Autechre Exai

"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