Four Tet explores process of ‘Rounds,’ creative process of making music
In a new mini-documentary directed by Dan Wilde, Four Tet discusses the work he did on his career-defining Rounds album as a bit of a celebration of its 10 year anniversary. The video is made entirely of animated stills, in a pseud0-Ken Burns effect, and includes the artist reflecting upon his personal inspirations, specific moments tied to specific records he produced, and some of the trials and tribulations of a electronic music producer.
Four Tet names details on new ‘Beautiful Rewind’ LP, declares ‘no last minute Rick Rubin’
In a link first tweeted out yesterday, highly revered British producer Four Tet announced a series of details for his seventh studio album Beautiful Rewind, due out soon on his own Text Records. It'll be a simple release process, with no promotional or marketing trickery up his sleeve, and plenty of jabs to the Daft Punk or Kanye West mega-cycles of album hype as of late. He has also followed up with a full tracklisting (below) on his blog.