XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

Revoke my iddems card; I only just started seriously listening to Exai. Been playing it on long drives between cities! An immense work that I am still coming to grips with but 'Jatevee C', ho-ly shit... has Autechre ever sounded lusher than this?! I was driving through SF blaring this shit out my car window (looking for knowing nods from fellow autists on the street/in adjacent vehicles). Also, Bladelores... Right from the intro you know this is gonna be next-level shit. It actually reminds me of Jacquard Causeway in terms of the gradual pad build-up and clunking beat structure. The second disc I am barely scratching the surface on.

Once I have thoroughly imprinted this in my brain... time for Live sets and elseq!

  On 1/16/2018 at 1:07 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

Revoke my iddems card; I only just started seriously listening to Exai. Been playing it on long drives between cities! An immense work that I am still coming to grips with but 'Jatevee C', ho-ly shit... has Autechre ever sounded lusher than this?! I was driving through SF blaring this shit out my car window (looking for knowing nods from fellow autists on the street/in adjacent vehicles). Also, Bladelores... Right from the intro you know this is gonna be next-level shit. It actually reminds me of Jacquard Causeway in terms of the gradual pad build-up and clunking beat structure. The second disc I am barely scratching the surface on.

 

Once I have thoroughly imprinted this in my brain... time for Live sets and elseq!

I will keep your iddems card safe thanks

message me after you make it through elseq

im still coming to recks with oversteps. 

  On 1/16/2018 at 1:07 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

Revoke my iddems card; I only just started seriously listening to Exai. Been playing it on long drives between cities! An immense work that I am still coming to grips with but 'Jatevee C', ho-ly shit... has Autechre ever sounded lusher than this?! I was driving through SF blaring this shit out my car window (looking for knowing nods from fellow autists on the street/in adjacent vehicles). Also, Bladelores... Right from the intro you know this is gonna be next-level shit. It actually reminds me of Jacquard Causeway in terms of the gradual pad build-up and clunking beat structure. The second disc I am barely scratching the surface on.

 

Once I have thoroughly imprinted this in my brain... time for Live sets and elseq!

you have a bright future ahead of you

Bladelores is one of the best they've ever done.

  On 1/17/2018 at 12:00 AM, fumi said:

Bladelores is one of the best they've ever done.

It's one of the only Exai tracks that I come back to pretty often. This album still hasn't clicked yet.

And since they released Elseq, it feels to me as if every track from Exai sound muffled, lo-fi, and not in a pleasant way (although it blew my mind 4 years ago lol)

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  On 1/17/2018 at 12:40 AM, StocKo said:

 

  On 1/17/2018 at 12:00 AM, fumi said:

Bladelores is one of the best they've ever done.

 

It's one of the only Exai tracks that I come back to pretty often. This album still hasn't clicked yet.

And since they released Elseq, it feels to me as if every track from Exai sound muffled, lo-fi, and not in a pleasant way (although it blew my mind 4 years ago lol)

 

lol wut?

Complete 98998398918989812% opposite IMO.

fuck I think I need to listen to this album today

  On 1/17/2018 at 11:28 PM, modey said:

fuck I think I need to listen to this album today

lol

Lol very good

this album is pretty good yall

cloudline

lol when did it become radiator-baked?

My second fav behind Quaristice.

Still my most favourite ae release.

  On 8/1/2018 at 9:13 AM, Stickfigger said:

My least favourite Ae since chiastic ;(

'llow that.

Top 5 Autechre album imo.

  On 8/1/2018 at 9:54 AM, eclipsis said:

Still my most favourite ae release.

^^

This mother fucker has his balls safely secured in a nice, loving, nurturing environment...

Ready to explode everywhere with the power of Thor and Zeus and Jesus and the FSM and Buddah - all rolled into one - all over the face of some cum loving CD case... While EXAI is playing in the background.

And I'm right behind him, egging him on... Just hoping he'll whip it out, stick it in and hit 'play'...

=P

I love this album.

  On 8/1/2018 at 2:24 PM, Hk47 said:

 

  On 8/1/2018 at 9:54 AM, eclipsis said:

Still my most favourite ae release.

^^

This mother fucker has his balls safely secured in a nice, loving, nurturing environment...

Ready to explode everywhere with the power of Thor and Zeus and Jesus and the FSM and Buddah - all rolled into one - all over the face of some cum loving CD case... While EXAI is playing in the background.

And I'm right behind him, egging him on... Just hoping he'll whip it out, stick it in and hit 'play'...

 

=P

 

I love this album.

 

Haha, yeah, that sums it up pretty nicely :).

But seriously, I find Exai to be their most colourful album to date. It has everything I love about Autechre, there's not a single track I don't enjoy, it works great as a whole, the track lengths are optimal to properly capture the idea behind each track. The sound design here is very inspiring and somehow less clinical than on their other records, maybe because of the more apparent hint of nostalgia (some 808/909-esque percussion here and there), yet it doesn't sound retro at all. Also it's very melodic in a sense yet still very beat oriented. I just can't say anything bad about this record. Exai + L-event is my favourite Autechre era.

Remember when it came out and people were saying it was too long? LOL

lol

  On 8/1/2018 at 6:56 PM, jules said:

lol

  On 8/1/2018 at 6:42 PM, hello spiral said:

Remember when it came out and people were saying it was too long? LOL

It is. Works much better if chunked as a series of EPs like they mentioned was kind of the idea with it + L-Event. I can't 'deep listen' to anything for two hours (plus there's just a decent number of tracks that I don't much dig, but they're the exception, not the rule here). Even NTS sessions individually, though they 'work' chunked up as they are, are just a bit too much for me. Personal issue and take on it all, of course.

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