Rounds

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Rounds was ranked number four on the Metacritic list of highest-scoring albums of 2003, [33] and was named as one of the best albums of 2003 by many publications, including the NME, [34] The Wire, [35] The Observer, [36] Prefix, [37] Pitchfork, [38] Drowned in Sound, [39] Collective, [40] The Face, Q and Uncut. [41] After considering the arguments presented on December 16, Deputy Judge Treacy has now ruled that the additional claim over the streaming takedown of albums can be added to the existing legal case against Domino over streaming royalties. Beats Per Minute staff (15 February 2010). "The Top 100 Albums of the 2000s". Beats Per Minute . Retrieved 20 November 2014. a b c Sherburne, Phillip (4 March 2019). " 'Only Human' by Four Tet Review". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019 . Retrieved 5 March 2019. Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Battles/Caribou/Les Savy Fav - All Tomorrow's Parties". Atpfestival.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011 . Retrieved 2 March 2017.

Prior to their return to streaming services in February 2022, the three albums on which the case centres had been unavailable for more than two months as the new claim was considered. a b Rounds (CD booklet). Four Tet. London: Domino Recording Company. 2003. WIGCD126. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) The surprise re-appearance of the three Domino albums on DSPs follows the December 2021 hearing at the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Now a judgement from Deputy Judge Pat Treacy has been handed down based on the legal arguments several weeks ago - you can read Music Week’s full report of those proceedings here . Selikow, Jami (28 August 2017). "Four Tet's New Album & 00110100 01010100". Indie Shuffle. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020 . Retrieved 31 July 2020. He has continued to make albums under the Four Tet name since leaving Domino. His last, Parallel, was released on his own independent label Text Records in December 2020. That month, Hebden also released the album 871 under his 00110100 01010100 alias, also on Text.In 2017, Four Tet’s remix of The xx's “A Violent Noise” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording. HOMETOWN London, England

Specifically, I do not agree that Mr Hebden's earlier objections to aspects of digital exploitation clearly support a reading of the original pleading as meaning that the 2001 Agreement did not authorise digital exploitation at all. Only limited evidence on this issue was available. The evidence that was available included Mr Hebden's Witness Statement dated 22 November 2021. That witness statement set out the circumstances in which Mr Hebden had objected to the streaming of his music via Spotify. It states that, after a request from Mr Hebden, Domino removed Mr Hebden's music from Spotify for a period of time after which Mr Hebden's Four Tet albums (but apparently not his singles) were made available to Spotify again. Rounds depicts the sort of future where white walls with moving paintings of waterfalls pass for an organic surrounding. It’s a simple and elegant reminder of the beauty of the world, before tarnished by man. Kieran chops up live drums, sampled mandolin, and alien noises that repaint a much more alive sound of far East of the world and not-so-far East of Chicago. Not to sound pompous, but it’s a revolution. He begins with a ambient hum, adds in offbeat fills, breaks in the beat, glosses with some keyboard variations, and that’s just the beginning. We can pause and see just how every little thing comes in and how it links into the greater chain of the song. There is something both very hip-hop and Eastern about it all, as it has that simple driving beat but does it with such grace and purity. Staff (29 December 2020). "Parallel From Four Tet is Ambient House Sorcery". Closed Captioned . Retrieved 20 June 2022.

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The ruling by Deputy Judge Treacy stated: “I have concluded that this is not a situation in which it would be appropriate to refuse Mr Hebden's request to amend his case to plead that the 2001 Agreement should be construed as including an express continuing obligation to use reasonable endeavours to exploit the Masters by all then-industry-standard means or that, in the alternative, such an obligation should be implied.” Neither the Courts, nor the settlement terms, have made any determination as to how streaming should be categorised or streaming income split. No Ripcord staff (11 July 2012). "Top 100 Albums of 2000–2009 (Part Five: 60–41)". No Ripcord . Retrieved 20 November 2014. Four Tet’s Lost Village sets are a great indicator of what he’ll do in a two hour solo DJ set. In his 2018 set, he starts with his official remix for Rihanna, plays an unreleased Burial collaboration (a rarity would be an understatement), then proceeds to custom remixes of Pearl Jam, Fela Kuti, Destiny’s Child and Nelly Furtado. While the overall experience can be inconsistent at points, the slow pacing energy of this record can always be appreciated with its unique colorful downtempo qualities.

Playing a charity concert for Syria at Styx, London, in 2015. Photograph: Matthew Baker/Getty Images The most recent hearing in December was in response to Four Tet (real name Kieran Hebden) filing an amended legal claim against Domino. At the beginning of 2003, Four Tet opened for Radiohead on their European tour. A remix of the song "Scatterbrain" from Radiohead's sixth studio album Hail to the Thief was released in November 2003 as a B-side to the single " 2 + 2 = 5" and later included on their 2004 EP COM LAG (2plus2isfive). Furthermore, Hebden was among the people thanked by Radiohead in the booklet accompanying their 2007 In Rainbows "discbox" release. As the set powers up with Planet, the biggest banger off Four Tet’s 2017 album, New Energy, the lights start to ripple: bioluminescence meets Tron. The gig is in the round, the better to indulge the lush surround-sound mix, where digital skitters can encircle the crowd like giant marbles going round a funfair wall of death. It’s really, really cool. Four Tet’s legal team argued against any inconsistency in their case. Deputy Judge Treacy issued a lengthy response below, which Music Week is publishing in full for context:Crucially, the Spotify aesthetic that now dominates listening chimes well with Hebden’s own. There has been widespread hand-wringing that the gatekeeping power of Spotify playlists now makes for homogenised, non-offensive musical blandness, but Four Tet’s blithe excursions, while chiming with that zeitgeist, are so much more than chillout wallpaper. Many may call this too boring or simple to be revered so highly, but they are entirely missing the point. You might disagree with me here, but is there anything more difficult than making an alien sound gather enough ground to merge into another to form the basis of a beat which will then mangle with another layer soon enough? What so many artists in the IDM genre have done, reminds me of how sometimes we forget how to pronounce a “fancy” word and so kind cough or murmur to pass it off. In the same way, I have a feeling that IDM artists truly aren’t capable of making that transition smooth and so have layer upon layer fill up the space, so we just hear this “cough” while the fancy word is being spoken. Take any of the thin layers of high caliber acts like M83 or low caliber acts like Richard Devine and see if these single layers could live on their own. It’s a safety blanket that even Four Tet had mildly used on his previous release but no more. Pause, Rounds and Everything Ecstatic have also been restored to streaming services and digital platforms. a b Christgau, Robert (27 January 2004). "Parts of the Elephunk". The Village Voice . Retrieved 16 August 2013.

Goble, Corban (7 May 2015). "Four Tet Announces New Album Morning/Evening". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 8 May 2015 . Retrieved 7 May 2015. As a walking Four Tet-encyclopedia ( as Alessio has kindly put it before on FUXWITHIT), I’m having the time of my life right now. Four Tet’s career is not only one of raw experimentation and glistening synths, but also an unpretentious appreciation for popular music. He’s no stranger to crossover success, displayed by his decades-long catalog of official remixes for acts as varied as Ellie Goulding, Rihanna, Mura Masa, Explosions in the Sky, Madvillain, Radiohead, The xx, and too many more to name.Richards told the court that none of Domino 's legal advisers had identified any case in which a recording contract had been held to include any “implied obligation to exploit”.