Four Tet - What do you think?

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:09 pm

Since this thread started I have gone out a bought two of his albums... Pause and Rounds.

Totally great records, both of them. I understand now why it's misinformed to catagorize Four Tet as dance music. More like atmospheric + melodic soundscapes. Very moody stuff that is brimming with invention + creativity.

My friend Geoff is buddies with Kieran. Geoff lives in New York in the summers and in London the rest of the year. I'm thinking perhaps I'll get the chance to chat with Kieran about audio geekery at some point. He seems to be content with his current set of tools, but I think it's good to mix things up form time to time. Who knows.

WaveRider · Post by **WaveRider** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:54 am

gomi wrote:
WaveRider wrote: obviously there is stuff you can do in Live that you cannot do in AM, but I think some fx in AM are really cutting edge sounds....
the author of audiomulch gave a talk at the place i work. he brought a nintendo
power glove which he proceeded to use as a midi controller.. it was
so awesome.

one demo he set up the wet dry of a reverb to how near or far his hand was.
that was really cool... while using each finger to control a parameter
of the granualation engine...

whoah.

Wow man, how cool!!!!

computo · Post by **computo** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:49 am

the only problem wiht the powerglove is works over serial port, so actually, that interface has been around for around 10 years. I have a powerglove and goldbrick (the serial interface) but finding a worthwhile deal on an old mac laptop was impossible, so I just cut the glove up and hacked into it without the interface, and now I use it live.

you should check out the pglove, since its usb, and has better resolution and more parameters than the powerglove ever had. Much better interface.

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:28 pm

There was an interview with him in the issue of Remix with Mad Lib on the cover. He said he uses Audio Mulch, Cakewalk Pro, Cool Edit, a vibraphone, he borrowed an Elektron Machinedrum from a friend for the album "Everything Ecstatic". Live he runs his laptop into a Pioneer 600 dj mixer and uses the internal sampler on it, and also a Boss Sp 303 sampler.