new four tet

i'm intrigued.

Expect it to be very good indeed; Pause is a fantastic album. He's more organic/acoustic than Manitoba, less frenetic than UIF and less jazz than Start Breaking My Heart, with more emphasis on melody and. The penultimate track on UIF is very Four Tet.

I have no doubt that this will a terrific album and I can't wait.

Although I fear I'll have to wait til I get back to the UK, since Sydney record shops have become notorious round our house for their "Goldfrapp who?"-style knowledge.

Insight, moi?

01. David Behrman - Leapday Night (Scene 1)
02. Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke
03. Curtis Mayfield - If I Were Only A Child Again
04. Heiner Stadler - Out-Rock
05. Gary Davis - The Professor's Here
06. Heldon - Les Soucoupes Volantes Vertes
07. Stereolab - Les Yper-Sound
08. So Solid Crew - Dillema
09. Akufen - Psychometry 3.2
10. Animal Collective - Baby Day
11. Madvillain - Figaro (101 Remix)
12. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love
13. Four Tet - Pockets
14. Model 500 - Psychosomatic
15. Shona People Of Rhodesia - Taireva
16. Quickspace Supersport - Superspace
17. Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel To The Boss
18. Gong - Love Is How Y Make It
19. Showbiz & A.G. - Represent
20. Group Home - Up Against The Wall (Getaway Car Mix)
21. Autechre - Flutter

"late night tales" is great

New EP is good. Wing Body Wing is probably one of the better tracks. Kinda sounds like a cross between Pantha Du Prince and Invisible Conga People's 'Cable Dazed'. Glad he's momentarily stepped away from the folk-tronica tag, ugh what a term.

Hijacked from the Burial thread, the sample B1 here

For this sounds amazing, even compared to his 4/4 stuff, it sounds more more kind of at the same time plain and unlike anything else I've heard by four tet. Absolutely lovely, pitty it has to be on a limited, fetish-object release.

that 'ringer' EP was fantastic. he's really on a bit of a run lately!

I saw the 2XLP for $10 but didn't buy it (figured it get it later, but haven't seen it at the same store since)

:(

This is pretty wicked. Goes very nicely with the Field record.

Liking that a lot

Plz to tell more?

2 tracks, approx 9 minutes each, collaboration between Burial & Four Tet, very ambient-ey sort of.

Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.

Oh right.

not so limited, already repressed.

hopefully this pressing will sound less arse than the old one.

the press release for his upcoming fabriclive sounds good, like this new track locked off it. like a lot. seriously love this guy but he has never made a release that is wholly satisfied. there is love in you didn't go far enough in the direction he's been headed post-reid for me (ringer, the burial collabs etc.)

http://www.prefixmag.com/media/tinariwen/tenere-taqqim-tossam-four-tet-remix/56036/

His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent

yes looking forward to giving this a listen. lots of obscure garage cuts apparently so right up my street.

heard this remix of a track from Nigel Godrich's new Ultraista project the other day on Gilles' 6music show and I'm putting it here because Kieran has completely smashed it (and makes the original seem pedestrian by comparison). Srsly, this is *awesome*.

http://soundcloud.com/indietheka/ultraista-smalltalk-four-tet

Also new from Mr. Tet, not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQVPNo_X7Y

I have been binging on Mr Tet lately so I am happy to have some new ones!

I know ILM has generally been down on Mr Tet but god damn there is nothing he can't make sound good w a sparkly remix. I've been on the fence about Ultraista but I'd listen to Mr Tet remixing the sound of the rubbish collectors this morning TBH.

It is really annoying not being able to view/listen to anything with Flash at work.

Psychedelic Space Jellyfish with harps is SUPER DOUBLE PLUS GOOD. I think I've just been so captivated by the video, though, that I'm not really processing the song. I'm not sure about the bass, though. Don't know that wob suits Mr Tet. But who cares, it's all wibbling harps and things.

Ultraista, though. I feel vaguely disappointed with myself that I am utterly failing to be captivated by it. Come on, it's got my name all over it, why is this not total WCC catnip? I don't know if I'm being overly suspicious of something which feels *too* marketed to me, but if a Four Tet remix can't make me fall in love with a song, I don't know that anything will.

So the proper download of Pink has been out for a week or so. He's doing absolutely no marketing for it. Who's listening? Off one (distracted) listen I wasn't sure it hung together like a proper "album" (excuse my old fashioned rockiest ideas), but it was a distracted listen in the midst of house-buying chaos. I'm just whacking out on the iPod so I can play it via the Zeppelin and hear it in space rather than headphones.

Seemed like plenty of bass, to be fair.

Been listening to this all week, it's fantastic. I had the same 'not a proper album' issue at first too, but I suspect part of that is psychological, given that I know it's a singles comp. If he'd just released this music straight off as a single piece, I'm not sure I'd have given it a second thought.

'Locked' & 'Lions' are the highlights for me so far, really strong opening.

I need to spend more time with it because, argh, massive amounts of playlists due to various things been floating around this week.

There were a couple of moments I really really loved, but can't recall off hand the song titles.

But this feels a lot less like an album as a collection of songs, and more like a collection of extended 12" remixes, if that makes any sense. Like, this is a collection of pieces aimed for dancefloor playing as opposed to something he's sat down and planned out like an album, like the others were. Which is fine, I like it, it's just a different approach, and probably why he's not treating it like a big deal release.

You're right -- it is a collection of previously released 12"s, plus 2 new tracks. Both of the new tracks are long and mostly static. They're lovely, especially the twinkly Peace for Earth, but don't do much in the context of the album. I think it'd work better as an album with something more direct in the 2nd slot (128 Harps, maybe) and Peace for Earth moved to the end.

Locked and Pinnacles are 2 of my favorite tracks from the past year, and I'd rate Pyramid and Jupiters up there too. Love the way the percolating bass on Pinnacles drives the momentum forward and the splashy piano chords take it up to the, um, pinnacle. The triplet accents in the bass line and the off-beat timing of the piano chords drive me to OCD fits of finger tapping and air piano (on my desk, anyway), trying to sort out how the rhythm fits together. Irresistible. I've listened to a lot of Jazzanova style jazz house over the years -- this is miles ahead.

Most of Pinnacles is sampled from Buster Williams' 1975 album/track Pinnacle (starts ~4:30):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAW5GTMA7bU#!

Bonus: bassline for The Choice is Yours at 1:20

Sorry that's Noble Ego, not the title track.

Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDMkDtU9qs

Always find it amazing when someone takes 5 seconds of something and turns it into 8 minutes of something else.

OK after wandering through the woods to this album yesterday, it has finally clicked. I think it's because it's such a wonderful build of a thing. The first couple of tracks didn't really catch on for me, but everything from 128 Harps out just gets more and more beautiful as it goes along. I'm completely in love with Atoms For Peace For Earth the way it turns from "still really a Dirty Dronerock boy at heart" wibble and then slowly builds in intricacy - and then Pinnacles of course is the pinnacle.

Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.

http://thequietus.com/articles/09851-four-tet-pink-review

http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/128-harps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1DoVdHM9M&feature=related

sourced from 4:00

Nice review, Nick.

Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.

At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.

aw i thought i was a right smart arse when i was trying (and failing) to make a house track sampling cage last night, i'm a smart nothing.

"Peace For Earth" is great -- my favorite.

yes it's lovely. not really feeling the rest of it so far.

Love this and would compare it favorably to the John Talabot, as Sick Mouthy did on his blog.

A side note, John Talabot uses all hardware to write his music. Whereas I think Four Tet is software.

Funny that the software music here feels more "organic".

I'm not saying that I dislike the John Talabot at all though, its just a different kind of skewed melodic indie friendly dance.

That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.

I mean, I don't make music at all, so I'm surfing entirely on instinct, but some stuff sounds like it's from real things making noises and some stuff doesn't.

There have been far too many bytes spilled already over the difference between "hardware music" and "software music" (well, at least, if you spend a lot of time in producers' forums.) It's kind of a fool's game unless you have ears like Owen P. I'm not even sure what people are trying to get at with this "sounds organic" or whatnot, or indeed what a "real thing" is. (I mean, if you sample a drum that someone played 50 years ago off a recording, chop it up and rearrange it entirely in software in a virtual DAW, what does that mean when you say it sounds "real" as opposed to someone building a drum machine from scratch using electrical components and is triggered by a manual intervention in real time, but it happens to go "plink" instead of "thump"?)

Anyway, I like this album more and more the more I hear it.

Man, I was vaguely aware of this being out, but I didn't know today that it was digital only. Felt a little foolish after wondering why I couldn't find a physical copy at any likely outlets.

So I just looked into buying the Japanese CD on import from Amazon.co.jp, and it'd cost me £45; reckons shipping to the UK is £25. Surely that's an outrageous lie? Any ILXORs in Japan who fancy posting me a copy for paypal remuneration?

ebay for ~£25? - http://www.ebay.com/itm/2012-FOUR-TET-PINK-JAPAN-DIGIPAK-CD-8-TRACKS-/350599156829?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item51a156945d

Why didn't I think of that?

And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.

@ WCC, kind of you to suggest I have an ear for this stuff! Mostly I just watch a lot of synth videos.

Oh man Peace For Earth.

For me, the distinction between hardware vs. software has less to do with "sounds analogue!" and more to do with audible compositional processes that don't really require hands-on experience with synths to 'get'. Stuff like ARP or Beak>/Portishead/Anika or Emeralds or the Analord records or some OPN stuff is just composed differently than Rustie or Four Tet or Flying Lotus.

Anyway I'm SO excited to hear this record, it and Flying Lotus are gonna make my autumn great

This is brilliant. Loving the drums that kick in around 2 minutes in, really good twist on a sound that I'd connect strongly with Rounds.

The Flying Lotus is also very strong. Very summery.

Live in the Boiler Room:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uFygzB-ho&feature=youtu.be

Is that supposed to be a link? Nothing is turning up for it. :-(

I got really really excited when I searched for him earlier because Google suggested that he was playing in ST KILDA and suddenly the thought of Four Tet playing on a DESERTED SCOTTISH ISLAND which is now a nature reserve was like the most exciting and WCC-friendly gig I could possibly imagine. But they meant the one in Australia, dammit.

I can still hold out hope he might play the Papay Festival or such thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uFygzB-ho&feature=youtu.be

No idea why that isn't working.

Search for: "Four Tet Live in the Boiler Room" on YouTube, maybe?

It's not embedding but I eventually got there with some copying and pasting. Going to have to listen to it at work, though, as my connection is not going to handle that.

http://youtu.be/d9uFygzB-ho <-- hoping this will work.

Your picture of Keiran has been retweeted by him, by the way.

<3

He is the actual best.

Four Tet ‏@FourTet
I am going to release a new Four Tet LP today

Oooh

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/0181-1
Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
TEXT021

Also available on vinyl LP soon.

Another compilation? ;-)

Enjoying this...very old school Tet, serious nostalgia value.

I don't know a ton (read: enough) about Four Tet, but this is terrific:

http://dontwatchthat.tv/2013/01/19/just-jam-86-four-tet/

Video and download of a two-hour set of him playing records. And a photo of those records that someone will hopefully turn into a tracklist at some point.

what artist/song is track 3?

Some sort of tracklisting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/dontwatchthat/just-jam-86-four-tet/

Mr. Tet has put his new ludicrously named track "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About And That Joy Used In His RA Mix And Daphni Played On Boiler Room" up for free download, possibly in response to people scalping the 12" on Discogs:

https://twitter.com/FourTet/status/297445374757576704

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/10/four-tet-rounds-2003/

This track with Neneh Cherry is sweet:

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/neneh-cherry-afrika-baby-bam

yeh, loving that. poked my head up, and now i'm going back in. echoed-out drum sample that shifts in & out behind the hand percussion is ridiculous. anyone know what it's from?

I like that

and okay holy (O)_(O) at this text022 thing!

thanks sd

did text022 ever have any kind of release as a single or on a record?

for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihnzf1YrW1c

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/02/download-free-track-four-tet

just started listening to this mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6BXpBDSGY

New album called 'Morning/Evening' out by early July on Text Records (his own label). TEXT036.

1. Morning Side (20:24)
2. Evening Side (19:53)

LP, CD, MP3, streaming etc.

Excited!

Yay!

have a good feeling about this one

Streaming for summer solstice.

http://www.stereogum.com/1810367/stream-four-tet-morningevening/mp3s/

It's really something!

Thanks Four Tet! My decades long dream of a Villalobos remix of Ofra Haza has come to fruition.

Morning is glorious!

it's really great

Morning is absolutely lush. Maybe the most phenomenologically beautiful thing he's ever done.

"Morning Side" features samples from Lata Mangeshkar's performance of "Main Teri Chhoti Behana Hoon", recorded for the 1983 film Souten.

According to wiki, anyway.

Evening is pretty damn amazing, too. This might be my favourite thing he's done; certainly right up there based on one listen. I can see me playing this to death.

"Morning Side" features samples from Lata Mangeshkar's performance of "Main Teri Chhoti Behana Hoon", recorded for the 1983 film Souten.

i thought i recognised the voice - not through mangeshkar's work but she was sampled on truth hurts' "addictive" too

this is not as good as "addictive" despite the sample which is the best thing about it

i don't like his polite drum pads at all

pretty underwhelmed by this one tbh :(

I was hoping for something elongated and pseudo-ambient and pretty, based on the running times, and that's exactly what I've got, so super happy. Perfect record for sitting in the livingroom with a baby to.

First ive heard about this but if the running times averages 7 minutes 20 then I will be purchasing this immediately, although I am a little worried that my living room isn't really decorated suitably as we ran out of money when doing the extension, so at least part of me is wondering whether to play this in the Audi instead

2 tracks, 20 minutes each.

Oh that means it will work in the garden as well! We've cleared the undergrowth at the end of the garden so now we have sole access to the stream that runs along the bottom there, this sounds like it will be perfect for playing there in the summer evenings

Fell in love with this record on first listen.

i prefer the evening side. not 100% sold on either side though.

I love "Morning Side" - anything that reminds me of Jurgen Paape's "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" is a good thing and this instance it is a very good thing.

i still like this a lot but i'm maybe more into the compilation of tracks he released under the "percussions" name. lex if you feel like the rhythm on this is too polite, you might like some of it. the tracks are more dj-oriented but very good on their own too. i do like the rhythm on this too though, where it's a little turned down and cushy but still playful. the sample and the synths are glorious, obv, but what i really like about it is how casual and unpretentious it comes across as while still being kind of a trip. i'm not sure i can say what i mean by this but it sounds like he's turned the ableton production environment into his own home, taking what's digital and "correct" about the software and making it feel lived-in and alive in a certain way. that way could be criticized as a little too reliant on a glass/eno/lite ambient sensibility maybe but i feel like there's more to it than that, an appreciation of uk dance music for one. and to my ears it sounds like he's getting good / better at making straight house beats underneath the sounds / notes / compositions.

Really nice review on Consequence of Sound: http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/album-review-four-tet-morningevening/

Something about this record feels quite 'live' or 'improvised', somehow; not like Holden or Luke Abbott, and I suspect it's not 'live' at all in any conventional sense, but it feels quite free.

I adore the last 7 minutes or so of Evening Side, when it just depletes to nothing but drums. Reminds me of the end of the last track on The Field's second album, which I adore.

Reminds me of the end of the last track on The Field's second album

Ahhh - that's why it felt familiar! Been bugging me for a few days, that.

I'm really enjoyng this album, much more so than Beautiful Rewind, which I never grew to love.

Morning side is amazing, can't wait to get a copy of this. It's maybe the song I've heard this year that's resonated the most emotionally with me.

Morning Side definitely better than Evening.

I dunno, I adore Evening Side. Especially when the drums come in for the last six minutes or so.

Playing the hell out of this album already.

This feels like minor Four Tet to me. He really over eggs that sample on "Morning".

You're over egged, mate.

You've over egged yourself.

As far as overly "polite drum pads" are concerned, 4tets has released pure drum tracks in the past that could give Carl Craig a run for his money. If he's polite on this then it's an aesthetic decision.

it's very beautiful i think and definitely one of my favorite releases of the year so far.

You're very beautiful Mate x

You too!! Aww yeah

<3 you baby :)

*farts*

Fu

4tets has released pure drum tracks in the past that could give Carl Craig a run for his money

wonka.gif

Post me some gifs, tlg.

post me some pure drum tracks, son!!!

giving this another serious listen right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mR5FoDnCo

having survived mmml i don't find the beats too light or too polite or whatever. to my ears it's suitably jacking micro house, just rough enough around the edges

i think matt is correct, that the drums are just way too far down in the mix, and i find the vocal / synths to be absurdly loud compared to the beat.

this would be better if someone put a donk on it

or at least turned the drums way up, they've got a good shuffle.

hopefully there will be remixes

tlg, I love you as much as I love Matteesslessness, I'm mostly listening to love jam by sound stream over and over again. Other than that I don't have any great suggestions!

i remember he did something similar wrt turning the drums down on glassbeadgames with martyn last year. maybe not as pronounced though.

jed have you heard the new sound stream record?

Actually M-lessness is my man so.

Is it worth mentioning that I insanely drunk?

lol good!!

Jed you're lovely and i'm fond of your display name.

It's a good one!

i'm afraid the b-sides of the new sound stream might do jed in, in his condition

morning is pretty cool but i prefer how he goes into full-blown the orb territory in evening

again though, drums at the end too quiet

i put 'morning side' in a practice set with some delay over it yesterday and cried a little bit, true story.

need to give evening another go

What's the new sound stream called? Not v easy to search for.

bass affairs / sweep magic / star strike

Ty

The Percussions thing is lovely. Kind of sad it's not just labelled 'Four Tet' and stuck out as another new album.

This arrived today. Sounds glorious on the "big" speakers.

I usually find Four Tet a bit hit and miss - he has a tendency to overdo the prettiness and slip into cloying territory, but this really is glorious.

It's probably closest to There is Love in You, which is my favourite Four Tet album.

Currently making me happy: those Orbital-esque bassy synth sweeps that come in after 45 seconds of 'Morning Side'

For some reason I thought this was out in August but have just confirmed with local record store they'll get it next week can't wait

We finally did another record club and I played this: http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/09/14/four-tet-morningevening-round-83-nicks-choice/

I've actually only managed to listen to this twice through, the track lengths are a bit daunting.

Pretty sweet: https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/designer-four-tet-mothers-text038a

New pay-what-you-want album up on Bandcamp:

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/randoms

Know a couple of these from singles - Pockets (Minimal) is lush and funky. Glad he's stuck stuff together.

Pockets (Minimal) is lush and funky.

I'd not heard that one before, but it's ace. Reminds me of the Ringer e.p., which is still my favourite Four Tet release.

Having been listening to the whole thing, it slots pretty neatly in between Ringer and There Is Love In You, for the most part. Remarkably cohesive in feel, actually - although that might just be because he's so far into an aesthetic now that there's no getting out. Which some no doubt see as boring, but I find what he does right up my street with alarming consistency. Hint towards Morning/Evening in "Gillie Amma I Love You". I'd say this is as good as any of his recent albums.

i missed this new one, adding that to my broken and creaky mental pile.

i'm going back to "morning" at ... 6:00 this morning and what I can't believe I didn't realize about it before was that it's working music, it's meant to be part of the fabric of a life working, a scene of work in the morning, domestic or virtualized. i think of hebden in an airport, doing work on his laptop, bringing a sense of home to his desktop. it sounds pragmatic and intimate to me in the way that the ragas it's obviously based on are, meant to instill a sense of harmony and peace and love in work.

new four tet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbGom_FLTCU

subtle but beautiful

strings remind me of Rounds

great track, four tet is classic

love this

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/unspoken-promo-version

Planet is gorgeous. Sounds like a combination of his various periods.

yup, it's nice to see this "holistic" development

really enjoying this. reminding me to listen to 0181 again.

"Two Thousand and Seventeen" was good too

cool, I'd missed that!

SW9 9SL - beats on this are straight up from Luomo The Right Wing.

sounds great!

do you mean to suggest that it's plagiarism or just as good as Luomo?

I love Four Tet's drums, they sound deceptively simple but they're so unique (and banging!), his biggest "tell" imo

Ummm.. sounds like a homage to me. The track ends up doing a whole bunch of other things also!

Just listening to this for the first time.

I haven't been feeling the rest of the new stuff but SW9 9SL is fantastic.

Brixton Academy postcode?

New record New Energy out Sept 29th!

Look like all the recent tracks he's released are on it:

01 Alap
02 Two Thousand and Seventeen
03 LA Trance
04 Tremper
05 Lush
06 Scientists
07 Falls 2
08 You Are Loved
09 SW9 9SL
10 10 Midi
11 Memories
12 Daughter
13 Gentle Soul
14 Planet

World premiere coming up here right now apparently!

🐙 New Four Tet. New Four Tet. New Four Tet. @BBC6MorningShow. Be the first to hear it at around Eleven Thirty Today. pic.twitter.com/YIDnc7OoiY

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) September 13, 2017

Good feeling about this based on the singles.

yup

Planet is gorgeous

New track 'Scientists' (presumably the one Radio 6 played?)

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/scientists

I am so ready for this album

pre-ordered from oxfam. it's gonna be good.

I love that you can pre-order this from Oxfam.

^ Yeah, I really like this. It did make me wonder how many copies he's likely to sell altogether.

new album out tonight

— Four Tet (@FourTet) September 28, 2017

I have pre-ordered from Oxfam. Hope it arrives soon.

grrrrreat!

This is exactly what I want from a Four Tet record.

Btw Four Tet has a spotify playlist with 600+ songs and it’s a bag of gems and surprises I hear it once in a while and I keep finding amazing stuff in there.

this album is gorgeous!

I’m currently not in the mood to listen to this one but I can already tell I’ll love it when the time is right. Love this new age “spiritual” phase he’s currently in

That playlist looks incredible, enough familiar stuff to get me on board and plenty of unfamiliar names to discover. What's with the tracks with all the wingding type font, is that a Four Tet alter-ego?

might be, he did release a song under a wingding moniker last month

moka otm this seems like a new spiritual phase starting with Morning Side (even if Rounds and There Is Love in You are also p spiritual)

Not really feeling this on the first pass, I feel like Four Tet's at his worst when he's sitting there making doe eyes at you and there's a lot of that here.

Remove Daughter and this might be his most consistently beautiful record. That song feels a bit out of place though...

Where's my CD, Oxfam?!

Yeah, where's my vinyl, Oxfam? Playing it through Spotify is functional I guess. #1stworldNGOproblems

banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLrmzYCbf0

Apparently the CD has arrived...

I'm never a big fan Four Tet when he slips into the really dance-oriented stuff, the house beats. I've always got time to check out what he's doing but I've only half-loved most of his output since the Ringer/TILIY era.

This is very lovely. But I can see anyone not into his 'pretty' side being infuriated by it.

Four tet's tech house remix of leave a trace by chvrches is his best banger IMO - a real sublime high point

"two thousand and seventeen" is great - always loved "my angel rock back and forth" and this is like a more optimistic flipside to that

But I can see anyone not into his 'pretty' side being infuriated by it

Nah his best records have some grit in there to balance the sweetness, you need both to prevent it becoming cloying. This one is pretty cloying and mostly forgettable.

This is where I recorded and mixed the album and all the gear I used pic.twitter.com/ncwoleHwYs

— Four Tet (@FourTet) October 25, 2017

haha, that's great

Yeah, I liked that.

when so many bands are going for analogue synth porn/modular excess, this is ace.

Jealous of his studio view.

Kind of furious that the speakers aren't equidistant from the window frame, tbh.

Enjoying the meme generated from this tweet. Also his other twitter thread where he answered a bunch of nerdy questions about the record.

Kind of furious that the speakers aren't equidistant from the window frame, tbh.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy),

to be fair sick, the table isn't exactly squared up with the window either.

also, i guess the seating position is slightly shuffled to the right due to the keyboard, hence the RHS speaker is a little over.

its organic

"This is where I recorded and mixed the album and all the gear I used" -- new I Make Music board description please

That should become like one of those fitness motivation memes but for music nerds

What's the item on the left, some kind of preamp?

he lays it all out in the replies

Apparently: http://www.prismsound.com/music_recording/products_subs/lyra/lyra_home.php

wait what did he use an interface for if everything used to record is in the picture? Just for headphone monitoring? Is there something hiding under the desk?

pretty sure the controller is a Novation Launchkey 25 http://www.guitarcenter.com/Novation/Launchkey-25-MIDI-Controller-1427728872610.gc?pfm=item_page.rrt1|ClickEV. That's a modest controller, I like it.

Feel like there's a bit of undeserved snarkiness to the meme.

where's the meme?

just search the phrase on twitter

that meme is DOA

Ok finally getting around to this and tbqh its kinda boring.

it's great, and he didn't even master it!

haha... his twitter is fun

lol
http://www.factmag.com/2017/10/27/four-tet-studio-meme/

great stuff here https://open.spotify.com/user/k_hebden/playlist/2uzbATYxs9V8YQi5lf89WG

album sounds poorly mixed lol

I saw something which suggested he hadn't had it mastered, which could explain the 'poorly mixed' vibe. It's certainly a little odd sounding at points.

he said so himself on twitter

sounds great to my ears

to me there are muddiness issues and frequency masking problems (instruments getting in each other's way) that i would expected if you mixed in that room with the speakers that close to the walls without soundproofing

but i am being sort of a troll, it's technically true that it sounds objectively less clear and separated and deep than his other stuff but it's also badass that he got it out and people like it despite that. things are too mixed these days, maybe. maybe it's much cooler to release stuff that is mixed well enough to get the point across than to have to deal with labels / engineers etc

The vinyl sounds great to me, no issues with it at all. I'll tell you what's poorly mastered to vinyl: the latest Laurel Halo, which sounds vastly fuller / clearer on Spotify.

Album sounds great to me. Not as good as the Kelly Lee Owens, but it sounds as good as the Morning/Evening record.

loving this.

BICEP vs Four Tet :

https://soundcloud.com/feelmybicep/bicep-opal-four-tet-remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw-NrqKigs

bump again for mark e

really liking new energy this morning. perfect for the sun coming up

http://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-funkhaus-berlin-10th-may-2018
^^goooood stuff

sw9 9sl is so so great

concur

that kiss it better remix is too good, opens this killer set https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/lost-village-25th-august-2018

Alexandra Palace live show, with 42,000+ lights hanging down throughout the audience, was incredible. I couldn't see the stage at any point in the set and I didn't care in the slightest.

Just saw photos of this and man...

I got this pic.twitter.com/uEnmbNCJw9

— Sol's Comprador Past (@SSchonfield) May 11, 2019

bored silly by this latest one tbh

If you asked me to describe his sound to someone who hadn't heard recent Four Tet albums, or make a knock-off for an ad or something, it would sound like this. Swirly bell-tone arpeggios over dance beats with very few surprises.

But it's still pretty and nice to have on while doing computer work.

Pretty nice is a good summary. The cover is exceptionally on brand, which feels apposite.

he peaked with "Only Human"

The actual cover is nice but I’m a little disappointed that he didn’t just use the post-it note placeholder one instead.

First two thirds of this is pretty good, before it goes too gong bath-y. Nothing new as people have said, but maybe a bit more generous with the hooks this time?

12 days into 12 week lockdown at my house and - on the infrequent occasions I get to listen to it - this is actually just what the public health official ordered right now. Calming. Beautiful. Reassuring. Familiar but new.

Have people noticed that he's putting up everything he's recorded/remixed on Spotify? There's about 31 hours worth so far.

Thanks for the notice! Been playing the new one a lot, it is gorgeous.

Nice Christmas presents!

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/parallel
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/871

Last track of 871 seems to be an effort to turn a sample of 10,000 Maniacs' cover of "Because the Night" into a DJ Shadow track?

The mid-'90s tracks are just a curiousity, but I'm enjoying Parallel (esp. the 24 min ambient opener!). The dance tracks are fine but I kinda wish it was all ambient for conceptual unity.

Also his interview on the Hanging Out with Audiophiles podcast is really fantastic. Moreso than the music, I find his interviews really inspiring, I've never heard anyone else echo/voice my own feelings about process so precisely.

And Tiga's podcast is a good companion piece, it's kinda dumb in comparison but covers his whole dj career, which I've been curious about. Also a good bit about working with Burial.

I'm a Parallel 6 guy

(can't resist fake gamelan)

TY for the podcast links. i started listening and got curious about how he operates in the studio. found a very generous walkthrough here. good stuff. now i'm inspired to start working with samples much more, and print/re-sample my own instrumental noodling as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEUGilncRJs

(love me some fake gamelan)

madlib arranged by kieran hebden - https://open.spotify.com/track/4VaICpePVA67Wqvv8SryFr?si=uT0bQOptQNKpPGmDU7Kn8A

there is supposedly a whole album coming

https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors

it is extremely good

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-your-pager
^^believe this is actually old but a recently cleared sample? what's the flip?

lovely as always

it's from 3LW "No More" and I'm kinda on the fence about it but only because the melody of the original always felt so effortless to me and this feels a bit contorted, I wish the sample would get out the way because the rest of it is typically lush

always exploring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGaKVLFNWzs

great drums

Oh cool - super 90s comedown track? Has he ever done anything like this?

well this is a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728vP8jorLY
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness

Nice one, KH really getting back into his early '00s folktronica beats bag.

I dig it, but, a bit of skronk aside, not sure how much William Tyler there is in there?

All the guitar I assume, of which there is a fair amount (besides the skronk)?

It was a cursory listen - I need to give it a proper go with headphones.

xp yeah feels like something that could've been massive in the early 00s

healing music
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/loved

reminds me of something
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/daydream-repeat

album out!

mostly mellow, great stuff, includes three previously released singles

Sounding lovely on first listen. "Skater" reminds me of Arovane ca. Tides.

I recently found out that four test stole a sample from my neighbor’s brother’s band

recently, or awhile ago?

(also, new board description)

It was the sample from “she moves she.” His brother was a locally famous jazz drummer

Interesting! This one?

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/1000929/Four-Tet-She-Moves-She-John-Scott-Pentathlon/

When "Daydream Repeat" hit, I was sold

Yes xp, that entourage ensemble

The downtempo indie/shoegaze/trip hop throwback tracks on this are nice. The dance tracks feel, if not obligatory, at least a little shoe-horned in? These days he's got his killer KH singles, and a few 'pretty' techno tracks on each record. Everything after 'Beautiful Rewind' feels like it's following the same template. Cozy Four Tet is fine but I like banger Four Tet, with some rough edges on his organic palette.

I love this album.

His best in quite a while, surely? The last several albums blended together for me - this one seems like a fresh direction with some nods to earlier eras in his development.

Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.

*of something

This album is amazing. His best work imho hits immediately while simultaneously begging for repeated listens.

Feels like it's going to be up there with Rounds, There Is Love In You and New Energy for me already. Every song feels delicate, rich and essential. Understated confidence on display big time.

Shoegaze hip hop.

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4

Fuck Facebook mangling urls.

Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:55 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok this got me to listen and yeah it's Custard Speedtalk. fucking amazing. I haven't heard a Four Tet album since There is Love in You but I think I gotta get a copy of this

New Energy and Sixteen Oceans are both lush. The Parallel thing is a really nice ambient excursion. Three follows the two prior very closely really. Beautiful Reminder is quite different.

And if you haven’t heard Morning/Evening you’re in for a massive treat. So lush.

i have not but i think my local shop has a copy of that in

Morning/Evening is fantastic yeah. Sixteen Oceans is really solid, but starts to thin out in the latter half though. Three is just about freakin' perfect.

morning/evening xpost to "jams that aren't on spotify" (at least not in the us). shame.

yes, new record is decent. he's been really good again for a while. the william tyler collab!

My album of the year.

I'm all about Morning Side, used to be on Spotify too

other relatively recent four tet tracks I love:
Planet
Baby
Nova (with Burial)
Looking at Your Pager (as KH)

remixes:
Opal (BICEP)
18HUNNA (Headie One feat. Dave)
Kiss It Better (Rihanna)
Opus (Eric Prydz)

as a bonus he really seems like a great human being

I often think abt his advice on mastering:

just turn everything up and put limiter on the master to catch any mad peaks

the episode of Hanging Out with Audiophiles with him is also great

I'm very happy he won the royalty rate case https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/20/four-tet-settles-royalty-rate-dispute-domino-records-keiran-hebden

haven't heard the new album, but have been obsessively listening to "darkness, darkness," his collab with william tyler

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:33 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Great review. There is Love in You will always be my favorite but agree with your comment that he's never made a mediocre album. Totally agree with your comments on Jason Evans's artwork.

thanks for sharing that review, very otm

I went back and listened to a lot of his discography after the new one dropped. Everything Ecstatic is very mediocre to me still (felt the same way when it came out). Just feels way to mired in self indulgent noodling. Nothing sticks to you, and sounds closer to a spastic, jazz freakout record, which may or may not be your thing. In the context of Four Tet's aesthetic it was not my thing. Startling how that one is sandwiched between two of his best, most iconic and career defining records. There Is Love In You genuinely felt like a "comeback" album when it dropped.

Four Tet is an artist who, for a very long time, I felt distinctly "meh" about - an indie rocker's idea of electronic music: pretty enough, but flimsy and anaemic; neither quirky or interesting enough to compete with the IDM/Warp crowd, too sketchy and bodiless to count as dance music, and lacking the satisfying largesse of chilled out home-listening music by contemporaries such as Bonobo or somesuch.

Then a few years ago he started releasing stuff that really made me sit up and pay attention. It was like he'd had some sort of production evolution where suddenly his productions were lush, enveloping, hypnotic and super-satisfying. Loved the more dancey stuff too from KH and some of the remixes and collabs he was doing - definitely someone who had finally grokked onto the idea of music made for soundsystems rather than Apple speakers.

So I'm realy not sure about this record: It really feels like the kind of thing he'd have released ten or even twenty years ago. Pretty, but simplistic chiming melodies, box-ready drum-loops, a noticeable thin-ness and lack of overall bite. It's nice, but it's too nice for me.

Yeah this sounded a bit like an early 00s indietronica record to me too. Nice but anaemic. I keep hoping it will push past the politeness and go somewhere interesting but it never does

idk if i agree. are "31 bloom" and "three drums" polite indietronica

what impresses me about this record is how often it shifts approaches and palettes while remaining cohesive. feels like a four tet greatest hits on some level (not complaining)

Three Drums is a standout and made me keen to hear the album. But yes, washy shoegaze moments aside I'd say it's a fairly tame piece of music. I've heard vaguely Boards Of Canada'y drumloops like that too many times in my life to feel super-hyped over something like this. Same as the shoegaze influence I guess; I mean, it's cool and all and I the track is "nice" but shoegazetronica isn't something that's going to blow me away in 2024.

31 Bloom is as polite as it gets as far as I can tell. Again, it's not unpleasant, but that paper-thin house beat makes me feel like I'm listening to a Kompakt Total compilation on a shower-radio.

So Blue is my fave so far, I like the vocal snatches and the laid-back jazzy feel.

Mostly it's the rhythm on this album, and a lot (but not all) of his other work: Too often it's a vaguely pretty melody just slipping in and out over a jazzy hip-hop drum loop straight out of a Grand Central compilation from 2001; not much in the way of low end. It's all a bit Grizzly Bear for my tastes.

I know he can do stuff with bite. Mango Feedback was great, really effective. Teenage Birdsong was sweet and felt satisfying to listen to. His stuff as KH fkn SLAMS. So he knows his way around a beat. Just here it sounds a bit reserved, dare I say uninspired, rhythm-wise.

I'm with DL, it's his dance singles that really hit for me these days.

this is nonsense, four tet has and always had some of the best drums in the business, instantly recognizable

corrs otm, i've never been a super big four tet fan. i like him just fine, he has never made a fully classic album tho.

that being said, even i've jacked his open drums on several occasions because they're always fucking sick.

"Three Drums" and "Daydream Repeat" are loud.

neither quirky or interesting enough to compete with the IDM/Warp crowd

As one of those IDM/Warp peeps from the late 90's, Pause and Rounds felt iconic and essential when they came out, and sounded as good and as "new" as any IDM record I was listening to at the time. Was refreshing to hear acoustic sampled instruments configured in a very mid 90's melodic IDMish style, with hip hop at its base. Evoked the vibes of Susumu Yokota and Boards of Canada to me, while feeling fresh and distinct. I revisit Four Tet's older records far more than I do by anything from Bonobo from that same era.

Whatever people think of Four Tet, Bonobo has always struck me as Diet Four Tet.

Bonobo is Fisher Price Four Tet.

My First Dancey Melodic Electronica Record.

octo otm. it's more post-rock but I also go back to Dialogue a lot

When I mentioned Bonobo I was using it as a shorthand for "pleasant chill-out music for normies", which isn't really a slight because everyone needs relaxing beats to chill to/study to.
But as others are saying, Four Tet should be way beyond and outside of that realm, especially at this point in his career. I just don't hear it on this album.

Is anything on Three as good as, arbitrary example, Flim? No. But Three Drums is close, as is Daydream Repeat. Is it chilled beats to relax to for normies? Wtf is a normie? I’ve got two kids and I’m 45 next month and I love this record and I saw Four Tet live in 2003 etc etc etc.

my favorite four tet thing is that madlib album he put together a few years ago

Okay so the hierarchy goes

Bonobo = Diet Four Tet
Four Tet = Diet Aphex Twin

What is Aphex the Diet version of? VSnares? Ae?

don't think Four Tet compares to Aphex much at all, maybe Boards of Canada though. I always did think Pause kinda made me recall my teenage years the same way MHTRTC makes me think of childhood

VSnares is definitely a Four Loko by the way

love this new one. very simple, very effective

What is Aphex the Diet version of? VSnares? Ae?

the real snob move here is to say that his emotiveness can't compare to the Detroit guys

Four Loko? That's like the US version of Buckfast or something isn't it? In which case, definitely.

the real snob move here is to say that his emotiveness can't compare to the Detroit guys

― default damager (lukas), Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:50 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Real snobpinions

xp yes indeed though I'd bet anything Buckfast tastes better. also important to note Four Lokos cost about $1.99

there are very few things that Buckfast tastes better than

last time I had a Four Loko I thought it tasted like someone dropped a bag of Jolly Ranchers into a pint of paint thinner

Does anyone else hear 'Storm Crystals' referencing 'Ending (An Ascent)' around the 4-minute mark?

In "Skater" I'm hearing shades of the greatest hold music in history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWAYIqy9LQ

Skater is lovely, not like much else he's done before (that I've heard)

Three+ is out - 4 new tracks, nearly 25 mins of new music

Correction - looks like the latter two are from the Mango Feedback single. Not sure about the first two.

I love this album

the drop on daydream repeat my god it's good

Making bangers with just presets, no effects or panning, what a legend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CPQ8LU36w

What a lovely guy.

awesome

song bangs and bangs

Really enjoyed that whole podcast, I almost get more excited about a new Four Tet interview than a record these days, lol.

he's so straightforward, a joy to hear him explain his process

the one he did on hanging out with audiophiles was super good too

keep coming back, in my mind, to this paragraph from Scik Mouthy's review, very otm:

I loved the slow-burn melancholy of “Three Drums” when it came out last year as a (then) stand-alone single, and also the length of it (Four Tet stretching-out to 8 minutes plus is very welcome in my world). But possibly what I loved most about it was the grit in the oyster: the slow building of almost feedback-like noise amongst the layers of laconic drums, sweet melody, and plangent strings. The insertion of that noise, that edge, did what I so often love in music, pushing me away and attracting me at the same time.

my bold obv

He's a treasure. He has insane confidence and focus in what he does and what defines his "style", while maintaining a playful and exploratory quality with a desire to try new things. Never change, Kieran.

Sometimes you just need a vocal hook and a kick drum and you got a thing going

I love this album

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 9, 2024 10:36 PM

Though, as mentioned in the comments several times, the part where he utterly blanks the interviewer's weak joke is cold as hell.

I don't think he even noticed, he was just deep in his tracks.

I love what he chooses to be rigorous about - he's anti-sound design, anti-mixing as much as possible (although even he isn't immune to obsessing for months over how the kick drum hits vs other tracks on a club system), but has a practicing of constantly collecting sounds so that when it's time to make a track he can just grab things on the fly and stay creative.

I went back and listened to the Tape Notes podcasts with Floating Points and Caribou, and I'm jealous of these guys' group thread where they get to have track feedback from Four Tet on a daily basis. Also love that both of them separately said "keep in mind, I don't know what I'm doing" at one point (in terms of technical engineering stuff, obviously they do because they know what they want to hear and are able to get there). And I appreciate the '3 types of people' depiction of Floating Points as the gearhead who's inspired by the instruments, Kieran as the zero gear/ideas ONLY one, and Snaith somewhere in the middle.

just in case people didn't see the william tyler thread there's a very interesting collaboration coming up
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/41-longfield-street-late-80s