New Telepathics
If you are in London, check this out. I've heard some of the album, it's wicked. Dunno when it's out here, but I'm sure it will appear at some point round these parts.
"To celebrate the launch of both the spacific.net website and the debut album by New Telepathics, Spacific returns to where it all began back in august 2001 with a live performance by the 8 piece New Telepathics, and beats from Miss Mill (Soma), Bill Scott and special guest DJs, it will certainly not feel like a normal Monday night!
New Telepathics is the brainchild of Darryn Harkness, brought into being with the assistance of Sandy Mill and Tom Fielding. Together they have created a melting pot of afro-beat, soul, jazz, funk and house - similar in vibe to the west London broken beat sound or that of the Tru Thoughts /Quantic output. Their live set is never the same, with improvisation and rythmic complexity the key. The band includes 2 drum kits, 2 bass players, keyboards, horns, vocals, and a theramin!
Darryn's other project is the rock band Serafin, who are signed to Pias/Sony and have spent the summer touring with Frank Black of the Pixies. Sandy Mill has worked with a host of musical stars, from Gary Numan and Placebo to Basement Jaxx and Dick Johnson and Lofty and Bob Jones's East West Connection.
Spacific is a multimedia collective dedicated to promoting creative culture, especially music, from Aotearoa / New Zealand. Although they only adopted the name in 2003, Spacific has been operating since 2001. Since then they have promoted events at Cargo and Fabric in London, La Sal in Barcelona, Taboo in Madrid and the Batofar in Paris."
LIVE: NEW TELEPATHICS
DJS: MISS MILL + BILL SCOTT + THE SPACIFIC ALL STARS
8pm to 1am, £5 / £3 NUS
on 18/10/2004 at Cargo.
1 comment:
hey peter! i went along to this last night... was a pretty insane combination of sound-flavours but all worked together really well. each of the musos rocks completely different styles from the others -- the beck guy, the brian molko guy, the black soul guy, the indie rock kid... a motley crue indeed (no bogan guy as far as i could see though). it's pretty funny seeing them all up on stage and wondering how in the hell they even got talking to each other in the first place. but they sound good! loved the double-drum action. and the hitting tin cans with sticks action. sorta degenerated into navel-gazey improv at some points but, well, all improv is pretty navel-gazey really so i guess that should've been no surprise. anyway, a good night. thx for the heads-up! annabel x
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