Went to the Four Tet Fabriclive album launch last Friday. The line-up was spectacular (Four Tet, Caribou, Jacques Greene, Hessle Audio takeover in Room 2, Lone, Lunice, Eglo takeover in Room 3, etc etc). Highlights for me were Lunice bringing the thugged out energy to a packed out Room 3, and the track below that ended Ben UFO‘s set in Room 2.
Sadly for us, it looks like the track’s not being released. Only a few lucky DJs (Ben UFO, Jackmaster, Skream…) have a copy of Addison Groove‘s remix of the motown classic Jimmy Mack by Martha & The Vandellas. The only clip I can find is this youtube upload, but I had to share:
Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden and Caribou’s Daniel Snaith are planning a split vinyl release, although it is unclear as to when it will be out. Daphni is an alias of Daniel Snaith’s and the word is that a few of the tracks on Caribou’s last album ‘Swim‘ were actually Daphni tracks. ‘Ye Ye‘ could have also have been on that album by the sounds of things, even if this tracks has a bit more of the 3am’s about it! ‘Pinnacles‘ is a classic Four Tet cut, exactly what you would expect from Kieran Hebden and I for one am not complaining. Check them out.
Here’s a mix that I’ve put together of music that I’ve been feeling over the past few weeks. Some old, some new, some unreleased. There’s a few bootlegs, some grime, the usual “underground music” and, my personal favourite, a track by hipster super-group Gayngs.
Watch out for big things from us at Pictures Music in 2010. New Dark Sky EP on the way for starters.
Tracklisting
Scuba – You Got Me (Hot Flush)
Ramadanman – Don’t Change For Me (Hessle Audio)
Joy Orbison vs Young Money – Hyph Mngo To Go (DJ Dials Vocal Mix)
Deadboy – Heartbreaker (Well Rounded)
Roll Deep – When I’m ‘Ere (Relentless)
Starkey – Numb Ft. P-Money (Planet-Mu)
Tynchy Stryder – Hype Ting Ft. Stutta, Mercston & Ghetts (Pictures Pissed Off Edit)
Patchwork Pirates – I’m A Balla Vs. Trilingual Dance Sexperience
Hudson Mohawke – Freek
Rudi Zygadlo – Resealable Friendship (Planet-Mu)
Four Tet – Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix) (Domino)
Clubroot – Talisman (Lo Dubs)
Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)
Gayngs – Spanish Platinum (Jagjaguwar)
I’m sure that by the time I’ve posted this article that the world will ‘already know’ about this site and that everyone on Twitter (or Bebo?) or whatever will have sent it to everyone else they know.
But it doesn’t matter.
This site is an archive of every Radio 1 Essential Mix ever. Most importantly, this site serves as a record of some of the best DJs around at any point in time, because it’s a pity that 5 days after you’ve heard them on the radio the BBC takes the mixes down from their site. And they go all the way back to 1993!
In amongst the Danny Ramplings and Roger Sanchezs of this world are stunning mixes by the likes of Flying Lotus, DJ Zinc, Gui Boratto and Scratch Perverts (2004 mix of the year if you ask me). Oh yeah, and hundreds of others…
But, because we’re so cutting edge over here at GET SOME, we noticed that the site doesn’t have Four Tet’s essential mix from 2 days ago. In this day and age, 48 hours is a long time to wait. Too long some might say. Well, Discobelle have come correct and you can already download the mix in ever-lasting MP3 format.
Tracklist? Sure.
Four Tet – Essential Mix 23/01/10
Four Tet — Angel Echoes
Floating Points — Vacuum Boogie
Robert Owens — Bring Down The Walls
STL — Jungle Sometimes
Oni Ayhun — Oar003
Weather Report — Non-Stop Home
DJ Sprinkles — Grand Central Pt1 (Mcde Bassline Dub)
Four Tet — Sing
Benge — 1981 Yamaha Cs70m
Joy Orbison — So Derobe
Melchior Productions — Different Place
Dem 2 — Luv’s Hard New York
Seelenluft — Manila (Manitoba Remix)
William Onyeabor — When The Going Is Smooth And Good
Pryda — Muranyi
Moodymann — Det.Riot
Zomby — Digital Fauna
Joyce — Aldela De Ogum
Joe Goddard — Apple Bobbing (Four Tet Remix)
Cassy — Soul Saviour
One Little Plane — Lotus Flower (Avus She’s Singing Mix)
Hard House Banton — Reign Spoilt
Four Tet — Sing (Floating Points Remix)
Troy Pierce — Oxytocin
Laurie Spiegel — Patchwork
Eluvium — The Motion Makes Me Last (Four Tet Remix)
It has been a long time coming but it is finally here, Binary Sequence – 66/31, the debut release on the Dark Arx imprint has dropped and is a very fine debut at that! It is reminiscent of all things that were great about Electronica in the 90′s with a big nod to the pioneering bass lead music now being produced in the UK. 66/31 would be more than at home if it was released by the infamous WARP RECORDS which is testament to the quality of production and hybrid of styles. If you like Autechre or are a fan of Boards of Canada, then this release is for you.
Here’s a little knowledge about Binary Sequence. Based in London, Binary Sequence has been playing, writing and producing music for 20 years. Before being swept up in the electronica of the late 90s, he spent years tackling the mind-bending harmonics and rhythms of 60s & 70s jazz as a saxophonist and pianist. While starting to write his own music, he began to explore the possibilities of electronic production and after much experimentation and refinement he has created a unique sound, combining dusty distortion with pristine production values. Sonic comparisons point to Pole, Dabrye and Burial – but Binary Sequence’s musicality is rooted in “Artificial Intelligence”-era electronica (Aphex Twin, Autechre, Black Dog).
Track 1, ‘Arc’, takes you on a hypnotic journey through the Dub-Techno sphere, mellow enough for your headphones yet big enough to hit your chest on a dance floor. You move through the spectrum with ‘Below The Ice’ which is more akin to Autechre and Boards, a spatial, gritty electronic experience, which I would say is a darker version of something you might hear on Four Tet’s definitive ‘Rounds’ release in 2003. Finally you reach the peak, in my opinion the track most likely to be heard at a GET SOME dance, ’66/31′. This one creeps up on you. It has been at least six months since I first heard this and I only got it a while ago. It has energy where it shouldn’t have and is dangerously dark. You can really hear the Techno and Electronica influences in this track, the way it builds, the layers that is has to it and the atmosphere it creates. I think this will be right up there in the end of year stakes when we look back at 2010 debut releases. Watch out for this label, big tings to come!
So hats off boys, I know how much hard work it has been to get this record out, congratulations and we here at GET SOME look forward to your next release.
It’s finally here, after 4/5 years (by my count anyway) Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, has finally released his new album, ‘There Is Love In You’. I saw him perform at Plastic people in 2007/08, to celebrate the release of his ‘Ringer EP’, which at the point was quite some change in direction. He moved away from his more experimental Electronica toward a deeper, more Techno influenced series of tracks. For me this was a very exciting change.
He has since collaborated with Burial, and allowed the prolific Joy Orbison to remix his latest single, ‘Love Cry’.
The question I was asking was, where next? Well This is where and from the quick listen I have given it, ‘There Is Love In You’ promises to be ever bit as amazing as his earlier works. Many producers are afraid of trying something new, changing direction, but Four Tet has and in my opinion he has done so successfully. This guy is genuinely one the greatest British musicians of our generation and slowly but surely he is being recognised as so.
