Tinariwen - "Tenere Taqqim Tossam" (Four Tet Remix)

...in which the Saharan desert rock of Tinariwen gets an urban makeover with the funk and flex of none other than Four Tet.

Tinariwen - Tenere taqqim tossam (Four Tet remix) by Four Tet

more new old Four Tet - "Calamine"

Four Tet's generous offerings and/or hard drive purge continues.  We now have both sides of his 1999 Glasshead / Calamine single (Output Records), courtesy of the artist himself.  Grab 'em while you can.   

Glasshead (Output, 1999) by Four Tet

Calamine (Radio mix) (Output, 1999) by Four Tet

more new old Four Tet - "Glasshead"

Four Tet's Kieran Hebden is either cleaning out his hard drive or feeling extremely generous (or both).  Yesterday, he shared "Thirtysixtwentyfive" via SoundCloud; today, it's "Glasshead," the A-side to a 1999 single released by Output Records.  "Glasshead" starts by sampling what sounds like a science documentary but then lets loose into a funk-jazz fusion with plenty of groove.

Glasshead (Output, 1999) by Four Tet

new old Four Tet - "Thirtysixtwentyfive"

Here's a thirty-six minute, twenty-five second long piece of music by Four Tet, recorded in 1997.  One song EP?  EP-length song?  Album?  Same thing?  Different?  Either way, the vibe here is more jazz than electronica, complete with Four Tet's uncanny ability to program drums to sound implausibly random, yet perfectly synchronized.  Download it by clicking the down arrow on the SoundCloud player.  I'd imagine the downloads are limited, perhaps at 1,000, so if the song meets with your approval, I'd grab it before they're gone.

Thirtysixtwentyfive (Output, 1998) by Four Tet

Burial & Four Tet / Thom Yorke - "Ego" & "Mirror"

As if last year's collab between Burial & Four Tet wasn't grand enough, the two had Thom Yorke step into the mix for a new 12".  Bummer, then, that the initial stock is already sold out, but Bleep says it "will have the final allocation on sale shortly" and advises you to sign up for their mailing list for more info.  The songs premiered on Rinse FM last night, and luckily for us, some pioneering soul ripped the streaming audio and posted it in YouTube.  And thus we have "Ego" and "Mirror," two tracks of melodic yet morose, paranoid yet placative whateverstep.  Come to think of it, these songs may well mollify those Radiohead fans who were hoping for more electronic experimentation on The King Of Limbs.

Burial & Four Tet / Thom Yorke - "Ego"



Burial & Four Tet / Thom Yorke - "Mirror"



Now seems as good a time as any to mention sites like OnlineVideoConvertor and ListenToYouTube.  Just sayin'.

New Four Tet - "Pinnacles" / New Daphni - "Ye Ye"

Brand new song from Four Tet, whose album There Is Love In You made my list of favorites of 2010 and whose two live performances in Chicago last year were some of the best I've ever seen.  "Pinnacles" is classic Four Tet - radically simple bits of melodic sound repeating to meditative effect.  In this case, it's a chugging bass line, Asian-sounding string plucks, cascades of house piano and staccato synth washes.  From an upcoming split on Four Tet's own TEXT Records; the other side features Daphni's "Ye Ye."

Pinnacles by Four Tet

EDIT: Thanks to Solar Bears on Twitter, who pointed me to Self-Titled, who provide more information on this Four Tet/Daphni split.  Daphni, it turns out, is a new moniker for Caribou's Dan Snaith.  Caribou also made my list of albums of 2010, and his performance at Millennium Park last year was simply spectacular.  Daphni's contribution to the split, "Ye Ye," is a banger that shuffles and throbs along, making this one of the hottest splits to drop this year.  TEXT Records' web presence is non-existent, but the release should be out soon - I'd recommend checking Boomkat, Juno.co.uk and Rough Trade on a regular basis, as this will likely sell out quick.

Daphni - Ye Ye by Caribouband

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