Sound ancestors (arranged by kieran hebden)

Gil Evans en Miles Davis… Holger Czukay en het ensemble bekend als Can… Jean Claude
Vannier en Serge Gainsbourg zoals op ‘Histoire de Melody Nelson’. Dat is de enige manier om
uit te leggen hoe specifiek de samenwerking zich verhoud tussen Fout Tet en Madlib op dit
speciale album dat de 20-jaar lange vriendschap tussen de twee vrienden weergeeft.

Kieren Hebden (aka Four Tet):
“A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making
for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening
to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear
some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but
instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to
start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day
and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and
experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of
music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the
parts that fitted with my vision.”