CLOSED Win tickets to see Four Tet live in Hong Kong
Thursday, 25 May 2006
Four Tet will be performing live in HK on the 10th June and we have 3 pairs of tickets to giveaway for this event. Under the well known International label K7, Four Tet will be displaying a truely amazing live performance on the 10th in Hong Kong of electronic music.
Read on if you would like to go and how you can view some of his videos.
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Deadline 31st May 2006. You must be over 21 to enter this competition and be based in Hong Kong.
Four Tet in concert
Featuring:
DJ Cherry (Singapore most talented female DJ – new Motorola spokesperson)
DJ DMZ (Singapore All-In-One Drum ‘n Bass artist - Live DJing mixing MC Rapping)
DJ Jeremy
Date: 10th June 2006
Venue: Pi, 28/F, 8 Wyndham Street, Central
Ticket at door only: $220 only. (include 1 standard drink)
[Limited to 200 tickets only! First Come First Serve! Tickets on sale as from 10pm on show date]
Four Tet is the recording, live and DJ identity for Kieran Hebden’s work as an electronic musician.
1977 Kieran born
1993 Kieran formed his first band Fridge with friends Adem Ilhan and Sam Jeffers out of Elliott school in Wandsworth, SW London.
1997 Early trailblazers of what would come to be identified as Post Rock, the instrumental trio released their first record, ‘Ceefax’, for Trevor Jackson’s Output label in March.
1998 A second Fridge album ‘Semaphore’ is released by Output, along with a later collection of 7” and 12”s called ‘Sevens And Twelves’. The first Four Tet single ‘ThirtySixTwentyFive’, which lasts 36 minutes and 25 seconds is released by Output in July. The second Four Tet single, ‘Misnomer’, follows in December.
1999 The first Four Tet album, ‘Dialogue’ is released by Output in May. Its adoption of the principles of free jazz and electronic experimentation immediately sees it acclaimed as a benchmark release. The third Fridge album ‘Eph’ comes out on Go! Beat. Lo Recordings releases a Four Tet/Rothko split 12”, and the Four Tet single ‘Glasshead’ is released on Output.
2000 Kieran spends the spring and summer writing towards an album that, with its blending of pastoral English folk influences and electronics, will come to define a genre, folktronica. Kieran releases the split 12-inch, ‘Four Tet vs Pole’ with the artists each remixing the other’s work. Fridge work on the follow up to ‘Eph’ and also become Badly Drawn Boy’s band for a few months, playing festivals across Europe and touring in Japan.
2001 The first Four Tet album for Domino Records, ‘Pause’ is released in May of the year. In fact, all four Four Tet albums have fallen at precise two-year increments, every other May. The fourth Fridge album, ‘Happiness’, is released on Kieran’s own Text label. One of the stand-out tracks from ‘Pause’, ‘No More Mosquitoes’ is released as a single in June, A remix 12” entitled ‘Paws’ is released in September which features mixes from long-term Kieran associate Manitoba as well as Koushik.
2002 Kieran works on the forthcoming third Four Tet album, as ever at home and with very basic equipment. He also starts to work more on performing the Four Tet music in a live context and becomes interested in the idea of being able to improvise electronic music in real time. That summer he is invited to tour with Radiohead through Spain and Portugal and in the autumn he tours with Super Furry Animals in the US. From then on live performance becomes a key part of the Four Tet creative process.
2003 In the spring Kieran and fellow Fridge member Adem form the band for legendary 60s folk singer Vashti Bunyan’s rare one-off performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall, as part of a Steve Malkmus chosen line-up. The third Four Tet album ‘Rounds’ (Domino) is released in May, while Kieran is on tour with Prefuse 73 and Manitoba through North America. It is preceded by the ‘She Moves She’ 12” in March, and followed by ‘As Serious As Your Life’, which includes an exclusive 12” of remixes from Detroit underground hip-hop legend Jay Dee, as well as an amazing 23-minute live version of the track from Kieran’s increasingly wild shows. ‘Rounds’ is the most successful Four Tet album to date, garnering across the board praise for its bold innovation and intense musicality. In October Kieran undertakes his biggest ever UK tour with the Animal Collective in support and goes back to the US to do more shows with Prefuse 73.
2004 Kieran tours Europe with Stereolab. Later in the spring, the highly innovative videos made for tracks from ‘Rounds’ (including Woof Wan Bau’s award winning animation, as well as ‘Pause’’s ‘No More Mosquitoes’) surface as a DVD package with the single ‘My Angel Rocks Back And Forth’, which also features remixes from Icarus and Isambard Khroustaliov. March sees a split 7” with the American band Hella. A 74-minute live set entitled ‘Live In Copenhagen’ is released through the Domino website and Four Tet live shows only. The largest Four Tet event to date takes place at the end of April when Kieran curates a bill at London’s Coronet Theatre which includes many of his favourite acts, among them Papa M, Explosions In The Sky, Manitoba, Animal Collective and Fennesz. In May Kieran tours Taiwan and China, performing in Taipei. Macau and Shenzhen. ‘Late Night Tales’, a compilation of some of Kieran’s favourite tracks, is released by Azuli in November. It includes Jef Gilson, Manfred Mann’s Chapter 3, Fairport Convention and Gravediggaz, as well as lost 70s singer-songwriter Linda Perhacs. Kieran also finds time to produce James Yorkston’s second album ‘Just Beyond the River’, and make a tribute single to French 60s jazz musician Jef Gilson for release on the Isma’a label. In December Kieran, Adem and Sam get together for recordings towards the as-yet-unreleased fifth Fridge album.
2005 ‘A Smile Around The Face’, the first 12” single from the fourth Four Tet album, ‘Everything Ecstatic’, is released in April. A pointer towards the album itself, the single sees Kieran moving towards a more percussively driven direction. This fact is exemplified in Kieran’s live collaboration with legendary drummer Steve Reid (James Brown, Sun Ra, Fela Kuti). ‘Everything Ecstatic’ is scheduled for release on May 23. Kieran plans an all-nighter at London’s Koko for June 4 featuring Battles and Hot Chip, as well as Steve Reid with his full band. There will be full UK and US tours in the early autumn. A mini-album of Four Tet mixes of experimental hip-hop artist Madvillain is also a planned for release on Stones Throw.
Other:
Live Kieran has performed live as Four Tet all over the world playing with many of the world’s best and most innovative musicians and artists, including Radiohead, Manitoba/Caribou, Prefuse 73, Boom Bip, Icarus, Battles, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Explosions in the Sky, Papa M, Animal Collective, Fennesz, Stereolab, Tortoise, Six Oragns of Admittance, Super Furry Animals, Mouse On Mars, Max Tundra, Adem, the Pastels and Lali Puna
Remixes Four Tet has remixed work from Radiohead, Hot Chip, Bloc Party, Juana Molina, Madvillain, Jef Gilson, Sia, Bonobo, Beth Orton, Super Furry Animals, Badly Drawn Boy, Boom Bip, Lars Horntveth, Blue States, Pedro, Doves, James Yorkston, The Notwist, Kings of Convenience, Two Banks of Four, The Dining Rooms, His Name is Alive, Slag Boom Van Loom, Pole, Cinematic Orchestra, David Holmes, Aphex Twin, Urban Species and Cyne.
Kieran Hebden makes all his music at home on domestic computer equipment. He has no manager and books and organises many of his tours himself.
Four Tet will be performing live in HK on the 10th June and we have 3 pairs of tickets to giveaway for this event. Under the well known International label K7, Four Tet will be displaying a truely amazing live performance on the 10th in Hong Kong of electronic music. 
