Four TetA long-serving, much-loved Triptych confederate, Four Tet – alias electronic alchemist Kieran Hebden – has colonised the leading edge of electronic music for over a decade. First coming to prominence with eminent post-rockers Fridge, Hebden broke loose in 1998 and has since forged a singular vocation in pop’s olympian domain: he’s remixed Radiohead, Goldfrapp, the Aphex Twin; he’s teamed up with legendary sticksman Steve Reid (James Brown, Miles Davis) for a series of startling cultural unions; he’s recently produced material for Sunburned Hand of the Man and Foals. His solo compositions, meanwhile, are remarkable: Hebden runs rings around his stellar contemporaries with an unparalleled palette of hip-hop and techno; drum loops and birdsong; gentle funk and grizzly beats; obscure folk and neo-classical sweeps – as avidly evinced on 2003’s ‘Rounds’ dispatch, and 2005’s follow-up, ‘Everything Ecstatic’ (Domino).
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