Ah 17 tracks over 2 CDs - I thought we were doing a Quaristice here but it looks like track's'll be long, excellent
― Brakhage, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
exai = album name for dummies
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Well Oversteps was my 2010 album of the year, so I am anticipating this one highl
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
nice!
exai = XI = their 11th album.
p.s. hi xlm!
― cheeseburger, Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
uhhh, hi ilx :(
haha awesome transposition
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 13 December 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Cipating. :\
― I was in this prematureleee air-conditioned supermarket (Leee), Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
01. FLeure02. irlite (get 0)03. prac-f04. jatevee C05. T ess xi06. vekoS07. Flep08. tuinorizn09. bladelores10. 1 1 is11. nodezsh12. runrepik13. spl914. cloudline15. deco Loc16. recks on17. YJY UX
― dexpresso (Z S), Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
FLCTSFLYJYUX
― dexpresso (Z S), Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
love these guys but seriously fuck off with those track titles
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
06. velkoS
― ✧ (am0n), Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4066/doyouknowexaiel0.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
recks on effect
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
*retags a buncha phoenecia tracks as the new autechre album, posts on slsk*
― clouds, Thursday, 13 December 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
heh
― the late great, Thursday, 13 December 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
*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*
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 20 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
I've had a promo for a couple weeks, it's dope
― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 20 January 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
that all? c'mon, you tease us - a pithy line or two about style/content wouldn't be amiss
― imago, Sunday, 20 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 21 January 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 21 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
dear god that watmm thread. anyway you are completely failing to manage my expectations here raymond, i'm starting to get too excited.
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― frogbs, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Move of ten was 2010, so just over two years? I don't see it as big gap personally.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 21 January 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Leaked. Its on slsk.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q4F-kvWY7A
― ledge, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Monday, 21 January 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
Scratch that.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
exai = XI = 11. 11th lp. (just thought of that, might be old news)
ilm pre-covers lp anyone?
― koogs, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
old, news. yes. props to cheeseburger.
― koogs, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
what's that on the cover btw? a monkey? bloke in gasmask?
http://media.warp.net/images/h59px_WARPCD234_Packshot_480.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
damn. i think it is a monkey
― frogbs, Monday, 21 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
ah cool, sounds like they've gone back to a more ambitious composing-style, gonna devour this when it comes out
― imago, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, pretty psyched as well!
― original bgm, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
have u got a promo dl?
― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
got it today *bragging*
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
aww congrats <3
― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
woah
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/failme/failcast-issue-019-mayan
track from the new album @ 1'5" (one hour, five minutes in. approx.)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 24 January 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
& does it sound like Amber? because that's probably the only reason i'd listen to it.
― jed_, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
goddddd... !
― original bgm, Thursday, 24 January 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
spoilers!
― koogs, Thursday, 24 January 2013 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait to hear 'Flep'
― resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 09:34 (eleven years ago) link
'1 1 is' clearly indicates a new and fresh direction
(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.)
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
oh wait, i wisnae signed in. ok let's hear if they switched things up in '15.
― ledge, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Still making my way through the first four live shows. I'm starting to really regret having not gone to see them when they were here a couple of months ago. I'd seen them twice and the second time was not really that good I thought, but these live recordings are amazing.
I saw them for the first time when they were touring for Untilted. The live shows from that period are amazing as well but very different from this current era. They are worth checking out if you can find them.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
not sure if it's my work web proxy screwing with their site or not. anyone able to download from it today? i made my purchase but download isn't working :/
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― koogs
can't speak on the recent five released, but the Dublin recording sounds excellent on crap headphones (KOSS on-ear $5).. super dry, spacious, and crisp. a lot gentler on the ears than Exai, too
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
i've downloaded today. it was a bit of an odd ui experience (because, i think, the site is geared to let people download individual tracks from releases and these releases are a single track each so it looks a bit odd) but i have files.
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
must be the workplace web proxy. i'll have to grab them all when i get home.
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I've been binging on these and making notes (don't judge me). A) the more I hear the more awesome they sound; 2) on a broad scale they differ a lot less than I first thought, they include the same sections in the same order. The changes are mostly in the details, some elements are brought forward and some are suppressed, different filters are applied and tweaked, sections are lengthened or rapidly dismissed. There is one major difference between the sets, as they go on they manage to pack a lot more in. I've got as far as Grafenhainichen and that covers everything that Krakow and Brussels do in about 2/3 of the time, leaving room for 20-30 minutes of extra material.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 December 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
I always find at least something to enjoy about all their recordings but these new live sets are a career highlight. Close to my future ideal of an album that changes slightly every time you listen to it. There's already tons of process music & generative apps out there doing that (Eno & Chilver's Scape is actually not bad) but most of them are contemplative & ambient & gradually evolutionary. but these sets are active.
https://cycling74.com/2015/12/08/youve-gotta-hear-this-gifting-futures/#.VmmzR0orJD9
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
I remember when the Gescom minidisc came out, they said they considered putting out a generative music app but pulled back when they figured out they wouldn't own the copyright to the results. Still hoping for a generative app/album from them.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
nine versions of one album (roughly), and the music is outstanding. i wonder how it'll rate ultimately, if they'll continue adding sets from 2015 (North America) or even delve back into older material. i recall seeing one of the recordings on a year-end list (just one).. hoping it'll rate high with WIRE, at least. because the music is fucking rad ("active" is an understatement), arguably better than some of their latter-period albums. i've softened on Oversteps, however.. it's classic.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Saturday, 12 December 2015 01:22 (eight years ago) link
i am, of course, now wondering what notes ledge is making, how he is differentiating / naming the various parts of the concerts
45:10 washing machine full of spanners47:23 moog vs adhd48:00 r2d2 on mogadon49:12 randodigicrapnoise plugin...
― koogs, Monday, 14 December 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
it's certainly challenging my descriptive abilities. r2d2 on mogadon, might have to borrow that one. this is the highlight imo of brussels (though they all follow this template more or less):
23:50 i'm raving i'm raving27:15 maniac accordion29:10 happy monster30:45 laser wars38:30 rave gorilla
― ledge, Monday, 14 December 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
I remember when the trance stabs started at Bloc; I was sure they were trolling us.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 14 December 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
That's exactly what I hate about these dongs. So serious and bourgeois that any hint of "popular trance music" must be trolling bra that music is for dumb prols
― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
lol i used to dj trance and it was one of my favorite parts
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Monday, 14 December 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
12:30 electro bees
― koogs, Monday, 14 December 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
As someone who is realistically only going to listen to one of these, which is the best one to go for?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
Barely anything to choose between them for most of their length tbh. the later ones seem to be busier but also more dissonant towards the end, if you like nice things then the first four (krakow/brussels/utrecht/dublin) have a short but harmonious chime section which the later ones seem to dispense with. dublin is the longest...
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
First 4 (krakow/brussels/utrecht/dublin) are up on youtube (unofficially, I suspect) as well, if you want to preview them ...
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
all of them are reviewable on the ae_live website...
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
The player stops every 60 seconds, though, doesn't it? It does for me, at least!
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
if you keep the cursor active, seeking left/right, you can listen indefinitely.. just keep marking a new point on the line, you can determine (roughly) where in the track you are by the total time on the right side, after it loads a bit
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
some hot shit going on in nagano from 50:00
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
although for all I know, they are going to release a 4 hour EP in a couple of months― silverfish, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:02 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― silverfish, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:02 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― frogbs, Monday, 23 May 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
lol nice
― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Going back and reading some of the old reviews of this is pretty entertaining, on most of 'em the writers just seem annoyed that they have to digest & spit out a piece on a 2-hour Ae album, nearly all of them have some variation of "they suck at editing"
Listening back now, I really think this is maybe their best one?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
It's in the Confield/Draft/Untilted echelon (yeah piss off) but I'd have it 4thbehibd them on account of slightly lower average quality. 4 longest trax on a single album wd be maybe their best tho
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
autechre definitely the most divisive act to receive airplay @ casa imago/tt (mirror image equiv prob weezer)
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
& i give weezer a CHANCE
but yeah
CD 1
eastremesh cinereaL
CD 2
latentcallelyc6 0nset
^_________^
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
no no I'm talkin Exai
― frogbs, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
I reviewed it at the time and yeah I kind of 'moaned' (not really) about the length. I don't think it's my favourite but these days I'm finding it increasingly difficult to have subjective opinions about each step on the Ae journey - they just seem to happen. I've listened to Elseq easily the same amount as Exai but despite it being a lot longer, I guess I find the long tracks easier to sit through in one go for some reason
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Exai left me with a lingering impression of aural fatigue that I've never got from any of their other releases, whether that was length or mastering or the sounds they used, or just me, idk.
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
^^
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
There's a really awesome 75 minute album hiding in the many tracks of Exai and L-event (for my tastes), and yeah when I play that version of it I feel it's their best or close to it. Certain bits on it I really find grating or out of place
― octobeard, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
I really feel it should have opened with spl9
― octobeard, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
had a nightmare here, sorry
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
Well Confield usually makes me want to puke so the aural fatigue of Exai isn't so bad
Would guess it's a matter of the sounds used rather than the mastering, so many deep "whap-THUNK" noises on this one, and I always want to play it loud. I guess a few more ambient bits would've helped a lot.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
i'm listening to this a lot and it's good. the end.
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
i dug out Oversteps yesterday and it's such a treat. I always think I'm about 4 albums behind on truly appreciating Ae releases.
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 15 March 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
well I know how you're spending all of 2026
― frogbs, Friday, 15 March 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link