XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

The album is out and WE are the ones who are leaking.

If you catch my drift.

lollolol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OfnH1gXmUpc

i don't know, but i thought it was pants.....

  On 2/11/2013 at 3:52 AM, xxx said:

 

  On 2/11/2013 at 12:18 AM, manmower said:

Worst thing about Exai is when you can't stop the cum coming out of penis, or when penis flips inside of your body like a sock.

lol+lol

and i'm not even trolling for usagi's sake, i really was quite disappointed with this album.........

it's like an extension of move of ten........ more jams...... man......

come on guys lets keep this thread exai until at least page 300

I was skeptical about this one before it came out... Autechre seemed to be losing some quality control over the last five or so years. Oversteps was awesome, but Quaristice was subpar and Move of Ten is arguably their weakest release. A 2 hour album sounded like another Quaristice-style experiment destined for failure.

Having said that, this album completely surprised me. It has a very Gescom-y vibe in spots, especially on recks on, cloudline (which seems to use samples off of Skull Snap) and deco Loc (is that cut-up voice just before 4:00 saying "Gescom"?). bladelores and YJY UX are two of their best tracks ever.

I'm really looking forward to giving this one lots of repeat listens.

lovely album. 4 stars.. the analogue timbres bring a wonderful plastic chewy sound to the whole thing

decided imo its the best ae album yet

no comparison

simply because of the length and fucking lush quality

if draft or untilted or confield were this long though with such a high percentage of good to less good tracks i'd say theyre better tho

but total amount of time of fucking amazing lushness in exai > all other ae

omfg

  On 2/11/2013 at 7:15 AM, roasty said:

Found this funny

Decided to listen to bladelores again. Seems I'm warming up to this track a bit more now.

Oh yes! After working on my assignments all day, I just found out about the new 2 hour release from my favourite music act. Hella yes! If that's my valentine's day, I'll take it!

It's taking forever to download but oh well., I'll try and have an initial listen or two before looking at this thread.

(I was working 12 hour shifts over the weekend, only found out now).

  On 2/11/2013 at 3:50 AM, Awepittance said:

lollolol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OfnH1gXmUpc

lol

That part at 3:13 in irlite, followed by that shimmery sound.

That sound at 1:32 in tuinorizn.

Aww yeah.

  On 2/11/2013 at 1:29 AM, encey said:

 

  On 2/10/2013 at 11:38 PM, TheTransitionary said:

 

  On 2/10/2013 at 11:33 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

Pronunciation, do you folks pronounce jatevee c like jat-a-vee-see or jate(like gate)-vee-see?

 

 

 

jat-a-vee-see for me

 

and always in an Indian accent, by a guy with a great mustache, socks and sandals!

  On 1/25/2013 at 8:19 PM, Salvatorin said:

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 6:20 PM, Vilwx said:

Jatevee C.

will never unsee it

Here to share more ill-informed opinions. :-)

Was blown away by parts of the album, but still finding it pretty 'straight'. I've just realised what it is! It's the drum sounds, as opposed to the beat patterns themselves. LP5 (or even Chiastic Slide) to Draft (excluding exceptions like V-Proc's straight hip hop beat that comes in) had really alien, machinic percussion sounds. Not straight drum machine hits or things sampled from a drum kit. Draft did my head in with its cyber/robotic/organic/metallic/wooden drum splatterings. 'EP7' and 'Confield' especially hardly has a single overtly recognisable kick or snare sample. Even Oversteps used pretty alien and FM-ey sources to do most of the rhythmic parts. Whereas the new one has a bunch of straight forward, recognisable electronic (or even blatantly sampled acoustic) drum hits. That's why why I love deco Loc so much. Such a cool beat with such a weird high pitched, squelchy drum world. Tracks 1-3 are also so special. Whereas the others have footwork using hits I've heard in other records.

Anyone else thinking that the bit where the sound briefly cuts out 0:48 was one of their machines playing up, so they hit stop leaving the reverb trail but it sounded good so they included it in the final track ?

  On 2/11/2013 at 7:15 AM, roasty said:

lol... this funny image makes this wack thread alright .. :)

haven't listened to the album all the way through yet. but from what i've heard they could've made a new 6 track gescom ep outta it and just ditched the rest.

  On 2/11/2013 at 10:22 AM, Lianne said:

Here to share more ill-informed opinions. :-)

 

Was blown away by parts of the album, but still finding it pretty 'straight'. I've just realised what it is! It's the drum sounds, as opposed to the beat patterns themselves. LP5 (or even Chiastic Slide) to Draft (excluding exceptions like V-Proc's straight hip hop beat that comes in) had really alien, machinic percussion sounds. Not straight drum machine hits or things sampled from a drum kit. Draft did my head in with its cyber/robotic/organic/metallic/wooden drum splatterings. 'EP7' and 'Confield' especially hardly has a single overtly recognisable kick or snare sample. Even Oversteps used pretty alien and FM-ey sources to do most of the rhythmic parts. Whereas the new one has a bunch of straight forward, recognisable electronic (or even blatantly sampled acoustic) drum hits. That's why why I love deco Loc so much. Such a cool beat with such a weird high pitched, squelchy drum world. Tracks 1-3 are also so special. Whereas the others have footwork using hits I've heard in other records.

i pretty much agree in regards to the straightness of the sound bed but it's not just the drum sounds, a lot of the stabby synth sounds sound pretty straight forward as well. NOw that i think about it so do most of the effects, the use of flangers, delays, and reverbs are all relatively recognizable. The abstractness of Exai comes from the presentation and arrangement of all these sounds in the mix. At least that's where i sit with it, upon my first couple of listens i was too distracted by the individual sounds to notice just how bizarre the album really is. I think in one of the reviews someone put it nicely by saying 'painfully obvious and devastatingly subtle'

I'm pretty into the sounds on this album when they are less soaked in verb and a lot to have some space of their own. The opening 3 tracks all have very nice clean and not easily recognizable sound beds, so does Spl9 and even tuinorizn. The rest not so much.

even really glitchy tracks like 11 is, flep and Vekos, the individual sounds aren't as alien sounding as confield or draft yet they are heavily processed in various effects, where the effects themselves become part of the composition. In a way this seems to be the overall focus of the album. It's the closest AE have come to doing a 'dub' album, sounds silly but it's sort of true.

Cloudline seems to start with a heavy focus on making a flanger sort of 'sing' where the delay times are set so short that you hear the flanger squeaking and screeching more than any sort of traditional stereo flanging effect

Bladelores emphasizes this concept by having the snare drum of the beat with such a short decay you can barely hear that it's playing a pitched melody, this short snare burst is creating the entire background atmosphere by throwing it through 30 second + reverb.

edit: this is all i've been able to pin down so far as what 180 concept Exai holds. IT may be a stupid theory but i think at least since Untilted (or even arguably confield) there has been a deliberate attempt on their part to employ a different overarching concept to each consecutive album.

edit2: the last 3 tracks on Exai (not including keyosc) i don't really understand yet. Deco loc sounds more like it should be a Gescom track or a Quaristice or Move of ten outtake. Recks on sounds like a blatant Scorn tribute for the first opening minutes and then morphs halfway through into an EP7 esque AE version of a scorn track. The last song has a lot of processing and tweaking happening to a very straightforward melody and drum beat, not really grabbing me yet

  On 2/11/2013 at 10:44 AM, sirch said:

haven't listened to the album all the way through yet. but from what i've heard they could've made a new 6 track gescom ep outta it and just ditched the rest.

What is going on in your life, sirch?

Sounds like a girl left you.

  On 2/11/2013 at 10:49 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 2/11/2013 at 10:44 AM, sirch said:

haven't listened to the album all the way through yet. but from what i've heard they could've made a new 6 track gescom ep outta it and just ditched the rest.

 

What is going on in your life, sirch?

 

Sounds like a girl left you.

that's my actual opinion of what i've heard so far.

you shouldn't read........ stuff into internet posts. lol

what's going on in your life?

Now that I've had some actual time to absorb and follow this album better - I really think it might be their best work to date.