The Essential… Four Tet

01: FRIDGE
SEVENS AND TWELVES
(OUTPUT 2xCD, 1998)

A compilation of singles by Fridge – Hebden’s with Adam Illhan and Sam Jeffers that predates Four Tet – and the best full-length the group put out. Lo-fi musical sketches that seem to form in real time; post-rock without all the fake bombast associated with the term nowadays. The band would go on to release on Go! Beat and Hebden’s own Text label and become increasingly maligned by fans of the early work, but late Fridge records like The Sun aren’t without merit.

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  • Simon

    no African Drug???

  • Egon

    Great stuff in there. The major omission for me is Happiness by Fridge. Sublime album. Sevens and Twelves is good enough – Anglepoised being the stand out track for me. Disagree on the Sun which I think is very weak. Amazing musician though who does not deviate from his vision.

  • nr

    his Late Night Tales mix from a few years back is rather good too, and notable for probably the best cover of Black Sabbath’s “iron man” i’ve heard anyway

  • Tom Lea

    Is it the Cardigans version? cos that’s brilliant.

  • Alphonse K Wimplemier

    His Dining Rooms remix should be considered as essential. Four Tet used the McDonald & Giles break for this before it’s re-appearance on Rounds.

  • http://nickaxel.net nick a

    no everything ecstatic. lol. ignoring the peak of his idm?

  • Beatmonkey

    Everything Ecstatic was hugely overshadowed by the glory of Rounds. And rightly so, it doesn’t hold a candle to it.

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