XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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damn, i also hear that white noise in the 24bit version of t ess xi

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:09 PM, gl0tch said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:04 PM, pixelives said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:00 PM, gl0tch said:

Seriously guys, has anyone who heard this first go around on the 24bit wavs, listened again on the 320kbps MP3s?

 

It doesnt sound as muddy. I think iTunes doesnt handle 24bit wavs too well... Everything seemed to blow past any internal EQ in the program. It sounds WAY better on MP3 the second go around.

 

Pixelives, I'd be curious if you could run this experiment on your own... 320 mp3 vs 24bit wav vs your promo

Still running my 320's I'm going to wait for the dust to settle to DL my real wavs. I wouldn't be surprised about the itunes handling. I was actually just going to DL the 16bits anyway just to save some space...

 

Gotcha. My recommendation for anyone with iTunes is 16bit wav or 320 kbps MP3, nothing more or nothing less.

I also take back my original statement about this feeling like Draft abstraction on Quaristice hardware

 

For whatever reason, 24bit wavs in iTunes on a Mac makes this sound unmastered and without a balanced EQ.

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:08 PM, oscillik said:

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  On 2/7/2013 at 8:01 PM, gl0tch said:

(I feel like the 24bit wavs were unmastered)

you don't think it could be that you're using one of the shittiest programs to listen to your music on?

 

I mean, I'm not completely ruling out that there could be a fuck up with the files, but at least try listening to them with something a bit better than iTunes?

 

I'm open to suggestions on the Mac.

 

VLC

This is the album I've always wanted them to make. I'm so pleased.

WHO HAS (KEYOSC)?!

So for instance, someone said earlier that "everything falls in its right place." Initially, I didnt understand this b/c there seemed like there was too much going on and frequencies were combating one another.

I switch to 320kbps MP3 and this is the best thing they've ever done.

Everything falls into its right place.

Somehow got through Bleep's intertubes...

and managed to grab the mp3 version. I'm going in!

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:14 PM, gl0tch said:

So for instance, someone said earlier that "everything falls in its right place." Initially, I didnt understand this b/c there seemed like there was too much going on and frequencies were combating one another.

 

I switch to 320kbps MP3 and this is the best thing they've ever done.

 

 

Everything falls into its right place.

so there is definitely something wrong with the 24bits, is that what you're saying?

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:13 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:09 PM, gl0tch said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:04 PM, pixelives said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:00 PM, gl0tch said:

Seriously guys, has anyone who heard this first go around on the 24bit wavs, listened again on the 320kbps MP3s?

 

It doesnt sound as muddy. I think iTunes doesnt handle 24bit wavs too well... Everything seemed to blow past any internal EQ in the program. It sounds WAY better on MP3 the second go around.

 

Pixelives, I'd be curious if you could run this experiment on your own... 320 mp3 vs 24bit wav vs your promo

Still running my 320's I'm going to wait for the dust to settle to DL my real wavs. I wouldn't be surprised about the itunes handling. I was actually just going to DL the 16bits anyway just to save some space...

 

Gotcha. My recommendation for anyone with iTunes is 16bit wav or 320 kbps MP3, nothing more or nothing less.

I also take back my original statement about this feeling like Draft abstraction on Quaristice hardware

 

For whatever reason, 24bit wavs in iTunes on a Mac makes this sound unmastered and without a balanced EQ.

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:08 PM, oscillik said:

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  On 2/7/2013 at 8:01 PM, gl0tch said:

(I feel like the 24bit wavs were unmastered)

you don't think it could be that you're using one of the shittiest programs to listen to your music on?

 

I mean, I'm not completely ruling out that there could be a fuck up with the files, but at least try listening to them with something a bit better than iTunes?

 

I'm open to suggestions on the Mac.

 

VLC

 

or Enqueue

http://www.enqueueapp.com/

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:03 PM, dr lopez said:

I've liked vekoS the best so far

track. is. blowing. my. mind.

mind blowjob.

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:15 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:14 PM, gl0tch said:

So for instance, someone said earlier that "everything falls in its right place." Initially, I didnt understand this b/c there seemed like there was too much going on and frequencies were combating one another.

 

I switch to 320kbps MP3 and this is the best thing they've ever done.

 

 

Everything falls into its right place.

so there is definitely something wrong with the 24bits, is that what you're saying?

HAHAHA, on my system I feel like there is.

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:13 PM, disoriental express said:

WHO HAS (KEYOSC)?!

This

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:17 PM, gl0tch said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:15 PM, Franciscus said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:14 PM, gl0tch said:

So for instance, someone said earlier that "everything falls in its right place." Initially, I didnt understand this b/c there seemed like there was too much going on and frequencies were combating one another.

 

I switch to 320kbps MP3 and this is the best thing they've ever done.

 

 

Everything falls into its right place.

so there is definitely something wrong with the 24bits, is that what you're saying?

 

HAHAHA, on my system I feel like there is.

at least there's the white noise that shouldn't be there

btw deco Loc seems to be the only track with some kind of lyrics (0:55)

Yeah, the white noise went away on the MP3 version. The mix also feels much more balanced and open

Wow....just been driving through the northern new york countryside in my grandparent's maxima with the volume at 20+. I'm talking threshhold of pain volume. And what do I have to say?

This album is dangerous.

Exai is deadly and mean.

Exai is frightening. I think it might have the potential to induce temporary psychosis in untrained minds.

Exai is weaponry.

Most of Exai has an energy like the most intense part of lentic catachresis mixed with augmatic disport, but honed down to a knive's edge and funkified to extreme levels of head-bumpery...fuck.

Exai recontextualizes every piece of autechre before it.

Remember rook's review of confield? That beast that killed rook at the end of confield is back.

Some people have said confield was 'painful'. This album contains many many times more pain.

But the pain is tempered with the quality that words cannot properly describe...that rythmic timbral excellence that makes it hurt so good.

There are trax where you get lead in all sorts of directions, giving you nice things, mean things, testing and tempting you, and then it briefly awards you with a moment where perfection is achieved.

I highly reccomend that anyone who is listening to this on headphones should give it a go, really fucking loud, on full-range speakers. You need that bass to rumble your innards for full effect.

fuck fuck fuck " 1 1 is"!!

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:13 PM, disoriental express said:

WHO HAS (KEYOSC)?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AT-CkYaig

also: I understand why pixelives likes the album more now that we're listening.

He was basically trapped in a room by himself with a vicious beast of an album, just him and EXAI. That's fucking terrifying.

T ess xi definitely stops sounding like Proswell pretty quickly. But it is fuckin weird as an Autechre track. Not what I expected to hear in this release at all.

bleep is fucking inaccessible right now

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:23 PM, Salvatorin said:

also: I understand why pixelives likes the album more now that we're listening.

He was basically trapped in a room by himself with a vicious beast of an album, just him and EXAI. That's fucking terrifying.

i like your short review. i always remember these kind of reviews and i tend to listen to the music differently after reading it. thanks... i guess

This is exactly the right followup to pastel soft-focus Oversteps: hard-edged hallucinogenic technicolor evil.

Ah, some hope for those wanting it but Bleep get it's shit together:

The "Album Only" tracks on iTunes can only be purchased if you buy the entire album - they just cannot be bought as individual tracks. Sorry for any confusion earlier!

It's a dollar more on iTunes, but if you absolutely cannot wait for the fervour around Bleep to die down...

I'm sure Sean and Rob wouldn't mind you purchasing another copy

  On 2/7/2013 at 7:07 PM, Frank Poole said:

deco Loc is funky as fuck! I'm really feeling the hip hop vibes on this one.

check it out @:40

  On 2/7/2013 at 8:24 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

bleep is fucking inaccessible right now

The 24bit WAV download just started at my end. Not sure if people are stuffing the zip with all versions, but I just selected them individually and they kicked in (eventually)