Autechre Exai

successful and/or fresh stuff i mean

shh don't say prog LJ will come and do a track by track comparison with "tales from topographic oceans"

no love for Quaristice? man does that record sound amazing here in 2015.

Back when we did the autechre poll, quaristice (along with the followup ep) is the autechre era that ended up moving way up in my internal autechre ranking. I

Albums that have aged well for me: Untilted, Draft 7:30

Quaristice is one that has actually become more unenjoyable since its release.

In the poll I talked about late period Ae as a jazz band, and in that context a lot of their music, and the improvisational nature of it made a ton of sense to me. Instead of simply improvising notes or progressions they improvise texture, timbre and song structure itself I feel.

Exai is indeed a masterpiece, and coupled with L-Event, Ae seem to be totally hitting a new level of production right now and are totally flying under the radar. I love that every six months or so this thread keeps getting revived by people who are rediscovering it and realizing its mastery.

Instead of simply improvising notes or progressions they improvise texture, timbre and song structure itself I feel.

The Trees, off of Untilted, is where this idea sort of registered w/me.. As the track progresses, the beat sort of diffuses (around the 3' mark), and that decrepit melody emerges through the smoldering debris. It's almost as if a negative image of the beat emerges, if you can picture smoke in the air, as it's displaced by diff. shaped pockets of air (percussion).. like the surrounding smoke becomes the beat. that's sort of how i imagine the track. but it's also like a terribly corrupted xerox of the originally intact track that keeps deteriorating. not sure how much of this is improvised, and i read that creating the album was a painstaking process, with a lot of determined programming.

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no improvisation no jazz no smoke

i wouldn't say jazz personally, i guess in the broadest sense, there is definitely an improvisational element, or the sound of improvisation. maybe fusion? on a structural level what i hear is still pretty groove-based. groove a. groove a -> groove b. etc. structurally it's very simple. kind of jam band-esque tbh. i mean the sound design and digital synthesis elements are very evocative, world-creating, avant-garde, imaginative, capable, etc., but the structural forms that are being used remind me of .. the grateful dead. no. fusion-era miles to be more charitable since the hit rate is high imo. mostly it's very successful and but sometimes it's just kind of dull and plodding, the melodic language derived from electro / techno can sound amazing or rote like they are repeating a line they did 15 years ago and the groove can sound alive and breathing/evolving or kind of listless and half-awake, etc.

that is just how i feel

Confield always felt like their 'jazz' album to me, for some reason ...

One thing I love about Exai is that you can hear elements of all their work post LP5 throughout the record. Almost feels like some sort of anthology.

Anyone ever felt their music is incredibly synaesthetic? There is something beautifully sculptural and visually abstract about their music. Every song reveals some sort of evolving visual structure in my head a la their video for Gantz Graf.

Confield is probably the last album of theirs that I eagerly return to in full. This is the last Autechre song I can't get enough of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyOGNhdhlAY

When I saw matmos live in 07 or 08, it brought to mind fusion-era miles for some reason.

SPL9
and
CLOUDLINE
and
RECKS ON
people.
WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?

YJY UX?

but the structural forms that are being used remind me of .. the grateful dead

Never knowingly heard the grateful dead and I'm not gonna start now, dubious comparisons or no.

he's only talking about the architectonics -- i.e. instead of ABACABA it's ABCDEFG &c

ABX5¥ヮ◕

idk ae's style is pretty straightforward and relatable to me! i've never heard all these imagistic things that ppl talk about so much as a considerate sense of play both with and against form and an ear for cool timbres.

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― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Friday, April 3, 2015 5:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can I just

no

"not even wrong" etc

On tour

Hmmm that mystery date (not sure why it's a mystery) ...

09/25 – SEATTLE / WA THE SHOWBOX

?

Live in brixton in nov, allegedly, although nothing on their or the warp website about it. Sold out anyway (allegedly) :(, and 10pm-6am (allegedly), not to speak for all hard-working middle aged ae fans out there but that is way past my bedtime these days :(

(oversteps was £3 in fopp the other day. which is the kind of thing that makes me think of buying a spare copy just to give away)

what https://autechre.bleepstores.com/

live gigs o'plenty

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i thought you meant tickets

Invite only...

check your email? i got one, don't know if i signed up to a mailing list sometime or it's because i'm a bleep customer or what.

Nope. But then the last thing I bought from bleep was a warp 20 T shirt...

what kind of store is invite only?

are these boots?

oh whoops i didn't realize it was invite only. i bet they're just inviting people on the bleep mailing list if you'd bought something by AE

AE_LIVE_KRAKOW_200914
AE_LIVE_BRUSSELS_031014
AE_LIVE_UTRECHT_221114
AE_LIVE_DUBLIN_191214
all for .. $23 US, the usual assortment of formats

as in, for the lot. not 23 each

jeez i need to take my time with these posts. the cash varies depending on the format, i just fixated on the 24-bit wavs and didn't see the mp3s were half that.

there are no words... DUBLIN set is out of this world.

Ok I sprung for 'em. Great quality, straight from the sound desk I presume. Whaddya know I actually miss the atmosphere of the dodgy boots. Headphones at work so not getting the full benefit but yeah I am digging Dublin - decent and pretty regular energy peaks throughout.

Who has two thumbs, bought Exai via Bleep and didn't get an invite?

This guYsi

skipped to the dublin set. damn, this rules.

love the part about halfway thru where this evil buzzing bass throb just takes over the mix.

crank it!!

was pretty disappointed with the sound at the venue i saw em at (brooklyn masonic temple) so this is a nice consolation prize

saw them recently in Denver. the sound/mix was about perfect, possibly the best-sounding show i've experienced. it was massive, with a marked clarity to all of the sounds. listening back to various bootlegs it's apparent that they've been playing with the same structure (regularly occurring sections/series of events, in roughly the same sequence) for the last two years.. in a macro- sense, of course. we were floored by the show. a buddy of mine (less of a fanatic than i am) is still going on about it.

these soundboards reveal the early versions of the set that they refined for the North America tour. i've only heard the Dublin recording so far, but it's like, above/beyond anything i would've imagined them to release.. it sounds unreal on the stereo, so clean and *present*, super-detailed, and it's easy on the ears (unlike Exai, which is fatiguing). the music is very wild and playful, relentlessly heavy at parts, often feels like it's bursting at its seams. super fluid. it really does feel monumental, i can't think of anybody else doing this stuff nowadays. it might recall supersilent's more active/cacophonous music, but there's such a liveliness to the autechre stuff that i don't really associate the two acts.

How are you guys able to download those from the AE bleepstore. It says I need an invite?

Yer name's not down yer not comin' in.

So they'd rather have me download them illegally? okay, Bleep, whatever you want.

Yeah, just queued up the torrent after not being allowed to give Warp my money for this.

lol, I didn't even know they were online somewhere already, that was just theoretical :-)

http://warp.us7.list...6&id=fc8ef17bcd

this was the initial step, then you get a confirm.. but it seems like the window might be closed.

https://autechre.bleepstores.com

you might be able to finagle an acct. by 'reset password' etc.

seems like they dropped the ball on this.

http://warp.us7.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=92da423b0a560b89a4b558a36&id=fc8ef17bcd

that first link is incorrect.. this was the initial step

that link seems to contain your userId, Lowell. registering an email address might stop yours working.

i wonder if other people got the same u= and id= parameters.