XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

[xox]

''We have just folded space from Ix...Many machines on Ix. New machines." "Oh. Yes." "But not better than those on BlaaaadeLoooores.''

 

Edited January 19, 2013 by xox

[Guest disoriental express]

lol

[Guest pixelives]

I'm curious about cloudline, any details pixelives?

cloudline has a bit of a Chastic/LP 5 vibe going on. It's like bladelores scary older cousin. It's slow and also has a bit of a Quar vibe too, but more dynamic. Then this intermittent decending bass thing with a pingpong stereo slap delay that recalls a bass sound from Depeche Mode to me.

 

Also: formant/vocoded/robot doing a robo scat.

[futureimage]

That sounds insanely good.

[ZmillA]

pixelives is there anything ambient-ish?

 

also are there any sounds like at 6:15 in under boac. Any sounds like :35 in qplay ??

Edited January 19, 2013 by ZmillA

[Guest pixelives]

there's definitely tracks with lots of ambiance, but no tracks w/o beats. the beats may be intermittent and not throughout but there are no strictly ambient tracks.

[Guest pixelives]

pixelives is there anything ambient-ish?

 

also are there any sounds like at 6:15 in under boac. Any sounds like :35 in qplay ??

Under BOAC in only 6:17 long right?, just checked and it's just silence at 6:15.

 

I'd say that dreamy Nord/Juno-ish sound at the beginning of qplay is a common type of sound for melody on a lot of Ae, so yes things like that///

[Guest the anonymous forumite]

Only 32 hours left before I chop my righ hand off. This better be leaking soon.

Edited January 19, 2013 by the anonymous forumite

[Franciscus]

Only 32 hours left before I chop my righ hand off. This better be leaking soon.

holy shit are you serious????

[Guest RadarJammer]

you guys sure know how to rip the magic out of something and stomp on it then set it on fire and piss on it

[Friendly Foil]

edit: I like what I'm hearing so far (from pixelives)

 

Please turn down the idiotic spamming though. That'd be nice.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Friendly Foil

[Franciscus]

I still think this thread should be locked. or maybe make it so that only pixelives can post in here, since he's the only one who actually contributes with something interesting.

agreed, but you're first to stop posting, k?

[Guest pixelives]

If I had the time (which I don't at the moment) I'd write up a review. Maybe later this coming week, though. At this point I'm moving past initial impressions and will need a few more listens to go deeper with it. Right now I can answer specific questions. I can also just leave it alone if it's bothering people. I understand that it might be ruining the discovery process for when you do hear it.

[Soloman Tump]

nah chap please carry on. If people dont want to read it they could ignore your posts or simply not even read this thread....

[Friendly Foil]

If I had the time (which I don't at the moment) I'd write up a review. Maybe later this coming week, though. At this point I'm moving past initial impressions and will need a few more listens to go deeper with it. Right now I can answer specific questions. I can also just leave it alone if it's bothering people. I understand that it might be ruining the discovery process for when you do hear it.

Wasn't talking about you. Your posts are awesome. Please continue.

[Npoess]

edit: nvm

 

already been asked.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Ceerial

[Friendly Foil]

edit: ffsfsfss

Edited January 19, 2013 by Friendly Foil

[Guest Adam]

"Exai has thing going on where there are definitive "changes" in tracks. like, "oh here's the B part/C part," so less slow evolution and more, "boom shut that door! new room!"

 

So kinda like the new Burial and Clark? I like the sound of this.

Kinda like Skrillex, burial is boring slow "evolution".

[springymajig]

If I had the time (which I don't at the moment) I'd write up a review. Maybe later this coming week, though. At this point I'm moving past initial impressions and will need a few more listens to go deeper with it. Right now I can answer specific questions. I can also just leave it alone if it's bothering people. I understand that it might be ruining the discovery process for when you do hear it.

 

I personally really appreciate your little reviews. I would rather read something like this than listen to a leak. I know for a fact that there is no way it will sound anything like your descriptions do in my head, that always happens with reviews :P (I have a very odd imagination) but knowing specific things like "no beatless tracks" or "songs broken into distinct sections", it's good to know that stuff so I have SOME idea of what I'm in for.

[Guest CurlyAngryman]

Any catchy melodies or is it all background ambience buried in beats?

[Guest pixelives]

There are some tracks with catchy, even upbeat melodies, but a good portion are counterbalanced by weirdness or crazy beats or taken over by ominous ambiences..

 

Synths are not necessarily pushed into the way background like on the early 2000's stuff.. So that's why it feels like a cross between Oversteps and some of that earlier stuff..

[thehauntingsoul]

Jarring dissonance and awful sounds? Stuff like the wails in D-Sho Qub and/or the fear sound in Pce Freeze 2.8i? That stuff is always awesome.

[Guest pixelives]

There is a track with a Legeti-esque male choir sample (could be Yamaha FS1R, though), and it's awesome... It's more soulful(?) and less scary than D-Sho.

[splesh]

Besides the robotic scat singing previously alluded to, what if any kind of fucked up vocal bits are there without spoiling them too much?

[gl0tch]

Are the beats anything like Pen Expers or qplay or vproc, which I always thought were more hiphop sounding?