Fridge are an English post-rock band, comprising schoolfriends Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, and Sam Jeffers. Initially Hebden played guitar, Ilhan bass and Jeffers drums, but Hebden and Ilhan soon adopted a variety of other instruments, and by 1999's Eph the sampler was playing an increasingly important role in the group's music. The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... Kieran Hebden spins records in the Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio Four Tet is the name used by Kieran Hebden for his electronic music-oriented solo efforts to differentiate from his work with post-rock band Fridge. ... Adem Ilhan is an English musician from South London, who releases music under the name Adem (pronounced AH-dem). ... Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... An AKAI MPC2000 sampler // [edit] Overview The emergence of the digital sampler made sampling far more practical, and as samplers added progressively more digital processing to their recorded sounds, they began to merge into the mainstream of modern digital synthesizers. ...

In recent years Kieran Hebden has had a solo career under the name Four Tet while the other two attended college. In 2004 Adem Ilhan released a solo album, 'Homesongs', under the name Adem and another in 2006, 'Love and Other Planets'. As of 2005 the trio are working on a fifth album which according to their MySpace is due out in May of 2007. Kieran Hebden spins records in the Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio Four Tet is the name used by Kieran Hebden for his electronic music-oriented solo efforts to differentiate from his work with post-rock band Fridge. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Adem Ilhan is an English musician from South London, who releases music under the name Adem (pronounced AH-dem). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

The three musicians have also worked on occasion as the backing band for Badly Drawn Boy, and remixed his single Another Pearl. Damon Gough (nicknamed Badly Drawn Boy, born 2 October 1969, in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England) is an indie singer/songwriter. ...

Discography

Albums

• Ceefax 1997
• Semaphore 1998
• Eph 1999 (reissued 2002 with extra material)
• Happiness 2001
• The Sun 2007

Ceefax is an album by Fridge released March 10, 1997 Track Listing EDM (1:09) Helicopter (2:08) Tricity (6:01) More EH4-800 (11:00) FDM (0:27) Robots In Disguise (4:29) EDM 2 (1:09) Oracle (6:11) EDM3 (4:40) Zed Ex Ay-Ti-Wan (5... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Semaphore is an album by Fridge released March 16, 1998. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Eph is an album by Fridge released April, 1999. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Happiness is an album by Fridge released September 24, 2001 on Text Records. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Compilations

• Sevens and Twelves 1998

Two CD compilation of all the singles and EPs recorded for Output Records (Lojen, Anglepoised, Lign and Orko), previously only available on vinyl. Sevens and Twelves is a compilation of early singles by Fridge, released October 19, 1998. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...

Singles and EPs

• Lojen 1997
• Anglepoised EP 1997
• Lign EP 1998
• Orko EP 1998
• Kinoshita Terasaka EP 1999
• Of EP 1999

1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

External links

• Fridge official site
• Fridge at All Music Guide