Autechre Exai

https://docs.google....p=sharing#gid=0

member "jasondonervan" has been compiling it.

errr, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alpd5T07zNgAdFZHaEFjOWZTVWN0T0hIUXdMS0dPNVE&usp=sharing#gid=0

sweet, thanks!

Gantz Graf being recorded before EP7 is the most o_O thing for me so far. I've generally bought into the theory of progression (not necessarily linear) between their releases, this kind of blows that out the water, or at least demonstrates how much the preconceptions you bring to a piece of music affect how you hear it.

I thought they said it was recorded before EP7 was ~released~?

What do you think about the all the hip-hop that has been getting a alot of
people have been talking (hudson mohawke, drake, asap, kendrick, odd future
etc)? do you like any of it? Basically I would be interested to hear a new hiphop
song you like (if any)!

most surprising to me was where sean states that ~2/3 of their released material is solo tracks by either member

I thought they said it was recorded before EP7 was ~released~?

ok, still throws the conventional timeline out of whack tho.

Sean pls, any light you can shed on this Boards of Canada interview quote:

"We were in Germany with Autechre and we were all pissed off 'cos we hadn't been provided with a trailer. Sean from Autechre broke into someone else's trailer and stole loads of champagne, distributed them to everyone then got so plastered that he rugby-tackled a certain electronic artist into the mud!"

yeah it was really muddy, like insanely muddy, and i was already somehow covered in mud, and i was really beyond drunk at that point cos we didn't have to play (our tent was flooded and cancelled) and i had already downed a couple of bottles of champagne - i thought it would be a really good idea to try and push mike paradinas into the mud (he seemed to be really concerned about getting any mud on him at all). anyway it failed and i ended up face down in a load of mud next to him, but he got pissed off about getting some mud on his wrist, so I WIN

Have you guys noticed how the first tracks on several of your albums (probably
all) sound like boats, ships, seas, water, pirates, wooden decks, sailing and
basically evoking an overall nautical theme of adventure on the high seas? A
classic example of this being Xylin Room?

reads like something dog latin would say

Quite enjoyed bits of that then it did my head in.

Haha haha! Nilmar, otm xylin room is totes a pirate ship tune.

Wasn't me btw.

o u mad cuz i'm xylin on u

SO I only went and interviewed Ae about their latest work. And not a pirate ship in sight: http://thequietus.com/articles/13899-autechre-interview-exai-l-event

great read, thanks dude

Gantz Graf being recorded before EP7 is the most o_O thing for me so far.

I can definitely see it. Gantz Graf always sounded like LP5 outtakes to me!

thanks cheeseburger

I like how accessible a group I always found mysterious made themselves, but they both kind of went heavy on internet-speak/phraseology. It spooks me a bit. Do you think they hang out on /mu?

that was a good interview. I think this is true for most music but it is a little ridiculous for 90% of the critical consensus on your album to happen in the first two weeks, isn't it?

Yup. I'm still getting my head around Confield and I've had that album longer than I've known a lot of my best friends.

btw didn't they say in the WATMM thread that they were surprised by Confield's reception? didn't see it as a big break? that seems crazy to me.

xpost i guess that's one of the good things about EOY lists. they add a bit of perspective in some respects.

good work dog latin

thanks all <3

no mention of this?:

https://bleep.com/release/49321-oberman-knocks-dilankex-ep-inc-autechre-remix

http://www.factmag.com/2013/11/21/autechre-remix-oberman-knocks-dliankex-for-new-12/

it's fuckin nice.. haven't heard the original track, but the remix starts out dry, tactile, not unlike "tac lacora," but more spare, getting more packed and elastic as it progresses, w/tendrils of melody gradually forming. hearing traces of quaristice (fractured, jagged wafts of reverberating sounds) and untilted (spidery, "iera"-like skitter) in here. honed, ear-rubbing brain chisel, 17 minutes worth.

tom ravenscroft played the whole thing on his show on friday (6music).

I've been playing Oversteps a lot recently. A lot of easy, rich, satisfying textures on that one, like Tri Rep-era simple pleasures. Dug out Confield last week and it didn't do much for me beyond track 1. Haven't listened to Exai for months. But they're all still there and I know I'll get something out of them at some point. Chiastic Slide got loads of play at the start of the year.

Got a lot of time for Exai and I don't think it suffers from being a double album. The whole thing is pretty solid.

Slightly obsessed with the noise barrage that is 'spl9'. Just when you think it can't get any heavier, it changes direction again for a final 90 secs of extreme noise terror. I love it. God knows what any of my family thought if they heard me listening to it. One for the headphones methinks.

Oversteps is a billowy beaut, especially in the context of Exai, which feels brittle and contained (direct) in comparison.

Spl9 is a stormer, y'ain't wrong.

YJY UX is a top tenner... percussion all fleshy and water-logged, melodies comprised of neon vapor clouds w/pixel-y cascades of matter. reminds me of the luminescent, nutrient-rich water in TRON, and the sort of synaesthetic sensations you get from drinking it. shit's hella tactile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ84hKQPTAA

SYptixed from the new Bleep10 compilation

emo for ostracized autobots

exai still hitting the spot. disk 2, with its hard, dark kicks and the brittle-ass trashcan snare of nodezsh. runrepik is kinda skippable/goofball

appreciating this album heavily rn for some reason

very groovy. dope beats. totally epic. off the hook, bros. whats that weird smell oh well.

This record is a masterpiece really. I'd say their crowning achievement but by no means an instant classic. more like a tapestry which will hopefully be disinterred in years to come and held up as an example of sheer human achievement.

it really warmed up Oversteps for me, listening to that more nowadays.. still finding Exai a bit unwieldy, sorta big and knotty with a few weak tracks. I suppose that's how all their albums are. the flow of disk 2 feels pretty inconsistent, though it's got its fantastic parts. still sounds alien as ever, pretty much like nobody else. Draft 7.3 is still shaping up as a favorite.

can't get with runrepik, or T ess xi.

t ess xi is one of their prettiest tracks though!!

the beat kinda fucks it for me, and there's an icy sort of mini-stab that occurs with the rhythm that further fucks the beat for me. the background ambiance sure is nice, though. a similar track might be qplay, on oversteps. again, very pretty vapors/pads, but i find more interesting spaces in it. there's a lot of negative space to the beat. t ess xi feels locked up/rigid in comparison.

oversteps felt like an instant classic for me. won me back over to them again after having lost my faith somewhat. It's sort of a thing now among ae fans that you get into the one you heard before their latest one. In that respect I'm really starting to appreciate the draft/untilted era a lot more than I did before.

oversteps felt like a *big* change to me, after falling for a couple fakes (the Altered: Carbon album, mainly), it finally leaked it, and it sounded very fresh (and massive) compared to their previous work. i kinda tired of the noodly-ness of tracks like see on see, and the repetitiousness of the Treale beat, but returning to it, it's quite enveloping. On the whole, a classic for sure.

irlite (get 0) recalls Oversteps, with its excess of 'musical' notes, and that synthetic reverb. i definitely crave more tracks like that -- the dreamy, neon gaseous notes-suspended-in-air quality of Oversteps, with looser percussion.

too many notes

i think what's happening is that i'm listening to this album like it's progressive rock or something and suddenly it's working for me.

disc 2 is definitely hairier but i feel like it has the most striking stuff, spl9 cloudline and yxy ux or w/e

successful and/or fresh stuff i mean

shh don't say prog LJ will come and do a track by track comparison with "tales from topographic oceans"