{"title":"Telefon Tel Aviv","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"damaged-telefon-tel-aviv-dreams-are-not-enough","title":"[DAMAGED] Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"aec-body\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-10\" id=\"aec-main\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-product-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\" id=\"aec-product-description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-gmCRdq SfjoG\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-jSYIrd ezhCvB\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-gKclnd sc-jEieoE bgmYbB hNDmXo\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e**All of these copies have bent jackets, dinged corners, or seam splits.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe return of storied Southern Gothic electronic entity Telefon Tel Aviv is as unexpected as it is impressive. Their three influential albums of the 2000’s - Farenheit Fair Enough, Map Of What Is Effortless, and Immolate Yourself - charted an increasingly turbulent and textured vision of post-IDM synthetic songcraft, until the sudden passing of founding member Charlie Cooper in 2009 ceased the project, presumably forever. During the decade since, co-founder Josh Eustis has performed with, produced, mixed, and mastered countless artists, from high-profile institutions (Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, Apparat) to underground fixtures (Belong, Vatican Shadow, Drab Majesty, Tropic Of Cancer), in addition to his own solo and collaborative work in Sons Of Magdalene and Second Woman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut years of reflection and processing gradually seeded in him a desire to revive TTA and venture a fourth full-length, in the spirit of what they started: Dreams Are Not Enough. From the shuddering software oscillations of the opening piece, \"I dream of it often,\" the classic Telefon palette of hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion feels vividly revitalized. The songs stand apart but belong together, threading a veiled narrative of loss, anger, and age - the crumbling of constancies, shifting sands slipping through the hourglass. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album’s fragmented track titles relate a recurring dream that’s haunted Eustis since childhood, based on a murky incident during a family vacation to a remote Alabama coastline when he was eight. In the dream he swims alone through the waves past the sandbar to where the ocean shelf abruptly drops away into a gradient of infinite darkness; awed, he peers into the depths and sees himself down at the bottom, mouth open and eyes blank, floating motionless like a corpse. An undercurrent of eerie melancholy flows through the album, manifested in shivering widescreen meditations, depressive twilit modern pop, and devotional industrial abstractions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelodies emerge and evaporate; rhythms lock in step then fracture and fade; centers cannot hold. \"A younger version of myself\" deftly encapsulates the unique poignancy and shadowplay of this TTA iteration, shuffling on a hypnotic rhythm with the swing of backwards looping tape as Eustis croons a lost, liminal lament about waiting in line and the passing of time. \"Standing at the bottom of the ocean\" sinks even more minimal, subliminal electricity crossfading into skeletal soul built from ghostly bass, smeared chords, and naked voice, before ebbing away in a cyber-screwed downtempo outro. Eustis speaks of wanting Dreams Are Not Enough to evoke a sense of emptiness, of cutting unnecessary elements from each mix, to convey this as a solitary work - framing an absence. 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A growing body of artists, spread around the nation, were engaging in the latest round of a decades-long transatlantic musical conversation. At the convergence of hip-hop, electronic, and soul music, these artists sought to carve out their own lane. In September 2001, New Orleans' Telefon Tel Aviv, high school friends Joshua Eustis and the late Charles Cooper, joined the conversation with their debut album, Fahrenheit Fair Enough, released by Hefty Records. A labor of love, Fahrenheit was an attempt by the pair \"to contribute something meaningful,\" Eustis says today, \"something definitely American, and kinda southern too.\" On the fifteenth anniversary of it's release, Ghostly International is reissuing Fahrenheit Fair Enough with a vinyl edition and bonus digital material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eLiving in New Orleans in the late 1990s, Eustis and Cooper were in the thrall of two musical orbits: American staples-New Orleans' bounce, Detroit's techno, Chicago's house-and British electronica-Autechre, Aphex Twin, Jega. Recorded over the course of a year in Eustis' childhood bedroom in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans, Fahrenheit mapped out a potential for American electronic music in a time of hope. The tracks were meant to be \"constantly evolving sculptures.\" Fascinated by IDM, the pair sought to inject \"some swagger into it, loosen it up a little but also make it hyper romantic.\"Eustis and Cooper had imagined making a \"hard club record,\" but instead Fahrenheit came to be seen as a delicate slice of electronica by fans and critics who misconstrued it's stylistic roots. The music sounds all the more relevant in 2016 because the roadmap Eustis and Cooper desired then exists today. And because today everyone listens to what the South has to say.\"We just wanted to see if we could make it work,\" recalls Eustis. \"We didn't know. Our aim was to make something we could be proud of.\" For the 25th anniversary of the seminal electronic LP, a watershed album for American electronic music, a deluxe obi edition double vinyl is being released in a new Watercolor variant. Joshua Eustis and the late Charlie Cooper created a classic that sits at the edges of IDM, experimental, and bass music, influencing a new generation of artists (Loraine James, Kelly Moran, etc.). 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