Four Tet Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/four-tet/ New and independent music Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:49:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Four Tet Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/four-tet/ 32 32 88787050 Millennium Mix: 2001 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2016/08/15/millennium-mix-2001/ Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:14:23 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=10236 Millennium Mix is a new series in which we remember our favourite songs released since Jesus turned two thousand and the Millennium Bug failed to show and left us with a mixture of relief and strange disappointment. The rules are 1) the song must have been released within the specific year (though we’re not going to worry too much if a Japanese vinyl release was actually 1999 or whatever) and 2) only one song is allowed from any one album (so it’s […]

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]]> Millennium Mix is a new series in which we remember our favourite songs released since Jesus turned two thousand and the Millennium Bug failed to show and left us with a mixture of relief and strange disappointment. The rules are 1) the song must have been released within the specific year (though we’re not going to worry too much if a Japanese vinyl release was actually 1999 or whatever) and 2) only one song is allowed from any one album (so it’s likely we’ll miss out some of our very favourite tracks, but that’s okay). Seeing as we began 2000 as nine-year-olds, it’s likely the mixes will grow longer as we progress through the 00s and pass into an era where we got a little obsessed with music.

The world has always been ending, but 2001 really upped the stakes for the first time since the end of the Cold War. Terror became the buzz word in a world of televised attacks and indefinite wars, Wikipedia emerging just in time for us to catalogue such events and believe they were getting more frequent, more severe, closer and closer to home. While art was probably playing catch-up to developments, cinema went for the escape route, with Shrek and Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings beginning their own seemingly endless campaigns, while music reminded us that, for the majority, life went on as normal. Here are some songs that let us know while the world has always been ending, in ways both crushingly huge and pathetically small, we’ve got little choice but to keep on living.

Tracklisting:

1) Tonight Was a Disaster – Castiotone for the Painfully Alone
2) TV Zombie – The Rondelles
3) Ice Cube – Clem Snide
4) I Remember Me – Silver Jews
5) Adopduction – Les Savy Fav
6) Lucky Number Nine – The Moldy Peaches
7) Jenny & the Ess-Dog – Stephen Malkmus
8) Confusion is Nothing New – Beachwood Sparks
9) Miss My Lion – Scout Niblett
10) Wonder Wonder – Edith Frost
11) Up to My Neck in You –  Mark Kozelek
12) It’s a Wonderful Life – Sparklehorse
13) Sunflower – Low
14) Parks – Four Tet
15) Unearned – Patrick Phelan
16) I Want Wind to Blow – The Microphones
17) Bitters & Absolut – The National

Did we forget your favourite? Are our musical opinions now null and void? If so, let us know on Twitter or Facebook or something. Also, if you didn’t see it last month, you can find our post for the year 2000 here. Otherwise, we’ll see you next month as the world’s least efficient/useful time machine chugs along to 2002.

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]]> 10236 The Covers Mix: Volume #2 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/07/14/the-covers-mix-volume-2/ Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:55:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=560 The second instalment of our covers series. Some rather unlikely bedfellows I’m sure you’ll agree. Tracklisting: 1. From Stardust To Sentience (High Places cover) – Banjo or Freakout 2. So Prone (SLUTEVER cover) – Ghost/Light 3. I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton cover) – Howth 4. Salvador Sanchez (Sun Kil Moon cover) – Little Silver 5. Brother (Annuals cover) – Manchester Orchestra 6. Darling (Magic Man cover) – And the Giraffe 7. When You Were Mine (Prince cover) – […]

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]]> The second instalment of our covers series. Some rather unlikely bedfellows I’m sure you’ll agree.

Tracklisting:

1. From Stardust To Sentience (High Places cover) – Banjo or Freakout
2. So Prone (SLUTEVER cover) – Ghost/Light
3. I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton cover) – Howth
4. Salvador Sanchez (Sun Kil Moon cover) – Little Silver
5. Brother (Annuals cover) – Manchester Orchestra
6. Darling (Magic Man cover) – And the Giraffe
7. When You Were Mine (Prince cover) – John Heart Jackie
8. I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses cover) – Coma Cinema
9. Crying (Roy Orbison cover) – Austra
10. Streets of Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen cover) Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
11. Iron Man (Black Sabbath cover) – Four Tet
12. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight (R.E.M. cover) – Oxford Collapse
13. My Proud Mountains (Townes van Zandt cover) – J. Tillman
14. Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen cover) – Sarah Jaffe
15. If I Handle You With Care (Trembling Blue Stars cover) – Evening Hymns
16. Left & Leaving (The Weakerthans cover) – Beat Radio
17. I Know What I Know (Paul Simon cover) – Graham Wright
18. Some Things Last A Long Time (Daniel Johnston cover) – The Twilight Sad
19. Unicorn (Gay Against You cover) – Dananananaykroyd
20. See U Again (Miley Cyrus cover) – The Mae Shi

Click on the band name in the tracklisting to be whizzed off to a specific page for each artist. Buy some music if you like what you hear. I didn’t bother with Dolly Parton, Springsteen etc. but if you need some pointers on where to find out more about them give us a shout.

Enjoy.

The Covers Mix: Volume #2 from Wake The Deaf on 8tracks Radio.

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]]> 560 New Four Tet Album… https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/07/02/new-four-tet-album/ Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:24:13 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=572 Over at his blog, electronic heavyweight Four Tet has announced a new album to be released on August 20th on his Text label. Entitled Pink, the album is a collection of Hebden’s work over the last few years (so far only available on vinyl), as well as some as yet unreleased material. While most of the tracklist will be familiar to those of us who have been following Hebden closely, at least they will now be available in digital format. […]

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]]> Over at his blog, electronic heavyweight Four Tet has announced a new album to be released on August 20th on his Text label. Entitled Pink, the album is a collection of Hebden’s work over the last few years (so far only available on vinyl), as well as some as yet unreleased material. While most of the tracklist will be familiar to those of us who have been following Hebden closely, at least they will now be available in digital format. Here’s the aforementioned tracklisting:

1. Locked  (8:30)
2. Lion  (9:01)
3. Jupiters  (5:48)
4. Ocoras  (5:24)
5. 128 Harps  (4:52)
6. Pyramid  (8:27)
7. Peace for Earth  (11:23)
8. Pinnacles  (8:21)

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