that 'ringer' EP was fantastic. he's really on a bit of a run lately!
― butt_hurton (haitch), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw the 2XLP for $10 but didn't buy it (figured it get it later, but haven't seen it at the same store since)
:(
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
This is pretty wicked. Goes very nicely with the Field record.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Liking that a lot
― stet, Friday, 8 May 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Plz to tell more?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
2 tracks, approx 9 minutes each, collaboration between Burial & Four Tet, very ambient-ey sort of.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh right.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
not so limited, already repressed.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hopefully this pressing will sound less arse than the old one.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
the press release for his upcoming fabriclive sounds good, like this new track locked off it. like a lot. seriously love this guy but he has never made a release that is wholly satisfied. there is love in you didn't go far enough in the direction he's been headed post-reid for me (ringer, the burial collabs etc.)
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Saturday, 13 August 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/tinariwen/tenere-taqqim-tossam-four-tet-remix/56036/
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent
― Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
yes looking forward to giving this a listen. lots of obscure garage cuts apparently so right up my street.
― sam500, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
heard this remix of a track from Nigel Godrich's new Ultraista project the other day on Gilles' 6music show and I'm putting it here because Kieran has completely smashed it (and makes the original seem pedestrian by comparison). Srsly, this is *awesome*.
http://soundcloud.com/indietheka/ultraista-smalltalk-four-tet
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Also new from Mr. Tet, not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQVPNo_X7Y
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
I have been binging on Mr Tet lately so I am happy to have some new ones!
I know ILM has generally been down on Mr Tet but god damn there is nothing he can't make sound good w a sparkly remix. I've been on the fence about Ultraista but I'd listen to Mr Tet remixing the sound of the rubbish collectors this morning TBH.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
It is really annoying not being able to view/listen to anything with Flash at work.
Psychedelic Space Jellyfish with harps is SUPER DOUBLE PLUS GOOD. I think I've just been so captivated by the video, though, that I'm not really processing the song. I'm not sure about the bass, though. Don't know that wob suits Mr Tet. But who cares, it's all wibbling harps and things.
Ultraista, though. I feel vaguely disappointed with myself that I am utterly failing to be captivated by it. Come on, it's got my name all over it, why is this not total WCC catnip? I don't know if I'm being overly suspicious of something which feels *too* marketed to me, but if a Four Tet remix can't make me fall in love with a song, I don't know that anything will.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry that's Noble Ego, not the title track.
Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsDMkDtU9qs
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Always find it amazing when someone takes 5 seconds of something and turns it into 8 minutes of something else.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/09851-four-tet-pink-review
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/128-harps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1DoVdHM9M&feature=related
sourced from 4:00
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Nice review, Nick.
Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.
― djh, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
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
octo otm. it's more post-rock but I also go back to Dialogue a lot
― default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:24 (two months ago) link
When I mentioned Bonobo I was using it as a shorthand for "pleasant chill-out music for normies", which isn't really a slight because everyone needs relaxing beats to chill to/study to. But as others are saying, Four Tet should be way beyond and outside of that realm, especially at this point in his career. I just don't hear it on this album.
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 20:59 (two months ago) link
Is anything on Three as good as, arbitrary example, Flim? No. But Three Drums is close, as is Daydream Repeat. Is it chilled beats to relax to for normies? Wtf is a normie? I’ve got two kids and I’m 45 next month and I love this record and I saw Four Tet live in 2003 etc etc etc.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:34 (two months ago) link
my favorite four tet thing is that madlib album he put together a few years ago
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:37 (two months ago) link
Okay so the hierarchy goes
Bonobo = Diet Four TetFour Tet = Diet Aphex Twin
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:31 (two months ago) link
What is Aphex the Diet version of? VSnares? Ae?
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:33 (two months ago) link
don't think Four Tet compares to Aphex much at all, maybe Boards of Canada though. I always did think Pause kinda made me recall my teenage years the same way MHTRTC makes me think of childhood
VSnares is definitely a Four Loko by the way
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 23:52 (two months ago) link
love this new one. very simple, very effective
― ciderpress, Thursday, 4 April 2024 01:19 (two months ago) link
the real snob move here is to say that his emotiveness can't compare to the Detroit guys
― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 4 April 2024 02:50 (two months ago) link
Four Loko? That's like the US version of Buckfast or something isn't it? In which case, definitely.
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:00 (two months ago) link
the real snob move here is to say that his emotiveness can't compare to the Detroit guys― default damager (lukas), Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:50 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― default damager (lukas), Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:50 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Real snobpinions
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:01 (two months ago) link
xp yes indeed though I'd bet anything Buckfast tastes better. also important to note Four Lokos cost about $1.99
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:08 (two months ago) link
there are very few things that Buckfast tastes better than
― Number None, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:11 (two months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
Does anyone else hear 'Storm Crystals' referencing 'Ending (An Ascent)' around the 4-minute mark?
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link
In "Skater" I'm hearing shades of the greatest hold music in historyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWAYIqy9LQ
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:06 (one month ago) link
Skater is lovely, not like much else he's done before (that I've heard)
― chap, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:09 (one month ago) link
Three+ is out - 4 new tracks, nearly 25 mins of new music
― octobeard, Friday, 10 May 2024 02:02 (one month ago) link
Correction - looks like the latter two are from the Mango Feedback single. Not sure about the first two.
― octobeard, Friday, 10 May 2024 02:17 (one month ago) link
I love this album
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2024 02:36 (one month ago) link