new four tet

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.

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.

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.

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

Sorry that's Noble Ego, not the title track.

Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDMkDtU9qs

Always find it amazing when someone takes 5 seconds of something and turns it into 8 minutes of something else.

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.

Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.

http://thequietus.com/articles/09851-four-tet-pink-review

http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/128-harps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1DoVdHM9M&feature=related

sourced from 4:00

Nice review, Nick.

Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.

At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.

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.

"Peace For Earth" is great -- my favorite.

yes it's lovely. not really feeling the rest of it so far.

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".

I'm not saying that I dislike the John Talabot at all though, its just a different kind of skewed melodic indie friendly dance.

That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.

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.

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.

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.

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?

ebay for ~£25? - http://www.ebay.com/itm/2012-FOUR-TET-PINK-JAPAN-DIGIPAK-CD-8-TRACKS-/350599156829?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item51a156945d

Why didn't I think of that?

And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.

@ WCC, kind of you to suggest I have an ear for this stuff! Mostly I just watch a lot of synth videos.

Oh man Peace For Earth.

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

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.

Live in the Boiler Room:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uFygzB-ho&feature=youtu.be

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uFygzB-ho&feature=youtu.be

No idea why that isn't working.

Search for: "Four Tet Live in the Boiler Room" on YouTube, maybe?

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.

Your picture of Keiran has been retweeted by him, by the way.

<3

He is the actual best.

Four Tet ‏@FourTet
I am going to release a new Four Tet LP today

Oooh

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/0181-1
Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
TEXT021

Also available on vinyl LP soon.

Another compilation? ;-)

Enjoying this...very old school Tet, serious nostalgia value.

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.

what artist/song is track 3?

Some sort of tracklisting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/dontwatchthat/just-jam-86-four-tet/

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

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/10/four-tet-rounds-2003/

This track with Neneh Cherry is sweet:

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/neneh-cherry-afrika-baby-bam

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 like that

and okay holy (O)_(O) at this text022 thing!

thanks sd

did text022 ever have any kind of release as a single or on a record?

last time I had a Four Loko I thought it tasted like someone dropped a bag of Jolly Ranchers into a pint of paint thinner

Does anyone else hear 'Storm Crystals' referencing 'Ending (An Ascent)' around the 4-minute mark?