DJ FROSTY @ echo

Four Tet || Listen

As Four Tet, Kieran Hebden has been a chameleonic interpreter of genres. Using a cut-up and collage approach, he’s bent folk music, jazz, and hip-hop into impossible shapes; each time we seem to draw a bead on his style, whether it’s folktronica, instrumental hip-hop, or IDM, Hebden neatly steps out of the crosshairs to leave us firing at thin air. In fact, his music is best understood according to practice. From the folky samples of Pause to the laptop bobbins of Rounds to the free-jazzy squalls of his collaborations with drummer Steve Reid, Hebden has seemed less interested in developing genres than in absorbing their tropes into his own hermetic sound world. What distinguishes Four Tet’s albums isn’t so much the kind of music he appropriates as how he uses it, and in this he’s been fairly consistent: He snips and smears until his sources all but vanish into his crisp polyrhythms. – Pitchfork

with:
Jon Hopkins || Listen
DJ Frosty (Dub Lab)