new four tet

4tets has released pure drum tracks in the past that could give Carl Craig a run for his money

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Post me some gifs, tlg.

post me some pure drum tracks, son!!!

giving this another serious listen right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0mR5FoDnCo

having survived mmml i don't find the beats too light or too polite or whatever. to my ears it's suitably jacking micro house, just rough enough around the edges

i think matt is correct, that the drums are just way too far down in the mix, and i find the vocal / synths to be absurdly loud compared to the beat.

this would be better if someone put a donk on it

or at least turned the drums way up, they've got a good shuffle.

hopefully there will be remixes

tlg, I love you as much as I love Matteesslessness, I'm mostly listening to love jam by sound stream over and over again. Other than that I don't have any great suggestions!

i remember he did something similar wrt turning the drums down on glassbeadgames with martyn last year. maybe not as pronounced though.

jed have you heard the new sound stream record?

Actually M-lessness is my man so.

Is it worth mentioning that I insanely drunk?

lol good!!

Jed you're lovely and i'm fond of your display name.

It's a good one!

i'm afraid the b-sides of the new sound stream might do jed in, in his condition

morning is pretty cool but i prefer how he goes into full-blown the orb territory in evening

again though, drums at the end too quiet

i put 'morning side' in a practice set with some delay over it yesterday and cried a little bit, true story.

need to give evening another go

What's the new sound stream called? Not v easy to search for.

bass affairs / sweep magic / star strike

Ty

The Percussions thing is lovely. Kind of sad it's not just labelled 'Four Tet' and stuck out as another new album.

This arrived today. Sounds glorious on the "big" speakers.

I usually find Four Tet a bit hit and miss - he has a tendency to overdo the prettiness and slip into cloying territory, but this really is glorious.

It's probably closest to There is Love in You, which is my favourite Four Tet album.

Currently making me happy: those Orbital-esque bassy synth sweeps that come in after 45 seconds of 'Morning Side'

For some reason I thought this was out in August but have just confirmed with local record store they'll get it next week can't wait

We finally did another record club and I played this: http://devonrecordclub.com/2015/09/14/four-tet-morningevening-round-83-nicks-choice/

I've actually only managed to listen to this twice through, the track lengths are a bit daunting.

Pretty sweet: https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/designer-four-tet-mothers-text038a

New pay-what-you-want album up on Bandcamp:

https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/randoms

Know a couple of these from singles - Pockets (Minimal) is lush and funky. Glad he's stuck stuff together.

Pockets (Minimal) is lush and funky.

I'd not heard that one before, but it's ace. Reminds me of the Ringer e.p., which is still my favourite Four Tet release.

Having been listening to the whole thing, it slots pretty neatly in between Ringer and There Is Love In You, for the most part. Remarkably cohesive in feel, actually - although that might just be because he's so far into an aesthetic now that there's no getting out. Which some no doubt see as boring, but I find what he does right up my street with alarming consistency. Hint towards Morning/Evening in "Gillie Amma I Love You". I'd say this is as good as any of his recent albums.

i missed this new one, adding that to my broken and creaky mental pile.

i'm going back to "morning" at ... 6:00 this morning and what I can't believe I didn't realize about it before was that it's working music, it's meant to be part of the fabric of a life working, a scene of work in the morning, domestic or virtualized. i think of hebden in an airport, doing work on his laptop, bringing a sense of home to his desktop. it sounds pragmatic and intimate to me in the way that the ragas it's obviously based on are, meant to instill a sense of harmony and peace and love in work.

new four tet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbGom_FLTCU

subtle but beautiful

strings remind me of Rounds

great track, four tet is classic

love this

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/unspoken-promo-version

Planet is gorgeous. Sounds like a combination of his various periods.

yup, it's nice to see this "holistic" development

really enjoying this. reminding me to listen to 0181 again.

"Two Thousand and Seventeen" was good too

cool, I'd missed that!

SW9 9SL - beats on this are straight up from Luomo The Right Wing.

sounds great!

do you mean to suggest that it's plagiarism or just as good as Luomo?

I love Four Tet's drums, they sound deceptively simple but they're so unique (and banging!), his biggest "tell" imo

Ummm.. sounds like a homage to me. The track ends up doing a whole bunch of other things also!

Just listening to this for the first time.

I haven't been feeling the rest of the new stuff but SW9 9SL is fantastic.