Ringer, by Four Tet (Fourtet) (CD on Domino)

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Label:	Domino
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Rating: happy This record left our Mingus Who? feeling happy.

Four Tet: Ringer (Domino) 2x12 or CD are the formats for these four cuts. A slight detour from his usually loose limbed approach to loops made up from generally organic sounds. Mr Hebden's step to one side sees him jumping straight into the rhythmic grids of deep techno and the motorik pulse of krautrock. Only towards the climax of the lead track Ringer, does one get to hear the trademark percussive edits that makes Four Tet's recorded output such a treat. To be honest, I wasn't totally feeling this on first listen. Now the glacial tones and shimmering treble nudge the preset techno sounds (serial hi-hats) to balance my hearing. Ant hears traces of Detroitian Kenny Larkin, in fact if you like the warm, deep, tech-house sound, then you'll like all these tracks. Those of you already converted to Four Tet's organic/synthetic collision may not get enough of the organic (well maybe the production ethos is) but there's plenty within the grid to get loose to.

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Four Tet returns with four tracks of techno (not techno). ‘Ringer’ 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. ‘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.