XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

  On 8/2/2018 at 9:36 PM, tneuvm said:

^ Yeah.

 

"Their new stuff is just loose, unedited jams" is the 2010s equivalent of "their new stuff is just pressing play on a random note generator" in the 2000s. If you look back in this thread you'll see the exact same criticisms thrown at Exai--except that I guess now everyone's realized that it's actually ridiculously detailed/deliberate?

 

I do think their newer material tends to have fewer discrete layers than on Draft, Untilted, etc. though. Now the complexity is more embedded in the sound design itself. I think they said in the AAA that the boundary between sound design and sequencing was kind of gone for them. So you have tracks like c7b2 or mesh cinereal where it's hard to mentally divide things into separate layers sound, but where there's actually a ton of crazy shit going on--or c16 deep tread where there's seemingly very few layers but lot of richness and morphology in many of the sounds.

 

Anyways that's my longwinded way of saying that their newer works (at least elseq, I haven't listened to nts much yet tbh) very much feel like "legitimate" releases to me.

yeah

  On 8/2/2018 at 9:36 PM, tneuvm said:

^ Yeah.

 

"Their new stuff is just loose, unedited jams" is the 2010s equivalent of "their new stuff is just pressing play on a random note generator" in the 2000s. If you look back in this thread you'll see the exact same criticisms thrown at Exai--except that I guess now everyone's realized that it's actually ridiculously detailed/deliberate?

 

I do think their newer material tends to have fewer discrete layers than on Draft, Untilted, etc. though. Now the complexity is more embedded in the sound design itself. I think they said in the AAA that the boundary between sound design and sequencing was kind of gone for them. So you have tracks like c7b2 or mesh cinereal where it's hard to mentally divide things into separate layers sound, but where there's actually a ton of crazy shit going on--or c16 deep tread where there's seemingly very few layers but lot of richness and morphology in many of the sounds.

 

Anyways that's my longwinded way of saying that their newer works (at least elseq, I haven't listened to nts much yet tbh) very much feel like "legitimate" releases to me.

I agree with you completely. I don't really care how a track is made - and I think we can't really know how AE produces his stuff. There is some subtle change of sound and structures in the newer stuff, but I don't think that would mean lesser quality. This change is very hard to grasp, and I mostly think it's based only on a different approach on musical time. Not just that the tracks are longer: that's only the result. But how to build up stuff, how to fill time. To be able to create miniatures: composing short peaces with a lot of stuff going on is not much harder than composing elaborate peaces that fill more time with musical material. Autechre was not only exploring sounds ever since, but exploring compositional methods too. Just like they tried to make rhythmically complex pieces without drums (Oversteps).

So. Elseq and NTS sound perhaps different as Draft but that's not bad. That's necessery. That's good. That's Autechre.

=D

 

**Cartman voice**

I love you guys.

  On 8/3/2018 at 3:02 AM, auxien said:

^I'm sure it's not just the two of us jader…maybe others will stand up and show themselves bravely.

 

I love every song on both discs.

This was the album that got me back into AE after Untilted. I didn't really click with Quaristice or Oversteps until about a year after EXAI was released.

It made me fall in love with them all over again.

For a few years this was my favorite Autechre album, and I have great memories with every single track.

=P

I'm still not into fleure that much, I still think it sounds like the kind of FFT/spectral weirdness stuff that I was doing in 2002.. mixed with that nautilis track also from 2002

  On 8/3/2018 at 2:34 AM, jaderpansen said:

 

  On 8/3/2018 at 1:20 AM, auxien said:

T ess xi

with you on that one.

i love T ess xi. i rmember the first time i listened to exai I waa playing super loud while driving on backwoods roads and the way the melody tranforms into that repeating otherworldly shimmering harmony was one of those burning bush moments

yjy ux is stil my fav

Listened to Exai yesterday. First time in a while. Been stuck in elseq and NTS land. Exai is so fucking good.

 

 

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I listened to it on friday. First time to the japanese version, with 9 tracks on each CD. I felt it more complete: YJY UX is an epic closer, with a great sense of a finale, but I feel at this length is good, if the album has a postlude to calm down, an to reflect to all that happended: and 18 (keyosc) just does this excellently. Such a great album.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Chabraendeky

Exai is awesome, and was soooo underrated by many people at first... Since "Exai" AE music takes again more time to be fully appreciated.

Elseq is awesome too...and NTS Sessions too. :beer:

Edited August 21, 2018 by Pholant

  On 3/9/2019 at 11:16 AM, cear said:

 

 

so like keyosc as much as others?! 

  On 8/21/2018 at 12:58 PM, Pholant said:

Exai is awesome, and was soooo underrated by many people at first... Since "Exai" AE music takes again more time to be fully appreciated.

Elseq is awesome too...and NTS Sessions too. :beer:

don't forget L-event! tac lacora is probs my most listened to ae track by now.. it is so intense

 

who knew fart noises could evoke such emotions?

I remember when this came out and it felt like a huge album that I would be listening over and over again to be able to take it fully in. Oh, those sweet days of innocence.

Haha so true, felt like we had a a year's worth of fantastic material to familiarise ourselves with...and that it was and plenty.

 

Whereas now it is a mere NTS Session in length, a good ol' compact studio album.

Thread titles have just been handed a new set of parameters.

lol

  On 9/22/2012 at 4:22 PM, modey said:

What about 30 really fucking long tracks? An album that goes for 10 hours?

 

 

lol

holy lol

  On 3/11/2019 at 4:12 AM, bitchroast said:

 

  On 9/22/2012 at 4:22 PM, modey said:

What about 30 really fucking long tracks? An album that goes for 10 hours?

 

lol

 

 

 

10

 

 

 hours... you.. '

 

 

say.y.y.y..y

 

 

Thank you modey for willing NTS Sessions into existence back in 2012.

I do wonder sometimes how much threads on watmm influence the artist's output.

I've been reading the Oversteps thread during slow periods at work (seeing as that album will be 10 in less than a year's time ) and there was a lot of talk about if the upcoming 2010 livesets will be anything like Oversteps and how neat it would be if they're more freeform and sparser on the beats.

Makes you wonder if R&S read that and said "huh, might be interesting" and then finally got around to it in 2016.

  On 3/11/2019 at 4:12 AM, bitchroast said:

 

  On 9/22/2012 at 4:22 PM, modey said:

What about 30 really fucking long tracks? An album that goes for 10 hours?

 

lol

 

lol

  On 3/11/2019 at 7:44 AM, hello spiral said:

 

I've been reading the Oversteps thread during slow periods at work (seeing as that album will be 10 in less than a year's time )

 

10 years already... it hurts !