TELAFONICA

to purchase 'THE PUNCHES OR THE LIES' on CD visit the 4-4-2 music website or click here or go to CDBaby digital download available - pay what you like or pay what you're told ________________________ released september 8, 2007 THE PUNCHES OR THE LIES features the lead single 'This Is The New Thing' along with 6 remixes of Telafonica tracks. The remixes run the gamut of contemporary electronic styles, from the IDM of Marshall Watson and Broken Chip , the folktronic All India Radio , brooding German-tech from Sunstroke Militia and TiefenKLANG and finally, lo-fi crunch-dub from Andy Rantzen . The EP comes in a hand crafted origami sleeve.. 1. This Is The New Thing 2. Tape Noise (Marshall Watson version) 3. Tape Noise (Broken Chip version) 4. Tape Noise (All India Radio version) 5. This Is The New Thing (Sunstroke Militia version) 6. Laughing At Trees (TiefenKLANG version) 7. Item Number (Andy Rantzen version)

i've planned wednesday afternoon to go to ant's studio and do some mixing. hopefully we can finalise decidions by then? i'm going at 3pm - 6am london time ;). we have another date for another gig. i'm excited about this one because it's in a new warehouse venue which is really the type of venue i'd most like to play. it's called dirty shirlows and it's in marrickville. we're playing on saturday, june 14. not 100% on the other acts yet, but we get to organise them, so they'll be good. there's a chance a guy from brisbane who may be coming down calle aheadphonehome could be playing with us, but that's no confirmed yet, and there will be others as well. anyone up for recording/rehearsal friday? friday evening seems good for ellie and blake to rehearse. steve, do you want to do some recording in the afternoon then stay for a rehearsal?

i've updated the files on the archive.org page with all the current album tracks. i've been playing around with some different track listings, but i'll leave my thought on that until later so as not to colour perceptions. the upadated ones are this is the new thing (glitches removed), gem and requited love (both now with much more in tune vocals - a big thanks to autotune), and tape noise. tape noise itself isn't any different, but i've faded in the rain underneath the ending and it runs right across into the beginning of this is the new thing now, just to hear how that sounded. the fine folk at sound & fury (whose sadly defunct shop was probably my all time favourite music shop and where we played an instore a couple of years back) have put out a call for demos for possible releases and for compilation appearances. their stuff is generally more on the outer limits and i've thought it might be nice to put some things together to send them. hopefully one...

well, in the end, all went fairly well at midi in the city last saturday night. firstly, just like now was quite good - jordy lane played a great set - i love his music incredibly, and also turned out to be a great person, i picked him and his girlfriend/collaborator kaity up from redfern in the afternoon and took them home after just like now. the detours played a couple of side project sets which were also great - though cam's stuff undermined a bit by willful amaterism. steve and i got to midi in the city just after 11. we walked through the courtyard which had some fairly heavy party-techno happening, into the bar room and into a fairly negative vibe as the hiphop crew onstage struggled to overcome flat batteries in two of their three mics and ended up battling away with one mic. the sound, as is often the case with live hiphop, was fairly muddy and muffled. at the end of their set, as the next act set-up, the police arrived on a noise complaint and the organisor got a bit...

telafonica is now the proud owner of a license for ableton version 7. unfortunately, the circumstances surrounding our purchase of it are not quite so great. we have a gig in one week's time. steve and i set up ready to rehearse this afternoon and, when i tried to turn on the laptop, it kept coming up with a screen saying 'can't find operating system'. no matter what we tried, it never got past that. just today, both steve and i received emails from ableton saying that version 7 le will be released soon and there was a bunch of offers with it. but steve received a version of 6 le with a soundcard he recently bought, and was given a code today for $50 off any ableton purchase. and when we looked it up, it was only $us300 to upgrade from 6 le to the full version of 7. so a 50/50 split seemed a reasonable price since we were both with the intention of getting it at some stage. so, our rehearsal didn't actually happen. we spent the afternoon downloading both a...