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 (six years ago) link
this album is gorgeous!
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
might be, he did release a song under a wingding moniker last month
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
Where's my CD, Oxfam?!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 2 October 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, where's my vinyl, Oxfam? Playing it through Spotify is functional I guess. #1stworldNGOproblems
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Monday, 2 October 2017 12:35 (six years ago) link
bangerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLrmzYCbf0
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Apparently the CD has arrived...
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
"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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
haha, that's great
― niels, Thursday, 26 October 2017 07:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I liked that.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 October 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
when so many bands are going for analogue synth porn/modular excess, this is ace.
― mark e, Thursday, 26 October 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
Jealous of his studio view.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
Kind of furious that the speakers aren't equidistant from the window frame, tbh.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
its organic
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
"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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
What's the item on the left, some kind of preamp?
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
he lays it all out in the replies
― na (NA), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
Apparently: http://www.prismsound.com/music_recording/products_subs/lyra/lyra_home.php
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
Feel like there's a bit of undeserved snarkiness to the meme.
― djh, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
where's the meme?
― niels, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
just search the phrase on twitter
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
that meme is DOA
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
Ok finally getting around to this and tbqh its kinda boring.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
it's great, and he didn't even master it!
haha... his twitter is fun
― niels, Friday, 27 October 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
lolhttp://www.factmag.com/2017/10/27/four-tet-studio-meme/
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 28 October 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
great stuff here https://open.spotify.com/user/k_hebden/playlist/2uzbATYxs9V8YQi5lf89WG
― niels, Friday, 17 November 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
album sounds poorly mixed lol
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Monday, 20 November 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
he said so himself on twitter
sounds great to my ears
― niels, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
loving this.
BICEP vs Four Tet :
https://soundcloud.com/feelmybicep/bicep-opal-four-tet-remix
― mark e, Thursday, 8 March 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw-NrqKigs
bump again for mark e
― raspberry swirl (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
really liking new energy this morning. perfect for the sun coming up
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link