XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

spl9 continues to floor me. For all its primal abstraction, it is actually a wikkid dance track. I can't help but move to its weird pulse. I just imagined, what if acoustic instruments were tasked with reproducing such a piece of music. I think it would end up sounding like some ritual music from some yet unfound corner of the world.

  On 7/26/2013 at 8:21 AM, Salvatorin said:

spl9 continues to floor me. For all its primal abstraction, it is actually a wikkid dance track. I can't help but move to its weird pulse. I just imagined, what if acoustic instruments were tasked with reproducing such a piece of music. I think it would end up sounding like some ritual music from some yet unfound corner of the world.

Too true, that's autechre for you

something about the refined-ness of this album has been nagging at me... it feels like on this release, more than past albums, the sounds are arranged more precisely, so as to be more 'agreeable' with each other... can't really speak on it, because their process has always been alien to me. however, exai feels more defined and deliberate, less 'excessive' than their earlier music, where the excess remained, giving a bigger picture of the process/mess. for example, spl9, there's the foreground activity (drums, massive, gaseous bass-progression), and then there are those background sorts of "train" sounds, giving an illusion of more weight, but it just feels layered up, in a way.

conversely, Flep has a shifting quality that makes it more difficult to get a bearing of the track.. maybe it's more straightforward for others. this is also what i like about cloudline and YJY UX, where the beats are not definite and sometimes the rhythm stumbles, compacts, or fragments a bit.

Vhy ?

vekoS.

$5 Aldi wine, zole

LOL

Strathboogie would be an awesome track as well. As is Aldii. Pro Aldii?

the tempranillo is pretty great. not idm related though

Anyone else hear the strong similarities between cfern and prac-f? I hadn't listened to the former since before exai. At times the similarities are striking. (WTF ARE THEY DOING??)

Yeah. Also nodezsh/Etchogon-S strike me as sharing an uncanny likeness of blueprint. Been listening to Oversteps and noticed a same sort of linkage between d sho qub and irlite (get0). It's liking they're toying with a melody and it comes out in two different versions, the "quieter" more minimalistic Oversteps/MoT versions, and the meatier, heavier stomping versions of Exai

This album is sick!

irlite (get 0) - best track they have??

jatevee C - fucking party monster!

T ess xi - Perfect experimental track really yummy for the ears!

bladelores - darkness!

1 1 is - eargasm!

recks on - Killer track!!

best of all the albums i bought this year

I'm beginning to hear more and more little melodies hidden underneath the sweet beat textures.

Flep is really doing it for me lately; in fact the first half is starting to unlock itself a bit more in general.

Still not keen on keyosc though!

Spl9 is the hardest track they've done since gantz graf

  On 8/20/2013 at 9:09 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

best of all the albums i bought this year

indeed. not that you can compare, say, tomorrow's harvest and exai, but if you could, then tomorrow's harvest would be the weakling whimpering in the corner as exai takes his lunch money

Exai is growing on me day by day. I mean just listen to 1 1 is. The song is pure bliss

It'll be interesting to see how L Event will make Exai sound. Oversteps/MoT have been opening up in new ways since Exai.

L-(ush) Event, perhaps?

Every Aelbum or Ae.p. is a lush event.

  On 8/31/2013 at 2:19 AM, Candiru said:

L-(ush) Event, perhaps?

 

Every Aelbum or Ae.p. is a lush event.

Good suggaestion, caendiru. Waennae shaere baeaer?

1 1 Is <3

  On 8/31/2013 at 5:27 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 8/31/2013 at 2:19 AM, Candiru said:

L-(ush) Event, perhaps?

 

Every Aelbum or Ae.p. is a lush event.

 

Good suggaestion, caendiru. Waennae shaere baeaer?

 

Homebraewed IPAe's it is braeh.

goddamn this album is incredible. the sean brothers really make some of the best music.

sean pls

has anyone heard this yet??

dude stop asking, the preorders haven't even shipped yet wtf

  On 9/3/2013 at 8:24 AM, modey said:

dude stop asking, the preorders haven't even shipped yet wtf

even though we haven't heard the tracks, we should send The Mates a thank you present