Autechre Exai

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.

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