XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:05 PM, 3849 said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:59 PM, pixelives said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:52 PM, 3849 said:

I'm a bit disappointed... I just listened to Exai for two hours and there are only a few tracks that are awesome.

Btw, there's pretty much 1 track with a hip hop beat, so whoever said that there was a lot of hip hop beats should hit himself in the fucking face cuz you don't know jack about hip hop.

there's plenty at traditional hiphop tempo however.

Not the same though.

 

Not sure what you were expecting. This is hiphop psychedelia from the year 3789.

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:13 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:57 PM, Indicator said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:56 PM, feltcher said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:54 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:38 PM, Franciscus said:

 

thanks to a kind soul i'm listening to keyosc. finally a worthy japanese bonus track again

Eh... Pffff where's your Modesty, gentleman.

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  On 2/7/2013 at 11:16 PM, gl0tch said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:05 PM, 3849 said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:59 PM, pixelives said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:52 PM, 3849 said:

I'm a bit disappointed... I just listened to Exai for two hours and there are only a few tracks that are awesome.

Btw, there's pretty much 1 track with a hip hop beat, so whoever said that there was a lot of hip hop beats should hit himself in the fucking face cuz you don't know jack about hip hop.

there's plenty at traditional hiphop tempo however.

Not the same though.

 

Not sure what you were expecting. This is hiphop psychedelia from the year 3789.

A hip hop beat/rhythm... if people say it has hip hop beats and it doesn't then I'm quite disappointed in that, plus the sound design of XI isn't that great on half of its tracks either...

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:13 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:57 PM, Indicator said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:56 PM, feltcher said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:54 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:38 PM, Franciscus said:

 

thanks to a kind soul i'm listening to keyosc. finally a worthy japanese bonus track again

Eh... Pffff where's your Modesty, gentleman.

Prostitute Monkey

Prime Minister

Psilocybin Mushrooms

 

I bet this would be awesome to listen to in the PopeMobile.

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:20 PM, 3849 said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:16 PM, gl0tch said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:05 PM, 3849 said:

 

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:59 PM, pixelives said:

 

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:52 PM, 3849 said:

 

I'm a bit disappointed... I just listened to Exai for two hours and there are only a few tracks that are awesome.

Btw, there's pretty much 1 track with a hip hop beat, so whoever said that there was a lot of hip hop beats should hit himself in the fucking face cuz you don't know jack about hip hop.

there's plenty at traditional hiphop tempo however.

Not the same though.

Not sure what you were expecting. This is hiphop psychedelia from the year 3789.

A hip hop beat/rhythm... if people say it has hip hop beats and it doesn't then I'm quite disappointed in that, plus the sound design of XI isn't that great on half of its tracks either...

LOL, good luck bro.

Listened to the first half this morning (and also 1 1 is). Gonna take a while to sink in, I think. I've been so immersed in a world of 80s synth prog stuff lately that this album is a bit of a jarring change. Mostly that all of the beautiful melodies everyone is ejaculating over aren't quite as gorgeous as I expected.

Is it just me or does Flep contain hints of V-proc? Near the end where everything drops out and the beat goes clicky.

Edited February 7, 2013 by modey

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Can't believe how this is!

Edited February 7, 2013 by xox

Just finished my second listen and Flep is the only track I'm not wild about, but it's not bad either, just stands out as subpar on an otherwise brilliant album. Disc 2 is a masterpiece from start to finish. So happy right now...I promised I wouldn't cry...oh fuck...

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:05 PM, pixelives said:

irlite (get 0) is a fucking masterpiece. It's a miniature symphony. Fuck. The multiple movements and permutations.

I'm convinced the second section of the track (the part from 4:30 onwards) didn't exist until my second listen. Have Autechre somehow invented the procedurally generated sound file ?

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:57 PM, Indicator said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:56 PM, feltcher said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:54 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:38 PM, Franciscus said:

 

thanks to a kind soul i'm listening to keyosc. finally a worthy japanese bonus track again

Eh... Pffff where's your Modesty, gentleman.

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Prime Minister

 

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so noisy and brutal, very pleased. This would sound fantastic on a very large sound system

I'm not really getting all these pretty melodies either. But I'm totally okay with that.

end first listen, i´m happy, was a good day.

Phling and others who obtained an Analog 4, are you hearing it on here? I feel like the entire synth noise breakdown on track 1 is ridiculous tweaking of all the modulation parameters on an A4 voice patch, sounds so fucking good. *shits self*

Let's hope for an EP and a tour later this year, that would make this year super awesome.

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:50 PM, 3849 said:

Let's hope for an EP and a tour later this year, that would make this year super awesome.

LOL. When did you *start* listening to Autechre? I can't believe you don't get how fucking face ripping rad this beast of an album is

Wow, I still can't download it from bleep.

brutal, decadent, unrelenting

Approaching the end of my first listen...this album is incredible. It surpassed my expectations, but matched my hopes.

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:50 PM, 3849 said:

Let's hope for an EP and a tour later this year, that would make this year super awesome.

 

Yah...So far is shit! ...and I'm not getting all this exai hype neither. Only an EP could save this year from total disaster!

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:45 PM, Awepittance said:

Phling and others who obtained an Analog 4, are you hearing it on here? I feel like the entire synth noise breakdown on track 1 is ridiculous tweaking of all the modulation parameters on an A4 voice patch, sounds so fucking good. *shits self*

 

Just in terms of timescale there's no way there's any analog 4 on here. Album will have largely been written 1-2 years ago, I can't imagine there were any A4s outside elektron hq before last summer at the earliest.

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:57 PM, Gravity said:

Wow, I still can't download it from bleep.

 

ditto

 

I just want another release and a tour to 'see' them live. I'm not saying all of XI sucks, but some of its sound design is so horrible.

  On 2/7/2013 at 10:38 PM, Franciscus said:

thanks to a kind soul i'm listening to keyosc. finally a worthy japanese bonus track again

on my 3rd listen now. (noticed 1 second of silence on recks on at 7:55/7:56 on the 24bit files)

2nd half of irlite (get 0) now. just great. the hole thing.

highlights - Yjy Ux, cloudline, spl9

"downlights" - not really at this point - if i have to pin one, then it would be runrepik and prac-f, that i wish to be longer but they are not bad at all.

i think it's my first post here on this Ae forum and I must say you guys are fun to lurk all the way this Exai thing started. I liked ever bit of it.

My opinion about Exai is, that it's one of they ripest and richest achievements they've done to date and I think it might be a bridge to they recent live stuff, if that's the Haeven to approach to. I wish to see a live tour too. Seen them only once in Berlin 2010.

All in all I'm utterly overwhelmed with this exaiting new (hopefully not last) release.

And sorry if I have the chutzpah to ask as newcomer on this board.

 

Enjoy the Exaitement!

  On 2/8/2013 at 12:02 AM, kakapo said:

 

  On 2/7/2013 at 11:45 PM, Awepittance said:

Phling and others who obtained an Analog 4, are you hearing it on here? I feel like the entire synth noise breakdown on track 1 is ridiculous tweaking of all the modulation parameters on an A4 voice patch, sounds so fucking good. *shits self*

 

Just in terms of timescale there's no way there's any analog 4 on here. Album will have largely been written 1-2 years ago, I can't imagine there were any A4s outside elektron hq before last summer at the earliest.

 

yeah, realistically its not likely. Hearing a lot of analog synth type sounds on here. There is plenty of FM synth but it doesn't sound digital or like any yamaha to me