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
for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihnzf1YrW1c
― 18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/02/download-free-track-four-tet
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
just started listening to this mix:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6BXpBDSGY
New album called 'Morning/Evening' out by early July on Text Records (his own label). TEXT036.
1. Morning Side (20:24)2. Evening Side (19:53)
LP, CD, MP3, streaming etc.
Excited!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 7 May 2015 10:56 (eight years ago) link
Yay!
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 7 May 2015 11:14 (eight years ago) link
have a good feeling about this one
― the late great, Friday, 8 May 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Streaming for summer solstice.
http://www.stereogum.com/1810367/stream-four-tet-morningevening/mp3s/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 22 June 2015 08:27 (eight years ago) link
It's really something!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 22 June 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
Thanks Four Tet! My decades long dream of a Villalobos remix of Ofra Haza has come to fruition.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 22 June 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
Morning is glorious!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 22 June 2015 23:35 (eight years ago) link
it's really great
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 22 June 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
Morning is absolutely lush. Maybe the most phenomenologically beautiful thing he's ever done.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:06 (eight years ago) link