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Group 1
Untitled
Confield
Group 2
Amber
Chiastic Slide
Group 3
Quaristice
Draft 7:30
Exai (veeeeery premature, just feel its nestled in this group)
Group 4
Tri Repetae
Oversteps
Group 5
LP5
(Still dont own Incunabula, but love the track Kalpol Intro)
Still pretty much the same deal for me;
1. Untilted
2. Confield
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3. Amber
4. Chiastic Slide
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5. Exai
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6. Quaristice
7. Draft 7:30
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8. Tri Repetae
9. Oversteps
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10. LP5
Still yet to listen to Incunabula. Saving it for when the in-between-ae-releases pangs start hitting hard.
Not a lot has changed I guess, except that Exai has consolidated itself in outright 5th for me. All are great, in fact, Oversteps isn't far outside my top 100 favourite albums, and comes in 9th here. LP5 comes last because it just hasn't left much of an LP impression on me to date. I've had it for 3.5 years, listened a couple times, but it hasn't really spoken to me yet as a whole piece. Still some excellent tracks though.
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Amber was my entry point to ae, and I'd still have it in my top 3 (marginally over Chiastic Slide, and behind Untilted & Confield).
I still regularly play the Nine-Further-Yulquen sequence, it's a great chill sequence just after a work out. When you add on Piezo & Nil around that, it's surely one of the best sequences in their discography. Amber has a great 1-2 opening as well, but we kind of expect that from them.
The only notable issue I have with Amber is that I never was convinced by Teartear. To me, it is a try hard, darker closer. On other ae albums, that sort of track is fine, but it sticks out like a sore thumb on Amber. Okay track in its own right, but in the context of Amber I don't like it's inclusion a great deal. I usually stop the album about half way through Teartear.
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Draft is a funny one. I found it instantly accessible, but it has never blown me away as a whole like several other ae LPs. To me it's similar to Quaristice, liked both from Day 1 but not in my top handful of ae albums.
I've used Exai so much this year as essay background music, that I kind of need to give it a break for a while. That said, the stretch from Bladelores through to the opening of Recks On is really great.
CD1 to me is like a single piece almost. CD2 is more like a traditional ae album, with fully formed tracks, but it's beautiful. Sort of like the next gen son of Tri Repetae. A few of the tracks have an extended outro sound to them as well on CD2.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the sound palette. To me it mixes a lot of mothy bass, clunks and buzz with a lot of high pitched squeaking. It feels like an insect album to me (with irlite being the centrepiece, the lifecycle of a moth of may fly). Kind of like the love child of Iera, Fermium and The Trees, as its not as evil insect as Iera, but it certainly has a microscopic world feel to it.
Exai is an insect album, but not in an obvious way like Iera or something like the video of Basscadet. Exai lives in the wet, muddy habitat of dragonflies, it's more about insect life than insect politics.
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Mine arrived on Wednesday (Australia).
Digging it a lot. The first 3 tracks is a great sequence, all great in their own right.
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I always get this religious recitation ritual feel from deco loc. Thats the vibe I get from the vocals.
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LCC really defines the album you are about to listen to. Another great opener and acclimatiser. If you love LCC, you love Untilted.
It's amazing that in all this talk, tracks like Foil, Cipater & Altibzz still havent been mentioned. Ae just nail it almost every time.
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FYI Aussies
My CD (from Bleep) just arrived in the mail today (Canberra). Im guessing the sizeable Melbournian contingent should be getting their packages as well, seems like a lot of non-UK countries are getting today (atleast in major cities).
By the way, just have the CD playing atm on my lamo DVD player, speakers arent great, but it still sounds rather awesome. Pleasantly suprised. Havent tried the car yet.
Also, due to the 2xCD format, I can see CD1 getting a little more physical love.
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Yep, apparently JB released it today in Australia.
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An attempt, without listening. This is a rough estimate at my favourite track from each album in chronological order.
Kalpol Intro
Further
Overand
Cipater
Rae
Cfern
Surripere
Ipacial Section
Altibzz
Treale
Irlite (get 0)
Doubt it works, if I was making an album, tracks 2-3 would not be Further & Overand lol. Sort of starts off reeeeally mellow for the first 20 minutes or so, Cipater-Ipacial Section increasingly ups the ante, and then chills a little before funking if up with Treale and Irlite.
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I love Exai, I just hope after 20, 14 & 17 track LPs that the next one is a bit different (<10).
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Quaristice is dope up until the end of Rale, great flow. After that, still awesome, but more forgettable and all over the shop.
Quaristice is smack bang in the middle of their discog imo. not their best and not their worst.
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yeah I listened to oversteps again last night and was reminded how much I liked it. More than Exai I think. BUT. There is something very unique about Exai, it sounds like one big long song almost. Oversteps still has the very traditional song-song-song structure. But Exai feels more like a living organic beast that flows along. Imo. Still if I was going to make an "Ae best mixtape" I think several tracks from Oversteps would make it on, but maybe none from Exai (possibly irlite I guess). I'm not sure it holds up on a track-by-track analysis.
Largely agree with this post.
Exai to me feels 'genuine' and real, despite its alien atmospheres. It has a similar soul to Confield actually. Oversteps is beautiful, but does have that traditional structure which makes it feel comparitively plastic.
But as for standalone tracks that work outside Exai, that is where the side effects of such an approach are felt.
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Group 1
Untitled
Confield
Group 2
Amber
Chiastic Slide
Group 3
Quaristice
Draft 7:30
Exai (veeeeery premature, just feel its nestled in this group)
Group 4
Tri Repetae
Oversteps
Group 5
LP5
(Still dont own Incunabula, but love the track Kalpol Intro)
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Cant get enough of it at the moment.
Dont know where it ranks amongst their work just yet, but its already one of the best 2+ hour albums I've ever heard. The time flies by, a very detailed atmospheric albumy world.
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spending a lot of time with Flep atm. Feels like watching a faster-than-light particle carve some kind of beautiful alien structure into the space around me whilst I sit in the middle in awe.
Finally some Flep love! Its the most immediate track on the album imo.
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For those that are complaining about the last 3 albums, it's probably to do with number of songs.
As album listeners, a lot of us are drilled into thinking that a classic album needs like 7-12 songs. 5 or 14 at the most extreme. So when a trio of albums come along with 20, 14 & 17 tracks respectively, It can be a lot for some mere mortals to take in. Especially given the 2 hour running time.
Really liking Exai so far, it's another beast in itself yet again.
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Oh yes! After working on my assignments all day, I just found out about the new 2 hour release from my favourite music act. Hella yes! If that's my valentine's day, I'll take it!
It's taking forever to download but oh well., I'll try and have an initial listen or two before looking at this thread.
(I was working 12 hour shifts over the weekend, only found out now).
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Spl9 also starts with S like Sublimit & Surripere, so maybe the centrepiece? I get better vibes from runrepik though.
So i'm guessing the start (1st Vinyl) is mainly quaristice/oversteps like, with short-ish tracks. But the middle 50% of the album (or the rest) will be long loud lovely lushness.
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So it looks like the 3rd vinyl only has about 3 tracks on it. Should we assume them to be the epic beast tracks? (track 11-13)
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Lol, just had an image of HAL9000 talking over a beat for the new AE LP.
Tracklisting;
1. Foolproof and incapable of error
2. Knight takes Bishop. Mate.
3. Dr Hunter
4. AE35
5. Human error
6. I could see your lips move
7. Take a stress pill
8. I can feel it
9. Daisy
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Early February 2013
Pitchfork ae review
Aeleven - 7.7
It's also coming up to 20 years since their 1st album Incunabula was released (Nov 93)
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no one ever really mentions Xylin Room. to me it's one of the best tracks on that album, and one of their best openers.
Ae open all their albums perfectly, and Draft is no exception. The first two tracks are excellent mood-setters imo, and Xylin Room with the right sound system is awesome. The following 2 tracks and Surripere keep the juices flowing, but I feel the album, while still good after this point, loses some flow.
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I found Surripere to be incredibly immediate. On first listen of the album, it's really the first track that grabs you. The first few minutes is incredibly moody and then it starts to whip whap itself into a coma, whilst remaining catchy.
It really stands out, obviously the centrepiece of the album.
I do like the atmosphere of the album, I think the first 2 tracks especially set it up quite well. But after that it's a bit hit-and-miss for me, especially after surripere. Even V-proc really goes nowhere after the awesome first 90 seconds.
Im happy for the existence of draft, it really does show another side to ae.
Winter Autechre
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This might seem blasphemous, but winter is probably the season that I least listen to Autechre. Don't know why exactly, although I guess their last few LPs have all been late summer releases in the southern hemisphere, so maybe a slight burnout in winter. I associate Autechre listening with spring/winter/autumn. I also don't associate any full Autechre albums with any seasons, although Oversteps to me suits a bright sunny day walk in the country, among the cows and all that. Some ae tracks evoke Antarctic imagery in me, but more summer Antarctic than wintry chill.