News
TWO new mAGIK BALLET ENSEMBLE albums! (03-05-2008)
When it rains, it poars:
Apart from that new 4T4 album, there's a brand new mAGIK BALLET ENSEMBLE album online too! It's called "Lost In Time", and is truly some of my finest work yet, I believe! Check it out if you really like to get down to the deep experimental bottom of my hiphoproots... With lots of very deep & dark soundscapes in true Biosphere or NIN style. Some of the music on it was made 3 to 4 years ago, since there were plans to release this album in the spring of 2005, but you wouldn't be able to tell if I hadn't just told you, believe you me. The release never happened, so here it is after all!
And there's still more: ANOTHER mBE album (E.P.) is also downloadable. It's called "Chill Out", and it's a hommage to the KLF's similarly titled cultclassic. Nothing but over a half hour of crickets, waves, radiotuning and other ambient noises for which I used the multitracks of the 4 first mBE albums and a whole bunch of field recordings I made all over the world. All this is draped in a sauce of spacey ambient pads. Very cool chill out stuff for your sunday mornings!
And that's not all...
The mBE's two first (cult) albums, "Do You Believe In Magick?" (1996), and "What Do You Mean" (1998) are... yes, also available digitally!
Now don't blame me for not giving you enough stuff to spend that iTunes gift voucher on, right? Well, you don't really have to load it all down right now, it'll be there next week as well.
Garage Sauvage remix (10-04-2008)
I remixed Garage Sauvage's new single, "Tattooed Eyeball". Check the myspace page to listen to it and. It's a dancefloorbomb, it is, I tells ya.
Music From The Ultravault (12-03-2008)
Jippyyeay, everybody, there's a new 4T4 album online!
This album is a collection of songs recorded somewhere between 2000 and 2005, a time when I was mostly working on songs for my Ultrasonic (7) project, hence the title...
These songs came up going through the vaults of past productions that either never made it onto any release for one reason or another, or didn't get further than being obsure b-sides, promo's,... In any case, they're tracks that in my opinion never got the attention they deserved. If nothing else, it's something I wanted to share with you, the fans, who often prefer the honesty and purity of the b-sides over the "hits" (as I do myself).
Singles online (11-03-2008)
Oh, yes, before I forget: There's some stuff newly available from iTunes: All the singles from the Fortification album, including the remixes by Bobby E., Mugwump, Foxylane and myself, and also including the Stakker Humanoid remake.
For some of them, this availability is a brand new matter.
In case you wondered.
Jim Cofey (02-03-2008)
During the last couple of months, I've been recording, mixing and producing the debut album by Belgium's funkblues sensation Jim Cofey. This cd will hit the stores on 10th april.
Myspace (30-04-2007)
Click this link for the 4T4 myspace-page.
4T4 Funk Mix (15-11-2006)
Click the link below for a wickeddopefreshfunkyfly funk mix on Down Jones's Passion Play site.
One Foot in Life (17-09-2006)
There's a very exclusive semi-accoustic version of this track featuring Mauro Pawlowski. You can only check that on Soundslike.be. Click the link below. You can check the Mugwump remix on www.myspace.com/geoffroymugwump.
www.soundslike.be/nieuws/?articleID=1434
Biography
Bio 4t4
4T4\'s been deejaying, producing, and simply active as a musical artist since 1987. That\'s right, people have been paying him for playing records for more than 20 years now... His first platform was hiphopmusic, which was of course a much more open style in those days and as a crossbreed included house, funk and whatnot. It all really started for him after the Beasties and Run-DMC came to town in \'85... In 1996 he released his first record, \"Do you believe in Magick?\", under the name of Magik Ballet Ensemble, which, along with its successor \"What do you mean\", gained him critical acclaim, but the greater succes only came with \'t Hof van Commerce, a hiphopgroup rapping in flemish, together with mc\'s Serge Buyse and Flip Kowlier. They have scored big with 4 albums and a number of singles since then, with sales and succes topping some of the biggest pop/rockbands in Belgium. Around the year 2000 the interest in dancemusic took the upperhand over the hiphop-oriented occupations, with the exception of the activities with \'t Hof, of course. This manifested itself in two ways: as a deejay he would choose a more specific direction and personality and he founded Ultrasonic (7), a soulful danceproject featuring vocalists Tom Derie and Nia Saw which scored hugely on a national level with the hit \"Lips They Move\" in 2003 and a couple of other smaller hit records. The group was 8 strong on stage, with very memorable sets on some of the biggest festivals in Belgium. Come 2005, the whole Ultrasonic-thing had grown over 4T4\'s head and distantiated itself much too far from his original ideas and intentions, so this group was buried despite (or maybe according to) its succes. Work on the very first real 4T4-record, \"Fortification\", started, come what may. The album reconfirmed 4T4\'s status as one of Belgium\'s leading electronic music artists/producers. He\'s touring as a dj right now, blowing dancefloors away with his very particular blend of sounds, a specific mixture of soul food that only a dj with his experience can offer, a unique experience that feeds not on fashion. Not as much playing records as setting the right vibes...
Agenda
09-05-2008
't Kasseiken - (Wachtebeke)
10-05-2008
Hungaria - (Leuven)
16-05-2008
Charlatan - (Gent)
31-05-2008
Charlatan (BB) - (Gent)
4T4 vs.Tom Derie: Out The Hand Run session...
Bookings
4T4 can be booked by:
Tel : (+32) 03 4430669
Fax : (+32) 03 4430660
e-mail: peter.boonen@clearchannel.be
