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    New Tool record end of year?

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    Okay, this is bullshit. Not the interview, But this fucking quote system and the fucking copy/paste shit that gives this black shit that I CAN'T GET RID OFF really fucks up the whole readability. Annoying. Wtf watmm.

     

    Is Adam or the interviewer saying that part?

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    SR4 you shouldn't feel bad about posting in here! (Even though you're wrong about Fleure and Untilted!!) :-p

     

    Fleure is a kickass track; the programming of that glitchfest is just so fuckin metal ,|m| and the way they work the background pads into it is masterful. I couldn't really get just how cohesive and virtuosic the 'beats' of those glitchy sounds are until I turned it waay up and kept track of the count. Then my ass exploded.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    Listened to Fleure real loud and with some enhancement, and it is easily my favorite track on the album. So many cool effects and amazingly detailed beats, sort of rolls together my favorite aspects of LP5 (very computerized-sounding), Draft (metallic awesomeness) and Untilted (superspeed beats), with the wet, echoey atmosphere of Oversteps.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    I now like vekoS a bit more than what I did before, yet two things continue to bother me:

     

    1) the drum sounds

    2) the whispering, which sounds like a bad cliche taken from a z-horror movie. It's absolutely awful and kitsch in the negative sense of the word. I pretty much think that this whispering sample is Ae first contact with bad taste. Apalling.

     

    surprised! That's my favorite track off the album I think.

     

    I like the drum sounds there and think the whispering or whatever is weird, but fine.

     

    However, there are some sounds on this album that I really don't like, and I don't know if it's because they sound out of place in the context of current autechre, or if they're just not to my taste:

     

    I don't dislike them, but overall the bass synth sounds seem a little thin and cheesy to me, like the noodling bass toward the end of irlite,

     

    I don't like the ringmod sound on top of the snare at the beginning of prac-f, and the looped sample that comes in at1:29 is a cool melody, but it makes me think of like the Crystal Method or something from the '90s. Similarly, the high-pitched synth stuff at the end of tuinorizn (~3:17) reminds me of Winter in the Belly of a Snake, in a bad way.

     

    I also hate the drum sounds in Flep -- I don't know if it's the sound themselves or the way they're programmed to stutter like they do, but it just sounds like an old FL stock sample? No, that's not the right way to put it -- but it just sounds kind of old-school IDM cliche to me. I feel like an asshole saying that, but it makes me want to skip the track as soon as it starts with that big stutter!

     

    I love the chords in bladelores, but not the sound of the pads that make those chords -- is it just that I don't like the kinds of synths they're using? They just sound so 'classic electronica' to me. Which isn't exactly fair of me -- why should autechre have to only use the most fucked up, alien-sounding synths? But those are the autechre sounds I like best, which is why my two favorite tracks on the album are jatevee C and T ess xi.

     

    I also don't like the harsh digital distortion on the higher, bell-like synths in YJY UX, for much the same reason -- it just sounds ugly to me!

     

     

    That said, I love this album! Just nitpicking here and wondering if anyone else is turned off by some of the sounds on the record.

    posh beers and ales and stuff thread

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    I had that Elysian yesterday -- good stuff! They are my favorite brewery from this area (Pacific NW), with Ninkasi in second.

     

    Alaska Smoked Porter is some good shit!

     

    Also, I had a Black Butte tonight -- my favorite porter out there!

     

    I'm already drunk & wish I could get drunk again on top of this! *passes out*

    Influx of bad artist names

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    fine --

     

    Mick Fagger

    Lez Fairy

    Queersdÿche

    Homo's Basement

    Burt Barebackarack

    Flaming Lipstick Lesbians

    Butch Hoes

    Pansy Whoreholes

    Josh Twink

    Bottom Von She-Cock

    Closeted Leo and the Pharmasissies

    Imagine Dragqueens

    Versly Bear

    Gloryhole Estefan

    Püfter Dü

    Feltcher Skelter

    Limp Wristit

    (LG)BT

    Trannie Lennox

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    I'll try to explain what I like about Jatevee C

     

    I like how the bassline has both a really low end and the inside-a-pipe echo on the higher end, which is mirrored nicely in the kind of reverb that's on the pads. And I love how the bass climbs and wanders polyrhythmically up the arpeggio until it peaks by switching from E to F in the sixth bar.

     

    I like how they drop the pads just before the drums kick in, and the drums have such a huge attack on them so it gives the track a lot of rhythmic energy that drives it forward, and sounds awsome when there are multiple snare hits in a row. I think the open hi-hat sounds are brilliant in the way they fill in the subdivisions of the beat when the kick and snare are kind of going awry, especially the hilarious part where they speed up the kick-snare combo and then the two open hi-hats keep the beat locked down. As with many autechre beats, if you count or tap the sixteenth-notes along with the drums, you can hear how they fit really interestingly into the subdivisions, even though without counting or tracking the beat, they can sound sloppy or random. (This is easiest to hear at the end of the track when the pads drop, and at 2:43 where the bassline and hi-hats line up in an awesome way.)

     

    2:47 is an example of the awesome crackly lightning pads sound. They swirl around your head like static iridescent fireflies trailing multicolored geometric lysergic penumbras behind them. Those plus the pads give the track a strange combination of a very insistent drumbeat and a super-floaty atmosphere.

     

    And even though it's just those parts the whole track, they do a nice job of (to my taste) introducing and dropping out the bassline and modulating it with filters to keep the track feeling like it is changing and has a beginning, middle and end. The ending is just enough: the synths drop out, and the awesome rhythm comes to a close, and it's done, and it sets things up perfectly for the transition to T ess xi with a similar tempo and key (the key being implied by the 'wub's that swell in after the snare hits), but the contrast of the huge drum hits with the tiny synths and blips that start the next track; that's my favorite track-to-track transition on the whole album.

     

    Here's another way to think about it: Imagine it's not synths and electronic drums but The Roots with just a bass player, drums being smashed in the hardest, funkiest way, with those jazz cymbals that have little screws around them that make it keep ringing out, distortion on the whole drumset, and a Bootsy Collins wah-wah on the bass, and they're just rockin' the fuck out.

     

    (I feel like a complete idiot writing all of that!)

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    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    The first half hasn't properly clicked with me yet; it has some really great moments but like every other Ae album I still need to memorise some parts before I can truly appreciate it. Part two, however, oh boy. So fucking good. I have a feeling I'm gonna wear the third and fourth records out from frequent playing.. as long as the packaging isn't excessive like with Oversteps, zole.

     

    Why are those the ones that get you? For me, it's the Jatavee C - Tess ix combo that is killer. The kicks and snares are just punching you in the face.

     

    Those tracks especially, but also others on the album, I've found the snares (and the high-pitched blips chords in T ess xi) to be quite 'rushed' in the sense of hitting waaay early, giving the album several moments of seeming as if it is building momentum by speeding up or otherwise getting ahead of itself. It's an interesting, hyper contrast to the other tracks that are lower-tempo and overall more laid-back sounding.

     

    T ess xi is definitely a highlight of the first disc for me. That little melodic twitch at ~3:01 gets me every time. So fucking jazzy!

     

    In the midst of the rest of the sounds, it reminds me of a saxophonist wolfing out, like at the end of Bowie's "I'm Deranged." But then later on when you can hear it on its own, it sounds more like Mahavishnu Orchestra flute :-p

     

    The delayed, crackly scintillating pads on Jatevee are my fav. sound on the album right now. It feels really good on headphones.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    The first half hasn't properly clicked with me yet; it has some really great moments but like every other Ae album I still need to memorise some parts before I can truly appreciate it. Part two, however, oh boy. So fucking good. I have a feeling I'm gonna wear the third and fourth records out from frequent playing.. as long as the packaging isn't excessive like with Oversteps, zole.

     

    Why are those the ones that get you? For me, it's the Jatavee C - Tess ix combo that is killer. The kicks and snares are just punching you in the face.

     

    Those tracks especially, but also others on the album, I've found the snares (and the high-pitched blips chords in T ess xi) to be quite 'rushed' in the sense of hitting waaay early, giving the album several moments of seeming as if it is building momentum by speeding up or otherwise getting ahead of itself. It's an interesting, hyper contrast to the other tracks that are lower-tempo and overall more laid-back sounding.

    Influx of bad artist names

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    lol

     

     

    The Pains of Being Poor at Fart

    Fart Fartfunkel

    Feart

    Pootie and the Blowfish

    DJ Fartcode

    Craptain Beefart

    Arvo Fart

    Ravi Stankfart

    Jean-Paul Fartre

    Ricky Fartin

    A Farty Teenage Riot

    Bloc Farty

    Farturo Toscanini

    UBFarty

    Fartina McBride

    Fart of Noise

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    I caught myself humming the melody from nodezsh and it was in that moment I realized how amazing it really is. If that track hasn't clicked with you yet, give it another listen and focus entirely on the melodies in the first half before it morphs into sheer terror. Lots of half-octave jumps and fun stuff like that. (Check around 2:22 for the exact melody I'm talking about)

     

    It hasn't clicked yet, although I really get into the drums toward the back half (4:45 on) when you can really follow how the syncopation works (it's in the front half too, but they give you so few hits it's harder to follow without tapping or counting). I still can't really hear what you're talking about as a melody with an actual line to it, as opposed to an ambient string of notes.

     

    Ps: Awepittance your post makes me want to go back to Chicago bad, where my monitor speakers are! I just have a shitty laptop and some not-so-great headphones. So I've had a bit of an attenuated sense of Exai's real sonic range.

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