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Use dmy dates|date=August 2010BLP sources|date=March 2007Infobox musical artist| name = Kieran Hebden| image = Four Tet 2004-04-04.jpg| caption = Hebden performs at the Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| alias = Four Tet| origin = United Kingdom| instrument = Piano , drum kit|drums , guitar , harpsichord , horn (instrument)|horn , synthesizer | genre = Electronic music|Electronic Folktronica Intelligent Dance Music|IDM Jazz Post-dubstep | years_active = 1998& ndash;present| label = Output Recordings Domino Records | associated_acts = Fridge (band)|Fridge , Steve Reid , Burial (musician)|Burial , Thom Yorke | website = http://www.fourtet.net/Kieran Hebden (born 1978, Putney , London) is a post-rock and electronic music|electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge (band)|Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist under the moniker of Four Tet .
Hebden's music typically eschews the traditional pop song format in favour of a more abstract approach—his sound and melodies incorporate elements of Hip hop music|hip hop , electronica , techno , jazz , and folk music with live instrumentation.
Alongside recording his own material, Hebden has also performed remixes for a number of artists including Aphex Twin , Anti-Pop Consortium , Bonobo (musician)|Bonobo , Beth Orton , Born Ruffians , Explosions in the Sky , Super Furry Animals , Radiohead , Manic Street Preachers , Matthew Dear , Sia , Nathan Fake , Bloc Party , Andrew Bird , Kings of Convenience , Battles (band)|Battles , Juana Molina , Madvillain , The xx , Foals , and Black Sabbath , as well as producing two albums by psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man . Hebden's recent output includes a number of Musical improvisation|improvisational works with the late Jazz drumming|jazz drummer Steve Reid and collaborations with both Burial (musician)|Burial and Thom Yorke .
History
Kieran Hebden was born in London to a South African-born India n mother and a sociology lecturer father.cite web |url= http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-kieran-hebden-864626.html |title=Close-up: Kieran Hebden |author=John Lewis |work= The Independent|The Independent on Sunday |date=13 July 2008 |accessdate=13 October 2010 He attended Elliott School (London)|Elliott School in Putney, where he formed the band Fridge (band)|Fridge with classmates Adem Ilhan and Sam Jeffers. The band signed a recording contract when Hebden was 15, and released their first album in March 1997.
Hebden began releasing material as Four Tet in 1998 with the 36& nbsp;minute, 25& nbsp;second single Thirtysixtwentyfive on Trevor Jackson (musician)|Trevor Jackson 's Output Recordings label. Later that year, he released a second single, the jazz-influenced "Misnomer". 1999's Dialogue (Four Tet album)|Dialogue , again on Output, was Four Tet's first full-length album release and fused Hip hop music|hip hop drum lines with dissonant jazz samples. This was followed by the double A-side single "Glasshead"/"Calamine", which was to be Four Tet's last release on Output.
In late 1999, Warp Records released Warp 10: Influences, Classics, Remixes|Warp 10 + 3: Remixes , a tenth-anniversary compilation of remixes of Warp tracks; Hebden contributed a remix of the opening track of Aphex Twin 's Selected Ambient Works Volume II . This relatively high-profile exposure attracted new interest in Four Tet from fans of electronica and intelligent dance music , genres in which the Warp brand has a preeminent status.Citation needed|date=February 2007 In 2001, Four Tet's second album Pause (album)|Pause was released on Domino Records and found Hebden using more folk and Electronic music|electronic samples, which was quickly dubbed " folktronica " by the media and pressCitation needed|date=February 2007 in an attempt to label the style (often also applied to artists such as Isan (band)|Isan and Gravenhurst (band)|Gravenhurst ). Rounds (album)|Rounds was released in May 2003. Three singles were released from the album: " She Moves She ", " As Serious as Your Life ", and " My Angel Rocks Back and Forth (EP)|My Angel Rocks Back and Forth ". This last single was released as an EP featuring remixes by electronica duo Icarus (band)|Icarus and Isambard Khroustaliov along with additional Four Tet tracks "I've Got Viking in Me" and "All the Chimers". An accompanying DVD featured all of Four Tet's videos to date. In addition, the closing track "Slow Jam" was featured in a U.S. Nike, Inc.|Nike commercial in 2001 and 2002; Hebden edited the track on the back of the bus with his laptop while on a tour with Fridge (band)|Fridge .Citation needed|date=February 2007 At the beginning of 2003, Four Tet opened for Radiohead on their European tour. A remix of the song "Scatterbrain" from Radiohead's sixth studio album Hail to the Thief was released in November 2003 as a B-side to the single " 2 + 2 = 5 (song)|2 + 2 = 5 " and later included on their 2004 EP COM LAG (2plus2isfive) . Furthermore, Hebden was among the people thanked by Radiohead in the liner notes|booklet accompanying their 2007 In Rainbows#Formats and promotion| In Rainbows "discbox" release.
A concert|live album named Live in Copenhagen 30th March 2004 was released in April 2004 as a limited edition, available exclusively from the Domino Records website.
In March and April 2005, Four Tet performed two shows of improvisational music, in collaboration with jazz drumming|jazz drummer Steve Reid , in Paris and London. He also appears on Steve Reid Ensemble 2005 album Spirit Walk (Steve Reid album)|Spirit Walk . This collaboration was extended into a series of international tours, and the release of two albums, The Exchange Session Vol. 1 and The Exchange Session Vol. 2 over the course of 2005 and 2006.
His fourth studio album Everything Ecstatic was released on Domino on 23 May 2005. The video for the lead single, "Smile Around the Face", features actor Mark Heap . On 7 November 2005, Domino released a DVD version of Everything Ecstatic featuring video clips for each track of the album plus a CD with new material, titled Everything Ecstatic Part 2 , which was later made available as an individual EP.
Hebden has also remixed, under the Four Tet name, tracks by a wide range of artists including Tegan And Sara , Madvillain , Andrew Bird , Bloc Party , Super Furry Animals , Beth Orton , Badly Drawn Boy , CYNE (hip hop group)|CYNE , The Notwist , Boom Bip , Battles , Kings of Convenience , Lars Horntveth , Bonobo (musician)|Bonobo , Rothko (band)|Rothko , The xx , Thom Yorke and Radiohead . On 25 September 2006, Domino Records released Remixes (Four Tet album)|Remixes , a two-disc compilation of Four Tet remixes. The first disc contains twelve Four Tet remixes selected by Hebden, with the second disc comprising every official remix to date (both by Hebden himself and by other artists) of Four Tet tracks, many of which had previously been available on vinyl only. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/37724-four-tet-to-release-remix-lp Four Tet to Release Remix LP A new EP, Ringer (EP)|Ringer , was released on 21 April 2008.
In 2008, Hebden collaborated with composer David Arnold to write "Crawl, End Crawl", the song used for the end credits of the film Quantum of Solace . http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php? itemid=7146& t=mi6& s=news
In 2009, Hebden worked on a secret collaboration with Burial (musician)|Burial . The Moth / Wolf Cub|two track 12" was released with a plain black cover with no liner notes or details contained on the vinyl, other than the artists' names and the track titles: "Moth" and "Wolf Cub".
In November 2009, details of the fifth full-length Four Tet album were released. Heavily influenced by a stint DJing at the Plastic People club in ShoreditchCite web|url= http://www.totallydublin.ie/music-feature-four-tet-and-the-london-underground-42.html|title=Music Feature – Four Tet and the London Underground|date=26 February 2010|publisher= Totally Dublin |accessdate=23 November 2010 and entitled There Is Love in You , it was released on 25 January 2010.cite web |url= http://www.fourtet.net/index.php/blog/entry/there_is_love_in_you/ |title=There Is Love In You |work=Four Tet official website |date=5 November 2009 |accessdate=5 November 2009 The album was preceded by a limited edition release of the 12" single "Love Cry".
In 2011, Hebden released a split 12" with Burial (musician)|Burial and Thom Yorke , entitled "Ego/Mirror". He has been chosen by Caribou (musician)|Caribou to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. http://www.atpfestival.com/events/nightmare2011.php ATP Nightmare Before Christmas
Selected discography
Main|Kieran Hebden discography
Albums (as Four Tet)
Dialogue (Four Tet album)|Dialogue ( Output Recordings , May 1999)
Pause (album)|Pause ( Domino Records , 28 May 2001)
Rounds (album)|Rounds (Domino Records, 5 May 2003) - UK Albums Chart|UK #60cite book
| first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 210
Everything Ecstatic (Domino Records, 23 May 2005) - UK #59
Remixes (Four Tet album)|Remixes (Domino Records, 25 September 2006)
Ringer (EP)|Ringer (Domino Records, 21 April 2008)
There Is Love in You (Domino Records, 25 January 2010) - #35 UK, #157 US
Mix albums
Late Night Tales: Four Tet (Azuli Records, 4 October 2004) ( DJ mix|DJ mix album compiled by Hebden)
DJ-Kicks: Four Tet (Studio !K7, 26 June 2006) (mix album in the DJ-Kicks series)
FabricLive.59 (Fabric Records, September 2011) (mix album in the Fabriclive|Fabric discography series)
Albums (as Kieran Hebden)
The Exchange Session Vol. 1 (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 27 February 2006)
The Exchange Session Vol. 2 (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 22 May 2006)
Tongues (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album)|Tongues (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 19 March 2007)
NYC (Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid album)|NYC (with Steve Reid; Domino Records, 4 November 2008)
Four Tet Persondata | NAME =Hebden, Kieran | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1977 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Hebden, Kieran Category:1977 births Category:English electronic musicians Category:English people of Indian descent Category:Folktronica Category:Intelligent dance music musicians Category:English experimental musicians Category:Ableton Live users Category:Living people Category:People from Putney
