To Me Remixes

To Me Remixes is available for free (or pay what you like) download via Bandcamp.



'To Me', the 6th track from Telafonica's 'Sleeping With The Fishermen' album, becomes the 6th track to receive the full reworking treatment. Lunar Module keeps the vocal arrangement intact, but splices it onto a piece of nu-nu-wave synth-pop heaven. Limetipe goes all electronic moody, throwing out pretty much everything but a few little blips to create an enigmatic opus. Underlapper cast Telafonica in their own image, twisting the pop into dark moods highly reminiscent of their most recent album - Softly Harboured. Lessons In Time creates a whole new version, literalising the sounds of sleeping in dust with dirt on his brain (and, yes, Lessons In Time's Blake is also in Telafonica, but he didn't have much input into the original version, so chose this track as it was the one his Lessons In Time could most easily approach from the outside).

If you would like to create your own remix of To Me, the original stems can be downloaded for free at www.archive.org/details/telafonica-to-me. download these, create your own remix and send it to contact@4-4-2music.com. We will post all remixes on another Bandcamp page and split any pay what you like earnings 50/50.

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20th april, 2011

it's been a few months since we posted our 20th tracks on the blog (which reminds me, there's a small backlog of them which i'll gradually post up). being a school holiday, bec and i had a little more time than normal to work on things, so there's two tracks. the first is one i did inspired by a book i'm reading at the moment called 'haunted weather' by david toop. it's about sound as music and music and sound as memory and lots of interesting offshoots of those kinds of things. this track is called 'fourthirtythree in a suburban backyard'. it's a decumulation of recordings of nothing, inpired by john cage, made by sticking two microphones just outside the studio door. of course, 'nothing' is very relative. the piece starts out with 9 recordings of 'nothing', working down to one recording of 'nothing'.

second up is the more regular song thing. musically, i've been listening to animal collective lots over the past few days, which is the most obvious inspiration. the drums are a sample ripped from a track called 'down' by p major from a great sydney free download compilation i got recently called 'free the beats vol 3'. very worth downloading (featuring our friend m.o.r.). i made a very skeletal piece of music with just the straight drum loop, the chopped up electric guitars and a bit of glockenspiel. bec wrote the lyrics. for one of the first times ever, ellie contributed as she was over for dinner, so she made up the melody to sing the words over the music. you'll have to ask bec and ellie where their inspirations came from.

here are the lyrics...

to me

go, go
get up on your feet
you stayed too long
you've been asleep
put on your shoes
and open the door
get into the seat
put your foot to the floor

you've been sleeping in dust
you've got dirt in your brain
if you don't get out now
you'll be sleeping again

get out of this suburb
it's making you cold
get out of this city
before it takes hold
lift your thoughts from a whisper
get your heart up to speed
set your face to the headlights
you know there's nothing you need

so go!
push out into the road
travel on 'til the outside
go on out into the known