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Four Tet Discusses Making Music and His Inspirations in a New Documentary

In an exclusive documentary, produced by The Creators Project, Dan Wilde shows us how Kieran Hebden's personal life—his wife, his sister—impacts on his records and also his all-encompassing approach to creativity: which is essentially "music as life...

When you're talking about seminal electronic music acts that have come out of the UK in the last ten years or so, musician Four Tet (a.k.a. Kieran Hebden) will be one of the names on your list. From remixing Aphex Twin's work to collaborations with legendary jazz drummer Steve Reid, Thom Yorke, and Burial, to his own celebrated albums, he makes genre-defying, emotionally-imbued electronic music. It's music that's enjoyed by everyone, no matter what their personal musical tastes—all shaped by a back catalogue that takes in everything from hip-hop to techno, jazz, and folk.

But what of the man behind the music? What are his inspirations? What drives him to make music the way he does? In an exclusive documentary, produced by The Creators Project, Dan Wilde shows us how Hebden's personal life—his wife, his sister—impacts on his records and also his all-encompassing approach to creativity: which is essentially "music as life." For him, the two are one and the same.

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