Release : Four Tet - Ringer
Artist : Four Tet
Album : Ringer
Genre : Electronic
Source : Web
Label : Domino
URL : http://www.bleep.com
Date : 00-00-2008
Encoder : WEB
Quality : 320kbps 44100 kHz Full Stereo
Tracks : 4
Time : 31:33 min
Size : 72.34 MB
1 Ringer 10:02
2 Ribbons 5:21
3 Swimmer 8:43
4 Wing Body Wing 7:27
Four Tet returns with four tracks of techno (not techno). The Ringer mini album
is a 32 minute, four-track excursion into the kind of wide-open spaces you might
find if you set out to make techno with an afrobeat/krautrock sensibility.
Ringer locks together gloriously rich synthesizer arpeggios; 'Wing Body Wing'
slips from crisp clusters of disco percussion to Steve Reich polyrhythms; and in
between are another two euphoric ripples of sound, 'Ribbons' and 'Swimmer'.
These are tracks that make you think of Berlin - Dakar - Detroit - but they
could only have been made in London. All four are headphone epics, but are mixed
in such a way you know you have to hear them at Plastic People or The End.
The techno heartbeat comes from Kieran Hebden's regular DJ residences over the
last couple of years - but also from his ongoing collaborations with legendary
jazz drummer Steve Reid. Whether in the studio or live, Kieran and Steve often
click into the kind of deep 4/4 grooves that can depart in any direction with a
little adjustment.
Ringer carries that minimal pulse over into Four Tet, and while Kieran's
trademark recuttings of jazz breaks may be less in evidence, his feel for
harmony and melody is, as always, unmistakable.