new four tet

Yeah, where's my vinyl, Oxfam? Playing it through Spotify is functional I guess. #1stworldNGOproblems

banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLrmzYCbf0

Apparently the CD has arrived...

I'm never a big fan Four Tet when he slips into the really dance-oriented stuff, the house beats. I've always got time to check out what he's doing but I've only half-loved most of his output since the Ringer/TILIY era.

This is very lovely. But I can see anyone not into his 'pretty' side being infuriated by it.

Four tet's tech house remix of leave a trace by chvrches is his best banger IMO - a real sublime high point

"two thousand and seventeen" is great - always loved "my angel rock back and forth" and this is like a more optimistic flipside to that

But I can see anyone not into his 'pretty' side being infuriated by it

Nah his best records have some grit in there to balance the sweetness, you need both to prevent it becoming cloying. This one is pretty cloying and mostly forgettable.

This is where I recorded and mixed the album and all the gear I used pic.twitter.com/ncwoleHwYs

— Four Tet (@FourTet) October 25, 2017

haha, that's great

Yeah, I liked that.

when so many bands are going for analogue synth porn/modular excess, this is ace.

Jealous of his studio view.

Kind of furious that the speakers aren't equidistant from the window frame, tbh.

Enjoying the meme generated from this tweet. Also his other twitter thread where he answered a bunch of nerdy questions about the record.

Kind of furious that the speakers aren't equidistant from the window frame, tbh.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy),

to be fair sick, the table isn't exactly squared up with the window either.

also, i guess the seating position is slightly shuffled to the right due to the keyboard, hence the RHS speaker is a little over.

its organic

"This is where I recorded and mixed the album and all the gear I used" -- new I Make Music board description please

That should become like one of those fitness motivation memes but for music nerds

What's the item on the left, some kind of preamp?

he lays it all out in the replies

Apparently: http://www.prismsound.com/music_recording/products_subs/lyra/lyra_home.php

wait what did he use an interface for if everything used to record is in the picture? Just for headphone monitoring? Is there something hiding under the desk?

pretty sure the controller is a Novation Launchkey 25 http://www.guitarcenter.com/Novation/Launchkey-25-MIDI-Controller-1427728872610.gc?pfm=item_page.rrt1|ClickEV. That's a modest controller, I like it.

Feel like there's a bit of undeserved snarkiness to the meme.

where's the meme?

just search the phrase on twitter

that meme is DOA

Ok finally getting around to this and tbqh its kinda boring.

it's great, and he didn't even master it!

haha... his twitter is fun

lol
http://www.factmag.com/2017/10/27/four-tet-studio-meme/

great stuff here https://open.spotify.com/user/k_hebden/playlist/2uzbATYxs9V8YQi5lf89WG

album sounds poorly mixed lol

I saw something which suggested he hadn't had it mastered, which could explain the 'poorly mixed' vibe. It's certainly a little odd sounding at points.

he said so himself on twitter

sounds great to my ears

to me there are muddiness issues and frequency masking problems (instruments getting in each other's way) that i would expected if you mixed in that room with the speakers that close to the walls without soundproofing

but i am being sort of a troll, it's technically true that it sounds objectively less clear and separated and deep than his other stuff but it's also badass that he got it out and people like it despite that. things are too mixed these days, maybe. maybe it's much cooler to release stuff that is mixed well enough to get the point across than to have to deal with labels / engineers etc

The vinyl sounds great to me, no issues with it at all. I'll tell you what's poorly mastered to vinyl: the latest Laurel Halo, which sounds vastly fuller / clearer on Spotify.

Album sounds great to me. Not as good as the Kelly Lee Owens, but it sounds as good as the Morning/Evening record.

loving this.

BICEP vs Four Tet :

https://soundcloud.com/feelmybicep/bicep-opal-four-tet-remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTw-NrqKigs

bump again for mark e

really liking new energy this morning. perfect for the sun coming up

http://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-funkhaus-berlin-10th-may-2018
^^goooood stuff

sw9 9sl is so so great

concur

that kiss it better remix is too good, opens this killer set https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/lost-village-25th-august-2018

Alexandra Palace live show, with 42,000+ lights hanging down throughout the audience, was incredible. I couldn't see the stage at any point in the set and I didn't care in the slightest.

Just saw photos of this and man...

I got this pic.twitter.com/uEnmbNCJw9

— Sol's Comprador Past (@SSchonfield) May 11, 2019

bored silly by this latest one tbh

If you asked me to describe his sound to someone who hadn't heard recent Four Tet albums, or make a knock-off for an ad or something, it would sound like this. Swirly bell-tone arpeggios over dance beats with very few surprises.

But it's still pretty and nice to have on while doing computer work.