XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

burninaetebl2.mp3

I thought studies said that piracy doesn't actually affect the volume of sales

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:03 AM, Kavinsky said:

My version

fucking lol

i've been listening a lot to the live sets (2005-2010) and they're spectacular. i know you (pixielives) said that in exai there are album edits of the live tracks, is it for most of the album? which tracks did you identify (for example, the "whale" track in the 2010--domino, italy-- live set)?

ta for your comments!

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:03 AM, Kavinsky said:

My version

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:16 AM, encey said:

burninaetebl2.mp3

I'm dying

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:25 AM, qnio said:

i've been listening a lot to the live sets (2005-2010) and they're spectacular. i know you (pixielives) said that in exai there are album edits of the live tracks, is it for most of the album? which tracks did you identify (for example, the "whale" track in the 2010--domino, italy-- live set)?

ta for your comments!

There's nothing specific but there are some elements that seem to have come from live sets. If there are any songs that have been used live in the past they've been reworked extensively.

I wouldn't say it's the whole album either, just bits and bobs and some beats

"Disc one" and "disc two" have distinct beginnings and ends but it still flows like one thing.

Are there any sweet four-on-the-floor (shitty term I know) beats like we heard on y7 and M62? Autechre does that very well

no straight 4/4 techno at all on this.

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:40 AM, pixelives said:

no straight 4/4 techno at all on this.

Anything along the lines of 90101-51 (the reg one off the album)?

90101-51 is kind of acidy, no? I'm not getting any acid vibes off this one, but maybe I'll realize something is akin to 'ceeed later on..

yeah I'd say kind of acidy... Anything that hard hitting though?

Like, are the progressions quick, or are they drawn out/take the whole track to develop?

cheers btw thanks for all the info

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:48 AM, StephenG said:

yeah I'd say kind of acidy... Anything that hard hitting though?

 

Like, are the progressions quick, or are they drawn out/take the whole track to develop?

 

cheers btw thanks for all the info

there is a lot of ground covered. some hard hitting spastic stuff with laser blasts, slower hiphop broken beat stuff w scary ambiences. cinematic building linear stuff. it's really varied.

I'm getting the impression that Etchogon-S is a good representation of this?

Also does TS1A sound anything like any tracks on this album? I fucking loved that track and sincerely hope for more in a similar vein.

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:53 AM, pixelives said:

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:48 AM, StephenG said:

yeah I'd say kind of acidy... Anything that hard hitting though?

 

Like, are the progressions quick, or are they drawn out/take the whole track to develop?

 

cheers btw thanks for all the info

there is a lot of ground covered. some hard hitting spastic stuff with laser blasts, slower hiphop broken beat stuff w scary ambiences. cinematic building linear stuff. it's really varied.

Wow I'm stoked!

Etchogon-S is definitely a good place to start thinking about the faster stuff.

Nothing immediately like TS1A, but you can see a similarities production wise

are there any sounds of flying kiosks or naked elephants

Bull Wallet

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:46 AM, pixelives said:

90101-51 is kind of acidy, no? I'm not getting any acid vibes off this one, but maybe I'll realize something is akin to 'ceeed later on..

this is a relief for me, and helps counter my unease about led zepplin drum samples and side chain compression

  On 1/19/2013 at 2:38 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:46 AM, pixelives said:

90101-51 is kind of acidy, no? I'm not getting any acid vibes off this one, but maybe I'll realize something is akin to 'ceeed later on..

 

this is a relief for me, and helps counter my unease about led zepplin drum samples and side chain compression

I thought 90101-51 was a killer track..

it was but i don't particularly love a lot of the acidic sounds they use lately. With the exception of that track and Y7 i just dont think they excel at the usage of the squelch pitch-bend synth line (because as far as i know i've never heard the using an actual 303). A good example of what i see as a failure of this style attempt is the vsnares VS ae track from that elektron comp. It's a decent track until that acid line sort of kills it.

Autechre are way past that I'm hoping. They are probably dabbling with things on this album that we could only begin to imagine before hearing.

  On 1/19/2013 at 1:58 AM, pixelives said:

Etchogon-S is definitely a good place to start thinking about the faster stuff.

very nice to hear, this is one of my favorite 'sloppy' AE tracks by far

Etchagon-S you say?

Oh, EtchOgon S. Won't make that mistake again.

nice first post