Fresh from a headlining set at NorCal fest Portola, and SoCal’s CRSSD Festival earlier this summer, Four Tet shares his latest collaboration with the help of Ellie Goulding — “In My Dreams.”
“At the end of last year Ellie texted me with a couple of voice notes for a song idea,” reveals Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet). “Words and melodies she was singing into her phone … She asked me if I could use them to make something. She’s told me in the past she likes to send me vocals that I can just use as sound and turn into whatever I want (which is how the track ‘Baby’ happened a few years ago). I found other sounds to go with it and made ‘In My Dreams.’ She added some new vocal parts but we ended up keeping the voice note recordings as the main vocal. I guess the first take is often the most magical.” Well done!
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