Autechre Exai

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.