XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

[Guest pixelives]

Amazing album. BUT, i really have to let it grow. Love the sounds, love the ambience, love the track lengths, BUT, it is still a puzzle to me. As were Confield, Draft and Untilted. I really feel this album gives me the same ammount of listenings (before i really get it) as those incredible albums.

dude. I've had it for almost a month now and I'm still like

[tetrode]

Doesn't seem likely that the 24 bit wavs were unmastered but it is possible I suppose that they are audibly less compressed or differently mastered in some other way to the 16 bit versions. since the site is down I can't get an alt version to comapre. That blast of white noise was a bit of shock though. I'm listening on some fairly serious equipment and other than that obvious glitch everything sounds fine to me. Huge, spacious and most importantly (musically) 100% killer. Best Ae since ... erm Draft?. Maybe best Ae, period.

[exm]

 

Amazing album. BUT, i really have to let it grow. Love the sounds, love the ambience, love the track lengths, BUT, it is still a puzzle to me. As were Confield, Draft and Untilted. I really feel this album gives me the same ammount of listenings (before i really get it) as those incredible albums.

dude. I've had it for almost a month now and I'm still like

indeed... .. .in the beginning i was even thinking 1 year of buying ep7 or not...not a lie. it took me 1 year to let that one grow on me. I came from early jungle, reggae and some early d&b...i think it was because of Big Loada i wanted to hear more from the warp label... .. .i saw that abstract cover, gave it a try and was like

One year later i tried again...i was sold. Don't know why, but ever since i buy Autechre albums

[Dale]

I remember now. T ess Xi...that was one that by the end I was completely amazed. That esoteric, ancient sounding chord pattern that comes to the forefront by the end of the track...sublime.

one of the stand out tracks for me so far. The main melody becomes darker and more daunting as the track progresses - love it.

[exm]

Doesn't seem likely that the 24 bit wavs were unmastered but it is possible I suppose that they are audibly less compressed or differently mastered in some other way to the 16 bit versions. since the site is down I can't get an alt version to comapre. That blast of white noise was a bit of shock though. I'm listening on some fairly serious equipment and other than that obvious glitch everything sounds fine to me. Huge, spacious and most importantly (musically) 100% killer. Best Ae since ... erm Draft?. Maybe best Ae, period.

Can't say which album is best for me, but the one that done the most damage in my head was Confield. Without a doubt. This Exai album is really getting close to Confield for me...

[Dale]

Amazing album. BUT, i really have to let it grow. Love the sounds, love the ambience, love the track lengths, BUT, it is still a puzzle to me. As were Confield, Draft and Untilted. I really feel this album gives me the same ammount of listenings (before i really get it) as those incredible albums.

yep - I think this is another one of theirs that might take time to grow on me - and I have a lot of patience for ae so it's not a problem

[thehauntingsoul]

I will be absolutely floored if these guys can 1up themselves again. I would think it's very difficult to do a better album than this.

[azatoth]

Two tracks in and it's a fucking beast. Up there with Draft already for me, which it sort of reminds me of soundwise, at least the "murkyness" it has. I admit that Autechre hasn't been on my playlist as much as it used to, but I could see this getting much heavier rotation than Oversteps or MoT.

[exm]

fav Exai tracks atm: '1 1 is', 'nodezsh', 'prac-f', 'cloudline', second part of 'recks on'.

[six]

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.

[Soloman Tump]

 

(deco Loc vocals!)

Edited February 7, 2013 by feltcher

[exm]

would love to see them to release a version without the noise glitch on T ess xi (wav 24bit)

[Dale]

spl9 is sooooooo good

such a powerful track

[gl0tch]

would love to see them to release a version without the noise glitch on T ess xi (wav 24bit)

 

Its not in the mp3

(which in my opinion sound WAY better than the 24bit wavs somehow)

[Guest disoriental express]

late to the party, getting the files now *exaited*

YOU WILL BE KILLED AND RESURRECTED 17 TIMES WHILE LISTENING TO EXAI

 

velcome

Edited February 7, 2013 by disoriental express

[Captain Hideous]

2 hours since I found out and bleep.com is still a puddle of piss.

Edited February 7, 2013 by Alfred P McLovely III

[dumplings]

bladelores is noice, 12 mins of head bobbing.

 

Just going through my first listen and it's been incredible thus far.

[Franciscus]

thanks to a kind soul i'm listening to keyosc. finally a worthy japanese bonus track again

[gl0tch]

Autechre's discography should read:

 

- Confield

- Draft

- Exai

 

with everything between Draft and Exai being necessary experiments to arrive at the gloriousness that is Exai.

[mcbpete]

For those that have managed to get the 24 bit wavs and are able to get onto bleep again, can you flag to them the glitch on T ess Xi so they don't just think it's me being stupid (the Contact button is on the main menu on the left of their page). I've sent them a rather detailed message along with an upload of the section affected but I'm sure they'll just dismiss me as doing something wrong rather than admit it's a problem at their end. However if you all do it they should at least consider looking into the problem !

[tetrode]

Just made it to recks on. This just gets better and better. I was a defender of Oversteps, in a 'remember how happy we were when we made Amber' kind of a way, but this is just in a different league. I'm actually glad I have a 4 hour train journey tomorrow night...

Edited February 7, 2013 by tetrode

[dumplings]

Fuuuck 1 1 is godly.

[thegirlnextdoor]

thanks to a kind soul i'm listening to keyosc. finally a worthy japanese bonus track again

[nerv]

my account on bleep only has the 24bit WAVs available for download; how do you get the flac files?

[thehauntingsoul]

 

(deco Loc vocals!)

Transcribed to the best of my abilities

 

 

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Edited February 7, 2013 by thehauntingsoul