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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.
Expansive mix from the man behind The Advisory Circle's haunted electronica.
Taking in library sounds, classic Techno, Radiophonic experiments and more besides, this is an intriguing mix that takes in Carl Craig (in his 69 guise), Jim O'Rourke, library guy Keith Mansfield, the timeshifted dubstep bleep of Holy Other and a host of other things I've never heard of.
'Everything is Neu' by Hatchback is a particular favourite, a rumbling synthetic hymn to the motorik beat. It builds beautifully to a euphoric splendour.
The mix opens with a track from the latest release in Ghost Box's Study Series. Entitled 'Autumnal Activities', it's Number 7 in the series of desirable 7"s and sees Pye Corner Audio in collaboration with The Advisory Circle. It's a sombre, gentle piece of public information film soundtracking, riven by the sounds of wind and the sound of a haunted oboe.
Jamie xx spins 'Bloom' into a spacious, angelic vignette.
Anstam's remix of 'Separator' is a clattering, dark synthed late night car ride, bordering on dubstep before breaking down into a clattering piece of broken beat-ery in the style of classic Warp like Autechre and Plaid.
SBTRKT's remix of 'Lotus Flower' opens with a twinkly riff before being consumed with slow, simple beats, Thom Yorke's vocals cocooned deep within. It bursts into some propulsive beats, getting a real groove on, conjuring images of Thom Yorke busting some frenetic moves like in that 'Lotus Flower' video.
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?
Soulful, post-dubstep type re-rub of Goldie's drum'n'bass classic.
I'm a bit behind on my homework - this little gem was snuck out in 2009 before SBTRKT hit the post-dubstep news.
This is a lovely, rolling re-edit that respects its forebears while bringing the beats up-to-date, playing off dark drum and bass against SBTRKT's brighter flavours. It then drops out the vocal and moves into a passage of SBTRKT niceness with some twisty synth action. The vocals and shifting synth strings of the original are brought back and it develops into a fusion of the spirits of the old and new.
On reflection, an obvious collaboration. The result, sweet Bon Iver vocals with lashings of sub-bass.
Meandering, gentle sweetness from the autotuned vocals of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon plus James Blake with stately piano and a metronomic patter. What sounds like the 'woof' sound on a cheap keyboard also makes an appearance. About time someone put that on a record.
The vocals and autotuned harmonies multiply, pitched against the pulses of sub-bass and eventually a proper martial drumbeat.
Overall, it's just what you'd expect from a collaboration between these two, but it's very good nonetheless.
Moody, squelchy and somehow managing to spartan yet soulful. 'Wildfire' is from the upcoming SBTRKT album on the red hot Young Turks label and it promises great things.
Where the recently posted live session cut 'Heatwave' was a flurry of loops and live drumming, 'Wildfire' is taut and programmed, a more conventional song but betraying a fascinating approach to structure and space, building tension without using an ounce more sound than is necessary. Props to Little Dragon for the perfectly judged vocals.
The other track from the upcoming Four Tet, Burial and Thom Yorke 12", 'Mirror' is a more straight-ahead dubstep club groove with gentle mists of synth strings.
Thom Yorke's vocal is less mumbly and cryptic, upfront in the mix but with some sweet backing vocals adding colour. The track has a nice flow and would sound good accompanying a drive up the Westway late at night.
