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― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:52 (10 years ago) Permalink
i'm intrigued.
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
Insight, moi?
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― todd (todd), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
01. David Behrman - Leapday Night (Scene 1)02. Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke03. Curtis Mayfield - If I Were Only A Child Again04. Heiner Stadler - Out-Rock05. Gary Davis - The Professor's Here06. Heldon - Les Soucoupes Volantes Vertes07. Stereolab - Les Yper-Sound08. So Solid Crew - Dillema09. Akufen - Psychometry 3.210. Animal Collective - Baby Day11. Madvillain - Figaro (101 Remix)12. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love13. Four Tet - Pockets14. Model 500 - Psychosomatic15. Shona People Of Rhodesia - Taireva16. Quickspace Supersport - Superspace17. Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel To The Boss18. Gong - Love Is How Y Make It19. Showbiz & A.G. - Represent20. Group Home - Up Against The Wall (Getaway Car Mix)21. Autechre - Flutter
― todd (todd), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:26 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:10 (7 years ago) Permalink
"late night tales" is great
― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
that 'ringer' EP was fantastic. he's really on a bit of a run lately!
― butt_hurton (haitch), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is pretty wicked. Goes very nicely with the Field record.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Liking that a lot
― stet, Friday, 8 May 2009 12:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
Plz to tell more?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh right.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
not so limited, already repressed.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
hopefully this pressing will sound less arse than the old one.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/tinariwen/tenere-taqqim-tossam-four-tet-remix/56036/
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
Also new from Mr. Tet, not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere:
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (10 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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):
#!
Bonus: bassline for The Choice is Yours at 1:20
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
Sorry that's Noble Ego, not the title track.
Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://thequietus.com/articles/09851-four-tet-pink-review
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/128-harps
sourced from 4:00
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Nice review, Nick.
Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.
― djh, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
"Peace For Earth" is great -- my favorite.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
yes it's lovely. not really feeling the rest of it so far.
― jed_, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 05:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 (8 months ago) Permalink
Why didn't I think of that?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
@ 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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh man Peace For Earth.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Live in the Boiler Room:
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
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 (7 months ago) Permalink
Your picture of Keiran has been retweeted by him, by the way.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
<3
He is the actual best.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
Four Tet @FourTetI am going to release a new Four Tet LP today
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:38 (4 months ago) Permalink
Oooh
― willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/0181-1Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001Compiled 2012TEXT021Also available on vinyl LP soon.
Also available on vinyl LP soon.
Another compilation? ;-)
― willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:51 (4 months ago) Permalink
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 (4 months ago) Permalink
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 (4 months ago) Permalink
what artist/song is track 3?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 21 January 2013 08:59 (4 months ago) Permalink
Some sort of tracklisting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/dontwatchthat/just-jam-86-four-tet/
― questino (seandalai), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:10 (4 months ago) Permalink
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 (3 months ago) Permalink
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 (3 months ago) Permalink
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 (1 month ago) Permalink
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 (1 month ago) Permalink
I like that
― charlie 4chan, internet detective (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
and okay holy (O)_(O) at this text022 thing!
thanks sd
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:12 (1 month ago) Permalink