Four Tet On His Career and Why He Doesn't Give Interviews

Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, talk us through his career from the early days of "Fridge" through to his current projects and motivations, as well as explaining how an intentional low dose of PR has been key to his continued success as an artist.

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[Nosh_Feratu]

this is exactly the right mindset for industry longevity and creating something thats both fulfilling for yourself, and rich for your audience...he's kind of like the musicians musician...incredibly authentic.

[bexiexz]

sucha flex to give an interview about not giving interviews

[ricofinesse]

no ways we got a FourTeT podcast before GTA 6

[DanChippendaleMusic]

"Do your thing and let people take it in" is my mantra. Be yourself and just enjoy what you produce 😊

[mattstalker]

I really like John Kennedy as an interviewer. He’s also great questions, is so good at giving space and just reflecting back and summarising. Had he. It been a DJ/producer/podcaster he’s have made a great therapist!

[heronymous__bot]

I remember seeing Four Tet in Brisbane in February 2011. Caribou and Four Tet @ The Zoo. I saw then what I still see now, the grandmaster of electronic music.

[DaveShipp]

So excited to see Kieran on Tape Notes. Can’t wait to listen to the full episode. Nice one TN team!

[artprojectsnz]

Such a great producer/writer - love the humble nature of hearing him talk about his work. Chur.

[vvessel_]

I think Four Tet not worrying about how others interpretate his accumutalive projects gives his sound authenticity. For a producer who likes to do everything it must be very good to work project to project instead of audience-service to auidience-service.

[seanjohnson]

I have been waiting for this legend to be on the podcast for so long!

[williamdeasy]

The whole podcast is fantastic! Massive credit to you both

[mattw]

Thanks for putting these videos up. I've been into his music since the fridge days, but this is the first time I've seen him interviewed. Very happy that he's a thoroughly nice chap as well as a bit of a genius ❤

[TRPSHT]

So nice to see Four Tet and Senior Ben UFO in their element

[alipaulstagram]

I've only been waiting 4 years for this podcast

[davidcooke]

They finally got him!! Can’t wait to dive into the full episode

[dormaettu]

Four tet ! Such a pleasure to listen him talk

[mni]

Wow, Kieran is an incredible interviewee.

[davidguzman]

Four tet love all his albums interesting interview he would be amazing working on a track with him such a musical genius.

[WiloPolis]

For someone with such a mysterious persona behind his art, he seems like a pretty chill and down to earth guy. Don't know what it is about IDM/IDM-adjacent artists and not doing too many interviews