He unintentionally started ‘folktronica’ and has worked with everyone from Steve Reid and Jamie xx but Four Tet refuses to play the fame game. He grants us a rare audience to talk dancefloor euphoria and finding his inner zen
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In a bijou cafe near King’s Cross, Kieran Hebden sits under a meteorite-sized glitter ball, sipping at a ginger beer and looking uncommonly relaxed. Yesterday morning he suddenly released Morning/Evening – his new album as Four Tet and his first in two years – on Bandcamp. There was no press hype and no marketing campaign. Many musicians would now be fretting about critical reception, midweek chart positions, the haters. But with Hebden, you just sense a come-what-may acceptance. “One thing about running everything myself is that everything is flexible,” he says of his decision to casually put his album online. “A few days ago I was like, it’s the summer solstice, a lovely day – this is perfect.”
Unless I can speak to God through my laptop, I’m never going to make a great record
I’ll put out a track that borders on techno and people will be like: ‘What the hell’s this?'
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