yeah i only really wanna hear side A so far, but i really wanna hear it a lot
― plax (ico), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
What did Tom Ashbrook do Paul?
― matt2, Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Used "Everything is Alright" as the theme music for one of NPR's most tedious talk shows.
― Yaz Hands (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
but I guess I just prefer electronic music with a more synthetic sound palette, or less rhythmic squareness, or both.
but four tet is one of the least square, least quantized dudes out there. that's my favorite trick of his, all those free jazz drum samples that aren't quite in time but totally work.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Up until the last EP and this album; hence your 'meh'ness about it, I guess.
I love Pause, and Rounds, and like I like Dialogue (his jazziest! and no one mentions it!) and Everything Ecstatic too, but the Ringer EP took him in a direction I never expected and was very, very pleased with, and the new album melds that with his older work perfectly.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Dialogue (his jazziest! and no one mentions it!)
It's way out of print and I can't find the damn thing............................!
Nick, have you heard the Steve Reid collabs? What's the verdict?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't, actually; I dunno why. I saw him live in about 2004 and didn't enjoy it, and then didn't get EE initially, and kind of went off him - my affections fully transferred to Caribou for a few years, I guess, and I just kind of let the Steve Reid things drift past. May pick them up over the next few months though.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
anybody want to buy my copy of dialogue on cd? $100 ;)
― shite new answers (cutty), Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Finally reading what was said upthread --
I think I would have been annoyed at one point that music I like may be played at trendy overpriced cocktail bars, but at this point in the game, I like to pretend I could own an overpriced cocktail bar someday and play whatever I want, and it'd be Four Tet anyway.
― mh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Cosign.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post to nick
Caribou! Is it just me or did he lose some of the following post name-change? I kind of lumped him in the same category as Four Tet and I'm not sure I was wrong, but I haven't heard them in the same context lately.
― mh, Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
2001/03/05 they had similarities; I still mentally file them together. They're mates, and DJ at each other's gigs all the time. Caribou's new album also meant to be fancier.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
DANCIER.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Kieran/Four Tet play as part of the Caribou Vibration Ensemble (along with Marshall Allen, Koushik and a host of others I'm conveniently forgetting) at the ATP NY festival last year.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
but four tet is one of the least square, least quantized dudes out there. that's my favorite trick of his, all those free jazz drum samples that aren't quite in time but totally work.they don't totally work for me. I get the programmed/performed time distinction, but it still ends up striking me as plodding somehow, the same feeling I get from most trip-hop. I'm not a big fan of the jazz style into which he crosses over, either, and maybe that's part of the problem for me as I try to appreciate it
― Yaz Hands (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Also spoke to Kieran in the hall for a few minutes, later that afternoon. We discussed mainly the festival overall, the experience and what we'd enjoyed so far. He had loved the Boredoms 9 drummer thing earlier in the day. Can't blame him, it was excellent!
xpost to self
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I gotta say take side A (Angel Echoes --> Love Cry) and side D (Plastic People --> She Just Likes to Fight) put them as side A and B on one record and you've got a phenomenal EP for my tastes. The rest hasn't stuck but those four are great.
This feels so weird to me because, as of right now, "Sing" and "This Unfolds" are like two of my very favorites!
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
getting there & finding that they were just gonna be jamming on caribou's songs made it feel kind of 'summit of wasted talent' though, iirc
― Norman Mail (schlump), Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup, I emailed the ATP folks at the time begging for a separate Four Tet set and/or DJ gig, to no effect.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
who does that
― shite new answers (cutty), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
It wasn't as pathetic as I realize I've made it sound, more like an "Any plans to do Y in addition to X?" type email.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
im a bit lukewarm to the man but saw him in croatia during the summer at electric elephant and it was wonderful. plus it was dark, hot and a serious electrical storm was on the horizon behind in the harbour. might give the album a shot. the steve reid stuff is great, fantastic live
― straightola, Friday, 26 February 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Floating points remix of Sing is pretty sweet btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsB4aapKZZc
― plax (ico), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently there's a mosca remix on its way too
^^^ wow
― shite new answers (cutty), Friday, 19 March 2010 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds like it is from a mix or live set. do want. Floating Points seems like he can do no wrong.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 19 March 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I'm not really feeling this album.
― dog latin, Friday, 19 March 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
apology accepted
― plax (ico), Friday, 19 March 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
may have already been mentioned but some nice links from his website (live set, essential mix).
― djh, Friday, 19 March 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
really feeling <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tylertadlockspirituals">Spirituals</a>, it's very fourt tet-y (in the same vein as the new album but maybe more compelling?)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean Spirituals
i see what you mean
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
this is really good
― plax (ico), Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i couldn't dance to any of this the way you could to say love cry
― plax (ico), Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
true. it sounds so nice though (and it's obviously produced by a drummer imo...love the rhythmic device on the first track, and the mahavishnu orchestra sample on the second track).
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i love the first song, which has a burial-influence to it.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
love the remixes on their myspace too
― plax (ico), Thursday, 24 June 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i first stumbled across that caribou remix on youtube and was like 'whoa, this is way better than the original'. better than the ones that won the remix contest too.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 24 June 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ewan Pearson tweeter something about a new Four Tet single in Soul Jazz but I've seen nothing; any ideas?
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Here you go: http://soundcloud.com/soul-jazz-records/four-tet-nothing-to-see-8-49
― matt2, Friday, 25 June 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a rolling electronic type of thread that would encompass stuff like spirituals?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 25 June 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
there are like 5 groups with that sound, no need for a rolling thread
― cutty, Friday, 25 June 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, not that specific, just for stuff that doesn't fall into the other rolling threads (dubstep, house, "funky"?)
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 25 June 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
indietronica rolling thread
― cutty, Friday, 25 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
from that Magic For Your Ears website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LswfoaBeZo
Fan made video for the track Circling by Four Tet. Contains stunning footage of Africa from the Documentry Great Rift – Africa’s Wild Heart.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
NICE!
For some reason I started thinking about my year-end list today... this'll probably come in at the 2-4 range, it's a really great album.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
What's the bangin'/pretty ratio for the Fabric mix?
― djh, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'd have to listen again but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
I guess that begs the question "What were you anticipating disliking?"
― djh, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
I had recently listened to his set from PS1 (which I hated) and suspected he couldn't mix and wouldn't have an ear for how a dj set should be paced/sequenced. It's several different parts spliced together but it works.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link