My usual strategy is to find some unguarded entry points that i can use to crawl inside the megastructure and explore. Aphex twin, boards of canada, battles, flying lotus, kelela, yves tumor. O autechre usa diferentes sintetizadores digitais e analogicos em sua producao, assim como drum machines, mixers, efeitos e samplers. Exai, warp records warp234, 20 buy from bleep 41081autechreexai itunes amazon. One was on the icasea japan benefit compilation and the other was a download that you got when you bought a ticket to. About the only recurring, easily recognisable elements in autechre s music are the occasional fat, analoguesounding synth patches.
Exai marks the pairing of sean booth and rob brown at a refreshed peak of their powers with scant compromise to the challenging and forward thinking nature of their music. A brief history of autechres album covers art f city. Rob brown and sean booth composedimprovised it using software, and produced software. And for a duo now well into their third decade of collaboration, thats a rare thing indeed.
This very long set was made by autechre and streamed via. Autechre designed the eps track flutter so that none of its beats were repetitive. On march 5, 20 autechre will release their new album on warp records. Great savings free delivery collection on many items. I always buy music legally except when its not available. Includes a download card for 320 kbps mp3s from bleep. Extension workshop developer hub download firefox register or log in. Another reason why architectural metaphors work with autechre especially on confield is because their songs usually dont employ a typical atob linear structure. Autechre have just released their twelfth studio album, a mammoth fivepart collection titled elseq. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Or is this album selling to people like me, who buy autechre music unheard, assuming its going to continue to do for them what it has always done. Quaristice, the latest album, is at best unharnessed, at worst incoherent. It begins with the hyperspeed scrambleclutter of fleure, but beneath that, there is a bounty of tracks. Processing the whole thing is less daunting than it seems on the surface.
Here and there, you get a tantalizing snatch of almostrecognizable musical styles dubstep, dub, etc viewed through autechre s unique lens. Exai is a wonderful trip down memory lane as the album seems to invoke the entire back catalogue of autechre. For information about cookies that are required for this website to operate correctly, please read our cookies policy you can choose to opt out of the following cookies. Im a longtime listener and i found it almost impenetrable at first. Plus a 320kbps lame encoded mp3 version of the album for your portable player these digital versions will be available to download direct from your bleep account.
I just though id ask if anyone has any high quality flacs of it, or can at least steer me in the right direction. Some time later, i heard yjy ux almost by accident and suddenly connected with it, which led me to delve in further. Autechre s fourth album, chiastic slide, appeared in 1997, along with the eps envane and cichlisuite. Their music has grown impenetrable, and since 2011s oversteps it has arrived in increasingly large lumps of obtuse sound. It is twice the length of autechre s lastand previously, lengthiestalbum, 20s exai. Exai is the eleventh album by electronic music duo autechre, released on warp records. As ever, it shows rob brown and sean booth to be topnotch sonic magpies and. Autechre really demonstrate their amassed skill with electronic music on this album more than any other.
All five were made available for individual or group purchase as a digital download only, making it autechre s first album without a physical release. Last year, the duo posted a series of nine recent live recordings of new material for sale online. In stark contrast to quaristice, exai has no problem taking it time to get where its going. This groundbreaking move changed the way a lot of electronic artists approached composition, and ushered in a new era of experimentation. Autechre s eighthour nts sessions adds another level of the british duos legacy of monumental digital music. An important part of autechre s identity has been the duos willingness to mess with its audiences perceptions. From the beginning of their now over twenty years counting collaboration as autechre manchester based sean booth and rob brown rank among the most. The result is a more epic and unified feel to the record than most previous autechre eps. Instead, melodies or rhythms remain static while other parts of the song. With a running time of 2 hours and 32 seconds, exai will be available on 2 cds, 4 pieces of vinyl and digitally. Oversteps licensed to youtube by merlin warp records on behalf of warp records. Even by autechre s typical standards, exai is one unfriendly beast.
The star of nbcs council of dads makes some unexpected picks for her own council of moms, pulled from her favorite tv shows. Biography autechre are an english experimental electronic duo consisting of sean booth and rob brown. Get the best deals on autechre vinyl records when you shop the. Ive always seen autechre albums as the worlds most intimidating jigsaw puzzles. Warps artists create groundbreaking music, videos and cinema. Like other autechre albums, exai features album artwork by the designers republic. Autechre shake off context like water from a rain slicker. Mar 28, 20 this feature is not available right now. A 12,5h mix, on 23 march 2010 to coincide with the release of oversteps. Im looking for breakbeat driven songs or albums by autechre, if any. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. The album consists of five segments, each roughly 50 minutes in length. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod.
Active listening to the entirety of exai as in eleven is, of course, an endurance test, as it is 120 minutes in length and consists of 17 tracks that could be sequenced in any order with no change of effect. Autechres elseq 15 2016 was a download only release of almost four hours of music, divided into five volumes. Since streaming is usually done in low resolution, this is likely the best its going to sound unless autechre release the source. They formed in 1987 in rochdale, england after noticing each others mutual interest in hip hop and electro, and began trading mixtapes before beginning work on their own compositions, initially under the guise of lego feet. The twentysix minutes of levent are ostensibly divided into four songs, but there are probably seven or eight different rhythmic and harmonic moods intertwined along the way. Rooted in vintage american electro as well as ambient and musique concrete, their music has constantly evolved from melodic, intricately programmed techno to vast, algorithmically generated sprawls that challenge the conventions of rhythm and. Taken at once, elseq 15 is a mammoth hunk of listening, the idm equivalent of a netflix series binge. At times it even seems to meander which is the main thing that places it at number 6. Copies ordered from bleep also include an instant download of wavs 16 or 24 bit plus mp3s through your account. Formed in 1987, they are one of the best known acts signed to uk electronic label warp records, through which all of autechre s fulllength albums have been released beginning with their 1993 debut incunabula. A 12h mix on 2324 february 2008 to coincide with the release of quaristice.
Bleep we sell the best music from the best record labels and artists in the world. With their 11th album, exai, autechre again create their very own psychoacoustic galaxy, one of their most scenic ever, built by breathtaking immersive and dynamic soundscapes that are populated by morphing heavy beat mutations. Double lp exai is autechre s eleventh record, and the manchester duos longest by a margin of about 40 minutes. We specialise in finding the highest quality products regardless of format or genre.
Autechre have remained one of electronic musics most groundbreaking and influential duos since they began releasing material during the early 90s. Buy autechre vinyl records and get the best deals at the lowest prices on ebay. It didnt click, and sounded like gibberish to my brain compared to exai. With their 11th album, exai, autechre again create their very own. I preordered the digital copy of exai, listened a bit, and was initially put off.
It took me about a year, to process and progress through autechre s discography, from inacabula to exai. The album is available for purchase via their own webstore, and follows a mysterious few days in which new music was premiered on bbc 6. June 25, 2019 autechre warp tapes 8993 2019 archive, electronic. Titled exai the album is rob brown and sean booths 11th full length album, and follows 2010s oversteps and 2011s 47 track collection eps 19912002.
The double album was released in digital form on 7 february 20, with double cd and quadruple vinyl versions released on 5 march 20. Autechre oversteps get this theme for firefox enus. The question is put to sean booth whether the absence of information on autechre s output, and also their mediashyness, are attempts to get people to listen to their music, and stop them conceptualising about it. As of 2019, it consists of 28 soundboard recordings, each roughly an hour long, made during their 20142015 live tour. How to get 24 bit flac without premium posted on february 7th, 20 at 8. At the time of its release, exai was autechre s longest album to date. Last year, they dropped a collection of hourlong live recordings with all the. The pieces are lasercut into nonsensical angular pieces, and theres always about three million of them. Autechre heavily exploit associations between sounds and objects and this naturally evokes spatial imagery. Titled exai the album is rob brown and sean booths 11th full length album, and. I decided to focus intensely on the track itself, instead of just looking forward to the next. Autechre incunabula new vinyl gatefold lp jacket, digital download. All three albums feature work that recalls early computergenerated art that was often just a test for rendering code in a visual form.
Their songwriting has long avoided western musical standards, and never is this more apparent than on exai s first track. Each track on the nts sessions may warrant a separate discussion thread. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title exai. Autechre syptixed autechre we are the music makers forums. Aug 05, 2016 the three covers that adorned chiastic slide, envane and cichlisuite reflected autechres move into the avantgarde and digital processing. First came 20 doublealbum exai, which messily referenced all eras of the uk duos career, alternately brilliant and frustrating. Feb 06, 2020 new album releases download full albums, daily updates.