TELAFONICA

a remix i did for dj foundation just before christmas was chosen to be part of his promo dj mix which is going out all over the planet. he's a producer from iraq signed to metal postcard . he's got a bit of a name for himself for aiming broadsides at american foreign policy etc. the remix i did was for a track called 'clinton', which features snatches of a speech by bill when he was el pres. his words have been slyly edited by dj foundation. anyway, the mix is now available in a relatively low bit rate mp3, but will be heard on radio around the globe over the next few months hopefully. while making the remix i was listening to buraka som sistema's album quite a lot, so the rhythms are pretty much ripped off from there. i wanted a big repetitive bass line that had some funk, i think i got it. listen to/download the mix at http://www.supload.com/listen?s=p5Iaos . the full tracklisting is: ? - Last Night A Dj Saved My Life (Remix) dj foundation - Ghad dj foundati...

This release is available for free download. Click here. ______________________________ released january, 2009 Telafonica ups the tempo and heads for the indie dancefloor with two tracks of boom blip blip. With screeching synths, pounding kicks and lo-fi edges, there's still a place for melodic catches and attention grabbing production. A little help from Luminarsi in the remixing department also goes a long way in bringing out the best in an old Telafonica track as well. The single has is available for free download through 4-4-2 Music. Featuring 320kbps mp3 files and 300 dpi pdf artwork. Or you can stream it on the player below. ______________________________ A. Laughing At Trees B. Tokyo Disco Bell (Luminarsi Version) ______________________________

this is josh's painting he did at the mars hill gig last december. sorry it took so long to get a photo up.

for more details on the 20th Project visit Cabinet Pin . _________________________________ released january, 2009 this is the track i put together for the 20th project this month. i'd been reading january's wire magazine (of course) and was inspired to try and push a few sounds in obtuse directions. so basically, it's one piano recording, played right through in real time, and one drum loop. the piano is in 3/4 and the drums in 4/4, though the piano is in half time. they kind of flail in and out of time - well, not actually out of time, just the accents move in and out of phase, hopefully creating some sort of tension. the rest of the sounds are those two bits of audio being processed - bit crushed, distortion, delays etc. i also got to do the artwork for the compilation. for this one, i used an old ubd sydney street directory, which i've had sitting around waiting to be used for something. i took pages out of it which had not too much info - from the edges of syd...

i spent a few hours the other day trying to get ableton live to do sound on sound looping, like the boss giga-delay. i couldn't find a way to get it to work. so i sent of an e-mail to the clan analogue mailing list to see if anyone there knew a way of doing it. a few different workarounds were suggested by people, but all, as workarounds do, have their limitations. then, this morning, someone posted a link to this - http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_8/announcement/looper . needless to say, i'm rather excited at the prospect. though it will, of course, require an upgrade - are you in, steve? it's due in the second quarter of 2009, according to the ableton website. as a result of finding that info, i also started googling for something along the lines. so far, this looks the most promising, but i haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

david, here's everything i can think of that might want to get used in terms of credits. i listed everything, but cut out whatever you like. the only thing i think we are bound to including would be the credit to kodwo eshun for permission to quote from his book. tape noise adrian elmer - production, voice, glockenspiel david hughes - production, guitar marcella hughes - voice listen, it's in the details blending the edges adrian elmer - production, voice stephen fox - effects david hughes - production marcella hughes - voice see the tree standing on top of the dusty hill drive around here for hours, it's all the same you can pray all you like for rain but you're missing the point if the roots are deep enough the sheep will sit in the shade i'll never do it again i promise, i'll never do it again gloria, the life's already there, the life's already there this is the new thing adrian elmer - production, voice marcella hughes - voice david hughes - produ...

one of my favourite photos i've taken in recent times, nicely encapsulating the mix of new-tech and old-tech that i really love. and the piano is rather photogenic.

I started writing a rationale for this artwork but it sounded like bullshit. I like it less abstract because it's more direct. And I like it less explained because it makes more sense... I will continue with the type design and post something more for discussion.

I will continue the work on that when i get back from Canberra i think.

1-feather-Whitewash               This song exhibits a really explicit and strong development of one melody. I am automatically attracted to a composition of any artistic type that is merely the stretching of one idea… stretched so far and so intentionally that it will soon snap if stretched any farther. Practically, for Telafonica, I think that this idea of intentional melody movement and development is something that would greatly benefit our ‘free-er’ moments in songs… I am not sure about adrian, ellie and bec, but I find myself leaning on making nice noise too much.    While this type of musical floundering has its place, we have many opportunities to deliberately focus on how to aid and/or develop the melody/ies. AND! I like the crescendo.   2-a surprise-Balun               This song is beautifully textured as a whole, and also in terms of the individual textures of respective ‘instruments’. There are several very simple core parts in this piece and they work so as t...

ghoul are going to play with us at the roxbury hotel in glebe in march!

is everybody up for a show at the sandringham hotel on king st in newtown on friday, february 6?

thought i might make a track listing of the cd i made for everyone here, since i didn't give anyone an actual track listing with the disc and also to point out specifically what i think might be helpful to telafonica from each track. and if anyone else wants to make their own copy, soulseek is my preferred p2p platform. (blake, feel free to add your own collection in another post - eliza and bec, feel free to make your own collections to share with us all!) 1. bow wow wow - c30, c60, c90, go! this is just so raw, but without any nihilistic punkness. and it bases a pop song squarely around the rhythm. the little jarring rhythms in the chorus just kill me every time. it's all such simplicity but orchestrated brilliantly. lyrics are nice too - especially from the point of view of anti-corporate d.i.y.ness (though malcolm maclaren was no doubt behind that, simply as a gimic) 2. the flying lizards - money the rawness and lack of much in the music is what i like most here. i...

to purchase the 'NOTHING VENTURED / AN INVITATION' 7" single, the simplest way is to head to the release's Bandcamp page here and purchase from there (where you will also get immediate access to the tracks as digital downloads). You can also visit the 4-4-2 music website . Nothing Ventured (7" edit) by telafonica ____________________________ released december 1, 2008 Our first ever 7" single, featuring a very old song - Nothing Ventured - which has existed in some form since Bubblejuggler days, but which has never found the right structure to be successful. Midway through 2008, it was rethought and remade as a lo-fi half-time groove pop song, and at long last worked, becoming a live staple. The other side features a track that was originally a Lessons In Time track, but which Telafonica took and added to the live set, along with extra vocals and bells. Byron Coley reviewed the single as follows in Wire magazine (July 2009): "Lathe cut single by a Sydn...