Autechre Exai

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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

resultant curry paste (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 09:34 (eleven years ago) link

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

besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 24 January 2013 10:19 (eleven years ago) link

this sounds incredible

frogbs, Thursday, 24 January 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link

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

Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 24 January 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link

Boy, I'd love to hear this.

afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

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

Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link

Ugh.

afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link

How bout a review of "bladelores" ?

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link

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.

besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link

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

MikoMcha, Sunday, 27 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link

Isn't that how it always is?

afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 27 January 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link

thanks dog latin! the wait is too long.

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link

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

ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link

they're fakes

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

Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:38 (eleven years ago) link

:C

ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link

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.

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link

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

dojo, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link

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

dojo, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link

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

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link

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

dojo, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link

This is the first review I've come across.

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

crowhurst, Sunday, 3 February 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link

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

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 3 February 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link

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

walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 3 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link

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

damnit the first time i missed them live since 97.

ledge, Monday, 4 February 2013 09:16 (eleven years ago) link

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!

OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Monday, 4 February 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link

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.

millmeister, Monday, 4 February 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link

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.

dog latin, Monday, 4 February 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link

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.

MatthewK, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:02 (eleven years ago) link

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.

dog latin, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link

Neither of those hit me like Untilted.

abcfsk, Monday, 4 February 2013 12:17 (eleven years ago) link

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.

silverfish, Monday, 4 February 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link

quaristice is great; eg. this:

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

groundhog-enorme-toute-grosse-253x300.jpg (clouds), Monday, 4 February 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link

the sound of computers farting

☏ (am0n), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link

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.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link

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

imago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link

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.

j., Tuesday, 5 February 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link

confield is fantastic

walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 00:46 (eleven 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

two years pass...

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


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