XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

[Guest disoriental express]

spl9 is so damn good

 

[Guest GNG]

I haven't actually heard Exai yet because I haven't been able to get the discs out of the cardboard sleeves - I might have to buy the download version.

[Terpentintollwut]

^ lol that happened to me before on some cardboard-sleeve-release... I think it was Meam - The L.

Very annoying. It gets easier after a while, but it makes you paranoid you might break both the disk and the sleeve the first few times.

 

 

ok i will try to remember that!

 

*jots it down*

 

Apparently, that's what I did, too - I somehow made this drawing immediately after, mind-raped by the album and still high:

 

(Hardly NSFW)

 

 

 

 

[Caged Element]

Loving Bladelores

[hello spiral]

I haven't actually heard Exai yet because I haven't been able to get the discs out of the cardboard sleeves - I might have to buy the download version.

 

Wha?

 

Are they glued in?

[auxien]

 

I haven't actually heard Exai yet because I haven't been able to get the discs out of the cardboard sleeves - I might have to buy the download version.

 

Wha?

 

Are they glued in?

 

sounds like some really strong aedhesive...

[BUNKUM]

 

 

I haven't actually heard Exai yet because I haven't been able to get the discs out of the cardboard sleeves - I might have to buy the download version.

 

Wha?

 

Are they glued in?

 

sounds like some really strong aedhesive...

 

I now finally understand why people say their music is hard to get into.

[Guest theSun]

I do actually. The constant beat that's there, and every now and then some changes are made in the extra sounds.

Also, I don't get how anyone can find it a good track, the vocals are so ugly.

 

i get what you mean, the vocal samples sound almost sloppy in a very not-ae way

 

but the vocals also have this awkward groove that seems to oppose the groove/feel of the beat

 

i find it a good track, but not as listenable as it is ambitious, which is pretty common in later era ae for me.

[Guest X Fretensis]

YJY UX - I just posted about this elsewhere, but something struck me about this track. It would be perfectly at home on Tri Repetae, but for one thing - it's a more extreme version of what they were doing on that album, IMO. Crammed full of hooks, both percussive and melodic, but it has that graceful lope, and agile shimmer that is a strong part of my overall impressions of Tri Repetae.

 

The rest of the album has some great ones, but also a few that I suspect of treading water a little. Although I would never cull an Ae release for its best bits (no, not even with the Quaristice munificence), Exai is one I would consider doing that to. The really sick tracks are just head and shoulders above the rest, and have a more than slightly jarring effect, to these ears anyway.

[doorjamb]

 

blade (lo-res)

 

[oscillik]

mildlol

[manmower]

Infrared Light

(Ghetto)

[Guest X Fretensis]

mildlol

 

seconded, and raised to a medlol

Edited April 7, 2013 by X Fretensis

[Roo]

I always get this religious recitation ritual feel from deco loc. Thats the vibe I get from the vocals.

[elusive4]

4'45' through 6'12''342'''532322''''85115''''' prob best autechre ever jotted down

 

irlite

4'45' through 6'12''342'''532322''''85115''''' prob best autechre ever jotted down

 

irlite

Edited April 7, 2013 by elusive4

[Guest X Fretensis]

 

4'45' through 6'12''342'''532322''''85115''''' prob best autechre ever jotted down

 

 

 

4'45' through 6'12''342'''532322''''85115''''' prob best autechre ever jotted down

 

 

 

wtf?!

[Alcofribas]

flol elusive gets me every time.

[Guest theSun]

he's right tho

 

x fritensis - keep listening for aeffect

[Guest X Fretensis]

he's right tho

 

x fritensis - keep listening for aeffect

 

Could you perhaps shed a little of the old enlightenment for me as to what exactly is denoted by ''342'''532322''''85115''''' ? That's where my wtf moment is coming from y'see.

[SR4]

alright, Ive listened through my beautiful vinyls about 4-5 times now, and I am staying with first instinct, jatavee-c is one of the best Autechre songs ever. Absolute lushness to the nth degree.

 

 

There are a few others that are amazing but tbh Im still trying to actively identify tracks with their track titles.

 

Tess xi is amazing, Cloudline, and I think Recks On are my top faves....

 

as a guy that isn't constantly blowing his load over Autechre, this is seriously one of their best albums.

[ambermonk]

 

blade (lo-res)

 

 

I've never watched that movie, but the soundtrack features an awesome track by Massive Attack & Mos Def called "I Against I".

 

 

alright, Ive listened through my beautiful vinyls about 4-5 times now, and I am staying with first instinct, jatavee-c is one of the best Autechre songs ever. Absolute lushness to the nth degree.

 

 

There are a few others that are amazing but tbh Im still trying to actively identify tracks with their track titles.

 

Tess xi is amazing, Cloudline, and I think Recks On are my top faves....

 

as a guy that isn't constantly blowing his load over Autechre, this is seriously one of their best albums.

 

I second Recks On being one of the top Exai trax. It's a clear nod to Ae's early hip hop influences, but at the same time introduces some wicked sounds I haven't heard in their previous works. It just grabs you by the balls on the second half.

[Salvatorin]

boobglaps auddeger

[ambermonk]

404

[Mindphaser]

I could listen to the last part of Bladelores for another 5 or 10 minutes, it`s almost Gas or Roach territory, a nice bit of head breathing space from the alien onslaught.

[Salvatorin]

alright, Ive listened through my beautiful vinyls about 4-5 times now, and I am staying with first instinct, jatavee-c is one of the best Autechre songs ever. Absolute lushness to the nth degree.

jatevee-c = lushness^nth