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Telepathe: Mere Gang Gang Dancers or the "Real Thing-Thing?"

By Nicole on March 3, 2009 in mp3blog



I was first introduced to Telepathe in July when I saw them open for No Age and Abe Vigoda at South Street Seaport. I was decidedly unimpressed by their performance. It appeared as if two uncharismatic waifish females were using drum loops and nonsensical lyrics for the latest Nylon Magazine sampler. This was also around the time I had just read the ubiquitous Ad-busters article declaring hipster culture the dead-end of western civilization and believed the band to be emblematic of this piece's argument.

Nonetheless, when the station received a copy of their first full length release, "Dance Mother," I decided I would give them another chance. The group's studio recordings are a lot more polished than their live show, (thanks in part to master mixing by TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek) and I was taken by the duo's combination of wickedly dark lyrics with amateurish poppy dance beats. The record is shimmering and haunting, detached, yet immediately affecting. The group has become a darling of Brooklyn's underground dance culture, and perhaps the group has potential to expand beyond this narrow, and somewhat scorned niche. "Dance Mother" is certainly a step in the right direction.

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Chrome's On It

Michael



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mangojam on March 6, 2009 @ 10:52 PM says:

Nice show. The Brooklyn scene really set the trend for what's happening in the music industry and it consists of all flavors of music.

Jason on March 9, 2009 @ 10:56 PM says:

I have to agree with Mangojam. The Brooklyn scene seems to be churning out electro-beat dance music (that's an awkward categorization, but whatever). It's different than the indie dance music of the early 2000s, which was more post-punk dance like DFA and the Rapture. Now there's Gang Gang Dance, Telepathe, Animal Collective, and the new These Are Powers album fits right in there aesthetically. Even Excepter has been on this trajectory for the last couple years, maybe even leading the way? Probably not, but in my dream world the musical ramblings of John Fell Ryan and company unexpectedly set the course of the future.

John Fell Ryan on March 10, 2009 @ 7:30 PM says:

Jason: I appreciate the comments deeply. However, Excepter as it exists in its current incarnation is an electro-acoustic terrorist ensemble unforgiving in our relentless assault on the American psychodream. Our shambolic ramblings isn't music as such; would you call breathing music? Our rhythms lock deep into the core Whitman-forged subconscious tapped by only few American artists before us. In our time, there is only us and NNCK. PEACE - JFR

The Real John Fell Ryan on May 4, 2009 @ 12:50 PM says:

I did not make the above comment, but for what it's worth, I would call breathing music.

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