LateNightTales (2004)

"Recent releases in the overcrowded field of compilations, in which artists compile their favourite records, seemed to suggest the genre was running out of steam. But this peerless compilation by Four Tet's Kieran Hebden does everything this kind of record ought to, providing a challenging listening experience as well as insights into the aesthetic of the compiler's own work. Here, folk-rock and psychedelia rub up against hip-hop, visionary jazz and post-rock, and Terry Riley's early 1960s piece "Music For The Gift (part 2)", built from multi-track tapes of the trumpeter Chet Baker, proves sampling isn't as recent an innovation as you might think. The centrepiece is the 1973 Joe Henderson/Alice Coltrane collaboration "Earth", which unravels hypnotically over 13 riveting minutes and sounds like deliciously woozy alien funk shuffling on with an intoxicatingly sinuous slowness. It's the Four Tet sound-world in microcosm." (David Peschek, The Guardian, december 2004; waardering: 5 uit 5 sterren!!)

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