Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

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.

DANCIER.

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.

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

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 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!

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.

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

Yup, I emailed the ATP folks at the time begging for a separate Four Tet set and/or DJ gig, to no effect.

who does that

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.

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

Floating points remix of Sing is pretty sweet btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsB4aapKZZc

apparently there's a mosca remix on its way too

^^^ wow

that sounds like it is from a mix or live set. do want. Floating Points seems like he can do no wrong.

Sorry, I'm not really feeling this album.

apology accepted

may have already been mentioned but some nice links from his website (live set, essential mix).

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?)

i mean Spirituals

i see what you mean

this is really good

i couldn't dance to any of this the way you could to say love cry

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).

i love the first song, which has a burial-influence to it.

love the remixes on their myspace too

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.

Ewan Pearson tweeter something about a new Four Tet single in Soul Jazz but I've seen nothing; any ideas?

Here you go: http://soundcloud.com/soul-jazz-records/four-tet-nothing-to-see-8-49

is there a rolling electronic type of thread that would encompass stuff like spirituals?

there are like 5 groups with that sound, no need for a rolling thread

nah, not that specific, just for stuff that doesn't fall into the other rolling threads (dubstep, house, "funky"?)

indietronica rolling thread

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.

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.

What's the bangin'/pretty ratio for the Fabric mix?

i'd have to listen again but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

I guess that begs the question "What were you anticipating disliking?"

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.

This album (TILIY) is still utterly lovely. Definitely my favourite thing he's done.

People need to get acquainted with Dialogue.

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Still adore this. All-time favourite status now, I think.

Can't believe this album is 2 years old now!

Took this revive as a reminder to buy Ringer which is basically so wibbling that I feel shame-faced for not having got it before.

There's another thread about the new old compendium album, isn't there? Could have sworn I saw discussion about it here.

2 and a half years old. Mental.

What's the other album that came out roughly the same time that felt like an analogue to this? I'm racking my brains...

Ah, Caribou... that's it. Couldn't get into either of those at the time, mind - a bit too mid-range/not enough bass IIRC - but I'm on a "reassess stuff from the last couple of years" tip at the moment, so I might go back to them.

Nick - are you familiar with Minotaur Shock?

Haven't spent anywhere near as much time with that Caribou record, TBH.

I have had weirdly opposite reactions to those two artists. Like, whenever I hear Caribou at first thought, I immediately think "this is fantastic, must hear more" but I can't quite seem to make it through a whole album. Like it's a bubblegum high that wears off really quick. But with Four Tet, my immediate response has usually been "hmm, not sure about this. Distinct whiff of jazz" but then I get sucked in and more and more engrossed as the album goes on, and a couple of months later I don't want to listen to anything else.

Listening to Minotaur Shock and have to say it's not impressing me. Like this is everything about Four Tet that turns me off him (the toybox techno, the twee affectations) blown up large without the stuff I love about him.

I talk to Minotaur Shock on Twitter a lot more than I listen to his actual music, though I do have an album by him. Are you thinking he's an analogue to these guys?

I managed 1 full song and 2 half ones, and it was my impression that it was that kind of toybox tweelectronica but without the shimmering sense of psychedelic "we're going to another place now" that makes Four Tet so special. Like he took the instrumentation but not the sound palette.

xpost Dunno... The album I have by him would sit nicely next to those others, although it's a couple more years older.