Some Kieran Hebeden/ Four Tet for this week's Sunday half hour. There's an embarrassment of riches in his back catalogue- the difficult part was narrowing it down to just six or seven tracks. Kieran takes the energy and feel of rave and combines it with ambient sounds, skippy laptop drums and Indian instruments to make something which is very much his.
The mix starts with Teenage Birdsong, one of my favourite Four Tet tracks, taken from his Sixteen Oceans album, a record which reminds me of the first days and weeks of the first lockdown in March and April 2020 like no other. Lahaina Noon is from the Ana Painting EP which came out in 2019, a collaboration with the painter Anna Liber Lewis where he made music and she painted in response to each other. Two Thousand And Seventeen is from 2017's New Energy album. Jamie Xx's remix of Lions came out as part of the Atoms For Peace project in 2014 and Raga To Midi W was part of a collection of unreleased tracks and edits he dropped onto his Soundcloud page in 2020. There's one of his unpronounceable Wingdings tracks on there and it finishes with his epic eight minute remix of Daniel Avery's New Eternity.
- Teenage Birdsong
- Lahaina Noon
- Two Thousand And Seventeen
- Lion (Jamie Xx Remix)
- Raga To Midi W
- ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(ƟӨ)ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ ꐑ(ཀ ඊູ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ✧✧✧✧✧✧ළඕั࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂ,
- Quick Eternity (Four Tet Remix)
Teenage Birdsong has been a staple on so many playlists I've put together in the last couple of years I have to keep reminding myself that they are so much more. (Another great photograph btw.)
ReplyDeleteThanks John- the view out to sea from West Kirby, Wirral.
ReplyDeleteExcellent work, Adam
ReplyDeleteBrilliant stuff. Thanks Adam.
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Sixteen Oceans is a wonderful album, one I've listened to an awful lot of over the last couple of years. My eldest (14 at the time) described my eldest described Teenage Birdsong as Goth music, which always makes me laugh.
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DeleteThe idea of Teenage Birdsong being goth music tickles me.
ReplyDeleteMrs Sniper is really enjoying the half hour of Four Tet Swiss, so am I.
ReplyDeleteI'm new to Four Tet and this mix seems like the perfect place to start. What do you recommend in terms of albums/ep's/live? His discography is lengthy. Thanks
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ReplyDeleteOooh good quesiton. His most recent album 16 Oceans is a good starting point.
Morning /Evening is beautiful, only 2 tracks but each one is 25 mins.
New Energy from 2017 is very good too.
Thanks! I will check those out.
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