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Watch Four Tet make a beat using only samples from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’

Watch Four Tet make a beat using only samples from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’

Kieran Hebden’s been a busy boy lately, and it doesn’t look as if he’s ready to take a breather just yet.

The man known as Four Tet contributed to Don’t Watch That‘s Beat This series recently, and he decided that to make his hastily-produced beat he’d use only samples from Michael Jackson’s classic ‘Thriller’.

Armed with a portable turntable, a vinyl copy of Thriller and Ableton Live, Hebden shows how easy it is to transform an innocuous (and very familiar) loop into something totally fresh, and manages to emerge with a track we wouldn’t mind hearing in full.

Take a look below.