For his solo projects, Fridge's Kieran Hebden is a lo-fi experimentalist who, had he been recording 15 years ago, would've been cranking out songs on a four-track recorder instead of a laptop. As demonstrated on his third record, Rounds, he's one of the few musicians capturing all the promise inherent in computer science -- being able to summon, manipulate, and mix any sound imaginable. The record offers something to nearly every audience that could approach it, with a bit of a groove for electroni   [ read more ]

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Inspired by the energy and ideas of old school techno and the freedom and edge of more recent hip-hop from the likes of Madlib and MF DOOM, Kieran Hebden set out to make a record really fast that would retain all the energy and enthusiasm he was feeling, and that wouldn't sound like anyone else; wouldn't even sound like himself. Everything Ecstatic, the fourth album from Kieran Hebden in his Four Tet guise is hugely anticipated - and rightly so - Everything Ecstatic is as demented, clever and    [ read more ]

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Domestic US pressing. As one-third of the unique, genre-bending Fridge, Kieran Hebden has already established himself as a vital creative force blurring the lines between rock, jazz, electronic, and ambient. Two years since the release of "Dialogue," the debut by his solo project Fourtet, he has solidified this standing with "Pause" -- a dramatic shift in style, sound, and feel from its predecessor. "Pause" shows maturity in its employment of a more distinctive range of sonics, from incidental rustlings and   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 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 Afro-beat / krautrock sensibility. 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 have to hear them at Plastic People or The End. "Ringer" carries that minimal pulse over into Four Tet, and while Kieran Hebden's trademark recuttings of jazz breaks m   [ read more ]

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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 Afro-beat / krautrock sensibility. 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 have to hear them at Plastic People or The End. 'Ringer' carries that minimal pulse over into Four Tet, and while Kieran Hebden's trademark recuttings of jazz breaks may be less in    [ read more ]

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Kieran Hebden is one of those artists whose receptive audience is without classification. And that extends into the world of musical colleagues. Four Tet has commandeered fans and collaborators as wide reaching as experimental rock bands (Radiohead), massive pop acts (Coldplay), underground hip-hop producers (the late J Dilla), post-punk influenced upstarts (Bloc Party), electronic mavericks (Aphex Twin), folk chanteuses (Beth Orton and Juana Molina), and jazz legends (with Kieran's ongoing collaboration wi   [ read more ]

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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 Afro-beat / krautrock sensibility. 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 have to hear them at Plastic People or The End. "Ringer" carries that minimal pulse over into Four Tet, and while Kieran Hebden's trademark recuttings of jazz breaks may be less in    [ read more ]

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The first remix EP from the acclaimed Four Tet's "Pause" album enlists Kieran Hebden's A-list of engineers and artists to rework his songs (Koushik, Manitoba, Boom Bip). The results possess the stamps of their owners' trademark sounds and rhythms, making this an attractive companion to "Pause" and a groundbreaking piece of work in its own right.

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VINYL FORMAT. In the same vein perhaps, as LateNight Tales, which came out earlier the same year, DJ-Kicks finds Kieran Hebden choosing some of his favorite songs from both past and present to share with his audience. But while LateNight Tales was just a cut-and-dried collection, DJ-Kicks has Hebden mixing the tracks together into something that resembles a possible club set. Though the music of Four Tet is firmly placed within the IDM/indie-electronica context, not only has Hebden wor   [ read more ]

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In the same vein perhaps, as LateNight Tales, which came out earlier the same year, DJ-Kicks finds Kieran Hebden choosing some of his favorite songs from both past and present to share with his audience. But while LateNight Tales was just a cut-and-dried collection, DJ-Kicks has Hebden mixing the tracks together into something that resembles a possible club set. Though the music of Four Tet is firmly placed within the IDM/indie-electronica context, not only has Hebden worked with artist   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The second single to be taken from Four Tet's hugely acclaimed and latest album Everything Ecstatic, is "A Joy". A churning bass-heavy tune, like a washing machine set to "queasy," "A Joy" is, in its own right, and in the context of the album, a striking opener. Impossible drums skitter across an alien jazz terrain and disappear behind rocks, only to come back bigger and more terrifying. For this vinyl single release however, the bar has been significantly raised. Hebden h   [ read more ]

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Take the mesmerizing aural experience of Four Tet's acclaimed Everything Ecstatic and couple it with ten new film shorts commissioned specifically for the ten musical pieces and you get this synapse-fusing new DVD release. Bonus disc includes 35 minutes of brand new music, and some radical rethinks of material from Everything Ecstatic, which together represent a current snapshot of Kieran's ever-changing musical thinking.

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