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  Watch Four Tet Unlock the Secrets to Building a Better Live Show

  May 21, 2013 – "Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments," Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter recently told the New York Times, explaining the philosophy that led the duo to work with session musicians for Random Access Memories. "Within a computer, everything is sterile — there’s no sound, there’s no air. It’s totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. …
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  Stream Four Tet's 'Unspoken,' Now With 100 Percent More Tori Amos

  May 14, 2013 – Four Tet's 2003 folktronica masterpiece, Rounds, is getting a 10th anniversary reissue from Domino today (May 14), but Kieran Hebden decided to mark the occasion with his own special early-aughts re-release. On Monday (May 13), the U.K. DJ offered the original version of "Unspoken" on Twitter. …
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  Four Tet Blends Prince, Joy Orbison, and Stanley Clarke in Time-Traveling Mix

  May 9, 2013 – Unlike rock bands, producers like Four Tet are freed from the tyranny of their past glories when they perform for a crowd. Even as we lovingly look back at Kieran Hebden's decade-old masterpiece Rounds, the man admits that he doesn't work any of those old songs into his sets. "The only reason to play them now would be nostalgia, and nostalgia could very easily get in the way of new ideas," Hebden tells SPIN. …
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  Making the 'Rounds': Four Tet Looks Back at His Masterpiece

  May 7, 2013 – Ten years ago Kieran Hebden was an introspective Londoner with a head full of seemingly disparate sonic threads: Free-jazz ecstasy, fragile folk, the sparse solemnity of ambient electronic music. On his third album, 2003's groundbreaking Rounds, Hebden, recording under the name Four Tet, cut up, stretched out, and weaved those sounds together into an awe-inspiring folktronica tapestry. …
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  Hear Atoms for Peace Pensively Rework Four Tet's 'Pyramid'

  April 25, 2013 – Left-field dance busybody Four Tet is known for churning out high-quality remixes — he recently did some excellent damage to Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie," and went on a SoundCloud spree yesterday providing fans with an entire CD-R's worth of his reworkings. With that in mind, it may be time for the man to let someone else take the reigns. …
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  Coachella 2013 Friday Fieldnotes: Lindsay Lohan, Tears for Alt-J, the O.G. Yelling Goat

  April 13, 2013 – This year the fest's wristbands include a chip that must be scanned when you're entering or leaving certain areas of the grounds. Being a music fan sometimes means feeling like a package of ground beef going through the supermarket check-out every few minutes.By 2:30 p.m. …
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  Hear Four Tet Cut Justin Timberlake's 'Suit & Tie' to Ribbons

  March 11, 2013 – Here's one you probably didn't see coming: A Four Tet remix of Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie." It's legit, too. Last week, when the remix leaked, Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) confirmed to SPIN that it was his work. "Yeah, it's an official remix commissioned by the label," he wrote in an e-mail, "and it just got approved, so I think it will be getting a proper release. …
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  Hear Four Tet Go Tribal on 'Track' With Incredibly Long Title

  February 1, 2013 – In August, Four Tet rounded up his recent batch of dance tracks via the amply strong long-player, Pink. …
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  See Four Tet Spin Two Hours' Worth of Obscure French Electro

  January 18, 2013 – Need two hours to kill before the weekend? Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet, recently stopped by the underground dance music series Just Jam to spin two hours worth of music ranging from psych-rock and disco to French prog-rockers Heldon and jazz composer David Wertman and every genre in between (via Fact Mag). …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Toro y Moi, Christopher Owens, Camper Van Beethoven, More

  January 15, 2013 – It's Tuesday, which means it's time to hole up with some headphones and sample the 10 new albums below.1) Camper Van Beethoven, La Costa Perdida. "For 30 years and counting, Camper Van Beethoven have existed in a parallel-universe borderland, coming across like a punk band perpetually on a Balkan bluegrass bender. But they finally bring it all back home to their native California on their 10th album... …
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