‘I’ve always perceived it to be healthy to act wary of more established artists lending their name to lesser endeavours, given that for every Pick a Piper there’s approximately eleven Box Codax to unpack. Though the collaborative coming together of freeform norf London duo RocketNumberNine and British electronica bigwig Four Tet has recurrently proven a providential match. Whether that be Metropolis, Roseland or indeed live, Hebden and the brothers Page have always made for a fine partnership and the same can again be said of ‘em as Kieran fixes up the keenly sharpened, expressive rhythms of Rotunda with auxiliary vim and skipping glitch. So fruitful is this form of ongoing collaboration that I’d go so far as to suggest you’d begin to worry were the three pioneers to curtail the intense affiliation any time soon…’
RocketNumberNine release their début full-length MeYouWeYou May 21st via Smalltown Supersound.
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‘Brace yourselves, ‘cause there’s a newbie from Four Tet out there. And, bang on an off-kilt Monday cue, it’s an utter banger. Quite when it was pieced together I’ve no idea – whether at last releasing that collaborative 12” alongside London duo RocketNumberNine what we’ve been banging on about incessantly for weeks now or selling out Heaven, Kieran Hebden’s been a busy thing thus far this year – but we’re supremely thankful For These Times is now. Featured on Al “Boddika” Green’s latest compilation Think And Change, and therefore released via Nonplus Records as opposed to Hebden’s very own Text imprint it makes for an incendiary, club-ready throwdown the like of which we’ve lacked from his samplers and other such machinery of late.
Though he can be seen haphazardly shoved in a Suit & Tie above, for he has so too reworked the ol’ Justin Timberlake track of that same name. I’ve quite concertedly yet to indulge in the original take, though Hebden’s version is reliably groovy and, as anticipated, irrefutably great – a heady blend of Talabot-like Balearic beat and surround sound samples that whir from one ear to t’other like glimmering maniacal lights shimmering in an unprecedentedly pop sheen. Button that one up below.’
DOWNLOAD: Justin Timberlake, Suit & Tie (Four Tet Remix).
Both Think And Change and TEXT023 are out now.
‘Though a puritanical, and thereby unlikely type to be so embroiled in the fibres of electronica, he is a musician in that most pure of respects – one capable not only of faithful reproductions of his scintillating, boundary-obliterating works but so too of whimsically improvisational flutters. A DJ may not be a musician, but Four Tet is a talent as supernal as anything ever found in Heaven.’
Dots & Dashes review Kieran Hebden live in London.
‘Our admiration for TEXT023 – the forthcoming collaborative release between RocketNumberNine and Four Tet – has been well-documented to the point of becoming almost absurdly ubiquitous. Indeed, we’ve waxed lyrical over the forthcoming limited 12” to the ludicrous extent that we’ve already covered this, its flipside a little while back. We can now reveal it is in fact entitled Metropolis, and can be streamed right now down below in all its glory. It also just so happened to be the seemingly somewhat inadvertent highlight of the trio’s Electrowerkz showing just last week, just so you’re cursorily aware ‘n’ all…
TEXT023 is expected “in a few weeks” on Kieran’s Text Records.
