Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) is the latest name to lend his sizeable talents to the acclaimed FABRICLIVE series, manning the 59th compilation.
The music ranges from experimental electronics, like Michel Redolfi’s ‘Immersion Partielle’ on INA-GRM that Kieran feels “isn’t the type of techno you get on a mix CD” to the wonderfully titled Crazy Bald Heads’ ‘First Born’ a great lost 2 step/ garage record.
“It still sounds so fresh that if it came out next week everyone would flip out. I bought it from Sounds of the Universe in the 90s, it was sold into the shop direct from the producers. A label in London was trying to sign them at the time and got me to do a remix for a possible single. Everything fell apart though and the team of producers never did the deal and didn’t put out more records together as far as I know… so the remix never got released"
Elsewhere in the mix, in typically eclectic style favourite producers of the moment like Floating Points, Burial and Ricardo Villalobos sit next to UK funky classics like Apple’s ‘Mr Bean’ and Four Tet's own Four Tet ‘Fabric’ “a collage of field recordings of sounds from in and around the club”.
Interestingly, the entire mix is constructed on computer, yYet every track is vinyl, with Hebden cutting acetates of all his own music for the mix, to ensure that the sound quality and vibe is consistent.
"This mix is not about my DJing" states Hebden. "It's about London and Fabric and nights out and my take on all that. The memories and the influences. I used old and new music, I used recordings of Fabric, and I made new tracks of my own for it. I hope people play it fucking loud and lose their minds in it and remember or imagine what it's all about."
Full tracklist
01. Intro
02. Michel Redolfi - Immersion Partielle [INA-GRM]
03. Crazy Bald Heads - First Born [On-Tick]
04. Persian - Feel Da Vibe [Same People]
05. KH - 101112 [unreleased]
06. Youngstar (Musical Mob) - Pulse X [Inspired Sounds]
07. Crazy Bald Heads - First Born (Four Tet Remix) [unreleased]
08. Floating Points - Sais (Dub) [Eglo]
09. Apple - Mr Bean [Appsolute]
10. Manitoba (Caribou) - Webers [Leaf]
11. Big Bird - Flav (Urban Myths Remix) [Nice n Ripe]
12. Genius - Waiting [Kronik]
13. Four Tet - Fabric [unreleased]
14. David Borden - The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint, Part Nine [David Borden]
15. STL - Dark Energy [Something]
16. Percussions - Percussions One [unreleased]
17. C++ - Angie's Fucked [Music For Freaks]
18. Burial - Street Halo [Hyperdub]
19. KMA - Cape Fear [KMA]
20. WK7 - Higher Power [Power House]
21. Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso [Cadenza]
22. Four Tet - Pyramid [Text]
23. Red Rack'em - How I Program [Bergerac]
24. Active Minds - Hobson’s Choice (Tune For Da Man Dem) [white]
25. Armando Gallop & Steve Poindexter - Blackholes [Muzique]
26. Outro
27. Four Tet - Locked [Text]
