Autechre Exai

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.

I recommend spending some time with Exai, it's deep.

there was some dubious maths thing with the cover of exai, that the blocks in binary said something (just looked like a monkey in a gasmask to me). the new one is 16x16 but i can't see anything in it.

String b = "0000100110010000" // 4620 / 2448 /   0990    ..     
         + "0000101101010000" // 5520 / 2896 /   0B50    .P
         + "0001110010011111" // 16237 / 7327 /  1C9F    .. FS
         + "0000110110011111" // 6637 / 3487 /   0D9F    ..
         + "1000010001101111" // 102157 / 33903 / 846F   .o
         + "0000001101100000" // 1540 / 864 /    0360    .`
         + "0000001001010001" // 1121 / 593 /    0251    .Q
         + "1111111110011011" // 177633 / 65435 / FF9B   ..
         + "0000001000000100" // 1004 / 516 /    0204    ..
         + "0000000111000100" // 704 / 452 /     01C4    ..
         + "0110010000100000" // 62040 / 25632 / 6420    d
         + "0101111101111111" // 57577 / 24447 / 5F7F    _
         + "0101111100000000"  // 57400 / 24320 / 5F00   _
         + "0010010011011000"  // 23330 / 9432 / 24D8    $.
         + "1000010011011100"  // 102334 / 34012 / 84DC  ..
         + "1100000000000000";  // 140000 / 49152 / C000 ..

that's binary // octal / decimal / hex and ascii. adds up to 284916...

Probably taking the piss as with the "interlocking" tiles from Daft 7.30.

(the above code snippet is from something I wrote to see if the pixels themselves made any sort of pattern when displayed at different widths. no dice.)

(that said, I wonder whether the other three orientations would yield anything)

http://ge.tt/70Z4ePt/v/0

real? fake?

trying too hard fake

Not trying hard enough fake

shit is dope(d)
http://news.velonation.com/Men/Road/Va_Vl/2011/original/Vinokourov_Alexandre_surgery_july11.jpg

streaming:
http://www.spin.com/articles/autechre-l-event-ep-stream-hack-website-warp/

I'll be listening to this tonight... always excited for new Ae

exai = xi = 11
l-event = eleven two

mind blown

damn, "m39 diffain" is killer

man they are in majestic mode as of late

yeah

the new ep reminds me a bit of the quaristice era

It's not blowing my mind at this stage... Sounds like they're revisiting familiar territory. Could be wrong..

Disagree. Most of this EP totally blows my mind, contains textures, rhythms and especially nice progressions I felt were lacking in the Quaristice era.

Feels like a tighter progression of Exai. Loving it.

they packed in a lot of sharp textures, odd spaces, and wild envelope/panning action on the first couple tracks. Osla for n is a bit of a slog, however.

EP may be better than the album, honestly

Still waiting for it to sink in. Although my surprise at not having any recollection of track 2 disappeared when I released my iphone had decided to shuffle in something from a quaristice ep instead.

Osla for n has the confield-like hermetic thing going on. Burrowing away at some deep, hidden, private coalface, unconcerned with the outside world.

don't tell anyone, but i'm skyperviweing these guys tomorrow. any questions from the big ilx fans?

You could ask if they would ever consider releasing some of their live recordings

"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