previous work. i kinda tired of the noodly-ness of tracks like see on see, and the repetitiousness of the Treale beat, but returning to it, it's quite enveloping. On the whole, a classic for sure.

irlite (get 0) recalls Oversteps, with its excess of 'musical' notes, and that synthetic reverb. i definitely crave more tracks like that -- the dreamy, neon gaseous notes-suspended-in-air quality of Oversteps, with looser percussion.

too many notes

i think what's happening is that i'm listening to this album like it's progressive rock or something and suddenly it's working for me.

disc 2 is definitely hairier but i feel like it has the most striking stuff, spl9 cloudline and yxy ux or w/e

successful and/or fresh stuff i mean

shh don't say prog LJ will come and do a track by track comparison with "tales from topographic oceans"

no love for Quaristice? man does that record sound amazing here in 2015.

Back when we did the autechre poll, quaristice (along with the followup ep) is the autechre era that ended up moving way up in my internal autechre ranking. I

Albums that have aged well for me: Untilted, Draft 7:30

Quaristice is one that has actually become more unenjoyable since its release.

In the poll I talked about late period Ae as a jazz band, and in that context a lot of their music, and the improvisational nature of it made a ton of sense to me. Instead of simply improvising notes or progressions they improvise texture, timbre and song structure itself I feel.

Exai is indeed a masterpiece, and coupled with L-Event, Ae seem to be totally hitting a new level of production right now and are totally flying under the radar. I love that every six months or so this thread keeps getting revived by people who are rediscovering it and realizing its mastery.

Instead of simply improvising notes or progressions they improvise texture, timbre and song structure itself I feel.

The Trees, off of Untilted, is where this idea sort of registered w/me.. As the track progresses, the beat sort of diffuses (around the 3' mark), and that decrepit melody emerges through the smoldering debris. It's almost as if a negative image of the beat emerges, if you can picture smoke in the air, as it's displaced by diff. shaped pockets of air (percussion).. like the surrounding smoke becomes the beat. that's sort of how i imagine the track. but it's also like a terribly corrupted xerox of the originally intact track that keeps deteriorating. not sure how much of this is improvised, and i read that creating the album was a painstaking process, with a lot of determined programming.

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no improvisation no jazz no smoke

i wouldn't say jazz personally, i guess in the broadest sense, there is definitely an improvisational element, or the sound of improvisation. maybe fusion? on a structural level what i hear is still pretty groove-based. groove a. groove a -> groove b. etc. structurally it's very simple. kind of jam band-esque tbh. i mean the sound design and digital synthesis elements are very evocative, world-creating, avant-garde, imaginative, capable, etc., but the structural forms that are being used remind me of .. the grateful dead. no. fusion-era miles to be more charitable since the hit rate is high imo. mostly it's very successful and but sometimes it's just kind of dull and plodding, the melodic language derived from electro / techno can sound amazing or rote like they are repeating a line they did 15 years ago and the groove can sound alive and breathing/evolving or kind of listless and half-awake, etc.

that is just how i feel

Confield always felt like their 'jazz' album to me, for some reason ...

One thing I love about Exai is that you can hear elements of all their work post LP5 throughout the record. Almost feels like some sort of anthology.

Anyone ever felt their music is incredibly synaesthetic? There is something beautifully sculptural and visually abstract about their music. Every song reveals some sort of evolving visual structure in my head a la their video for Gantz Graf.

Confield is probably the last album of theirs that I eagerly return to in full. This is the last Autechre song I can't get enough of:

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

When I saw matmos live in 07 or 08, it brought to mind fusion-era miles for some reason.

SPL9
and
CLOUDLINE
and
RECKS ON
people.
WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?

YJY UX?

but the structural forms that are being used remind me of .. the grateful dead

Never knowingly heard the grateful dead and I'm not gonna start now, dubious comparisons or no.

he's only talking about the architectonics -- i.e. instead of ABACABA it's ABCDEFG &c

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idk ae's style is pretty straightforward and relatable to me! i've never heard all these imagistic things that ppl talk about so much as a considerate sense of play both with and against form and an ear for cool timbres.

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― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Friday, April 3, 2015 5:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can I just

no

"not even wrong" etc

On tour

Hmmm that mystery date (not sure why it's a mystery) ...

09/25 – SEATTLE / WA THE SHOWBOX

?

Live in brixton in nov, allegedly, although nothing on their or the warp website about it. Sold out anyway (allegedly) :(, and 10pm-6am (allegedly), not to speak for all hard-working middle aged ae fans out there but that is way past my bedtime these days :(

(oversteps was £3 in fopp the other day. which is the kind of thing that makes me think of buying a spare copy just to give away)

what https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

live gigs o'plenty

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i thought you meant tickets

Invite only...

check your email? i got one, don't know if i signed up to a mailing list sometime or it's because i'm a bleep customer or what.

Nope. But then the last thing I bought from bleep was a warp 20 T shirt...

what kind of store is invite only?

are these boots?

oh whoops i didn't realize it was invite only. i bet they're just inviting people on the bleep mailing list if you'd bought something by AE

AE_LIVE_KRAKOW_200914
AE_LIVE_BRUSSELS_031014
AE_LIVE_UTRECHT_221114
AE_LIVE_DUBLIN_191214
all for .. $23 US, the usual assortment of formats

as in, for the lot. not 23 each

jeez i need to take my time with these posts. the cash varies depending on the format, i just fixated on the 24-bit wavs and didn't see the mp3s were half that.

there are no words... DUBLIN set is out of this world.

Ok I sprung for 'em. Great quality, straight from the sound desk I presume. Whaddya know I actually miss the atmosphere of the dodgy boots. Headphones at work so not getting the full benefit but yeah I am digging Dublin - decent and pretty regular energy peaks throughout.

Who has two thumbs, bought Exai via Bleep and didn't get an invite?

This guYsi

skipped to the dublin set. damn, this rules.

love the part about halfway thru where this evil buzzing bass throb just takes over the mix.

crank it!!

was pretty disappointed with the sound at the venue i saw em at (brooklyn masonic temple) so this is a nice consolation prize

saw them recently in Denver. the sound/mix was about perfect, possibly the best-sounding show i've experienced. it was massive, with a marked clarity to all of the sounds. listening back to various bootlegs it's apparent that they've been playing with the same structure (regularly occurring sections/series of events, in roughly the same sequence) for the last two years.. in a macro- sense, of course. we were floored by the show. a buddy of mine (less of a fanatic than i am) is still going on about it.

these soundboards reveal the early versions of the set that they refined for the North America tour. i've only heard the Dublin recording so far, but it's like, above/beyond anything i would've imagined them to release.. it sounds unreal on the stereo, so clean and *present*, super-detailed, and it's easy on the ears (unlike Exai, which is fatiguing). the music is very wild and playful, relentlessly heavy at parts, often feels like it's bursting at its seams. super fluid. it really does feel monumental, i can't think of anybody else doing this stuff nowadays. it might recall supersilent's more active/cacophonous music, but there's such a liveliness to the autechre stuff that i don't really associate the two acts.

How are you guys able to download those from the AE bleepstore. It says I need an invite?

Yer name's not down yer not comin' in.

So they'd rather have me download them illegally? okay, Bleep, whatever you want.

Yeah, just queued up the torrent after not being allowed to give Warp my money for this.

lol, I didn't even know they were online somewhere already, that was just theoretical :-)

http://warp.us7.list...6&id=fc8ef17bcd

this was the initial step, then you get a confirm.. but it seems like the window might be closed.

https://autechre.bleepstores.com

you might be able to finagle an acct. by 'reset password' etc.

seems like they dropped the ball on this.

http://warp.us7.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=92da423b0a560b89a4b558a36&id=fc8ef17bcd

that first link is incorrect.. this was the initial step

that link seems to contain your userId, Lowell. registering an email address might stop yours working.

i wonder if other people got the same u= and id= parameters.

I'm in.

Went for the 320k MP3s. Now I just need to find a spare 600MB on my phone for all four live shows.

Yeah, just queued up the torrent after not being allowed to give Warp my money for this.

ditto, though I just got the store link yesterday. so I guess I'll toss some cash over, though still, what kind of store works like this

calculated psychological trick to get more sales from die-hard fans who either don't care so much about live sets or have bootlegs already? 'ooh i am one of the elect! have my money! er... what just happened?'

phased introduction. let everybody in all at once and the servers overload and it's glastonbury tickets all over again.

(i have still heard nothing.)

are AE live recordings really enough to crash anything?

Strange ... Just clicked on my original email to find that my access to the recordings had "expired" ... but it wasn't much effort to access the shop ... I'm sure the recordings were cheaper than when I first looked (£8 for the lot).

that original link https://autechre.bleepstores.com/ seems to be open to all now.

bought. now to find the time to listen...

the Utrecht recording is teeming with little bits of detail, but it's more concise than Dublin. the finale is glorious, a splintered-up mess.

anybody listening to these?

listened to utrecht on the tube this morning.

i did wonder if there is anything at all in common between the 4 recordings, if there's anything like a setlist, a preset even...

Don't they more or less improvise sets?

yeah, but do they start with something, or absolutely nothing?

my impression is that they've been using the same program/series of events, or 'songs', for the last two years.. based on everything i've heard: "AE_LIVE" (2014), and the recent North American tour. there are variations between the four official recordings, but the variations are minor, and based on a defined structure.

the execution/generation/shaping (ADSR etc.) of the sound events is really fluid, though. so while the general tonality, array of sounds, timbre etc. remain somewhat consistent, the delivery is never the same.

The Dublin and Utrecht recordings have a different, additional finale that they continued to use as part of the subsequent sets, through the North American tour. it changes the composition and flow of the latter parts, substantially. it's almost like having four versions of an album, but each one contains a series of 'zones' that shift wildly in their feel and detail while maintaining the basic sequence of events on a coarse scale.

https://soundcloud.com/leheron_idletones/resigned-to-utrecht

this is one of the more relaxed zones that occurred in each set. an earlier version of this, appearing in Krakow, is quite different and really pretty.

listening to Krakow (soundboard) for the first time, right now. it's way more aggressive off the bat.. lotta weird, fragmented glissandi, trailing off of the percussion. thicker distortion going on in the lead track, moreso than the others

yeah, Krakow has a markedly different feel than the other recordings. first half of it is harder/heavier/more aggressive, a good contrast from the elegance and clarity that characterizes the early thirds of both the Dublin and Utrecht sets. Pricing is pretty reasonable on these.. I paid $11 for the Dublin FLAC, subsequent sets are $2.50 apiece once you've already purchased one.

How does one define "improvisation" regarding these guys?

just half played these so far, no doubt will play them to death later; strangely enough i was going to post about a fortnight ago about the availability of autechre soundboard recordings after heavily playing one from 2005 (the last tour for which one has been circulated prior to these, afaik)

every time i go back to autechre now, the rubbish written about their aridity/dryness/academicism etc seems not merely stupid but obtuse, there is /so/ much energy to it in every respect

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-autechre-20151119-story.html

Cheers for that link

God

just half played these so far, no doubt will play them to death later;

ery time i go back to autechre now, the rubbish written about their aridity/dryness/academicism etc seems not merely stupid but obtuse, there is /so/ much energy to it in every respect

forgot i saw them in dc a couple months ago. not a good show to say the least. thought i'd hear something from lp5 or that era, instead just a full set of merzbow crapnoise in the dark, ooh mysterious

they wouldn't even play freebird

xpost That's one of the better Autechre pieces I've read, suitably heady but not entirely unsuited for the layman. I sort of wish I saw them here, but I was probably too tired.

do not recall copying that excerpt or posting in this thread last night, wtf.

i ws fine with the lack of southern rock covers, guess im not on board w/ their late phase of

the sound of computers farting

― ☏ (am0n), Monday, February 4, 2013 6:03 PM

it's been a 15 year phase hon, let it go.

"merzbow crapnoise" is an awfully weak, inaccurate generalisation.. were you in the same room as the band?

thought i'd hear something from lp5 or that era

iirc they've been debuting a full set of new material, maybe with some nods to their last release, for a long time now. I can see how that could be tricky, coming to it cold, I've been letting these live sets percolate over the last couple of weeks.

were you in the same room as the band?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:32

too dark, i couldnt tell. they may have just hit the lights, pressed play on the randodigicrapnoise plugin (more accurate ;) and left the room

You'll be downloading the live sets then.

ill go for the sets with good 'dark star > see u rider > second bad vilbel's

https://soundcloud.com/leheron_idletones/ae-dublin

guitar-ish bit, appears in many of the recent sets

the rubbish written about their aridity/dryness/academicism etc seems not merely stupid but obtuse, there is /so/ much energy to it in every respect

what does energy (or lack thereof) have to do with aridity/dryness/academicism

Yeah man, but it's a dry heat!

https://www.facebook.com/AE_Store_-772523289543128

....five more soundboards up.. look AELIVE out there

I haven't finished the first 4 yet. (One to go, but I'm not entirely sure which)

Am also annoyed that us early adopters don't get the same discount as the people only seeing this now (or do we? Will the new ones be £1 each?)

You do. I just added AE Live to my basket and it's smart enough to know that I've got the first four, so it's only charging me £1 each for Nagano, Dour, Katowice, Krems and Grafenhainichen (320k MP3s, that is).

Nevertheless, I can wait a bit. Listened to 20min of Dublin this morning on the way to work and it was fantastic.

cool.

i think i need to work out how to hear these via the stereo as i don't think the earbuds are quite cutting it. that said, autechre on loud walking around Westfields is the only real way to experience Westfields.

(Dour?)

it will also surprise nobody that i love the dazzle covers for these things.

Presumably this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dour_Festival

I may end up dusting off my spindle of CD-Rs and writing them to disc as MP3 (I think they're about 150MB each? So two or three discs for the nine files). I could stick them on DVD-R, but that means having the TV on to navigate through tracks.

AirPlay from phone or iTunes is fine but can break up when there's other stuff going on. Better stick with disc.

(i think the pvr, the tv and the br player will all play stuff from a usb stick. it's just a pity that none of that is connected to the stereo.)

I can get all the new ones for £1 except the last one in my basket, however many items i have, which is £5. huh.