new four tet

12 days into 12 week lockdown at my house and - on the infrequent occasions I get to listen to it - this is actually just what the public health official ordered right now. Calming. Beautiful. Reassuring. Familiar but new.

Have people noticed that he's putting up everything he's recorded/remixed on Spotify? There's about 31 hours worth so far.

Thanks for the notice! Been playing the new one a lot, it is gorgeous.

Nice Christmas presents!

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/parallel
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/871

Last track of 871 seems to be an effort to turn a sample of 10,000 Maniacs' cover of "Because the Night" into a DJ Shadow track?

The mid-'90s tracks are just a curiousity, but I'm enjoying Parallel (esp. the 24 min ambient opener!). The dance tracks are fine but I kinda wish it was all ambient for conceptual unity.

Also his interview on the Hanging Out with Audiophiles podcast is really fantastic. Moreso than the music, I find his interviews really inspiring, I've never heard anyone else echo/voice my own feelings about process so precisely.

And Tiga's podcast is a good companion piece, it's kinda dumb in comparison but covers his whole dj career, which I've been curious about. Also a good bit about working with Burial.

I'm a Parallel 6 guy

(can't resist fake gamelan)

TY for the podcast links. i started listening and got curious about how he operates in the studio. found a very generous walkthrough here. good stuff. now i'm inspired to start working with samples much more, and print/re-sample my own instrumental noodling as well.

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

(love me some fake gamelan)

madlib arranged by kieran hebden - https://open.spotify.com/track/4VaICpePVA67Wqvv8SryFr?si=uT0bQOptQNKpPGmDU7Kn8A

there is supposedly a whole album coming

https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors

it is extremely good

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-your-pager
^^believe this is actually old but a recently cleared sample? what's the flip?

lovely as always

it's from 3LW "No More" and I'm kinda on the fence about it but only because the melody of the original always felt so effortless to me and this feels a bit contorted, I wish the sample would get out the way because the rest of it is typically lush

always exploring

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

great drums

Oh cool - super 90s comedown track? Has he ever done anything like this?

well this is a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728vP8jorLY
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness

Nice one, KH really getting back into his early '00s folktronica beats bag.

I dig it, but, a bit of skronk aside, not sure how much William Tyler there is in there?

All the guitar I assume, of which there is a fair amount (besides the skronk)?

It was a cursory listen - I need to give it a proper go with headphones.

xp yeah feels like something that could've been massive in the early 00s

healing music
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/loved

reminds me of something
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/daydream-repeat

album out!

mostly mellow, great stuff, includes three previously released singles

Sounding lovely on first listen. "Skater" reminds me of Arovane ca. Tides.

I recently found out that four test stole a sample from my neighbor’s brother’s band

recently, or awhile ago?

(also, new board description)

It was the sample from “she moves she.” His brother was a locally famous jazz drummer

Interesting! This one?

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/1000929/Four-Tet-She-Moves-She-John-Scott-Pentathlon/

When "Daydream Repeat" hit, I was sold

Yes xp, that entourage ensemble

The downtempo indie/shoegaze/trip hop throwback tracks on this are nice. The dance tracks feel, if not obligatory, at least a little shoe-horned in? These days he's got his killer KH singles, and a few 'pretty' techno tracks on each record. Everything after 'Beautiful Rewind' feels like it's following the same template. Cozy Four Tet is fine but I like banger Four Tet, with some rough edges on his organic palette.

I love this album.

His best in quite a while, surely? The last several albums blended together for me - this one seems like a fresh direction with some nods to earlier eras in his development.

Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.

*of something

This album is amazing. His best work imho hits immediately while simultaneously begging for repeated listens.

Feels like it's going to be up there with Rounds, There Is Love In You and New Energy for me already. Every song feels delicate, rich and essential. Understated confidence on display big time.

Shoegaze hip hop.

https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4

Fuck Facebook mangling urls.

Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.

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ok this got me to listen and yeah it's Custard Speedtalk. fucking amazing. I haven't heard a Four Tet album since There is Love in You but I think I gotta get a copy of this

New Energy and Sixteen Oceans are both lush. The Parallel thing is a really nice ambient excursion. Three follows the two prior very closely really. Beautiful Reminder is quite different.

And if you haven’t heard Morning/Evening you’re in for a massive treat. So lush.

i have not but i think my local shop has a copy of that in