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Late Night Tales Azuli

Now this is what I call a compilation. Kieran Hebden's first-ever mix album is an embarrasment of leftfield riches and treasures, a compilation where other music and out-there sounds coo happily in synch with each other. It's such an approach to allegedly uncooperative sounds that makes Hebden's Four Tet work, especially last year's heartwarming Rounds album, such an interstellar joy. Here, he finds common currency in the psychedelic freeflowing jazz of Rahsaan Roland Kirk (you will listen to Haunted Feelings over and over again), the thrilling, diffident tones of Joe Henderson's Earth, the atmospheric, ghostly folk of Fairport Convention and the grisly hardcore hop of the Gravediggaz. There is even room for the modern far-thinkers, Hebden's own Castles Made of Sand lined up alongside Mantiba's spacey 218 Beverley and Tortoise's chiming Why We Fight. www.azuli.com