Latest Release
- 15 MAR 2024
- 12 Songs
- Loved - Single · 2024
- Beautiful Rewind · 2013
- Three · 2024
- Three + · 2024
- Pause · 2001
- Pink · 2012
- Everything Ecstatic · 2001
- Wuppdeckmischmampflow · 2011
- Ringer · 2008
- Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023 · 2023
Essential Albums
- 2024
- 2020
- 2017
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
Music Videos
- 2020
- 2019
- 2003
- 2001
Artist Playlists
- From hip-hop to jazz and house—the most adventurous dance floor you've ever visited.
- Channelling abstract beats into unexpected shapes and styles.
- A singular style of beatmaking yields bold new sounds.
- A kaleidoscopic look at the producer's brain-bending beats and samples.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
Live Albums
Compilations
- 2020
- 2003
Appears On
- Simone Felice
More To Hear
- Mike D and Four Tet on influences, sampling, and obsessions.
- Kieran Hebden selects the 5 Best Songs on Apple Music.
- The producer and DJ picks the 5 Best Songs on Apple Music
- The UK producer drops Bicep, Four Tet, Lone, and John Talabot.
About Four Tet
Late-’90s London was a dynamic time and place for electronic music: Styles were colliding at an unprecedented pace, and a young Kieran Hebden wasted no time getting involved. He was just 20 when his muscular post-rock outfit, Fridge, signed to Trevor Jackson’s influential Output label in 1997. But the following year, he began pursuing an even more distinctive sound with his electronic solo project, Four Tet. Hebden’s breakbeats weren’t the same ones most dance producers used, and instead of choosing obviously electronic sounds, he opted for warm samples of jazz and folk: reedy horns, harps, unidentifiable instruments from dusty world-music bins. And since the start, he’s remained remarkably true to that singular vision. Hebden began perfecting his sound with 2001’s Pause and 2003’s Rounds—a breezy, brightly coloured take on downtempo notable for its pastoral qualities. By 2008’s Ringer EP, recorded at the height of house and techno’s minimalist boom, he began gravitating toward the dance floor, channelling finely honed percussive sounds into rippling rhythms, and 2010’s ecstatic, full-bodied There Is Love in You married his colourful psychedelic sensibilities to his taste in DJ cuts. (“Plastic People” is named for a beloved underground London nightclub Hebden frequented.) In the years since, Four Tet’s music has grown more daring (2015’s Morning/Evening is a 40-minute, two-track meditation on Hindi film music) and doggedly focused on making people dance (“Kool FM” is a rollicking, jungle-sampling tribute to London’s pirate-radio legacy). Though his wide-ranging collaborations (Katy B, Burial, the late free-jazz drummer Steve Reid) and remixes of everyone from Aphex Twin to Omar Souleyman have allowed him to fold an ever-growing array of ideas into his world, Hebden continues to sound like nobody but himself—and, try as they might, no one else sounds quite like him. More to Know • Hebden went solo in 1997 and earned widespread acclaim for his third album as Four Tet, 2003’s Rounds, a fixture of year-end best-of lists. • As of 2020, Four Tet had released 10 full-length LPs, six live albums, and three EPs—and that’s not counting releases under other names. He's also opened for Radiohead and remixed songs by artists like Sia, Lana Del Rey, and Black Sabbath. • In 2017, Four Tet’s remix of The xx's “A Violent Noise” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording.
- HOMETOWN
- London, England
- BORN
- September 1977
- GENRE
- Electronic