Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet (twitter @fourtet) has been a known force in the electronic music scenes for the past ten years or so. throughout that span he has released five solo albums, a DJ-kicks compilation, and four collaborative albums with jazz legend Steve Reid. last year’s “there is love in you“, his latest full-lenght, was an exercise in unabashed melodic goodness fused with modern dancefloor aesthetics. in fact, it was Kieran’s most dancefloor-orientated album to date, and honestly one of his most accomplished efforts to our ears.

Kieran also runs his own label text records (discogs). there he’s released records by some of his closest musical allies, such as koushik, caribou, rocketnumbernine, and his own band fridge. the label has been picking up momentum in recent times due to high profile collaborations with burial and thom yorke, as well as some of four tet‘s own dancefloor burners. the latest of which (text11) you can listen to below

Locked (TEXT011) by Four Tet
 
recently, we’ve also come to discover Kieran’s DJing abilities. his sets fuse a host of styles seamlessly; be it techno, experimental, bass, or world musics, his programming is always top notch. his upcoming mix cd for the fabriclive series, out september 19th, is one of our most expected releases of the year. putting together tracks by burial, ricardo villalobos, caribou, as well as some of his own unreleased productions, the mix Kieran says “is not about my DJing. It’s about London and fabric and nights out and my take on all that. The memories and the influences. I used old and new music, I used recordings of fabric, and I made new tracks of my own for it. I hope people play it fucking loud and lose their minds in it and remember or imagine what it’s all about”. read more info and pre-order fabriclive 59 here.