I’m sure all you savvy people are aware by now that Burial and Four Tet have a split 12″ out. It’s more of a collaborative release as far as we can tell with both producers smudging each others tracks with their own indelible marks. Whatever way you look at it, this is a incredible near- 20 minutes of music from two of music’s best leftfield producers.
‘Moth’ seems to be Burial’s track infused with a house-groove and his trademark pitch-shifted vocals while ‘Wolf Cub’ is surely a Four Tet production with its spidery instrumentation but seems equally influenced by his peer producer, particularly in beat structure.
Burial – Moth
Four Tet – Wolf Cub
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
I’m not so sure about one track being Burial’s and one being Four Tet’s. The two seem to have collaborated fully on both tracks. The drums on Wolf Cub are undeniably Burial’s work, but the instrumentation seems to be the work of Four Tet. Conversely, The percussion of Moth sounds very similar to tracks like Four Tet’s Untangle but there’s a heavy garage-y lean. The instrumentation in the track seems like the work of Burial in sound and feeling, but there’s a discordant technical element which is bug give-away of Four Tet’s style.
that’s what I think anyway…
These are really good video to enjoy. nice creation of music. Hats of to you guys. Carry on.
Real Bad if you read the post I agree with you…
haha – oh yeah, sorry, you know how this blog business is, there’s so many to get through that I end up having to skim posts. I just read this
“‘Moth’ seems to be Burial’s track infused with a house-groove and his trademark pitch-shifted vocals while ‘Wolf Cub’ is surely a Four Tet production”
anyway, keep up the good work, I really like your blog
These tracks are the epitome of being too cool for school. In a good way, obviously.
I thought my life was made when the new Field album was announced. And now this.
Harbinger of a joyous summer you are, Niall.
Moth is pure bliss.
That video for it is great too