XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

who would've thought that minesweeper can be a source of inspiration

  On 2/5/2013 at 10:07 PM, Stickfigger said:

Aserinsky, you made some good points.

 

I used to think about the artists intentions alot in the past and this used to significantly colour my own experiences of the music.

 

Last year Clark toured Australia and he ended up hanging out with one of my friends after the gig. My friend spoke to him a lot about his music and seemed to think he was quite disconnected from the listener experience.

 

From my own experiences of making music, when I listen to stuff I made years ago, i now go "how the hell did i do that", or "shit i should just do more things like this" ... where as at the time I was just doing what seemed natural, and didn't really think about it all too much.

 

I think that despite your ideas may be accurate regarding ae's progression, that they themselves may not be sitting around at a board room before each release consciously planning each album, and the song's structure and sound palette in a calculative fashion.

 

Thoughts?

Oh I agree, I don't think it's necessarily something that they've consciously chosen to do, but rather that it's more of a natural progression that's cyclical as opposed to being linear. From the samples I found if anything this seemed really reminiscent of stuff like Lego Feet structurally; in that it's another approach to a form of progressing hip hop as a sound rather than say stuff their stuff from the turn of the century onwards where the focus seemed like progressing sound in general, free from any structural restraints. I'd imagine that a lot of artists are like that; look at how Aphex seems to have drifted away from jungle back to acid again but from a completely different approach, or say Squarepusher who returned both to his bass and electronic styles from a completely different angle. It's almost as if their careers have started trying to craft their perfect sound, drifting away from it, then returning back to it when they feel they have the chops to further realise their initial vision. In a way, it seems like Autechre are returning to this point now (you only need to look at their Skullsnap EP and 6852 to see them becoming comfortable with making hip hop again).

  On 2/5/2013 at 11:06 PM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 2/5/2013 at 9:07 PM, xy_politics said:

Is this old news? 13034 = release date

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AougnYAALBAvdHI0MTNBNm1ZbldiN29ISHFBUWp4WVE

 

 

  On 2/5/2013 at 9:20 PM, xy_politics said:

>Just noticed too that using a vertical scale, you get 11234

 

Album 11

WARP234

 

Well that's some cool shit right there.

 

this is cool to me

so now we know what the album art is all about... this thread has actually proved useful since,

  On 1/17/2013 at 11:47 PM, YELLOW said:

Fuck Anthony Fantano

I wonder if, now we know the release date is right there on the front cover, that means there'll be no early release? If there were, it would kind of make the artwork a bit pointless, wouldn't it?

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  On 2/6/2013 at 12:27 AM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 2/5/2013 at 11:06 PM, fizzkinz said:

 

  On 2/5/2013 at 9:07 PM, xy_politics said:

Is this old news? 13034 = release date

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AougnYAALBAvdHI0MTNBNm1ZbldiN29ISHFBUWp4WVE

 

 

  xy_politics said:

>Just noticed too that using a vertical scale, you get 11234

 

Album 11

WARP234<

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Well that's some cool shit right there.

this is cool to me

 

Coincidence only. Each LP sleeve a similar, but not identical, pattern on it.

http://media.warp.net/images/WARP234_4inners_grid_480.jpg

Nice idea, though. Though I wonder if the artwork has any significance, I'm pretty sure that's not it.

the COVER artwork is the same for all copies of the album, i really don't see how the sleeves being different from eachother change the meaning of the cover artwork

Maybe the sleeves total the number of seconds on each disc?

you guys are nuts if you think that was intentional. Why would March have a "0" before it, but 4 not? Durr?

I wish the cover artwork was any one of those 4 sleeves, they're just more interesting to me than the black

  On 2/6/2013 at 1:53 AM, lumpenprol said:

you guys are nuts if you think that was intentional. Why would March have a "0" before it, but 4 not? Durr?

well, it's HAS to mean something....

  On 2/6/2013 at 1:53 AM, lumpenprol said:

you guys are nuts if you think that was intentional. Why would March have a "0" before it, but 4 not? Durr?

Probably because you couldn't get 130304 from the sum of 11 11-bit numbers.

lumpie just got pwnt

how does that feel, man?

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:02 AM, Alcofribas said:

lumpie just got pwnt

 

how does that feel, man?

Oh snap. 11x11=powm't

I like the green or blue sleeve variations

the one that's lime green with a dark bluish background all the way

Did you guys get the Bleep early-release email today??

... 'cause I didn't

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:45 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:02 AM, Alcofribas said:

lumpie just got pwnt

 

how does that feel, man?

Oh snap. 11x11=powm't

it feels absolutely terrible

pm me if you need anything, i have an exai promo.

  On 2/6/2013 at 7:13 AM, Alcofribas said:

 

pm me if you need anything, i have an exai promo.

I think we all need your review

  On 2/6/2013 at 7:13 AM, Alcofribas said:

pm me if you need anything, i have an exai promo.

what fizzkinz says. we need a track by track review!

  On 9/22/2012 at 2:04 PM, Alcofribas said:

I've heard this album btw. It's lush. 9/10

This is all the review i need. Even if an unhealthy dose of precognition was involved.

  On 2/6/2013 at 7:26 AM, goDel said:

 

  On 9/22/2012 at 2:04 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

I've heard this album btw. It's lush. 9/10

This is all the review i need. Even if an unhealthy dose of precognition was involved.

should have just locked the thread on sept 23rd and saved a whole planet of heartache, not to mention bandwidth