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i think it's in the shops tomorrow, so i will pick it up then. anyone heard anything from this? will it be money well spent? As good as manitoba? opinions, please.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

omg WHAT? an album? more info now please!

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

it's called "rounds". i haven't heard any of it, so i can't go into much detail! NME and Uncut review it today if you want to read up on it.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only heard the single 'Rounds' which is pleasant enuff. I read an interview with him where he said that this was his first stab at creating completely stand-alone underivative music, so who knows what it'll sound like. he also said that during recording it he'd been listening mostly to early '90s hip hop - Pete Rock, Diamond D, Extra P etceterah.

i'm intrigued.

nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tomorrow in Ireland, Monday over here. Called Rounds. Meant to be better than Pause. Which is going to be hard!

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.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Excited!

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.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 May 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm quite excited about it, too.


Insight, moi?

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have it, it's aces. But don't ask me to describe it in any detail because I am rub at writing about music

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently he's producing the next beth orton album, which is quite exciting

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

No it isn't! :P

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

no IT IS

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

etc etc

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Had it for a month or so on Promo, and its fantastic, probably the best thing he's done, a progression of what he's done before rather than anything different. Its as good as the Manitoba, in fact those 2 albums will be in my top 50 come the end of the year along with the magic Soulo - Man, the Manipulator and Kopernic - Kopernic

Action Jackson, Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Had it a while too. If you like his stuff you'll really fall for this one, it's gorgeous. Better than Manitoba's Up In Flames in my view and that's really going some coz i luv that record, different to Pause but still just as beautiful... clever, clever fella

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It's very, very good. So is the new Prefuse 73, while you're spending money.

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like I'll be buying the whole concert bill, then (P73, 4Tet, and Manitoba are playing select U.S. cities). (I only have Up in Flames so far.) (And now kicking myself for planning a trip the same weekend of that show.)

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

he's not producing the beth orton album (i spoke to him an hour ago). he did some remixes for her and worked on a b-side and they might extend the collaboration. what you're hearing is pr types hyping more nonexistent marketing angles.

ben sterling (frozen in time), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I interviewed Four Tet recently and he said he *is* producing
the new Beth Orton album. It's right here on my tape, I swear.

Da ve Segal, Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

New Four Tet album is luuuurvley. Some of the sounds have the same feel as the previous one, which makes me happy- I love the tones and general mood. There's one awful unlistenable track (a la No More Mosquitoes, though I can't remember the name of the new one) and the ending Slow Jam is kinda boring. My Angel Rocks Back and Forth is prime girlfriend-bait-mixtape material, though. Aces overall.

r. geary (rgeary), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

[off-topic] j_o_e_b, does yr computer have a virus? i just got a superweird bit of spam offa you...150k email titled "Questionnaire" but seemingly containing...nothing. Just asking.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

charlie, i've has some similar stuff (not from joeb).

gaz (gaz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

been listening to a few songs on this album all day and then... track eight - 'as serious as your life'! holy shit this rawks. much craze on the board lately with the manitoba's release and now new four tet. of the two, i've always been partial to four tet and pause & rounds are why. cannae wait tah see boef wif prefuse 73.

j.a.e., Friday, 2 May 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

that prefuse73 reckid rocks! i was a doubter.

gaz (gaz), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...
Anyone heard the new Four Tet DJ Kicks cd?

todd (todd), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Just wondering because I can pick it up used, but know only a few tracks:

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

todd (todd), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like you've found a promo- it's not out until the end of June, at least in the US. Interesting tracklist, though- Gong?!

Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm mebbe worth a check

"late night tales" is great

Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

that tracklist screams ableton live
can't wait to hear it myself!

yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

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.

oscar, Thursday, 20 March 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

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.

formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:43 (sixteen years ago)

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

butt_hurton (haitch), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:05 (sixteen years ago)

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)

:(

formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

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

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

Liking that a lot

stet, Friday, 8 May 2009 12:56 (sixteen years ago)

Plz to tell more?

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:46 (sixteen years ago)

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

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:02 (sixteen years ago)

Oh right.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:51 (sixteen years ago)

not so limited, already repressed.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:45 (sixteen years ago)

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

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

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.)

℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Saturday, 13 August 2011 12:44 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago)

His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent

Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

sam500, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

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

that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago)

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

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

recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago)

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.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago)

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.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

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.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago)

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.

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:08 (twelve years ago)

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.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:26 (twelve years ago)

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

misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago)

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

Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":

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

misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago)

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

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago)

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.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago)

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

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago)

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

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

sourced from 4:00

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago)

Nice review, Nick.

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

djh, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago)

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

Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago)

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.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago)

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

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago)

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

jed_, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago)

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".

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago)

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

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago)

That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago)

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.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:29 (twelve years ago)

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.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago)

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.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago)

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?

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:13 (twelve years ago)

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

just sayin, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:20 (twelve years ago)

Why didn't I think of that?

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:44 (twelve years ago)

And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago)

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

whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago)

Oh man Peace For Earth.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago)

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

whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago)

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.

hyggeligt, Saturday, 22 September 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Live in the Boiler Room:

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

djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago)

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.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago)

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

djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago)

No idea why that isn't working.

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

djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago)

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.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago)

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

djh, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago)

<3

He is the actual best.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

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

Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:38 (twelve years ago)

Oooh

willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:43 (twelve years ago)

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? ;-)

willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:51 (twelve years ago)

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

Four days left to vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 13:26 (twelve years ago)

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.

alpine static, Monday, 21 January 2013 08:36 (twelve years ago)

what artist/song is track 3?

brotherlovesdub, Monday, 21 January 2013 08:59 (twelve years ago)

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

questino (seandalai), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:10 (twelve years ago)

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

questino (seandalai), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:22 (twelve years ago)

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

they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 10 February 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

This track with Neneh Cherry is sweet:

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

supermassive pot hole (seandalai), Friday, 19 April 2013 00:29 (twelve years ago)

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 have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:05 (twelve years ago)

I like that

charlie 4chan, internet detective (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:07 (twelve years ago)

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

thanks sd

I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:12 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

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

18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:22 (ten years ago)

for reference

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

18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:23 (ten years ago)

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

festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)

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

festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:49 (ten years ago)

five months pass...

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!

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 May 2015 10:56 (ten years ago)

Yay!

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 7 May 2015 11:14 (ten years ago)

have a good feeling about this one

the late great, Friday, 8 May 2015 00:32 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Streaming for summer solstice.

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 22 June 2015 08:27 (nine years ago)

It's really something!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 22 June 2015 14:43 (nine years ago)

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

brotherlovesdub, Monday, 22 June 2015 16:11 (nine years ago)

Morning is glorious!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 22 June 2015 23:35 (nine years ago)

it's really great

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 22 June 2015 23:48 (nine years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:06 (nine years ago)

"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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:07 (nine years ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:33 (nine years ago)

"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

lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:45 (nine years ago)

i don't like his polite drum pads at all

lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:45 (nine years ago)

pretty underwhelmed by this one tbh :(

lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:07 (nine years ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:19 (nine years ago)

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

anvil, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:32 (nine years ago)

2 tracks, 20 minutes each.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:35 (nine years ago)

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

anvil, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:07 (nine years ago)

Fell in love with this record on first listen.

octobeard, Thursday, 25 June 2015 01:32 (nine years ago)

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

the late great, Thursday, 25 June 2015 01:52 (nine years ago)

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.

boxedjoy, Monday, 29 June 2015 22:26 (nine years ago)

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.

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 29 June 2015 22:51 (nine years ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:21 (nine years ago)

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.

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:39 (nine years ago)

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.

niels, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 11:02 (nine years ago)

Morning Side definitely better than Evening.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 12:23 (nine years ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 July 2015 13:01 (nine years ago)

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

Position Position, Monday, 6 July 2015 14:00 (nine years ago)

You're over egged, mate.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:20 (nine years ago)

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.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:25 (nine years ago)

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

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:33 (nine years ago)

You're very beautiful Mate x

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:41 (nine years ago)

You too!! Aww yeah

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:46 (nine years ago)

<3 you baby :)

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:49 (nine years ago)

*farts*

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:52 (nine years ago)

Fu

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:53 (nine years ago)

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

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the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:58 (nine years ago)

Post me some gifs, tlg.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:01 (nine years ago)

post me some pure drum tracks, son!!!

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:16 (nine years ago)

giving this another serious listen right now.

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:18 (nine years ago)

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

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:19 (nine years ago)

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.

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:24 (nine years ago)

this would be better if someone put a donk on it

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:29 (nine years ago)

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

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:30 (nine years ago)

hopefully there will be remixes

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:30 (nine years ago)

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!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:41 (nine years ago)

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

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:42 (nine years ago)

jed have you heard the new sound stream record?

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:44 (nine years ago)

Actually M-lessness is my man so.

Is it worth mentioning that I insanely drunk?

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:44 (nine years ago)

lol good!!

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:47 (nine years ago)

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

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:48 (nine years ago)

It's a good one!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:51 (nine years ago)

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

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:52 (nine years ago)

again though, drums at the end too quiet

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:53 (nine years ago)

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

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:54 (nine years ago)

need to give evening another go

e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:55 (nine years ago)

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

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 05:00 (nine years ago)

bass affairs / sweep magic / star strike

the late great, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 05:07 (nine years ago)

Ty

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 05:13 (nine years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 9 July 2015 12:13 (nine years ago)

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

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 10 July 2015 10:55 (nine years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Friday, 10 July 2015 11:19 (nine years ago)

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

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 10 July 2015 11:26 (nine years ago)

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

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Friday, 10 July 2015 12:39 (nine years ago)

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

niels, Friday, 10 July 2015 12:45 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 14 September 2015 16:50 (nine years ago)

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

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 14 September 2015 17:12 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

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

conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 23:46 (nine years ago)

five months pass...

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

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

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 12:30 (eight years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 12:42 (eight years ago)

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.

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:25 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 July 2016 12:25 (eight years ago)

four months pass...

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.

The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 13:08 (eight years ago)

eight months pass...

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

subtle but beautiful

niels, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:53 (seven years ago)

strings remind me of Rounds

niels, Sunday, 6 August 2017 20:55 (seven years ago)

great track, four tet is classic

love this

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

Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 7 August 2017 00:19 (seven years ago)

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

chap, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 10:47 (seven years ago)

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

niels, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:02 (seven years ago)

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

plax (ico), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:32 (seven years ago)

"Two Thousand and Seventeen" was good too

Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:00 (seven years ago)

cool, I'd missed that!

niels, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:27 (seven years ago)

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

MikoMcha, Friday, 25 August 2017 05:59 (seven years ago)

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

niels, Friday, 25 August 2017 07:30 (seven years ago)

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

MikoMcha, Friday, 25 August 2017 07:37 (seven years ago)

Just listening to this for the first time.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 August 2017 08:21 (seven years ago)

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

Matt DC, Friday, 25 August 2017 08:39 (seven years ago)

Brixton Academy postcode?

Cake hawn. (jed_), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:02 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 07:53 (seven years ago)

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

sonderpop, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:44 (seven years ago)

Good feeling about this based on the singles.

chap, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 11:46 (seven years ago)

yup

Planet is gorgeous

niels, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:16 (seven years ago)

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

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

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:29 (seven years ago)

I am so ready for this album

niels, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 12:58 (seven years ago)

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

barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 13:23 (seven years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:01 (seven years ago)

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

djh, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 20:46 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

new album out tonight

— Four Tet (@FourTet) September 28, 2017

just sayin, Thursday, 28 September 2017 10:18 (seven years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 28 September 2017 12:41 (seven years ago)

grrrrreat!

niels, Thursday, 28 September 2017 13:41 (seven years ago)

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

chap, Friday, 29 September 2017 13:41 (seven years ago)

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.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:28 (seven years ago)

this album is gorgeous!

niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:13 (seven years ago)

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

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 September 2017 09:02 (seven years ago)

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?

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 September 2017 09:13 (seven years ago)

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

niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:02 (seven years ago)

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)

niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:04 (seven years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Sunday, 1 October 2017 11:52 (seven years ago)

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

octobeard, Monday, 2 October 2017 06:24 (seven years ago)

Where's my CD, Oxfam?!

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 2 October 2017 09:54 (seven years ago)

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

barbarian radge (NotEnough), Monday, 2 October 2017 12:35 (seven years ago)

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

barbarian radge (NotEnough), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:36 (seven years ago)

Apparently the CD has arrived...

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:24 (seven years ago)

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.

sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:01 (seven years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:39 (seven years ago)

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

Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:23 (seven years ago)

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

Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 8 October 2017 02:04 (seven years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Sunday, 8 October 2017 09:11 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 23:13 (seven years ago)

haha, that's great

niels, Thursday, 26 October 2017 07:04 (seven years ago)

Yeah, I liked that.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 October 2017 08:28 (seven years ago)

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

mark e, Thursday, 26 October 2017 09:21 (seven years ago)

Jealous of his studio view.

Matt DC, Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:05 (seven years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:20 (seven years ago)

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

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:00 (seven years ago)

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.

mark e, Thursday, 26 October 2017 18:25 (seven years ago)

its organic

plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:56 (seven years ago)

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

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:58 (seven years ago)

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

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:02 (seven years ago)

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

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:03 (seven years ago)

he lays it all out in the replies

na (NA), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:05 (seven years ago)

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

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:08 (seven years ago)

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?

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:20 (seven years ago)

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.

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:22 (seven years ago)

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

djh, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:15 (seven years ago)

where's the meme?

niels, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:16 (seven years ago)

just search the phrase on twitter

change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:24 (seven years ago)

that meme is DOA

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:31 (seven years ago)

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

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:13 (seven years ago)

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

haha... his twitter is fun

niels, Friday, 27 October 2017 06:06 (seven years ago)

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

Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 October 2017 02:03 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

niels, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:33 (seven years ago)

album sounds poorly mixed lol

pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Monday, 20 November 2017 16:22 (seven years ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:22 (seven years ago)

he said so himself on twitter

sounds great to my ears

niels, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:45 (seven years ago)

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

pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:30 (seven years ago)

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.

mike t-diva, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 19:40 (seven years ago)

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

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 19:48 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

loving this.

BICEP vs Four Tet :

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

mark e, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:09 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

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

bump again for mark e

raspberry swirl (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:47 (six years ago)

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

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:35 (six years ago)

one month passes...

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

niels, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:09 (six years ago)

two months pass...

sw9 9sl is so so great

macropuente (map), Monday, 22 October 2018 07:27 (six years ago)

concur

niels, Monday, 22 October 2018 07:49 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

niels, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 11:07 (six years ago)

six months pass...

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.

Matt DC, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:06 (six years ago)

Just saw photos of this and man...

just sayin, Saturday, 11 May 2019 08:35 (six years ago)

I got this pic.twitter.com/uEnmbNCJw9

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

just sayin, Saturday, 11 May 2019 08:35 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

bored silly by this latest one tbh

bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 13 March 2020 17:16 (five years ago)

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.

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 13 March 2020 18:27 (five years ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:30 (five years ago)

he peaked with "Only Human"

Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:27 (five years ago)

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

michaellambert, Saturday, 14 March 2020 18:37 (five years ago)

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?

chap, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:54 (five years ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 March 2020 09:54 (five years ago)

one month passes...

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

djh, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 21:48 (five years ago)

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

maffew12, Thursday, 14 May 2020 08:29 (five years ago)

seven months pass...

Nice Christmas presents!

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

octobeard, Saturday, 26 December 2020 04:34 (four years ago)

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?

with hidden noise, Sunday, 27 December 2020 11:33 (four years ago)

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.

change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 27 December 2020 15:27 (four years ago)

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.

change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 27 December 2020 17:59 (four years ago)

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.

change display name (Jordan), Monday, 28 December 2020 15:55 (four years ago)

I'm a Parallel 6 guy

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:04 (four years ago)

(can't resist fake gamelan)

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:21 (four years ago)

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

davey, Thursday, 31 December 2020 12:30 (four years ago)

(love me some fake gamelan)

davey, Thursday, 31 December 2020 12:40 (four years ago)

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

just sayin, Saturday, 2 January 2021 10:00 (four years ago)

there is supposedly a whole album coming

a hoy hoy, Saturday, 2 January 2021 17:09 (four years ago)

four weeks pass...

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

Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:37 (four years ago)

it is extremely good

Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:42 (four years ago)

one year passes...

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

corrs unplugged, Friday, 20 May 2022 07:11 (three years ago)

lovely as always

corrs unplugged, Friday, 20 May 2022 07:11 (three years ago)

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

boxedjoy, Friday, 20 May 2022 07:41 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

always exploring

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

great drums

corrs unplugged, Thursday, 27 April 2023 08:50 (two years ago)

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

Indexed, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:50 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

well this is a treat

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

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:01 (two years ago)

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

Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:43 (two years ago)

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

Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:30 (two years ago)

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

Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:33 (two years ago)

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

Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:36 (two years ago)

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

corrs unplugged, Thursday, 18 May 2023 09:10 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

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

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:32 (one year ago)

one month passes...

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

corrs unplugged, Friday, 16 February 2024 10:38 (one year ago)

four weeks pass...

album out!

mostly mellow, great stuff, includes three previously released singles

corrs unplugged, Friday, 15 March 2024 13:16 (one year ago)

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

willem, Friday, 15 March 2024 15:19 (one year ago)

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

Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 15:23 (one year ago)

recently, or awhile ago?

(also, new board description)

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 15 March 2024 15:29 (one year ago)

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

Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:18 (one year ago)

Interesting! This one?

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

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:22 (one year ago)

When "Daydream Repeat" hit, I was sold

Indexed, Friday, 15 March 2024 16:36 (one year ago)

Yes xp, that entourage ensemble

Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:46 (one year ago)

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.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:23 (one year ago)

I love this album.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:26 (one year ago)

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.

Davey D, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:38 (one year ago)

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, 19 March 2024 18:55 (one year ago)

*of something

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:00 (one year ago)

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.

octobeard, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:33 (one year ago)

Shoegaze hip hop.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 06:24 (one year ago)

Fuck Facebook mangling urls.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:34 (one year ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:00 (one year ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:07 (one year ago)

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:08 (one year ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:17 (one year ago)

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.

octobeard, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:21 (one year ago)

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!

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:03 (one year ago)

My album of the year.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 01:14 (one year ago)

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

corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:20 (one year ago)

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

the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:58 (one year ago)

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.

Indexed, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:14 (one year ago)

thanks for sharing that review, very otm

corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 March 2024 05:36 (one year ago)

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.

octobeard, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:48 (one year ago)

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.

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 12:17 (one year ago)

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

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:35 (one year ago)

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

ivy., Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:51 (one year ago)

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)

ivy., Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:54 (one year ago)

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.

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:08 (one year ago)

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

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:45 (one year ago)

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

corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 15:45 (one year ago)

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.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:19 (one year ago)

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

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:20 (one year ago)

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.

octobeard, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 18:44 (one year ago)

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

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:29 (one year ago)

Bonobo is Fisher Price Four Tet.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 18:25 (one year ago)

My First Dancey Melodic Electronica Record.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 18:26 (one year ago)

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

default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:24 (one year ago)

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.

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 20:59 (one year ago)

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:34 (one year ago)

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

brimstead, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:37 (one year ago)

Okay so the hierarchy goes

Bonobo = Diet Four Tet
Four Tet = Diet Aphex Twin

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:31 (one year ago)

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

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:33 (one year ago)

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

frogbs, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:52 (one year ago)

love this new one. very simple, very effective

ciderpress, Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:19 (one year ago)

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

default damager (lukas), Thursday, 4 April 2024 02:50 (one year ago)

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

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:00 (one year ago)

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

your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:01 (one year ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:08 (one year ago)

there are very few things that Buckfast tastes better than

Number None, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:11 (one year ago)

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

frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:24 (one year ago)

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

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:43 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

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

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

maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:06 (one year ago)

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

chap, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:09 (one year ago)

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

octobeard, Friday, 10 May 2024 02:02 (one year ago)

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

octobeard, Friday, 10 May 2024 02:17 (one year ago)

I love this album

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2024 02:36 (one year ago)

two months pass...

the drop on daydream repeat my god it's good

corrs unplugged, Thursday, 11 July 2024 15:30 (ten months ago)

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

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

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 22 July 2024 16:25 (ten months ago)

What a lovely guy.

chap, Monday, 22 July 2024 17:54 (ten months ago)

awesome

song bangs and bangs

corrs unplugged, Monday, 29 July 2024 14:12 (ten months ago)

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

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 29 July 2024 14:26 (ten months ago)

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

corrs unplugged, Monday, 29 July 2024 14:33 (ten months ago)

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.

octobeard, Monday, 29 July 2024 22:36 (ten months ago)

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

octobeard, Monday, 29 July 2024 22:36 (ten months ago)

I love this album

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

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 July 2024 22:37 (ten months ago)

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

chap, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:18 (ten months ago)

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.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:55 (ten months ago)

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.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 2 August 2024 20:20 (ten months ago)

nine months pass...

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

corrs unplugged, Monday, 26 May 2025 11:54 (two weeks ago)


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