Nice to see lots of mentions of Kieran Hebden/Four Tet on here. I'll add
my voice to the cheers for his recent-ish Pause album (on Domino in
North America). It's brilliant and beautiful all while being fairly
abstract and moody. Or maybe emotive is the word. Whatever, it's great.
Definitely one for you fans of Manitoba (Dan Snaith), whose debut album
on Leaf, Start Breaking My Heart, got lots of love on this list. Dan was
influenced heavily by Kieran, and now the two are starting to DJ,
perform and work together. Actually, there's a new Four Tet remix EP
called 'Paws' coming out on Domino on Nov. 27th. Haven't heard it yet,
but there are remixes by Manitoba, fellow Torontonian Koushik (who has
music coming soon on Kieran's Text label), and also experimental hip hop
head Boom Bip.
If you're interested, I interviewed Kieran recently for a piece about
both Four Tet and his three-piece 'rock' band Fridge (whose brand new
album Happiness is totally fantastic btw). Here's the link to the
article:
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_10.11.01/thebeat/extended.html
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Steve Catanzaro wrote:
> I've been reading about the enigma known as 4 Tet (23 yr. old Kierian
> Hebden, sp?) for about 1.5 years now, but only now am I getting to
> hear his music. Could he possibly meet the hype? My reaction, after
> all the buildup? Wow, it's hot. I like this even better than Hefner's
> Residue. Not generally for the dancefloor, but this is some moody,
> relaxing, and ultimately uplifting, new jazz. Especially interesting
> was the piece on him in Future Music mag. His music production rig is
> definitely constructed on the less is more philosophy; he does it all
> on a single PC running Cakewalk. One quote I remember from him was,
> "Next time you come 'round, I'll just be sitting here mixing my next
> album on my palm pilot." Pretty astonishing when you consider how
> thoroughlly layered it all is.
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