AE album genres

With most AE releases they seem to each fit into a sort of segment of various genre based categories

Incunabula, Amber

-Oldschool braindance

Anti EP, Anvil Vapre, Garbage, Tri Repetae

-A bit more intricate and ambient oldschool braindance

Chistic Slide, Cichlisuite, Envane

-Far more intricate and moving away from danceability

LP5, ep7, Peel Session 1 & 2

-More texturally and rhythmically intricate extension of preceding genre

Confield

-Metallic coldness

Gantz Graf

-Metalic WTFness, similar to Peel Sessions

Draft 7.30

-Maximum textural depth in catalog

Untilted

-Maximum percussive depth in catalog

Quaristice

-Maximum ambient depth in catalog. Short liveset-like snippets

Oversteps

-Metallic but melodic ambient. New take on ambience different from Quaristice

Move of Ten

-Wooden or plastic I think. Like Confield but reversing the percussion and ambience/melodies' roles

Exai

-I really have no idea what Exai is.

L-event

-Same as Exai

Is Exai actually an outlier here without a more concrete genre based identification or is it just that we need more time to look backwards at what it represents in relationship to the AE catalog?

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

Auteche make music albumz

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:35 AM, lumpenprol said:

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

Whatever

General types of sound pallets used in the albums

Exai seems a mish mash

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:35 AM, lumpenprol said:

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

  On 12/31/2013 at 6:33 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:35 AM, lumpenprol said:

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

Whatever

 

General types of sound pallets used in the albums

 

Exai seems a mish mash

 

this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction

Personally I see cichlisuite having more in common with LP5 than chiastic, regardless of the source material.

  On 12/31/2013 at 4:47 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

Exai

-I really have no idea what Exai is.

 

 

Is Exai actually an outlier here without a more concrete genre based identification or is it just that we need more time to look backwards at what it represents in relationship to the AE catalog?

exai gives me a similar feeling to the one i used to get in gradeschool when entering the gym class parachute. once an album starts reaching into those sorts of feelings it becomes less appopriate to give it a genre. you can really loose your gravity in it. its genre is:exai

I get a heavy Progressive Dreamfunk vibe off of Oversteps

And Chastic Slide is pure liquide-percussive Goocore, I mean come on

LP5 And Draft 7.30 have some heavy hip hop vibes. And Cichli and Confield have some industrial vibes.

I think discussing genres is a bit meh really.

Exai sounds as Exai, that's all.

My first post about Exai was something along the lines of this:

First impression: "This is a lot of messy FM with aggressive Hi Passing"

Second impression: "This is funky as shit!"

I think that sums up Exai's genre about as well as any short statement will. Of course, there's a lot more to Exai, but it would take more words to describe.

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:04 PM, MIXL2 said:

I think discussing genres is a bit meh really.

 

Exai sounds as Exai, that's all.

this thread is retarded

  On 12/31/2013 at 4:47 AM, Zeffolia said:

With most AE releases they seem to each fit into a sort of segment of various genre based categories

 

Incunabula, Amber

-Oldschool braindance

 

Anti EP, Anvil Vapre, Garbage, Tri Repetae

-A bit more intricate and ambient oldschool braindance

 

Chistic Slide, Cichlisuite, Envane

-Far more intricate and moving away from danceability

 

LP5, ep7, Peel Session 1 & 2

-More texturally and rhythmically intricate extension of preceding genre

 

Confield

-Metallic coldness

 

Gantz Graf

-Metalic WTFness, similar to Peel Sessions

 

Draft 7.30

-Maximum textural depth in catalog

 

Untilted

-Maximum percussive depth in catalog

 

Quaristice

-Maximum ambient depth in catalog. Short liveset-like snippets

 

Oversteps

-Metallic but melodic ambient. New take on ambience different from Quaristice

 

Move of Ten

-Wooden or plastic I think. Like Confield but reversing the percussion and ambience/melodies' roles

 

Exai

-I really have no idea what Exai is.

 

L-event

-Same as Exai

 

Is Exai actually an outlier here without a more concrete genre based identification or is it just that we need more time to look backwards at what it represents in relationship to the AE catalog?

Although the lumping together of albums and defining of their sound genres will ultimately be a subjective decision, Autechres catalogue generally does seem to follow the pattern of how you outline them here.

Interesting take on Confield/MoT relation, not seen that one before!

In regard to Exai I'm still a bit confused too. There is a sense of over indulgence in the sheer amount of music (maybe would have been better had they released Exai as four EP's instead). Also Exai seems like it's about indulgence over innovation. Despite all its hard hitting sounds and bravado, it never really sounds groundbreaking (within the world of AE) IMO the last time they sounded groundbreaking was with Oversteps.

Incunabula - Rock

Amber - Fusion Jazz

Tri Repetae - Ska

Chiastic Slide - Witch-House

LP5 - Minimal Techno / Country

Confield - Instrumental

Draft 7.30 - World-Music

Untilted - Heavy Metal / Rap / Classical

Quaristice - Emocore / Acapella

Oversteps - Easy Listening

Exai - Bro-Step

  On 12/31/2013 at 7:42 AM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 6:33 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:35 AM, lumpenprol said:

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

Whatever

 

General types of sound pallets used in the albums

 

Exai seems a mish mash

 

 

this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction

 

I've been tempted to make this goofy-ass joke every time I see that word misused but I puss out each time. kudos, ya went there.

  On 1/1/2014 at 10:03 PM, usagi said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 7:42 AM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 6:33 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:35 AM, lumpenprol said:

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

Whatever

 

General types of sound pallets used in the albums

 

Exai seems a mish mash

 

 

this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction

 

 

I've been tempted to make this goofy-ass joke every time I see that word misused but I puss out each time. kudos, ya went there.

 

Fuck all y'all, this is international forum biatch muthafucka shieeet daaaayumn.

  On 1/1/2014 at 10:20 PM, Amen Lare said:

 

  On 1/1/2014 at 10:03 PM, usagi said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 7:42 AM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 6:33 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

  On 12/31/2013 at 5:35 AM, lumpenprol said:

your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance".

Whatever

 

General types of sound pallets used in the albums

 

Exai seems a mish mash

 

 

this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction

 

 

I've been tempted to make this goofy-ass joke every time I see that word misused but I puss out each time. kudos, ya went there.

 

 

Fuck all y'all, this is international forum biatch muthafucka shieeet daaaayumn.

 

What I'm saying is in most releases all the tracks seem to have some similar feature in their style or composition. Confield is cold and metallic. Draft is texturally rich and warm. Quaristice is squelchy and ambient

Exai doesn't seem to have that from what I can tell

Is this really hard to comprehend lol

It's pretty subjective though. I think Confield is far from cold and metallic; it's like an alien organism or something.

  On 1/2/2014 at 5:16 AM, modey said:

it's like an alien orgasm or something.

  On 1/2/2014 at 5:16 AM, modey said:

It's pretty subjective though. I think Confield is far from cold and metallic; it's like an alien organism or something.

Yes, but it's something

Exai doesn't seem to have one consistent sound palette* from what I can hear. Can anyone else find one?