new four tet

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?

for reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihnzf1YrW1c

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/02/download-free-track-four-tet

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!

Yay!

have a good feeling about this one

Streaming for summer solstice.

http://www.stereogum.com/1810367/stream-four-tet-morningevening/mp3s/

It's really something!

Thanks Four Tet! My decades long dream of a Villalobos remix of Ofra Haza has come to fruition.

Morning is glorious!

it's really great

Morning is absolutely lush. Maybe the most phenomenologically beautiful thing he's ever done.

"Morning Side" features samples from Lata Mangeshkar's performance of "Main Teri Chhoti Behana Hoon", recorded for the 1983 film Souten.

According to wiki, anyway.

Evening is pretty damn amazing, too. This might be my favourite thing he's done; certainly right up there based on one listen. I can see me playing this to death.

"Morning Side" features samples from Lata Mangeshkar's performance of "Main Teri Chhoti Behana Hoon", recorded for the 1983 film Souten.

i thought i recognised the voice - not through mangeshkar's work but she was sampled on truth hurts' "addictive" too

this is not as good as "addictive" despite the sample which is the best thing about it