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Four Tet
Released 2006

Baby Day
02:04
877 plays

Up Against the Wall [Getaway Car Mix]
05:01
87 plays

Leapday Night (Scene 1)
02:45
856 plays

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- 1
- Leapday Night (Scene 1)
- 02:45
- 856 plays

- 2
- Mom, The Video Broke
- 03:52
- 459 plays

- 3
- If I Were Only a Child Again
- 02:44
- 156 plays

- 4
- Out-Rock
- 01:39
- 356 plays

- 4
- The Professor's Here
- 04:09
- 369 plays

- 5
- Les Soucoupes Volantes Vertes
- 02:19
- 547 plays

- 6
- Psychometry 3.2
- 01:02
- 1,498 plays

- 7
- Les Yper-Sound
- 03:57
- 104 plays

- 8
- Dillema
- 01:17
- 56 plays

- 9
- Love, Love
- 04:26
- 526 plays

- 10
- Pockets
- 05:29
- 419 plays

- 10
- Baby Day
- 02:04
- 877 plays

- 11
- Figaro (101 Remix)
- 01:55
- 631 plays

- 11
- Psychosomatic
- 03:39
- 454 plays

- 12
- Superspace
- 05:05
- 669 plays

- 17
- Kneel to the Boss
- 00:36
- 79 plays

- 18
- Love Is How Y Make It
- 03:25
- 83 plays

- 19
- Represent
- 01:03
- 119 plays

- 20
- Up Against the Wall [Getaway Car Mix]
- 05:01
- 87 plays

- 21
- Flutter
- 09:57
- 625 plays

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album review

In the same vein perhaps as LateNight Tales, which came out earlier the same year, DJ-Kicks finds Kieran Hebden choosing some of his favorite songs from both past and present to share with his audience. But while LateNight Tales was just a cut-and-dried collection, DJ-Kicks has Hebden mixing the tracks together into something that resembles a possible club set. Though the music of Four Tet is firmly placed within the IDM/indie electronica context, not only has Hebden worked with artists from a variety of genres (Beth Orton, Kings of Convenience, Koushik, Bloc Party, to name a few), but his actual influences are also just as far reaching, if not more so. The album moves from soul (Curtis Mayfield's "If I Were Only a Child Again") to indie pop (Stereolab's "Les Yper-Sound") to pure electronica (Akufen's "Pyschometry") to hip-hop (Group Home's "Up Against the Wall [Getaway Car Remix]") effortlessly, not just because of the actual production, but because of Hebden himself. There's clearly something inside him that connects each of these pieces to him, and he's able to use it to create a real sense of continuity, even if the tracks themselves can be a little disparate. Perhaps this is reflected best in "Pockets," the Four Tet song that comes on a little more than halfway through the album. It isn't quite like anything else on DJ-Kicks, but still it encompasses everything that has come before it and everything that will come after. Using synthesizers in house-like beats, various organic and inorganic forms of percussion, layers of sounds and effects that work their way in and out of the piece, and a good sense of melody, "Pockets" represents not just Four Tet's work but also Kieran Hebden's musical interests as well as the album itself does. And for fans of Four Tet, that's reason enough to make DJ-Kicks interesting. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide