Four Tet on Making Music

Beethoven made music that sounded like everyone else’s until he used experiments to gradually differentiate his style from Mozart’s established brand of composition. The creative process he adopted, driven by hundreds of

All artists connect the dots differently. We all start off with all these live, fresh ingredients that are recognizable from the reality of our experiences (a heartbreak, a finger, a parent, an eyeball, a glass of wine) and we throw them in the Art Blender. My songs are personal and intimate; a lot of them chronicle my inner life. I mine the depths

I simply started with a desire to make the best music possible—music that touches the soul and mind. Music, and art as a whole, is a strange beast. You can’t see it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, but you sure can feel it. I can never predict the outcome, or how people will react, but I can tell when a piece of music gives me goosebumps.