XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

An exceptional album for dicks!

 

;D

anyone here let their girlfriend listen to exai yet? and what was her response?

My last GF loved Ae.

My GF left me since I was paying more attention to this thread rather than her.

Edited February 12, 2013 by StocKo

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:40 AM, Franciscus said:

Franciscus, on 11 Feb 2013 - 22:48, said:

anyone here let their girlfriend listen to exai yet? and what was her response?

my wife thought it was pretty good, her impressions were slightly more favorable than Untilted but she liked it less than Quaristice or Oversteps. Her favorites so far are Jatevee-C YJY UX

 

she actually got me more into AE than i was originally, she was a huge fan of confield when i first started dating her and i gave it another shake because it didn't do much for me at first now i'm a big fan too

Edited February 12, 2013 by Awepittance

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:58 AM, pixelives said:

My last GF loved Ae.

 

 

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

My GF left me since I was paying more attention to this thread rather than her.

 

 

 

I got 99 problems...

Edited February 12, 2013 by ambermonk

  Awepittance said:

she actually got me more into AE than i was originally

and all along i thought the secret to your developing love for ae was pscillocibin...

i'm actually quite anti 'shroom'. For all the talk i do here about being a psychnaut i've never liked mushrooms. I've had a few good experiences on them when i was about 10 years younger but i find them to be a lot less automatically fun than lsd or other tryptamines. I'm very much not a natural psychedelic hippy, i prefer to trip on pure chemicals whenever possible (besides salvia)

Edited February 12, 2013 by Awepittance

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:30 AM, pixelives said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:10 AM, Awepittance said:

at first i hated that one synth line that comes halfway through runrepik, now i kind of like it. It sounds like a glitched out (sending poly data to a mono source) Midi to CV line going to an analog synth

That's what I like about it.

 

I was thinking it could also be Monomachine arp at a weird rate with sq wv pitch mod

you can hear similar sounds on oversteps tour record, 15-19 min of 01 - 29 May 2010 - JesseG remaster part 1

sounds like nord lead 2

  On 2/12/2013 at 6:59 AM, Retrig said:

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

 

I agree.

 

Well, maybe not the dick part.

spending a lot of time with Flep atm. Feels like watching a faster-than-light particle carve some kind of beautiful alien structure into the space around me whilst I sit in the middle in awe.

  On 2/12/2013 at 9:57 AM, Roksen Creek said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 6:59 AM, Retrig said:

Just want to chime in and say there seems to be a lot of dislike for runrepik... If it's your least favorite, you're kind of a dick.

You'll proclaim it among your favorites next week, at which point you will be correct.

<3

Edit: What a treat of an album :)

 

I agree.

 

Well, maybe not the dick part.

 

agreement.

 

after seeing them live in melbourne for the oversteps tour, i've been wanting this sort of material on an album.

i am... in love... with this album.

 

i'm not even sure what my least favourite track is. there are a few moments where i find it hard to get into a groove. but every track has a redeeming moment or quality.

I think the only one I wasn't really feeling was deco Loc. But I've changed my mind completely on that now, it's awesome. Flep maybe needs a bit more time too.

Although I find this album really good, listening on good monitors and headphones I find a lot of parts dynamically flat and really not that massive spacially, needs to be a bit fatter, rounder, more room inside of each sound, if it had that it really would be a truly amazing listen.

  On 2/12/2013 at 8:05 AM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 7:58 AM, pixelives said:

 

My last GF loved Ae.

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

My GF left me since I was paying more attention to this thread rather than her.

 

 

I got 99 problems...

Lol

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:36 AM, Gordon said:

Although I find this album really good, listening on good monitors and headphones I find a lot of parts dynamically flat and really not that massive spacially, needs to be a bit fatter, rounder, more room inside of each sound, if it had that it really would be a truly amazing listen.

 

Pro tip - don't listen to records on monitors.

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:36 AM, Gordon said:

 

Although I find this album really good, listening on good monitors and headphones I find a lot of parts dynamically flat and really not that massive spacially, needs to be a bit fatter, rounder, more room inside of each sound, if it had that it really would be a truly amazing listen.

It's funny; I get the opposite from listening to it on cheap Logitech 5.1 speakers. It sounds fucking massive! Edited February 12, 2013 by modey

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:52 AM, modey said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:36 AM, Gordon said:

 

Although I find this album really good, listening on good monitors and headphones I find a lot of parts dynamically flat and really not that massive spacially, needs to be a bit fatter, rounder, more room inside of each sound, if it had that it really would be a truly amazing listen.

It's funny; I get the opposite from listening to it on cheap Logitech 5.1 speakers. It sounds fucking massive!

same here, using the z5500 and really, it's massive!!! On my monitors it's kinda flat, and that's the way it should be!

it definitely sounds better / different in my Car, crappy speakers ftw

i like the way it sounds on my yamaha hs80m

Gave it my first listen and I can't really get into it, it's like there's something missing. I won't talk about the "challenging" or "experimental" points that already have been discussed but rather about the sound pallet that imho is pretty disappointing. For sure the songs are great, they provide somethin' new but it sounds as if I was listening to an improved version of MoT - seriously, all the "hip-hop" songs (and especially recks on) sound like a reworked rew(1) with new pads over it.

This is really a disappointement to me and it almost manage to kill the pleasure I have to finally give Exai a listen. I never thought of Oversteps or MoT, nor Exai, to be steps taken backwards in their discography, but I don't feel the massive change they used to create between their last albums...Maybe it's just a matter of time tho (I hope so !)

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:48 AM, Face Culler said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:36 AM, Gordon said:

 

 

Although I find this album really good, listening on good monitors and headphones I find a lot of parts dynamically flat and really not that massive spacially, needs to be a bit fatter, rounder, more room inside of each sound, if it had that it really would be a truly amazing listen.

Pro tip - don't listen to records on monitors.

Well I know my speakers and I'd much rather listen to it on them than say the car...I feel the opposite with the car speakers, sounds too harsh

 

Just all a matter of perception/opinion I guess

Edited February 12, 2013 by Gordon

  On 2/12/2013 at 10:05 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

spending a lot of time with Flep atm. Feels like watching a faster-than-light particle carve some kind of beautiful alien structure into the space around me whilst I sit in the middle in awe.

Finally some Flep love! Its the most immediate track on the album imo.

I can't get enough of the first three tracks. They are so, so good. Fleure, with it's spindly, beautifully metallic frequency-shifting beat and many buried arpeggios, melodies and squelches (I don't know if that's correct, just trying to find words), irlite with its beautiful alien atmosphere and frankly bizarre but wonderful melodies and chord bursts, and the best of all (to me), Prac-f....that third one in particular displays a level of detail and sonic mastery I've not heard before. Totally overwhelming, and makes my brain sing. It kind of spoils me for anything less, so I guess the fact that other tracks are a little more bare is part of why I struggle with some of the album. vekoS is similar in its density and atmosphere. Another stella track.

I can't stand those lp5-ish pads at the beginning of T ess XI, so uninspired.