XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

  On 2/8/2013 at 7:00 AM, auxien said:

 

6. vekoS - anyone complaining about 'weak sound design' or whatever needs to fuck off

anyone complaining about any criticisms or nit picks needs to fuck off actually. Yes I'm talking to you.

I mostly love the album, but I get irritable when defensiveness kicks in as a response to a nit pick

  On 2/8/2013 at 8:28 AM, Awepittance said:

 

  On 2/8/2013 at 7:00 AM, auxien said:

 

6. vekoS - anyone complaining about 'weak sound design' or whatever needs to fuck off

 

anyone complaining about any criticisms or nit picks needs to fuck off actually. Yes I'm talking to you.

cloudline is pure hip hop... wtf at 3:13 on... SHI-

is bladelores the opening track on the second cd?

  On 2/8/2013 at 8:38 AM, flurobox said:

is bladelores the opening track on the second cd?

its the closing track on the first cd

  On 2/8/2013 at 7:57 AM, exm said:

atm totally into prac-f...love that opening and how it evolves into african shuffled beatss. fm synths!!! wahoe

still my favorite.

another criticism (for those who have the balls to hear them without whining about it) is that we only get a handful of dance-floor bangers in the vein of Spl9. I'm greedy and i want more of those, actually i still just want the soundboards of both tours. This style of AE is served best at 140bpm+

Perhaps they'll surprise us with a series of singles or one of those illustrious EPs with the length of an album. It would be quite in character for them to do so.

Exai more of Ten.

don't really like jatevee C and bladelores

everything else is top notch.

  On 2/8/2013 at 8:53 AM, telefunken said:

don't really like jatevee C and bladelores

everything else is top notch.

pretty much in full agreement

just gave it a first listen -

first of all, super impressed by the sound design and production on here. it is amazing how absolutely pristine & clear everything sounds. the production here puts oversteps to shame. there is also an amazing spatial sense to this album in that every sound seems to have it's own place in the mix. i'm not just talking frequencies but more like everything existing in an actual physical space. there is a definite sense of foreground and background, with lots of elements panned a bit to one side or the other. it comes off almost like a surround sound effect.

this album really sounds to me like ae immersing themselves in modular analog synthesis, with insane cv modulation via max/msp. the only thing i can really compare it to sonically is some of the recent analog jams by richard devine. there are just so many incredibly fluid changes and modulations and movements of all the elements. everything on the album really seems to have that analog character, but instead of going for that usual analog 'warmth' that a lot of people go for with this gear, autechre instead get this razor sharp, edgy sound that still has an organic character to it.

on first listen, bladelores is definitely the standout track for me. i actually wish they had emphasized melody a bit more on Exal because the few times they did the results were incredible. going to take a lot of listens to absorb all of this but i think this could be their best work yet.

Could be nice if they released the cd version a little earlier.

i'm not sure the breakdown in Bladelores at 5 min was a good idea...though I'm guessing most will think it "genius"

  On 2/8/2013 at 8:43 AM, Awepittance said:

 

  On 2/8/2013 at 7:57 AM, exm said:

atm totally into prac-f...love that opening and how it evolves into african shuffled beatss. fm synths!!! wahoe

 

still my favorite.

 

another criticism (for those who have the balls to hear them without whining about it) is that we only get a handful of dance-floor bangers in the vein of Spl9. I'm greedy and i want more of those, actually i still just want the soundboards of both tours. This style of AE is served best at 140bpm+

Yeah. I do want more superfast ae stuff. runrepik is up there too; it's almost like footwork or something. Funny that, because around the time tuinorizn leaked I was talking to vproc (watmm user, not the ae track obviously) about my desire to hear ae's take on footwork/juke.

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:12 AM, digit said:

just gave it a first listen -

 

first of all, super impressed by the sound design and production on here. it is amazing how absolutely pristine & clear everything sounds. the production here puts oversteps to shame. there is also an amazing spatial sense to this album in that every sound seems to have it's own place in the mix. i'm not just talking frequencies but more like everything existing in an actual physical space. there is a definite sense of foreground and background, with lots of elements panned a bit to one side or the other. it comes off almost like a surround sound effect.

 

this album really sounds to me like ae immersing themselves in modular analog synthesis, with insane cv modulation via max/msp. the only thing i can really compare it to sonically is some of the recent analog jams by richard devine. there are just so many incredibly fluid changes and modulations and movements of all the elements. everything on the album really seems to have that analog character, but instead of going for that usual analog 'warmth' that a lot of people go for with this gear, autechre instead get this razor sharp, edgy sound that still has an organic character to it.

 

on first listen, bladelores is definitely the standout track for me. i actually wish they had emphasized melody a bit more on Exal because the few times they did the results were incredible. going to take a lot of listens to absorb all of this but i think this could be their best work yet.

Best Review so far

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:14 AM, lumpenprol said:

i'm not sure the breakdown in Bladelores at 5 min was a good idea...though I'm guessing most will think it "genius"

Yeah, it's generally sequenced pretty weirdly. Kinda blows its load in the first 5 mins imo.

Well, I reckon (keyosc) was worth buying the album again for (bloody itunes Japan with their 'ALBUM ONLY' purchasing nonsense). Rounds off everything nicely, and probably the best 'tekker Japanese bonus track I've heard.

Just in case anyone missed it a few pages back

  On 2/7/2013 at 9:09 PM, jasondonervan said:

I've got some Japanese itunes codes ordered, so I should have some keyosc action soon (well, within 24 hours)

 

Perhaps it's a lot of Money, but what the hell... it's new Autechre album release day, time to celebrate!

Been away for a week...What did I miss (with 50 new pages I really hope there's finally something new)

the album is out go get it son

The tracks that stand out the most to me are irlite (get 0), 1 1 is, and recks on. Not sure what all the hype over bladelores is about though.

Also I think YJY UX is a great closing to the album. To me its sounds are comprehensive of tracks in previous albums throughout Ae's career.

Sorry I'm inept at describing detail.

this album feels very hypnogogic to me, listening to it for the 3rd time now and i feel like im listening to practically a different album. anybody else getting this effects? No effect like this on Quaristice or OVersteps

and i agree about the analog feel to it but not warm or soft like most analog centric music, it's sparkly. It reminds me a lot of what you can do with the Analog 4 or Arp 2600 with FM filter modulations. I feel like almost every bass line sound is being FM modulated to some extent, but not digital fm synths.

and i agree with digit about the mixing/engineering aspect of the album. For having such a chaotic noisy feel it's mixed beautifully. Nothing is muddy, even though at first glance it may seem that way on the surface. My qualm with the sound design wasn't that I think it has bad sound design, i think it's great it's just a sound palette that is used for almost the whole album. I prefer the more varying sound palette quality of Quaristice or Untilted personally. This is alot more focused on a singular aesthetic

bladelores is awesome and you all should just shut up and listen to it. it almost sounds like a dopplereffekt track, with the tight beats and the best ambient sounds ever on the background. its beautiful.

am the only one here loving Keyosc? one of the highlights of the album for me

1 of the 2 times on this entire LP i can hear some fo the physical modeling synthesis they were so fond of on Oversteps

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:45 AM, Franciscus said:

bladelores is awesome and you all should just shut up and listen to it.

Hah. I already did that twice. Don't get me wrong, it's a decent track in it's own right. I just don't think it's the best one on this album.

  On 2/8/2013 at 9:50 AM, Awepittance said:

am the only one here loving Keyosc? one of the highlights of the album for me

 

1 of the 2 times on this entire LP i can hear some fo the physical modeling synthesis they were so fond of on Oversteps

I'm down with keyosc. It works great in the general running order as a way to close proceedings.