― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:52 (twenty years ago) link
i'm intrigued.
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:54 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
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 (twenty years ago) link
Insight, moi?
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― todd (todd), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
"late night tales" is great
― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
that 'ringer' EP was fantastic. he's really on a bit of a run lately!
― butt_hurton (haitch), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
This is pretty wicked. Goes very nicely with the Field record.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Liking that a lot
― stet, Friday, 8 May 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Plz to tell more?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh right.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
not so limited, already repressed.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
hopefully this pressing will sound less arse than the old one.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/tinariwen/tenere-taqqim-tossam-four-tet-remix/56036/
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Also new from Mr. Tet, not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQVPNo_X7Y
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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
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
― davey, Thursday, 31 December 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
(love me some fake gamelan)
― davey, Thursday, 31 December 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
madlib arranged by kieran hebden - https://open.spotify.com/track/4VaICpePVA67Wqvv8SryFr?si=uT0bQOptQNKpPGmDU7Kn8A
― just sayin, Saturday, 2 January 2021 10:00 (three years ago) link
there is supposedly a whole album coming
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 2 January 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/sound-ancestors
― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
it is extremely good
― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-your-pager^^believe this is actually old but a recently cleared sample? what's the flip?
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 20 May 2022 07:11 (one year ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 May 2022 07:41 (one year ago) link
always exploring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGaKVLFNWzs
great drums
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 27 April 2023 08:50 (eleven months ago) link
Oh cool - super 90s comedown track? Has he ever done anything like this?
― Indexed, Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:50 (eleven months ago) link
well this is a treat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728vP8jorLYKieran Hebden & William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:01 (ten months ago) link
Nice one, KH really getting back into his early '00s folktronica beats bag.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:43 (ten months ago) link
I dig it, but, a bit of skronk aside, not sure how much William Tyler there is in there?
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:30 (ten months ago) link
All the guitar I assume, of which there is a fair amount (besides the skronk)?
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
It was a cursory listen - I need to give it a proper go with headphones.
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 18:36 (ten months ago) link
xp yeah feels like something that could've been massive in the early 00s
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 18 May 2023 09:10 (ten months ago) link
healing music https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/loved
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
reminds me of somethinghttps://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/daydream-repeat
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 16 February 2024 10:38 (one month ago) link
album out!mostly mellow, great stuff, includes three previously released singles
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 15 March 2024 13:16 (two weeks ago) link
Sounding lovely on first listen. "Skater" reminds me of Arovane ca. Tides.
― willem, Friday, 15 March 2024 15:19 (two weeks ago) link
I recently found out that four test stole a sample from my neighbor’s brother’s band
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 15:23 (two weeks ago) link
recently, or awhile ago?
(also, new board description)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 15 March 2024 15:29 (two weeks ago) link
It was the sample from “she moves she.” His brother was a locally famous jazz drummer
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:18 (two weeks ago) link
Interesting! This one?
https://www.whosampled.com/sample/1000929/Four-Tet-She-Moves-She-John-Scott-Pentathlon/
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:22 (two weeks ago) link
When "Daydream Repeat" hit, I was sold
― Indexed, Friday, 15 March 2024 16:36 (two weeks ago) link
Yes xp, that entourage ensemble
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:46 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:23 (two weeks ago) link
I love this album.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:26 (one week ago) link
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.
― Davey D, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:38 (one week ago) link
Yeah, listened through today and loved it. Daydream Repeat was driving me mad reminding me off something. Just realised it's *Drift* era Underworld.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:55 (one week ago) link
*of something
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:00 (one week ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:33 (one week ago) link
Shoegaze hip hop.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 06:24 (one week ago) link
https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:33 (one week ago) link
Fuck Facebook mangling urls.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:34 (one week ago) link
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:55 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:00 (one week ago) link
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.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:07 (one week ago) link
And if you haven’t heard Morning/Evening you’re in for a massive treat. So lush.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:08 (one week ago) link
i have not but i think my local shop has a copy of that in
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:17 (one week ago) link
Morning/Evening is fantastic yeah. Sixteen Oceans is really solid, but starts to thin out in the latter half though. Three is just about freakin' perfect.
― octobeard, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:21 (one week ago) link
morning/evening xpost to "jams that aren't on spotify" (at least not in the us). shame.
yes, new record is decent. he's been really good again for a while. the william tyler collab!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:03 (one week ago) link
My album of the year.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2024 01:14 (one week ago) link
I'm all about Morning Side, used to be on Spotify too
other relatively recent four tet tracks I love:PlanetBabyNova (with Burial)Looking at Your Pager (as KH)
remixes: Opal (BICEP)18HUNNA (Headie One feat. Dave)Kiss It Better (Rihanna)Opus (Eric Prydz)
as a bonus he really seems like a great human being
I often think abt his advice on mastering:
just turn everything up and put limiter on the master to catch any mad peaks
the episode of Hanging Out with Audiophiles with him is also great
I'm very happy he won the royalty rate case https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/20/four-tet-settles-royalty-rate-dispute-domino-records-keiran-hebden
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 09:20 (three days ago) link
haven't heard the new album, but have been obsessively listening to "darkness, darkness," his collab with william tyler
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:58 (three days ago) link
https://sickmouthy.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/four-tet-three-a-review/?fbclid=IwAR3VwECIX8LXYG01r3ri-vf53SeKnVmiN6EVfQmdjiqq7nuiADvRI_oNmhE_aem_AaCUhN5UCI60lW9h6FB6zmT7XlHzAX5OEZEkkv_gefWSaevKY4qJbbthjGxb08ggZf4― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:33 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, March 21, 2024 4:33 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Great review. There is Love in You will always be my favorite but agree with your comment that he's never made a mediocre album. Totally agree with your comments on Jason Evans's artwork.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:14 (two days ago) link
thanks for sharing that review, very otm
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 28 March 2024 05:36 (yesterday) link
I went back and listened to a lot of his discography after the new one dropped. Everything Ecstatic is very mediocre to me still (felt the same way when it came out). Just feels way to mired in self indulgent noodling. Nothing sticks to you, and sounds closer to a spastic, jazz freakout record, which may or may not be your thing. In the context of Four Tet's aesthetic it was not my thing. Startling how that one is sandwiched between two of his best, most iconic and career defining records. There Is Love In You genuinely felt like a "comeback" album when it dropped.
― octobeard, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:48 (yesterday) link