zlemflolia Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 With most AE releases they seem to each fit into a sort of segment of various genre based categories Incunabula, Amber -Oldschool braindance Anti EP, Anvil Vapre, Garbage, Tri Repetae -A bit more intricate and ambient oldschool braindance Chistic Slide, Cichlisuite, Envane -Far more intricate and moving away from danceability LP5, ep7, Peel Session 1 & 2 -More texturally and rhythmically intricate extension of preceding genre Confield -Metallic coldness Gantz Graf -Metalic WTFness, similar to Peel Sessions Draft 7.30 -Maximum textural depth in catalog Untilted -Maximum percussive depth in catalog Quaristice -Maximum ambient depth in catalog. Short liveset-like snippets Oversteps -Metallic but melodic ambient. New take on ambience different from Quaristice Move of Ten -Wooden or plastic I think. Like Confield but reversing the percussion and ambience/melodies' roles Exai -I really have no idea what Exai is. L-event -Same as Exai Is Exai actually an outlier here without a more concrete genre based identification or is it just that we need more time to look backwards at what it represents in relationship to the AE catalog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yshf Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Auteche make music albumz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Whatever General types of sound pallets used in the albums Exai seems a mish mash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehauntingsoul Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Whatever General types of sound pallets used in the albums Exai seems a mish mash this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzkinz Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Personally I see cichlisuite having more in common with LP5 than chiastic, regardless of the source material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RadarJammer Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Exai -I really have no idea what Exai is. Is Exai actually an outlier here without a more concrete genre based identification or is it just that we need more time to look backwards at what it represents in relationship to the AE catalog? exai gives me a similar feeling to the one i used to get in gradeschool when entering the gym class parachute. once an album starts reaching into those sorts of feelings it becomes less appopriate to give it a genre. you can really loose your gravity in it. its genre is:exai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I get a heavy Progressive Dreamfunk vibe off of Oversteps And Chastic Slide is pure liquide-percussive Goocore, I mean come on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 LP5 And Draft 7.30 have some heavy hip hop vibes. And Cichli and Confield have some industrial vibes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I think discussing genres is a bit meh really. Exai sounds as Exai, that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root5 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 My first post about Exai was something along the lines of this: First impression: "This is a lot of messy FM with aggressive Hi Passing" Second impression: "This is funky as shit!" I think that sums up Exai's genre about as well as any short statement will. Of course, there's a lot more to Exai, but it would take more words to describe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprillian Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I think discussing genres is a bit meh really. Exai sounds as Exai, that's all. Ae sound as Ae, that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 this thread is retarded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJW Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 With most AE releases they seem to each fit into a sort of segment of various genre based categories Incunabula, Amber -Oldschool braindance Anti EP, Anvil Vapre, Garbage, Tri Repetae -A bit more intricate and ambient oldschool braindance Chistic Slide, Cichlisuite, Envane -Far more intricate and moving away from danceability LP5, ep7, Peel Session 1 & 2 -More texturally and rhythmically intricate extension of preceding genre Confield -Metallic coldness Gantz Graf -Metalic WTFness, similar to Peel Sessions Draft 7.30 -Maximum textural depth in catalog Untilted -Maximum percussive depth in catalog Quaristice -Maximum ambient depth in catalog. Short liveset-like snippets Oversteps -Metallic but melodic ambient. New take on ambience different from Quaristice Move of Ten -Wooden or plastic I think. Like Confield but reversing the percussion and ambience/melodies' roles Exai -I really have no idea what Exai is. L-event -Same as Exai Is Exai actually an outlier here without a more concrete genre based identification or is it just that we need more time to look backwards at what it represents in relationship to the AE catalog? Although the lumping together of albums and defining of their sound genres will ultimately be a subjective decision, Autechres catalogue generally does seem to follow the pattern of how you outline them here. Interesting take on Confield/MoT relation, not seen that one before! In regard to Exai I'm still a bit confused too. There is a sense of over indulgence in the sheer amount of music (maybe would have been better had they released Exai as four EP's instead). Also Exai seems like it's about indulgence over innovation. Despite all its hard hitting sounds and bravado, it never really sounds groundbreaking (within the world of AE) IMO the last time they sounded groundbreaking was with Oversteps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpentintollwut Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Incunabula - Rock Amber - Fusion Jazz Tri Repetae - Ska Chiastic Slide - Witch-House LP5 - Minimal Techno / Country Confield - Instrumental Draft 7.30 - World-Music Untilted - Heavy Metal / Rap / Classical Quaristice - Emocore / Acapella Oversteps - Easy Listening Exai - Bro-Step Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Tri Repetae - menstrual cup jizz Chiastic Slide -christian splattersmurf core LP5 - progressive plastic metal Confield - tango urine Draft 7.30 - viking reggae fartwave Untilted - lel hep Quaristice - cuban anal fanfare turbofolk Oversteps - mushroom mongolstep Exai - intelligent cyberporno silence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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usagi Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Whatever General types of sound pallets used in the albums Exai seems a mish mash this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction I've been tempted to make this goofy-ass joke every time I see that word misused but I puss out each time. kudos, ya went there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Lare Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Whatever General types of sound pallets used in the albums Exai seems a mish mash this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction I've been tempted to make this goofy-ass joke every time I see that word misused but I puss out each time. kudos, ya went there. Fuck all y'all, this is international forum biatch muthafucka shieeet daaaayumn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 your post baffles me. How are "wooden" and "plastic" genres? The only mention of genres I see is "old school braindance". Whatever General types of sound pallets used in the albums Exai seems a mish mash this pallet looks pretty sound to me. Nice solid construction I've been tempted to make this goofy-ass joke every time I see that word misused but I puss out each time. kudos, ya went there. Fuck all y'all, this is international forum biatch muthafucka shieeet daaaayumn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 What I'm saying is in most releases all the tracks seem to have some similar feature in their style or composition. Confield is cold and metallic. Draft is texturally rich and warm. Quaristice is squelchy and ambient Exai doesn't seem to have that from what I can tell Is this really hard to comprehend lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 It's pretty subjective though. I think Confield is far from cold and metallic; it's like an alien organism or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 it's like an alien orgasm or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 It's pretty subjective though. I think Confield is far from cold and metallic; it's like an alien organism or something. Yes, but it's something Exai doesn't seem to have one consistent sound palette* from what I can hear. Can anyone else find one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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