XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

[LimpyLoo]

Hopefully they revive the "Gantz Graf" fart algorithm.

[Blir]

This will be their 2cd old skool hip hop masterpiece. Complete with vocals by Bob Marley, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Your Mum, Nelson Mandela, the whole of So Solid Crew and guest appearances by the Jubilee line platform announcement guy at Waterloo station.

[Npoess]

 

so can we assume that all these long tracks will be ambient/.?

 

 

 

[YEK]

lolz !

[sweepstakes]

This silly artwork is starting to grow on me, mostly because of its aesthetic implications. And I'm starting to get more hopeful about this album. OK bring it on guys.

[auxien]

A/1 - FLeure

A/2 - irlite (get 0)
B/1 - prac-f
B/2 - jatevee C
B/3 - T ess xi
C/1 - vekoS
C/2 - Flep
D/1 - tuinorizn
D/2 - bladelores
E/1 - 1 1 is
E/2 - nodezsh
F/1 - runrepik
F/2 - spl9
G/1 - cloudline
G/2 - deco Loc
H/1 - recks on
H/2 - YJY UX

 

just wanted to make sure there weren't any one track per side songs or anything.

 

does anyone know what the (LC 02070) stands for? i don't buy much vinyl, if any from Warp, so it may just be something i'm not aware of.

 

can anyone make out the "Mastered by ....."?

[Guest bitroast]

This silly artwork is starting to grow on me, mostly because of its aesthetic implications. And I'm starting to get more hopeful about this album. OK bring it on guys.

I'm already hopeful based on their recent output/live material.!!!!

Also, I like the little imperfections, like where the squares overlap ovrr each other and out of the borders and such. It's nice design:)

[psn]

Some observations:

* EXAI = XI = eleven = 11

* The album artwork is 11 x 11 pixels.

* 11 x 11 = 121.

* The album is 2 hours 32 seconds = ˝121 minutes

 

I figured the pixels represent bits, that's 11 lines of 11 bits.

 

 

 

Which gives us:

 

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10011110100
10100001100
01001010000
01100110110
00010110000
00110000000
10001011000
11101001000
11101011110

 

To get 11 integers from this, we might read rows left to right, right to left, or columns top to bottom and bottom to top. Time to code some python...

 

How do we interpret each 11 bit value? I figured QR codes might be a hint, and indeed characters can be represented in 11 bits using alphanumeric mode:

http://www.thonky.com/qr-code-tutorial/part-1-encode-data/

http://www.thonky.com/qr-code-tutorial/alphanumeric-table/

 

Each 11 bit string represents two characters. The first character is represented by the integer value of the bit string divided by 45. We call this X. The second is the bit string minus (X * 45).

 

I made a program to generate all strings that can be interpreted from the 121 bits on the cover using alphanumeric 11 bit representation. I also tried all rotations in the alphanumeric table (modulo 45). I haven't tried rotating the bit strings yet.

 

Anyway, here are a bunch of alphanumeric strings. Anyone find anything meaningful?

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[Guest Balance]

Thanks for the Crimbo present Autechre ;)

[Stock]

[Blir]

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I've emboldened my findings.

 

Edit: Can't embolden. Fuck it, look for yourself.

Edited December 13, 2012 by Obel

[thegirlnextdoor]

Exai /AE XI

[coax]

 

 

can anyone make out the "Mastered by ....."?

 

I'm thinking it says 'Summerville', as in Noel Summerville, who mastered a few of their other albums as well.

[psn]

Exai /AE XI

 

Good one!

[coax]

That looks nice.

[jules]

 

Exai /AE XI

 

Good one!

 

 

yes well done sir.

[tokn]

43 pages already? looks extremely nice

[baph]

 

I can't preorder this because I will be moving in late February and I don't know where I'll be.

get a friend or family member who isn't moving to pre-order it for you?

 

 

I did that for Oversteps, actually. Clearly AE only releases albums if I am moving. It's science.

Edited December 13, 2012 by baph

[goDel]

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I've emboldened my findings.

 

Edit: Can't embolden. Fuck it, look for yourself.

Not the f-ing bull thing again =D

[chassis]

Wonder should I bother preordering or just get it when its out?

[xox]

I figure it out that 11x11 binary thing too...and if exai is 6 in greek, vinyl sleeves are 6x6. Nothing else new that haven't been said already.

[beariksson]

the boc forum is leaking

[baph]

Isn't 6 in Greek éxi or έξι ?

 

Or maybe they had to kill two birds with one stone because they forgot to reference 6 in the Confield album title and started panicking?

[sweepstakes]

I was thinking more that the 6 was referring to the bit count. This combined with the fact that at the right side are a bunch of brown/light spots (zeroes) makes me think they might be encoded differently from a standard QR code and the encoding probably starts at the top left:

After going top-down on one column, it would go left-right. But rather than going top-down again on the next column, it might snake and alternate directions. Either way, it would start from the top-left and go down.

 

Or that could be a red herring

Edited December 13, 2012 by sweepstakes

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Or it could be more meaningless tDR artwork..