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Four Tet has completely embraced music sharing mindset and unleashed a string of tracks straight onto Soundcloud over the last year or so.
'128 Harps' is the latest and it's a real treat, combining stuttering post-dubstep dancefloor action with liquid harp melodies. It somehow manages to combine chin-stroking, laid-back folktronica with sublime rhythmic dynamism.
Best album of 2011. Perfect hybrid of soul and machine.
SBTRKT's debut album is my album of the year, displaying an aptitude for mind bending beats, gorgeous sequencer lines, a bit of dubby space and warm, soulful vocals.
SBTRKT released a series of very tasty records, culminating in his debut album that didn't even contain all the best tracks. Check 'Living Like I Do' for more greatness.
This live version of album-opener 'Heatwave' takes the mix of flavours/flavas even further with some delicious, chunky, almost Post Rock drumming courtesy of the masked man himself. This makes the sparkling, airy sequencer lines shine even more.
Somewhere between dubstep, postrock, looped-up electronica and house - great stuff.
Having had an mp3 of this tune removed a couple of times by our friends at the DMCA, you'll have to enjoy this otherwise unavailable track via Youtube.
Crafty slice of rhythmelodic electronica with dubstep undertones. Or is it dubstep with rhythmelodic overtones?
From the unmarked Text 12" that was snuck out to a scrum of interest prior to last year's Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke 12". I managed to get my hands on a copy thanks only to the benevolence of the Rough Trade West cru.
'Moth' is just a total genius record that's a perfect marriage of Burial's crunchy dubstep bleakbeats and Four Tet's crisp, flowing melodies.
Or is it a sublime confluence of Four Tet's crisp, dubstep loneliness and glitch with Burial's late-night angel vocal melody?
Utterly and oddly compelling hybrid of styles. Is it chamber music? Dubstep? Minimal house? It's all three!
It opens with what sounds like an ice cream van tune played on pizzicato strings them glitched up. Some steel pan (I don't know, you wait twenty years for an underground dance record with a steel pan on and then two come along seemingly at once...) adds flavour before an increasingly pitch-shifted vocal makes for an unsettled mood.
The track stays spartan and reserved until some sub-bass enters the mix, locking into a tight minimal groove. Then we're treated to some chocolatey, langorous cello before we get a half-time pass at the minimal groove.
It definitely has a kinship with Jamie xx's productions but it's a highly engaging and original sound.
Awesome hybrid of electronics, loops, soulful vocals and some very tidy live drumming from producer/artist/whatever SBTRKT.
Somewhere between dubstep, postrock, Emeralds looped-up electronica and house - I'm liking this a lot.
DownloadSBTRKT 'Heatwave (Live at Abbey Road)' (mp3) (Mediafire) (Removed by request - which is a shame as this is a great version and a great advert for the SBTRKT album. It doesn't seem to be available anywhere now, legal or otherwise. Which is stupid IMHO.)
Live set posted by BoilerRoom.tv of a 45-minute DJ set by the peerless Four Tet. Fresh from collaborations with Caribou's Dan Snaith plus the 'Ego' and 'Mirror' tracks with Burial and Thom Yorke.
