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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/09851-four-tet-pink-review
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Nice review, Nick.
Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.
― djh, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"Peace For Earth" is great -- my favorite.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
yes it's lovely. not really feeling the rest of it so far.
― jed_, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Why didn't I think of that?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:44 (eleven years ago) link
And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
@ 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 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man Peace For Earth.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Live in the Boiler Room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uFygzB-ho&feature=youtu.be
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
― djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Your picture of Keiran has been retweeted by him, by the way.
― djh, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
<3
He is the actual best.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Four Tet @FourTetI am going to release a new Four Tet LP today
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
Oooh
― willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
what artist/song is track 3?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 21 January 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
Some sort of tracklisting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/dontwatchthat/just-jam-86-four-tet/
― questino (seandalai), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I like that
― charlie 4chan, internet detective (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
and okay holy (O)_(O) at this text022 thing!
thanks sd
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (three weeks ago) link
I love this album
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2024 02:36 (three weeks ago) link