Artist: Four Tet
Genre(s):
Jazz
Acid Jazz
Techno
Electronic
Rock
Experimental
Discography:
Four Tet Remixes (Disc 2 - Remixes)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Four Tet Remixes (Disc 1 - Remixes)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Everything Ecstatic
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
My Angel Rocks Back And Forth EP
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Live in Copenhagen 30th March 2004
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Late Night Tales
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
She Moves She EP
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Rounds
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
As Serious As Your Life
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Paws
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Pause
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
No More Mosquitoes
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Glasshead / Calamine
Year: 1999
Tracks: 2
Dialogue
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Spawned from the advocate to do something asunder from his post-rock lot Fridge, Kieran Hebden's Four Tet project balances constitutional and programmed sounds. Hebden formed Fridge with Sam Jeffers and Adam Ilhan while still in high schooltime. When Fridge went on impermanent hiatus for Jeffers and Ilhan to give ear college, Hebden exhausted time playing with ideas gained from hip-hop and electronica that he hadn't had time for patch concentrating on the band. Eager to experiment, Hebden bought a computing device and began collecting drum and profound samples. Though his tracks sounded contrary, Hebden produced them all in his flat using only his reckoner to loop, slice, and paste downloaded samples and rhythms. His first uncut was 1999's Dialogue, which was noticed by experimental dub pioneer Pole (Stefan Betke). The two eventually collaborated for a 12", Four Tet vs. Pole, which included an original song by each and a remix of the track done by the former creative person. Around the same time, Fridge was signed to the label Go! Beat, owned by Polydor. Hebden retained Four Tet as a side project, however, and released subsequent records Pause (2001) and Rounds (2003) through Domino. The No More Mosquitoes EP and the "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth" individual preceded the 2005 release of Everything Ecstatic. In 2006, Hebden invest together two compilations of some of his favorite tracks, LateNightTales and DJ-Kicks, as well as Everything Ecstatic Films & Part 2. The two-disc Remixes was as well compiled and released that year as were two volumes of his Exchange Session project with jazz drummer Steve Reid. These two volumes establish Hebden working under his proper name for a change. This vogue continued when their third collaboration, Tongues, arrived in 2007.
