📑 Four Tet on making music

Austin Kleon shares his key take-away from the TapeNotes podcast episode in which Kieran Hebden dives into several tracks from Three+.

You’ve got to love records so much, he says, that you want to make something that can sit on a shelf alongside the records you love.

It’s a lesson that is true for all creative people: Your output depends on your input.

If you want to be a great musician, you need to listen to more great music. If you want to write great books, you need to read more great books.

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This was something that he touched on in his conversation with Jamie Lidell on the Hanging Out with Audiophiles podcast. He spoke about listening to a full album each day.

One of the surprises from the TapeNote podcast was that Hebden does not actually have a strong background in musical theory. He argues that that, compared to say Fred again.., this possible weakness provides more opportunity for serendipity and chance.