Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of What Is Effortless [2004]

Nacionalidad: US
Estilo:Breakbeat, Abstract, IDM, Downtempo
DSTG: Autchre
Format: Mp3
VBR: 44.1Khz, 256Kbps.

At the time of its release in 2001, the liquid, jazz-inflected electronic of Telefon Tel Aviv's Fahrenheit Fair Enough provided welcome respite from IDM's relentlessly brittle and increasingly boring routine. Steeped in the same burbling warmth that defined Scott Herren's pre-Barcelona output as Savath & Savalas, Fahrenheit politely suggested a new direction that electronic music might take, one that relied as heavily on the Rhodes as it did the Cubase VST. Although it wasn't a radical approach, it was enough to differentiate Telefon's languid post-rock from the digital drill bit sounds buzzing out from every other 18 year-old's laptop. Temporarily, anyway. Three years is an eternity in electronic music's timeline; certainly more than enough to expose the inherent limitations in making chillout music for a subset that defined themselves by never going out much to begin with. In 2004, more of Telefon's once-novel blend of digital squiggles and organic arrangements would seem passe, a little late to its own party. So, rather than scale back the soul in their electronic music, Tel Aviv's Joshua Eustis and Charles Cooper downsize the electronic in their soul, in the process adding two singers and re-emerging as a sort of twerkier Zero .

Song List :

1 When It Happens It Moves All By Itself (3:28)
2 I Lied (5:53)
Vocals - Damon Aaron
3 My Week Beats Your Year (4:09)
Drums - Kevin Duneman
Vocals - Lindsay Anderson
4 Bubble And Spike (3:59)
Vocals - Lindsay Anderson
5 Map Of What Is Effortless (5:23)
Guitar - Turk Dietrich
6 Nothing Is Worth Losing That (5:07)
Drums - Kevin Duneman
Flute - Wendell Harrison
Guitar [Slide], Guitar - Fredo Nogueira*
Vocals - Damon Aaron
7 What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It (6:15)
8 What It Was Will Never Again (4:16)
Vocals - Lindsay Anderson
9 At The Edge Of The World You Will Still Float (6:45)
Drums - Kevin Duneman
Guitar - Turk Dietrich
Vocals - Damon Aaron

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