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    All albums best to worst

    in Autechre

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    I've gathered that Autechre fans are usually wrong about two things; Quaristice being bad, and Oversteps being good.

     

    Yeah, you'd be wrong there. Kidding of course, that's the wonderful thing about Ae, we can all find wonder in completely different sounds. I bought the special version of Quaristice, don't really regret it, but it's definitely the most money I've ever paid for an album, and definitely my least favorite Ae album that I own, which is most of them. Has some great tracks, but they feel unfinished and most of them don't really have that grand sense of epicness I love from Ae.

     

    Oversteps on the other hand, I don't really get the hate for. Sure it's noodly, but I'm a big lover of proggy synth stuff from the 70s and was listening to a lot of that at the time, so for me that was Ae's return to form. MOT is a bit wanky, but I still like it. I just hope we can all agree on loving Exai.

    All albums best to worst

    in Autechre

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    Interesting how much it varies for people here. I suppose Tri Repetae is a bit under represented here because many fans of the 'old' Autechre have mostly given up on them at this point.

     

    It is hard to make an entire list, so I'll group mine,

    1: Tri Repetae++, LP5

    2: Amber, Incunabula, Untilted, Confield, Draft 7.30, Chiastic Slide, Quaristice

    3: Oversteps, Exai

     

    I've been pretty dissapointed with their direction recently.

     

    Unfortunate. I'm not going to get all high and mighty about the brilliance of Exai, as Ae lost me for a while as well with the Draft through Quaristice period. Although there are some absolutely stellar tracks among those three releases, I kind of thought Ae had lost their magic and wasn't expecting them to return to the brilliance I loved from 97-01. But I've absolutely loved Oversteps and even more so Exai. I can only hope it clicks with you with time, sometimes that's all it takes.

    All albums best to worst

    in Autechre

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    I really don't see logic in most of you guys' lists...

    Albums that have only a slightly different style are suddenly places way lower or higher than others, and albums with totally different styles are first and second place, it really doesn't make sense.

     

    One could say the same about your choices too though. Despite being close in time period, Chiastic Slide and LP5 sound as different from each other as anything in their discography at that point. While I love them both, they are very different albums.

     

    And while Confield and Draft are both from around the same time period and are Ae at their most abstract, Confield is one of my most loved albums, whereas Draft continues to be a chore to listen to for me. Untilted, Quaristice, and Oversteps all sound extremely different from each other despite being sequential albums.

     

    What you may see as similar albums might be worlds apart for some people. And just because two albums share a commonality, does not make them both great or both bad. There are many more factors at play here.

    All albums best to worst

    in Autechre

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    Very tough to rank, and was surprised that Exai made it so high in my list right away. Maybe after the initial lushness dies down it will drop lower, but I'm loving it to bits right now. Chiastic Slide, now and forever the champ.

     

     

    1 Chiastic Slide
    2 Exai
    3 LP5
    4 Confield
    5 Oversteps
    6 Amber
    7 Quaristice
    8 Untilted
    9 Tri Repetae
    10 Incunabula
    11 Draft 7.30
    1 Envane
    2 EP7
    3 Cichlisuite
    4 Anvil Vapre
    5 Move of Ten
    6 Peel Session 2
    7 Peel Session
    8 Garbage
    9 Anti EP
    10 Quadrange
    11 Gantz Graf

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    Posted

     

    How is it that this thread seems less active now that we actually have something awesome to talk about?

    The thread grew 40 pages in 24 hours.

    Although to be fair, about 20 of those pages were people talking about how slow the download from bleep was taking, with updates of how far along they were into the ~2GB dl.

    But my bet is now everyone is too busy listening and scraping their brains up off the floor

     

    Haha, yeah I'm not at all saying that's it's NOT active, just that it seems to have been going at an even more rapid pace talking about absolute nonsense for about a week.

     

    About to finish my third listen, still absolutely loving this. They are both great, but Disc 2 totally crushes Disc 1.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    Holy shit, I think Exai has pretty much universal praise from WATMM, which is like unheard of. I'm happy to say that this album is marvelous, they really outdid themselves with this one. Such a crazy range of their previous styles, psychedelic and insane while remaining totally accessible. I think the second disc would have been great on its own, but I am ecstatic that there are two discs of some of Ae's best material. And that's just after my first listen, these are just going to get better with time as always.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    Posted

    Holy shit, just got to 1 1 is and it is blowing my mind, such a weird combination of their previous styles.

     

    About halfway through Exai and this is so so good. It's going to take a while for everything to sink in, but I've been into every track so far. It really does cover a ton of ground, as others have said, a culmination of everything leading up to this.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    Posted

    BLAAAAAAAAAAAADEEEEEELOOOOOOOOORRRRREEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!

     

    *Rappels out of window with the Exai promo, runs down the side of the building Tom Cruise style, jumping in slow-mo just as the NY Warp offices ignite in a ball of fiery gas. Takes out Warp bots with the ancient Bladelores technique. LEAKS EVERYWHERE. Chills with Flep and Mira in secret AE IDM isolation pool underneath the east river. Listens to leak, HEAD ASPLODE.*

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    http://warp.net/records/general/job-opportunity-operation-manager

     

    warp is looking to hire an operations manager in new york. some brave NY ae fan should infiltrate via this position. then leak exai. then after the mission is accomplished get fired for running down the halls screaming BLLLLAAAAAADELOOOORRREEESSSS!!!!!!!! and wrecking the place with office chairs

     

    Woah, kind of considering applying for that actually...

    Memorex - Sequel To Skinemax Video

    in General Banter

    Posted

    I was a huge Donnie Darko fan when I picked the name 10 years ago, and now I'm kind of stuck with it.

     

    Not a bad idea, maybe I could make a short one song mix with Donnie Darko footage someday though.

     

    The next one is gonna be all westerns though. I finished the audio a while ago, and my friend who I started Smash TV with will be editing the video this time.

     

    So I'll keep you posted about "Gunslinger" in another year or so probably, it's looking pretty great so far!

    sorry my ignorance, but it looks like/sounds like if in the intro of memorex video, you actually spotted where the vhs head samples came from and glued them with the original videos... did you do that??? or is it just a awesome case of synchronicity???

     

    Nope, just careful planning! Tried to match each sound/lyric with a visual that made sense. Took fuckin' ages, probably around 400 hours of work total in my free time over the past year. Glad it was worth it!

     

    Incredible work!!!

     

     

    Sourced from over forty hours of 80s commercials pulled from warped VHS tapes

     

     

    Did you have these lying around or did you pick them up on ebay?

     

    Ripped most of them from youtube Check out the 80s Commercial Vault if you're interested in the source material, a lot of it came from there.

    Memorex - Sequel To Skinemax Video

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    Posted

    I was a huge Donnie Darko fan when I picked the name 10 years ago, and now I'm kind of stuck with it.

     

    Not a bad idea, maybe I could make a short one song mix with Donnie Darko footage someday though.

     

    The next one is gonna be all westerns though. I finished the audio a while ago, and my friend who I started Smash TV with will be editing the video this time.

     

    So I'll keep you posted about "Gunslinger" in another year or so probably, it's looking pretty great so far!

    Memorex - Sequel To Skinemax Video

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    Posted

    more info on this please!!! :emb:

     

    Been working on this for the past year or so in my free time. Previously worked on Skinemax, so it had a precedent, but this was a much more difficult affair. Came up with the idea after listening to a bunch of stuff that sounded like it had been decaying on an old tape for years, BOC Old Tunes, Hype Williams, VHS Head, etc. I was also watching a lot of nostalgic VHS footage and decided to theme one around old 80s commercials. Glad you guys enjoy it!

     

    Here's some more info if you're interested:

     

    Vimeo Description: https://vimeo.com/55006097

    Huffington Post write up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/memorex-80s-mashup-video-nostalgia_n_2528517.html

     

    I did an interview recently as well which I'm shopping around to various publications to see if they're interested, so I'll post that here as well once I know what the deal is.

     

    Spread the word!

     

    Oops, looks like that automatically posts the video, just click the title for the description.

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