My only complaint with TTA is their entirely uncreative use of
electronics with the acoustic instrumentation. It sounds like "Richard
Devine-Lite" glitch percussion with little given to song structure and
mood. As far as the easy listening aspect, I have no problems. For a
similar (and better, I believe) sound, check out Four Tet's Pause or
Dntel's Life Is Full of Possibilites. Watch out for the latter, as it
has *gasp* lyrics!
-mark
-----Original Message-----
From: M Mercer [mailto:vletrmx@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:05 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [idm] another telefon post!!!! huh?
telefon tel aviv was also at the top of my list for 2001.
the entire "easy-listening/adult-contemporary" comparison doesn't really
make much sense to me, considering so many posts on this list in the
past
have complained about how unlistenable autechre's "confield" album is or
how
jamie lidell and datach'i are just noisy garbage. the irony is that it
seems
like so many list contributors hold boards of canada on a pedastal
alongside
the morr label, ulrich schnauss, arovane's "tides," hermann & kleine,
etc.... and these are all equally accessible in my opinion. if the only
thing that sets aside telefon tel aviv from the rest of these is the use
of
more electroacoustic instruments (i.e. guitar, rhodes organ, bass
guitar,
etc), it's hardly a logical train of thought. for example, i found the
telefon album to be significantly more exciting than any of the new
radiohead work (in fact, this sounds perhaps like what radiohead wished
they
were technically capable of, if they only knew how to use their software
better). perhaps if telefon added some nonsensical repetitive vocal
phrases
on top it would be considered breakthrough and avant garde, who knows?
don't
get me wrong, i actually really like the new radiohead stuff too, but
i'm
just trying to make a point, and digressing from it at that ;-)
i suppose if it's sheer abrasiveness you're going for, telefon would
hardly
be my recommendation, although i find their reaktor-sequences to have
more
energy and grit than some of the melodic downtempo coming out of the
city
centre and morr labels.
i don't usually contribute to these impossible threads, but having seen
so
many arguments over how autechre is unlistenable past "tri repetae", it
seems contradictory to slag this perfectly good album based on how
accessible it is from a melodic perspective...
ok, i think that's more than my 2 cents worth. bye :-)
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