XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

  On 9/3/2013 at 5:54 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 9/3/2013 at 10:24 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

personally I was thinking about sending the Married With Children dvd boxset

  On 9/3/2013 at 8:20 PM, triachus said:

 

  On 9/3/2013 at 5:54 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 9/3/2013 at 10:24 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

 

personally I was thinking about sending the Married With Children dvd boxset

 

I was thinking of preordering that boxed set off bleep. Hopefully the bros receive it by 2023.

Nah, send them a case of 60 Minute IPA for the 60 minute e.p.

Is the voice in nodeszh saying "help me?"

Read in on Youtube, now it's changed the track for me, fucked it up for me a bit in fact.

Great album though, had a break from it, and it sounded better than ever when I came back, quite a few buried voices here and there I'd never heard before too, Good Old Autechre.

  On 8/29/2013 at 4:00 PM, AJW said:

Oversteps/MoT have been opening up in new ways since Exai.

On the contrary, I haven't been keen to listen to Oversteps since Exai came out. When I want to listne to 'chre, I either go for Exai or the classic shit (tri rep and cichlisuite mostly)

Something tells me I need a bit more time, another year maybe? And then i'll come back to Oversteps / Move of ten with newfound appreciation.

QFT

The bigger the time away I spend away from this album the better the tracks are when I return to it. I had been in the habit of skipping to my faves but as i type this i am pretty immersed in prac-f. It's awesome.

So the talk about L-Event was getting my Autechre groove on and I put on Exai on like 3 times this last 2 days, and it finally clicked just now. What I want to ask is: is it me or does alot of the album from Exai sound like parts of Draft, Confield, Quaristice (mainly Quadrange) and Move Of Ten? T ess xi could've been on Draft or Confield so easily, the beginning of Fleure containing what sounds like samples from Confield... Irlite sounding like a Quadrange edit or something. Weird thing is that I don´t hear much Oversteps vibes in this one at all. Maybe this has been talked to death here already, but can´t be bothered to read 341 pages to find that out.

TL;DR - Exai is like Squarepushers Hello Everything, which to me was something of a review of his work until then, a 'best of' consisting of new tracks but with all the signature sounds.

edit: ah, seeing the first 2 comments on this page 'confirm' my suspicion:

Yeah there are a lot of references to early work on Exai. deco Loc's melody reminds me of one of the tracks on Garbage.

this album is so sexi

that i want to put my dingaling inside of it

so i might become infected with the IDM STDs

  On 9/19/2013 at 2:31 AM, modey said:

Yeah there are a lot of references to early work on Exai. deco Loc's melody reminds me of one of the tracks on Garbage.

really? which track?

garbage is one if my favorite ae pieces ever and I hate deco loc.

  On 9/19/2013 at 12:17 AM, Herr Jan said:

Exai is like...a review of...work until then, a 'best of'

Oh well. WATMM

  On 9/19/2013 at 2:47 AM, jules said:

 

  On 9/19/2013 at 2:31 AM, modey said:

Yeah there are a lot of references to early work on Exai. deco Loc's melody reminds me of one of the tracks on Garbage.

really? which track?

 

garbage is one if my favorite ae pieces ever and I hate deco loc.

 

The chords that start at ~2:00 in deco loc vaguely remind me of Garbagemx.. it's very loose though!

huge album, just ordered IT from bleep

OMG EXAI LEAKED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-kj117ms9Y

It's out?!

*panics*

*runs in circles*

*jumps through window*

Lush, 6/10 no wait 5.9/10.

i must say that i think this is their best album

It definitely isn't NOT one of their best you know? I give it a 34/35 aevocados.

I do still love this Album but do think it maybe hasn't got the longevity of their best stuff.. Still suppose its early days to tell but not sure I will still be finding new stuff in this album years later like I do with chiastic slide, Confield, Draft etc... Its still one hell of an enjoyable beast tho!

But there's easily more stuff going on in here than on Chiastic Slide or Confield. And I think it's a hell of a lot more fun than Confield, if not as novel at the time of its release. I think people are just really hesitant to say that a recent album may be better than some past glories.

But then again, Chiastic Slide, EP7, and Confield are my least listened to.

with the exception of quaristice every time autechre release an album i think it's their best one. it is a little uncomfortable thinking that when I'm so much more familiar with earlier works but that's just always how it goes with me.

More going on than on Confield? Is that a joke?

Even Chi Slide is more "dynamic" than a lot or most of Exai. Part of the brilliance of Chiastic is how repetitive it sounds on the surface when really it's constantly transforming.

  On 9/27/2013 at 4:58 PM, Joseph said:

More going on than on Confield? Is that a joke?

 

 

Nope. Not only does it sound a lot busier, but it's just more funky, groovin' and melodic than Confield. A lot of the time, the sound of a new frontier isn't as exciting as its later incarnations. Or some shit.

I GOT EXAI BOIS

SO EXAITED :D

  On 9/27/2013 at 3:23 PM, Alcofribas said:

with the exception of quaristice every time autechre release an album i think it's their best one. it is a little uncomfortable thinking that when I'm so much more familiar with earlier works but that's just always how it goes with me.

Worked and works so far the same for me. (if it might be any relevance to mention)