Exai bottom three

i strongly dislike etchogon, but love irlite. Fleure to irlite is a great stretch.

irlite is the best track on the entire album

Never cared much for Etchogon-S either lol.

With irlite it's mostly the beat that bugs me, how they don't subdivide it, it's just this tinny little snare hitting with obnoxious regularity amidst a bunch of chaos at an awkward tempo. The synths that play a melodic role remind me of Nuane which is cool, but the melodies are just more of that "bashing on the white keys" aesthetic of old Ae. I just think they could have taken this sound palette/concept and done something better with it. As a devoted fanboy I keep giving it another chance but it's not sticking.

Some day it will, dear Chogg, some day.

  On 3/16/2013 at 7:03 PM, Friendly Foil said:

irlite is the best track on the entire album

hands down. This track on drugs is fucking A. That moment where the bass suddenly becomes louder @7.39, announcing the final part is pretty cool. The only downside is that on my speakers, that track sounds a bit muddy basswise, whereas it's sounds just fine on headphones.

I guess the peeps that dislike irlite get 0. ; )

  On 3/17/2013 at 7:27 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

 

  On 3/16/2013 at 7:03 PM, Friendly Foil said:

irlite is the best track on the entire album

 

hands down. This track on drugs is fucking A. That moment where the bass suddenly becomes louder @7.39, announcing the final part is pretty cool. The only downside is that on my speakers, that track sounds a bit muddy basswise, whereas it's sounds just fine on headphones.

So it's not just my speakers that are set up wrong. The end to that track is hella boomy, compared to the rest of the album.

  On 3/17/2013 at 7:38 PM, Friendly Foil said:

 

  On 3/17/2013 at 7:27 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

 

  On 3/16/2013 at 7:03 PM, Friendly Foil said:

irlite is the best track on the entire album

 

hands down. This track on drugs is fucking A. That moment where the bass suddenly becomes louder @7.39, announcing the final part is pretty cool. The only downside is that on my speakers, that track sounds a bit muddy basswise, whereas it's sounds just fine on headphones.

So it's not just my speakers that are set up wrong. The end to that track is hella boomy, compared to the rest of the album.

Yeah, the bass frequencies tend to eat up mids and highs. As if that track had been mixed down on headphones.

The same goes for Flep, it lacks brightness on speakers but is fine on headphones.

irlite does get pretty boomy at the end, which is a little annoying since i think the rest of the track is quieter than all others on the album. maybe the dynamics of the surrounding tracks contribute to this, but pretty noticeable.

My bottom three:

tuinorizn
runrepik
spl9 (cool ending tho)

My top three:

irlite (get 0)
1 1 is
recks on

My three that got better over time:

bladelores
nodezsh
cloudline

Irlite (Get 0) is the only track that seems to carry over the melodic style of Oversteps. Really wish more tracks on the album sounded like this. Was listening to EP7 today and even the melodies on that are superior to most of Exai. Still see Exai as a missed opportunity to combine the oversteppy melodies with hard hitting beats.

my mom's favorite track is prac-f, she didn't seem impressed by the rest of the album overall. but when that track kicked in she said 'what is this, it's awesome'

  On 3/22/2013 at 4:53 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

Irlite (Get 0) is the only track that seems to carry over the melodic style of Oversteps. Really wish more tracks on the album sounded like this. Was listening to EP7 today and even the melodies on that are superior to most of Exai. Still see Exai as a missed opportunity to combine the oversteppy melodies with hard hitting beats.

 

my mom's favorite track is prac-f, she didn't seem impressed by the rest of the album overall. but when that track kicked in she said 'what is this, it's awesome'

Your Mom is pretty awesome then. I showed my Mom IO once and she screamed for me to shut it off like I was sticking a red hot poker into her eye.

she also owns her own CD copy of Windowlicker and a Trans Europe Express LP

My mum doesn't like ae she's a fucking noob I want to disown her

  On 3/22/2013 at 5:12 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 4:53 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

Irlite (Get 0) is the only track that seems to carry over the melodic style of Oversteps. Really wish more tracks on the album sounded like this. Was listening to EP7 today and even the melodies on that are superior to most of Exai. Still see Exai as a missed opportunity to combine the oversteppy melodies with hard hitting beats.

 

my mom's favorite track is prac-f, she didn't seem impressed by the rest of the album overall. but when that track kicked in she said 'what is this, it's awesome'

 

Your Mom is pretty awesome then. I showed my Mom IO once and she screamed for me to shut it off like I was sticking a red hot poker into her eye.

your introduce-mom-to-ae track was IO?

  On 3/22/2013 at 4:48 PM, theSun said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 5:12 AM, thehauntingsoul said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 4:53 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

Irlite (Get 0) is the only track that seems to carry over the melodic style of Oversteps. Really wish more tracks on the album sounded like this. Was listening to EP7 today and even the melodies on that are superior to most of Exai. Still see Exai as a missed opportunity to combine the oversteppy melodies with hard hitting beats.

 

my mom's favorite track is prac-f, she didn't seem impressed by the rest of the album overall. but when that track kicked in she said 'what is this, it's awesome'

 

Your Mom is pretty awesome then. I showed my Mom IO once and she screamed for me to shut it off like I was sticking a red hot poker into her eye.

your introduce-mom-to-ae track was IO?

To be fair, the objective was completed successfully

"Introducing mum to Ae" almost deserves its own thread.

Never really tried it myself, but tracks I'd consider would be Silverside (Amber), Pule (Chiastic Slide), Corc (LP5), Known (1), See On See, and Treale (Oversteps), and Bladelores & Nodezsh (Exai).

irlite (get 0) just takes a bit to warm up. I almost immediately hated it upon first listen.

lol @ "introducing mum to ae" thread

My mum loves autechre!


PS Still don't like irlite

even the end? do you like the untilted/quaristice live sets

Also when I get around to ordering Amber on vinyl I plan to lend it to my Dad and get him to listen to it some time.

Exai has now had some time to sink in and been put a bit in perspective by L-Event

Any changes in likes/dislikes, opinions of Exai tracks?

bottom 3:

spl9

deco Loc

YJY UX

YJY UX

Fleure (although I like it more now, always skipped it at first)

runrepik

Sometimes I like these tracks though, it's not like other releases where I just never listen to them and take out some tracks form the albums to make room on my MP3 player.

Which says a lot considering the size of the album.

I just dislike the beat on runrepik, and that terrible noise on Fleure although the other stuff is very nice, YJY UX has some nice bits but is a bit of a borefest.

I hope YJY and spl9 grow on you guys eventually, I love those tracks so much. spl is my favorite right now. At first I liked the end and found the rest daunting, but now it's the other way around - the end has lost some of its punch but I find the whole midsection to be really masterful. The way the reverb swells in and changes the track's whole sense of space at 3:20 is just gorgeous. There's so much going on in this track.

Irlite I had trouble with initially but it's grown on me a lot - I agree it's the most Oversteps-ish track on the album, with those elusive fluttering melodies that sink in more over time.

Hard to pick least favorites, but I'd say Fleure is still not clicking with me and jatavee has lost its initial charm and now gets skipped often.

spl9 is bangin', I love the midsection too, the triple beat, the variation in the "melody" and that bit where the bass note hits loud.