Rounds, the third album from the bucolic British producer Four Tet, was his big breakout moment, the album where his fusion of pastoral folk and head-blown inward-looking electronic music found its…   Read Story »

After experimenting with three formats for the Monthly Mix -- MP3 zip, Spotify playlist, Soundcloud set, etc. -- in March we finally came upon a solution that pleased everyone: all of them. And so,…   Read Story »

Last year, the cerebral electronic producer Four Tet released Pink, an excellent collection of the singles he'd been releasing, tracks that were more dancefloor-directed than almost anything he'd…   Read Story »

About 14 years ago, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, both Neneh Cherry and the Jungle Broters were doing way-out art-student things with rap music. And now Cherry and Afrika Baby Bam, one half of…   Read Story »

Justin Timberlake is getting a lot of play from gossip blogs this morning, largely because everyone just now realized that he threw a sneaky sideways dis to Kanye West into his SNL performance of…   Read Story »

In July, Four Tet went into the studio with Ben and Tom Page, a/k/a the London-based improv-inclined brothers duo RocketNumberNine. Together, the trio recorded a new collaborative 12-inch, due out…   Read Story »

Kieran Hebden, bka Four Tet, has released a song from his upcoming 12" called *deep breath* "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About And That Joy Used In His RA Mix And Daphni…   Read Story »

One of last year's great under-the-radar albums was Four Tet's Pink, the singles compilation that moved Kieran Hebden's production further away from warm electro-acoustic romanticism and toward…   Read Story »

On Tuesday, Four Tet guest-hosted DJ Roska's show on the UK's legendary pirate-turned-Internet radio station Rinse FM. During the set, Four Tet played a track he made featuring a vocal loop from…   Read Story »

In 1959, Ornette Coleman released The Shape of Jazz To Come, a record with content almost as audacious as its title. Forty-seven years later, Coleman at least partially fulfilled his own challenge…   Read Story »