XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:01 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 1:52 PM, fox said:

Some of it is tongue in cheek, I get it, but this cover analysis thing is getting dangerously close to twoism-level overthinking. W/ BoC the mystery is intentional, so I get the digging to some degree, but with ae I hardly see them engaging in that kind of stuff.

 

Lesson for Warp:

 

1) Hey! Your new leak prevention thingy whatever it is works like a charm!

2) But it leads to fans engaging in paul is dead style self defenestration.

 

You're clearly underestimating numerological detail of Ae releases. Release dates, catalogue numbers, album titles etc, there's always some over-the-head bullshit going on. Ae fooling around or doing their Kaballah routine.

Maybe I am, but I'll need to see it to believe it. I know album numbers are often referenced in the album title, but usually its surface level stuff like draft 7.30 or untilted (hey, if its untilted its straight. that rhymes with 8!) i just haven't seen enough to say that ae are going really deep in a way that anyone on the outside could recognize or decode. quaristice means something to them, obviously, but they don't seem that interested in us knowing what it means. unless i've missed something. i'm willing to be convinced.

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:44 PM, fox said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:01 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 1:52 PM, fox said:

Some of it is tongue in cheek, I get it, but this cover analysis thing is getting dangerously close to twoism-level overthinking. W/ BoC the mystery is intentional, so I get the digging to some degree, but with ae I hardly see them engaging in that kind of stuff.

 

Lesson for Warp:

 

1) Hey! Your new leak prevention thingy whatever it is works like a charm!

2) But it leads to fans engaging in paul is dead style self defenestration.

 

You're clearly underestimating numerological detail of Ae releases. Release dates, catalogue numbers, album titles etc, there's always some over-the-head bullshit going on. Ae fooling around or doing their Kaballah routine.

Maybe I am, but I'll need to see it to believe it. I know album numbers are often referenced in the album title, but usually its surface level stuff like draft 7.30 or untilted (hey, if its untilted its straight. that rhymes with 8!) i just haven't seen enough to say that ae are going really deep in a way that anyone on the outside could recognize or decode. quaristice means something to them, obviously, but they don't seem that interested in us knowing what it means. unless i've missed something. i'm willing to be convinced.

Ian Anderson (tDR) in this Facebook thread talks abut the hidden meaning in the Exai artwork... http://www.facebook.com/thedesignersrepublic/posts/390941424326237 I wonder what the hidden meaning of Oversteps circles is?

<edit> what he said above!

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:33 PM, leterel said:

The Bleep page has been updated with MP3/FLAC release dates and track lengths. Previews don't look to be working though (and the MP3 date is the same as physical)

 

Sorry if Jazz - i've lost the will to trawl through the past pages now.

 

https://bleep.com/release/41081-autechre-exai for the lazy.

no this is new. interesting

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:41 PM, coax said:

gl0tch all of this isn't that complicated. It arises from your difficulty in waiting. That's it. The reason it's changed this year is because 1. there hasn't been a leak as early and 2. there's been a lot more exposure of those who have it already. They post on twitter, on this forum, and elsewhere. If there had been a silence, it would have been exactly the same as all past years. People have gotten promos long before the leak for a long time, we just didn't hear about it as direct back then. Warp set a release date, maybe it is due to them not having all the CD or Vinyl pressings in order, maybe it is because they want to sell more copies, as opposed to putting out a digital immediately and have it pirated and then get less sales, maybe it even is people don't want to, or are afraid to, leak the promo they have. Some people have moral stands on this kind of thing.

 

In the end, we're talking about a few months, and truly, patience is a virtue. The only thing that will happen if you get the whole album today, is that you will listen to it, and that's it. There's no real difference between that day, and that day in a month. It is the chemicals and neurons in your brain that's wired to want it immediately. It is amplified by the society we have today, where nobody waits for anything. We want it NOW. This is something you can consciously work on. Learn to appreciate having to wait. We're all lucky that everything is so immediately accessible, but it really shows the lack of self discipline when we're having this discussion about fucking MUSIC. Come back when you have problems with food. Or something

I agree with you.

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:54 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:33 PM, leterel said:

The Bleep page has been updated with MP3/FLAC release dates and track lengths. Previews don't look to be working though (and the MP3 date is the same as physical)

 

Sorry if Jazz - i've lost the will to trawl through the past pages now.

 

https://bleep.com/release/41081-autechre-exai for the lazy.

no this is new. interesting

I thought we already knew track times etc. Or is it that Bleep updated the page a month in advance the interesting bit?

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:58 PM, BUNKUM said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:54 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:33 PM, leterel said:

The Bleep page has been updated with MP3/FLAC release dates and track lengths. Previews don't look to be working though (and the MP3 date is the same as physical)

 

Sorry if Jazz - i've lost the will to trawl through the past pages now.

 

https://bleep.com/release/41081-autechre-exai for the lazy.

no this is new. interesting

I thought we already knew track times etc. Or is it that Bleep updated the page a month in advance the interesting bit?

the update is interesting

i can wait for the 5th, no problem. but sometimes when i go to log in to watmm, it hangs a bit and i get excited that something is happening...

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:04 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:58 PM, BUNKUM said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:54 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:33 PM, leterel said:

The Bleep page has been updated with MP3/FLAC release dates and track lengths. Previews don't look to be working though (and the MP3 date is the same as physical)

 

Sorry if Jazz - i've lost the will to trawl through the past pages now.

 

https://bleep.com/release/41081-autechre-exai for the lazy.

no this is new. interesting

I thought we already knew track times etc. Or is it that Bleep updated the page a month in advance the interesting bit?

the update is interesting

I see what you mean, just checked some of the other pre-release pages, the Jamie Lidell album (that's due in less than 2 weeks) doesn't have a tracklisting up. hmmmm

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:08 PM, BUNKUM said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:04 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:58 PM, BUNKUM said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:54 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:33 PM, leterel said:

The Bleep page has been updated with MP3/FLAC release dates and track lengths. Previews don't look to be working though (and the MP3 date is the same as physical)

 

Sorry if Jazz - i've lost the will to trawl through the past pages now.

 

https://bleep.com/release/41081-autechre-exai for the lazy.

no this is new. interesting

I thought we already knew track times etc. Or is it that Bleep updated the page a month in advance the interesting bit?

the update is interesting

I see what you mean, just checked some of the other pre-release pages, the Jamie Lidell album (that's due in less than 2 weeks) doesn't have a tracklisting up. hmmmm

hmmmm... interesting ;)

Odd that the 24bit wavs are out a day early.

While I'm hoping this is building to something, it is a bit like trying to read the future in the entrails of birds, this bleep watching.

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:11 PM, gl0tch said:

Until then, adieu and fuck you!

-gl0tch

Thank God, finally!

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:30 PM, psn said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 2:11 PM, gl0tch said:

Until then, adieu and fuck you!

-gl0tch

Thank God, finally!

hahah...they changed the wav release date as well to the 4th...lol

or maybe i did using the F5 button..........

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:48 PM, exm said:

hahah...they changed the wav release date as well to the 4th...lol

 

or maybe i did using the F5 button..........

lol. If I say "odd that they've got the album release date as 05-02-2013" do you think they'll release it today?

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:54 PM, Obel said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 3:48 PM, exm said:

hahah...they changed the wav release date as well to the 4th...lol

 

or maybe i did using the F5 button..........

 

lol. If I say "odd that they've got the album release date as 05-02-2013" do you think they'll release it today?

You should try that! ... ow, you just did

i think it is a strange update...all information was already written down on the sites (WARP and Bleep)

lol at more Warp emails without any mention of Exai but a shirt that looks almost a bit like the cover kinda.

  On 2/5/2013 at 9:18 PM, Aserinsky said:

W

 

I'm finding it really interesting that they're returning to more beat driven hip hop style tracks, it's almost as if their career has been culminated from a deep fascination to almost create the definitive hip hop sound. Their earlier stuff seems to be more focused with the structural and sample manipulation aspects taken to their logical extreme, whereas from LP5 onwards the focus shifted towards an extremely advanced understanding and determination of control the audio technology that essentially allowed hip hop to become the genre it has. It almost seems logical in a way that they're returning to their older structures yet with a new and more controlled sound palette, like after 22 years they're finally beginning to finalise the sound they originally envisioned and that everything before it was like a work in progress documentation of how the sound progressed. [...] Like, I expect with this album it's going to click with me immediately whereas in comparison say from EP7 onwards, you have to let it sink in to understand what they were trying to achieve in order to really appreciate the music.

  On 2/5/2013 at 10:01 PM, disoriental express said:

From what we've heard so far of Exai I hesitate to make any assumptions aside from feeling like we're going to get a very multi-dimensional yet refined release. As far as i'm concered their taste level has gotten more and more razor sharp over time.

Well, that is Exai in a nut shell. Well done.

  On 2/6/2013 at 7:19 AM, Franciscus said:

 

  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!

What do you want with that? If anything a track by track review of Ae music is completely pointless since the reception of their music is something like 150 % subjective, hence completely biased.

  On 2/6/2013 at 4:58 PM, Bertolt Brechtakt said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 7:19 AM, Franciscus said:

 

  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!

What do you want with that? If anything a track by track review of Ae music is completely pointless since the reception of their music is something like 150 % subjective, hence completely biased.

This guy doesn't know bout Alcofribas' reviews!!!! Oh to be an Alcofribas virgin again... Look up his reviews, you will not regret.

  On 2/6/2013 at 11:00 AM, Awepittance said:

let's theorize here for a second, assuming the watermark is trackable back to the source and is real (not a 'cameras with no tapes to prevent shoplifting ' scenario) maybe they weeded out people who leaked it last time. It's also possible the legal jargon on the warning was worded in a more intimidating fashion. Maybe the watermark deterrent worked (for now).

Not that tough a wording: This CD contains a uniquely identifiable digital watermark assigned to you. IT'S YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THE MUSIC ON THIS DISC REMAINS SECURE. If you are unable to take this responsibility, leave this seal intact and contact your label representative immediately.

Then comes a unique number for the promo (like UK 7) and that's it. Standard text.

  On 2/6/2013 at 4:59 PM, disoriental express said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 4:58 PM, Bertolt Brechtakt said:

 

  On 2/6/2013 at 7:19 AM, Franciscus said:

 

  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!

What do you want with that? If anything a track by track review of Ae music is completely pointless since the reception of their music is something like 150 % subjective, hence completely biased.

This guy doesn't know bout Alcofribas' reviews!!!! Oh to be an Alcofribas virgin again... Look up his reviews, you will not regret.

Will do. Thanks for the advice. But why hasn't he written anything on Exai yet?

that'd be an odd phone call. "I don't want this promo, I might leak it"