Work, work, work, eesh - no thanks.

I find it funny that whatever isn't the most pressing thing I have to do I can work on for hours, but as soon as it becomes urgent I'd rather be anywhere else in the world. Well, I have to do an interview with Four Tet this Wednesday and I do have to do some research at some stage, not necessarily right now, but...
As long as I'm shaking down the net for stuff on the bloke I thought I might stick that stuff here as well.
He's playing the Zoo next Saturday (13th June), should be a pretty hella show for you glitch kids:

Sunday 13th June: Brisbane, The Zoo *with Manitoba, Clue to Kalo & Qua
Tickets available from Rocking Horse & Skinnys Records.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 7th May.

Yo: All for only $32 too. Manitoba is from Canada and I think I like him better than Four Tet. Clue to Kalo is from Adelaide and Qua is from Sydney I think but I can't find his website - pissing me off.
You can find lots more about the bloke here on this page by his record comany, domino, including a rather ass-licking bio. Oh yeah, it has some downloads and streaming.
I just watched the video for 'No more mosquitoes' of his 'Rounds', funny and sick - there's a baby version of himself being fed mushed up grapes that had little faces on them - all as part of some science experiment.

Oh look, there's a picture of the weird guy. You're weird, guy.
Mr. Tet also plays in a band that has been described as being 'head rawk' and is called Fridge.
This next bio is, believe it or not, less of a suck-job than the one by his record company and slightly more informative:

Kieran Hebden is one of those impressive young geniuses whose creative juices flow like Mount Vesuvius. At 17, he co-founded the outstanding post-rock outfit Fridge, and by the following year, had already released an acclaimed solo record as Four Tet. Since then, he's managed to keep both projects going strong. Both acts forge a middle ground between "pure" electronic music and "post-rock," with Fridge tending more toward post-rock and Four Tet toward electronic. Four Tet's combination of acoustic and electronic elements sounds fresh and unique, particularly at a time when so much electronic music is conceived and produced without ever leaving the digital realm. With its extensive use of field recordings and acoustic samples, Four Tet's music sounds truly organic and alive.

Hebden's inspiration for 2001's Pause was a documentary about folk musician Bert Jansch. He set out to make a folk record full of Krautrock beats, and by and large succeeded. You'll also hear some fantastic folk-infused breakbeat and downtempo. The featured track, "No More Mosquitoes," is actually anomalous in the context of the album, making much more prominent use of vocals (a sample of a kid singing about the absence of mosquitoes) and digital effects.

This milkfactory interview from 2001 is very detailed. It also contains a good review of his second full-length Pause. Also reviewed is his 'head rawk (I think this means post rock that's been Four Tetted)' band Fridge's album, happiness, released on Four's own Text label. Well, in the UK it was. The link to the text label doesn't work anymore, maybe he's shut it down. Or at least put it into hibernation. Fridge's stuff is available thru Post everything, in the UK now. That page shows how much they've done while still disgustingly young. Bleagh.
Here's a Pitchfork review of the last Four Tet album, Rounds. Something about Kieran Hebden's music makes people want to talk in pictures and feelings. I know I've heard this record before - it didn't make me feel all this. I think I need to go back and find it again.
Yay! Yay! Here I was getting all down on a bloke for being both too arty and too succesful and then he goes and says this:

"I'd rather listen to 15 Emma Bunton albums than a single song by Jet, who I think are the most offensive band in the world right now. They are militantly retro, combined with this ugly arrogance. Jet say that they want to be like the Rolling Stones, who are, they claim, the only good band in the world. But when the Stones made their great albums, that wasn't their attitude at all - their ears were open to so much."

Ha ha Jet, you suck. Tet, you rule.
That's all in a Guardian article, which talks a bit about his nerdy obsessiveness with Jazz records, his fanatic obsessiveness with innovation (hmm..don't know about that one) and his utter lack of obsession with getting up before 10AM. Bastard.
Oh well, I'm sure I'll gush all over him in the interview. I find it difficult not to do that with people much more famous than I am. I'll try and post that here when I have it.
Hmm, I may even be able to stream it.

I'll look into it,

But I'm going to bed now, G'night,

C.

I should really be writing my assignments right now but, I thought I'd check my blog to see if it was behaving itself - yay, it fixed itself!
...and now, in a bid to keep blogging alive post-any-academic-reason-for-doing-so look: It's my latest playlist.
This is looking like a rather short post so, I'm gonna link the sucker to Penny arcade! It has a dubious connection to anything else in this blog - accept maybe the stuff about leet and Megatokyo, but I love computer games and I love comics & now I've admitted both those things in public ...Assuming anybody ever looks at this.

Bye,

C.