Sometimes, I get what I want. From a press release:
Chicago by way of New Orleans duo Telefon Tel Aviv has signed to
BPitch Control, who will release the band’s third official
full-length, Immolate Yourself on January 20, 2009 - it’s the band’s
first official full-length in five years. The band has remixed tracks
for the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Apparat and Bebel Gilberto, to name
a few. The band’s previous albums were released via Chicago label
Hefty Records. They will also tour North America this Fall with
Ghostly artist Matthew Dear.
This is where I begin prancing about like the gross dirty southerner I actually am, acting the fool and doing the dirty bird ’til the cows come home or the Falcons win again (no chance of either). TTA? On BPC? Finally, after years of me bemoaning the state of electronic music in THIS VERY BLOG, something GOOD has finally happened. The TTA duo made one of my favorite electronic albums ever, the lush, R&B-storming heartbreaker Map Of What Is Effortless, almost a half-decade ago. I wrote and wrote and wrote about them elsewhere, to the point of becoming fairly fucking obsessed, and then…then they vanished. Now, to see them re-surface on BPC, the single most forward-thinking, cutting-edge, never-bought-into-the-fake-Justice-electro-war tech-tronic label in existence at the moment? I feel like I’m playing Fantasy League Dance Music All-Stars. This means that a conversation BETWEEN THE GUYS IN TELEFON AND ELLEN ALLIEN HAD TO OCCUR. It probably went something like this:
Hi, is this is to be the Telefon? I am is to is the Ellen Allien.
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Sup?
You would like to have been make a new the music with as to for being my label, no yes?
Suhweet. That kid at that blog will effing love that.
I am having the hooray! Now we techno party!
Ellen? We are two dudes who make sad, heartbreaking works of staggering genius, all right?Ok. We don’t dance. No Way. We just take our Louis rags out and wave them around in the air. We take our Gucci rags out and wave them around in the air. Now we must get back to constantly breaking up with our girlfriends and being alone in dark rooms with tinkley things.
I assure you, that’s how the conversation went.
Telefon Tel Aviv: Helen Of Troy
Gauzy and fuzzed as hell, this is the first taster of Telefon’s forthcoming BPC debut and third full-length original album. There is a part of me that misses the operatic, aching soul stylings, but if this is the new direction I can acclimate.
From the beautiful Map Of What Is Effortless album,this is Telefon then (and I can’t assume it’s them now).
Telefon Tel Aviv: Street Spirit
A typical Telefon re-working of a Radiohead classic, into something hushed and something that walks in the realm of both dreams and nightmares.
