XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

I always turn the sound up when recks on comes on, then do a little dance or crazed head-nodding.

I still don't get cloudline. I don't know what I think of it. Everything in the track seems to clash in a really weird way. I just... dunno. If I'm in the right mood I love it. I think this one will take longer to open up for me.

I guess it's a bit like Eidetic Casein where you get this light, airy, almost silly sort of track in the midst of a dark menacing album, and the juxtaposition is confusing.

  On 10/25/2013 at 10:20 PM, Boxus said:

I still don't get cloudline. I don't know what I think of it. Everything in the track seems to clash in a really weird way. I just... dunno. If I'm in the right mood I love it. I think this one will take longer to open up for me.

 

I guess it's a bit like Eidetic Casein where you get this light, airy, almost silly sort of track in the midst of a dark menacing album, and the juxtaposition is confusing.

it's like autobahn but they are stuck in a car in a traffic jam in the future with acid rain melting the windscreen wipers and drones and shit flying over

they are also very high

lol

yeah, I'm very on the fence about cloudline. But it definitely is a high-as-fuck sounding track

that part @ 5.06 -- quite daft

  On 10/26/2013 at 6:47 PM, Alcofribas said:

that part @ 5.06 -- quite daft

Haha!

that bit at 5.06 just kills me

How had I not heard keyosc until now?? Amazing track.

This album is only improving as time goes on, still quite possibly my favorite of 2013

  On 10/28/2013 at 10:30 AM, David Bowman said:

This album is only improving as time goes on, still quite possibly my favorite of 2013

My second fave after overgrown

(sent from my not-Apple device using Talk That Talk Deluxe Edition)

I can make a fake that sounds nothing like Autechre too :D

  On 10/28/2013 at 2:19 PM, oscillik said:

I can make a fake that sounds nothing like Autechre too :D

  On 10/28/2013 at 2:19 PM, oscillik said:

I can make a fake that sounds nothing like Autechre too :D

Edit: No homo, bro.

Cloud line is the best track on Exai. The Dmitri's get it.

  On 10/29/2013 at 1:14 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 10/28/2013 at 2:19 PM, oscillik said:

I can make a fake that sounds nothing like Autechre too :D

 

Edit: No homo, bro.

 

stephenGay

even though I assume fake..it is still pretty decent If I am honest

  On 10/30/2013 at 12:28 PM, Rulohead32 said:

 

  On 10/29/2013 at 1:14 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 10/28/2013 at 2:19 PM, oscillik said:

I can make a fake that sounds nothing like Autechre too :D

 

Edit: No homo, bro.

 

stephenGay

 

Very Astute.

to me exai is all about yjy ux lately

  On 10/30/2013 at 1:24 AM, Joseph said:

Cloud line is the best track on Exai. The Dmitri's get it.

Correct. Dmitri?

fucking awesome username

  On 10/25/2013 at 8:20 AM, Wurstwasser said:

ANNOUNCEMENT:

cloudline is the best track on Exai. It's just so funky, lush and super super cool. Best part is maybe starting a minute before snares clock in at somewhere 6:00... The use of gaps and out-of-order beats as in 7:19 is just masterfully. <eom></thread>

Ha!

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You guys just have to trust in the wisdom of the Dmitris obviously.

  On 11/6/2013 at 8:42 AM, Wurstwasser said:

 

  On 10/25/2013 at 8:20 AM, Wurstwasser said:

ANNOUNCEMENT:

cloudline is the best track on Exai. It's just so funky, lush and super super cool. Best part is maybe starting a minute before snares clock in at somewhere 6:00... The use of gaps and out-of-order beats as in 7:19 is just masterfully. <eom></thread>

 

Ha!

 

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You guys just have to trust in the wisdom of the Dmitris obviously.

 

said the dude that doesn't like quaristice

  On 11/7/2013 at 2:33 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

  On 11/6/2013 at 8:42 AM, Wurstwasser said:

 

  On 10/25/2013 at 8:20 AM, Wurstwasser said:

ANNOUNCEMENT:

cloudline is the best track on Exai. It's just so funky, lush and super super cool. Best part is maybe starting a minute before snares clock in at somewhere 6:00... The use of gaps and out-of-order beats as in 7:19 is just masterfully. <eom></thread>

 

Ha!

 

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You guys just have to trust in the wisdom of the Dmitris obviously.

 

said the dude that doesn't like quaristice

 

IO (mons) today gave me the feeling that I should give the Q world another chance.

  On 11/7/2013 at 6:22 PM, Wurstwasser said:

 

  On 11/7/2013 at 2:33 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

  On 11/6/2013 at 8:42 AM, Wurstwasser said:

 

  On 10/25/2013 at 8:20 AM, Wurstwasser said:

ANNOUNCEMENT:

cloudline is the best track on Exai. It's just so funky, lush and super super cool. Best part is maybe starting a minute before snares clock in at somewhere 6:00... The use of gaps and out-of-order beats as in 7:19 is just masterfully. <eom></thread>

 

Ha!

 

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Bread: "What is your favourite track from Exai?" sean "currently cloudline"

 

 

You guys just have to trust in the wisdom of the Dmitris obviously.

 

said the dude that doesn't like quaristice

 

 

IO (mons) today gave me the feeling that I should give the Q world another chance.

 

yes!!!

Draft is a funny one. I found it instantly accessible, but it has never blown me away as a whole like several other ae LPs. To me it's similar to Quaristice, liked both from Day 1 but not in my top handful of ae albums.

I've used Exai so much this year as essay background music, that I kind of need to give it a break for a while. That said, the stretch from Bladelores through to the opening of Recks On is really great.

CD1 to me is like a single piece almost. CD2 is more like a traditional ae album, with fully formed tracks, but it's beautiful. Sort of like the next gen son of Tri Repetae. A few of the tracks have an extended outro sound to them as well on CD2.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the sound palette. To me it mixes a lot of mothy bass, clunks and buzz with a lot of high pitched squeaking. It feels like an insect album to me (with irlite being the centrepiece, the lifecycle of a moth of may fly). Kind of like the love child of Iera, Fermium and The Trees, as its not as evil insect as Iera, but it certainly has a microscopic world feel to it.

Exai is an insect album, but not in an obvious way like Iera or something like the video of Basscadet. Exai lives in the wet, muddy habitat of dragonflies, it's more about insect life than insect politics.