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Three
Review: Kieran Hebden, better known by his moniker Four Tet, has graced us with his first full-length album in nearly three years. "Three," released on his own Text Records imprint, is a meticulously crafted exploration of sound, weaving together elements of electronica, downtempo, and folktronica influences. The album strikes a balance between organic and electronic textures. Tracks like "Loved" showcase Hebden's signature ability to manipulate found sounds and samples, creating a shimmering sonic tapestry. "Gliding Through Everything" leans more towards the downtempo side, with its gentle piano chords and woozy atmosphere. However, Four Tet doesn't shy away from exploring the electronic realm. Tracks like "Daydream Repeat" feature driving uptempo rhythms intertwined with ethereal piano melodies, showcasing his talent for building tension and release. "Storm Crystals" injects a dose of ambient energy, while "Skater" leans into playful, almost chiptune-like melodies. The closing track, "Three Drums" (another pre-release single), brings back the energy with its pulsating bassline and infectious groove. Not to miss!
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15 Mar 24
Balearic/Downtempo
GL (Chloe Robinson + DJ ADHD Remix)
GL (Chloe Robinson + DJ ADHD remix) - (5:12) 67 BPM
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23 Feb 24
Experimental/Electronic
Daydream Repeat
Daydream Repeat - (6:08) 64 BPM
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14 Feb 24
Experimental/Electronic
Loved
Loved - (4:03) 82 BPM
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10 Jan 24
Experimental/Electronic
Secret Life
Review: The 29 year old British musician Fred Again..has collaborated with his early career mentor, Brian Eno, for the first time since 2014. Fred Again.. previously earned writing credits on Eno and Karl Hyde (Underworld) albums Someday World and High Life respectively, as well as producing for the former. Eno, a legendary musician and producer, expressed his admiration for Fred Again.. and his unique approach to music, highlighting his collaborator's ability to create non-linear compositions that incorporate historical context through the sound. This fusion marks the return of a mentor-student partnership that could produce exciting new music.
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05 May 23
Experimental/Electronic
Three Drums
Three Drums - (8:15) 92 BPM
Review: British electronic musician Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet's latest offering "Three Drums" is a captivating track that showcases his versatility and creativity as an electronic musician. The song starts with a gentle synth melody that gradually builds up to a crescendo of drums and bass. The drums are layered and complex, creating a rhythmic and hypnotic effect, with an overall pastoral and epic feel, as if it was inspired by nature and adventure. While the song is a contrast to Hebden's recent collaborations with Skrillex and Fred Again, it still proves that he can master any style.
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27 Apr 23
Experimental/Electronic
Bolts
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21 Oct 22
Experimental/Electronic
Round (Four Tet Remix)
Round (Four Tet remix) - (6:11) 128 BPM
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06 Oct 22
Euro Dance/Pop Dance
Right To Riot
Right To Riot - (5:00) 68 BPM
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20 Sep 22
Experimental/Electronic
Mango Feedback
Review: Acclaimed British producer Kieran Hebden returns under the Four Tet alias with two new tracks on his Text imprint. The result is "Mango Feedback", a hypnotising house journey presented in his idiosyncratic style where a sublime sitar melody plays centre stage, underpinned by an infectious UK garage rhythm. For something a bit more different, the second offering "Watersynth" is an exploration in downbeat ambient sounds that will have you in a state of blissful freefall.
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11 Aug 22
Deep House
Round
Round - (4:00) 64 BPM
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09 Aug 22
Experimental/Electronic
GL / Raining
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15 Jul 22
Experimental/Electronic
Nova
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11 Feb 22
Experimental/Electronic
Pockets
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28 May 21
Experimental/Electronic
Parallel
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25 Dec 20
Experimental/Electronic
871
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25 Dec 20
Experimental/Electronic
Glasshead
Review: Twenty years later and we're given another fresh reminder as to why Four Tet is still the guy. Released back in 99, Glasshead, in its original 11-minute form (with bizzarro breaks), sees Kieren Hebden pay tribute to some of his treasured inspirations in the jazz saxophonies of Robin Kenyatta, neu elektronik deutsche musik of Amon Duul and the early mainstream electronica of experimental pioneers Perrey and Kingsley. A future funk classic of freeform fusion, big beat jazz and electronica gone wild, get lost in the ragtime future beats of a legendary artist's formative years.
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06 Jul 20
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Misnomer
Review: Get to really know the Four Tet you know now with this Misnomer EP, originally released back in '99. Dating back to a time when Four Tet was more of a side project for Hebden than his prevailing alias - thanks to Trevor Jackson's Output label - these four tracks are thrown back into the spotlight and may come as a shock to some in the way they dive deep into noise music and experimental sound sourcing. Most overtly heard in the wild jazz of "Fume", there's something easier to handle in the title-track. With eastern themed motifs gracing "Charm" and "Aying" too - allow yourself to revel in the early days of Four Tet, when trip hop, big beat and post rock was a thing.
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TEXTOPR 003
29 Jun 20
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Dialogue
Review: Before Domino, Late Night Tales and Skrillex back-to-back sets there was the original Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet. Back some 20 years ago the storied producer was associated with an electro-acoustic style of freeform jazz, broken beats, ambient and electronica that was given full and early support from Trevor Jackson's Output label. Dialogue presents Four Tet's first official studio album (released in 1999) conjuring up a montage of guitars, horns, big beat drums and other instrumentals alongside humming rhodes, electrified bass, and deeper, old school classics like "The Butterfly Effect". Enjoy this on the back of Four Tet's newest album, Sixteen Oceans (2020
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TEXTOPR 002
22 Jun 20
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Thirtysixtwentyfive
Thirtysixtwentyfive - (36:25) 66 BPM
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TEXTOPR 001
15 Jun 20
Experimental/Electronic
Sixteen Oceans
Review: On his first new album in three years, Kieron Hebden aka Four Tet proves why he is such a rare talent. Tracks like "School" and "Baby" see him merge ambient and electro-acoustic sounds together with vocal samples and tight dance floor rhythms, while on "Love Birds" he delivers tight drums and melancholic keys. What makes this so impressive is the fact that the dividing line between the organic and the electronic is imperceptible. Of course there is an accessible side to Hebden's style - the effortless warbles of "Teenage Birdsong" and the evocative "Harpsichord" being the stand out tracks - but in the same way that he blends the organic with the synthetic, Four Tet never lets this album dip into rampant commercialism.
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13 Mar 20
Experimental/Electronic
4T Recordings
4T Recordings - (3:17) 105 BPM
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04 Mar 20
Balearic/Downtempo
Baby
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24 Jan 20
Deep House
Teenage Birdsong
Teenage Birdsong (Overmono remix) - (4:37) 90 BPM
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10 Dec 19
Bass
Teenage Birdsong
Teenage Birdsong (Avalon Emerson Scrub Jay remix) - (5:13) 101 BPM
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TEXTDDD 11
28 Nov 19
Balearic/Downtempo
Dreamer
Dreamer - (3:22) 135 BPM
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TEXTDDD 10
18 Jul 19
UK Garage
Teenage Birdsong
Teenage Birdsong - (3:25) 98 BPM
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TEXTDDD 09
18 Apr 19
Balearic/Downtempo
Aardvark
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19 Oct 18
Techno
New Energy
Review: If you were judging Kieran Hebden's 11th Four Tet studio album merely on the way it's presented, you'd immediately think he'd spent the last two years immersed in early '90s ambient house albums. While it's unlikely he's done that, it's fair to say that New Energy does owe a debt to classic electronica sets from that period. For all the exotic instrumentation and subtle nods to post-dubstep "aquacrunk" experimentalism and chiming, head-in-the-clouds sunrise house, the album feels like a relic of a lost era. That's not meant as a criticism - New Energy is superb - but it is true that his choice of neo-classical strings, gentle new age melodies, sweeping synthesizer chords and disconnected vocal samples would not sound out of place on a Global Communication album.
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29 Sep 17
Experimental/Electronic
Scientists
Scientists - (4:59) 61 BPM Hot
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14 Sep 17
Experimental/Electronic
SW9 9SL
SW9 9SL - (7:55) 129 BPM Hot
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25 Aug 17
Techno
Planet
Planet - (7:18) 127 BPM Hot
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02 Aug 17
Deep House
Two Thousand & Seventeen
Two Thousand & Seventeen - (4:12) 76 BPM
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06 Jul 17
Balearic/Downtempo
EP2
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16 Sep 16
Techno
Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never Edit)
Evening Side - (4:02) 120 BPM Hot
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04 Mar 16
Balearic/Downtempo
Pink Remixes
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04 Feb 16
Electro
Digital Arpeggios
Digital Arpeggios - (9:01) 117 BPM
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28 Aug 15
Deep House
Morning/Evening
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10 Jul 15
Experimental/Electronic
2011 Until 2014
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28 Apr 15
Techno
Streetways
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24 Apr 14
Techno
Kool FM (Remixes)
Review: Released back in August, "Kool FM" was Four Tet's ode to pirate radio and laid down a suitable primer for what to expect from his LP Beautiful Rewind. After the single comes the remix! If you've taken a walk through the content farm, listened to the Hessle Rinse show or seen a Four Tet DJ set in recent months you should be more than familiar with both remixes here. The first remix from Butterz lad Champion is an exercise in simple dancefloor mathematics, implementing the kind of deranged bass line that destroys crowds and demands rewinds. A recent interview with Container revealed the U.S. noise/techno experimentalist to be a big fan of Frak and you can certainly hear their influence on his accompanying remix of "Kool FM" which retains mere remnants of Hebden's original - the distortion from the 2:30 mark onwards is particularly edifying.
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11 Nov 13
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
Kool FM (Remixes)
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11 Nov 13
Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime
Beautiful Rewind
Review: Given that Four Tet's recent 0181 LP was comprised of material from Kieran Hebden's archives, and last year's Pink was largely compiled of tracks from the previous 18 months of 12" releases, it seems fair to say that Beautiful Rewind is his first proper album since 2010's There Is Love In You, and as such, it arrives with some degree of expectation. The past few years have seen the producer engage increasingly with the dancefloor, and these rhythms are most definitely present across the LP, particularly in the jungle breaks of "Kool FM", pirate radio-influenced techno of "Buchla" and hesitant dubstep style rhythms of "Parallel Jalebi". For the most part however Beautiful Rewind is as varied as the likes of Rounds and There Is Love In You, with the minimalist kosmische of "Ba Teaches Yoga", analogue gurgles of "Crush" and dawn chorus sounds of closer "Your Body Feels" all as beautiful as his most enduring tracks.
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04 Oct 13
Experimental/Electronic
Beautiful Rewind
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04 Oct 13
Experimental/Electronic
0181
0181 - (38:08)
Review: We're not going to lie - it's always super-exciting when a new Four Tet record drops and even more so when it's been pretty much unannounced. Here, our main man Kieran Hebden has unearthed a collection of jams dating back to the late 90s and early 00s - back in the days of the 0181 greater London telephone code, but these electronic excursions are in no way a reference to the past and in fact, they sound damn near futuristic. In all honesty, this is basically a livejam mix of Hebden's unreleased material, a near 40 minutes of dreamy harmonics and cutting-edge drum breaks, soaring to depths and highs of all sorts - jazzy vibes, peaks of electronica and much more. Giving you a detailed account of the affair just wouldn't do it justice, there's simply too much musical diversity and sonic experimentation right here, but, what we will tell you is that this release contains all the ingredients which make Four Tet's music so brilliant. A must have.
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28 Jan 13
Balearic/Downtempo
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