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TELEFON TEL AVIV Fahrenheit Fair Enough (HEFTY35) Hefty Records 2001 09 Tracks. 41mins01secs. Buy this CD on line now

Originating from New Orleans, Charles Cooper and Josh Eustis started working on their Telefon Tel Aviv project in 1999. As well as offering their first album, Fahrenheit Fair Enough, on Hefty Records, the band have also produced a handful of remixes for the likes of John Hughes or Nine Inch Nails, and collaborated with label mates Slicker. Brought together by a common interest for classical music and electronic, the duo have developed a unique sound, based as much on bleep and found sounds as on acoustic elements. On Fahrenheit Fair Enough, guitars and pianos share the spectrum with alien sound forms, supported by slow breakbeat-style rhythmic patterns. The ambiences created for this record are spacious and rely on soft melodies and clever instrumentation. The title track, which opens the album, offers a recurring clean melodic line, at first gliding over hesitant sonic forms, before developing onto found sounds and broken beat structure. The same chilled ambiences are found all throughout Fahrenheit Fair Enough. On John Thomas On The Inside…, guitarist Alfredo Nogueira gives a surprising twist to the Telefon Tel Aviv sound by introducing a proper acoustic instrument in the apparent acoustic atmospheres generated by the duo. It takes a while to discern the real from the virtual, but it definitely brings an increased organic feel to the track. Elsewhere, it is the electronic nature of the duo’s compositions that prevails. What’s The Use Of Feet… is a perfect example of the more mechanical side of Telefon Tel Aviv’s music. Although a piano punctuate the track with chords, it is generally a more intricate formation that the duo presents here. This perfect symbiosis of sound proves to be an excellent formula for the New Orleans band. Telefon Tel Aviv create with this first album, a brilliant series of chilled electronica, avoiding all the downfalls of ambient by carefully setting up their ambiences. While recording Fahrenheit Fair Enough, Telefon Tel Aviv where commissioned the soundtrack for the forthcoming Cooper film New Port South. From their own admission, working in a different environment for a while allowed the pair to develop new ideas when they were ready to come back to their own work. Fahrenheit Fair Enough is however a very consistent record.

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TRACK LISTING 01 Fahrenheit Fair Enough 06 Your Face Reminds Me Of When I Was Old 02 TTV 07 What's The Use Of Feet If You Haven't Got Legs? 03 Lotus Above Water 08 Introductory Nomenclature 04 John Thomas On The Inside Is Nothing But Foam 09 Fahrenheit Far Away 05 Life Is All About Taking Things In & Putting Things Out

THE SURFER'S GUIDE TO TELEFON TEL AVIV HEFTY RECORDS Seminal American electronic label Hefty Records has been promoting some of the most clever electronic music around for a few years now. Artists include Slicker, Telefon Tel Aviv, Retina IT, Savas & Savalas or Beneath Autumn Sky.