LP#6

Pre weekend love from Telegramme features a pretty eclectic mix from the studio this week...

If you have anything to recommend to us then drop us an email and maybe we can return the favour with a link or two?

JAMES

Wiley – Avalanche Music 1: Wiley

Heavy estate beats, smashed cars, prams with dead babies, police, chicken shop, needles, gold chains, dogs that rip your arms off, people that hate you and want all the stuff you bought from working hard for it. Mine's a chicken burger and chips mate.

CHRIS

Im best at being 90’s, skating alot, drawing and listening to shit excuses for punk (lazily peppered with rap). Thats why when i want some nostalgia i listening all 3 MCM albums in a row and wish I was born in Tokyo wishing I could move to London. This Friday I offer, Mad Capsule Markets – Good Girl

Bobby

Someithing a little differant this week. After ignoring every possible advert put to me by Spotify i had to be tipped off to this GEM by the more attentive ears of Holly Wales .

Interactive audio novel from Hurts.

This is a band i know nothing of other than a few posters around Shorditch. But this is pretty special...

The first people to utilize Spotify in a whole new fun way., Manchester band Hurts have put together a whole interactive novel simular to the old create your own story books I used to obsess over as a geeky child, pretending to be the protagonist of a far away sci fi adventure, choosing the right path to escape danger or falling in to a worm hole to certain death. collaberating with author, Joe StretchHurt have made the legitimate grown up version.

Hosted by Spotify, the project allows fans to control a central character. Removing any stable tracklisting, the plot will unravel as the user sees fit allowing for any number of possible solutions.

A user led experience, the project is narrated by Anna Friel. Titled 'Don't Let Go' the audio novel is a ground breaking experience, utilising the Spotify programming in an entirely unique way.

Each chapter of the novel has been published as a track on Spotify, and can be located by typing a unique code into the search field. After listening to a chapter online the user is offered a choice on what to do next.

The plot is a typically grandiose affair, given the track records of bothHurts and Performance. Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to stop arch villain Guy Lockhart from distributing his heartbreak cocktail and condemning humankind forever to a loveless, empty existence.

The two groups are close friends, with Joe Stretch using his alternative career as a novelist for 'Don't Let Go'.

CLASH MAGAZINE

Fun, engaging, atmospheric and orgional! ...maybe i should listen to them now... maybe...

FINANCIAL TIMES - GOLD

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Full page and spot illustration for Financial Times weekend magazine. Suspicion, corruption and power battles over the worlds gold...

#LP5

James

And it's Friday again. Wow that was fast. Life is indeed slipping away but don't look so glum about it. It'll all feel better with a soundtrack. My selection for this week is a difficult one. I'm tempted to say Arcade Fire for a third time and risk looking like a maniac but alas I havn't the guts.

So it's got to be PVT (formerly Pivot who had to change their name because of a legal battle with a band of the same name). This track of thier dark and moving new album is the standout soundtrack to my life slipping away. Emo.

Bobby

So this week, thanks to a friend reminding me of Millencolin's 'no cigar', and all this talk of the general year 2000 vibe to reading, i have been revisiting Epitaph's PUNK O RAMA SERIES.

As wiki describes it -

Punk-O-Rama was the title given to a series of ten compilation albums published by Epitaph Records between 1994 and 2005. The first volume was released in 1994, the second in 1996, and the rest annually from 1998 to 2005. The albums included artists from Epitaph's roster as well as from its subsidiary label ANTI- and its partnership labels Hellcat Records and Burning Heart Records. In total the series included 257 songs contributed by 88 different artists.

the whole series is pretty consistent...so many hidden gems and a few stinkers but what do expect the series is almost 10 years long.

its been powering me through all the css ive been buried in this week and it cant help but make you smile.

The whole series is pretty consistent...so many hidden gems and a few stinkers but what do expect the series is almost 10 years long.

It's been powering me through all the css ive been buried in this week and it cant help but make you smile.

BANGS

listening to: http://www.myspace.com/tallshipsfromfalmouth

So while looking on the excellent BOOOOOOOM i came across this episode of  film maker, Lance bangs' documentary series, BANGS.


Its pretty inspiring seeing someone just making for the sheer love of making. plus guitar skateboard!? YES!

Lance Bangs wiki : Lance Bangs (born September 8, 1972) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and music video director who has created videos for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Green Day, the Arcade Fire, the Shins, The Thermals, Belle & Sebastian, Menomena, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M.,Mike Watt, Death Cab for Cutie, The Black Keys, Kanye West, and Pavement. He directed the David Cross film Let America Laugh.

I really like his documentary style... super relaxed, funny, natural and wonderfully observed. it runs through his music videos aswell.

Im sure most of you will have seen some of his work somewhere. If not have a nice afternoon of looking thorugh his pretty extensive website: http://www.lancebangs.com/

Bobby

Cut price

listening to: Built To Spill – Goin' Against Your Mind



Bobby

BBC MAGAZINE

Editorial for BBC worldwide magazine on the joys of universal language esperanto.

how do you say that in esperanto?

Listening to: The B-52's – Party Out Of Bounds



Hot off the press is this Illustration for BBC worldwide magazine, about the language Esperanto and its creator Zamenhof. The polish City of Bialystok has even started a ‘Esperanto Trail' which is available in English and polish..im sure the irony isnt lost on them.

Off to see Inception tonight...wayyyy too excited!

Bobby

LP#4

Ok So i know we missed last weeks LP, but we were a little busy taking orders and packaging up all the prints you guys bought for the Calavera series - a fair excuse i think?

so on with this weeks choices...

CHRIS

Such a big song  - need to get one of those in the VIP t shirts

Further Listening

JAMES

Arcade Fire. The suburbs - Im in love with it. Romantic gestures. Beautiful  music. they are on a level of their own.

Further Listening

BOBBY

For some reason i hadnt really got in to sky larkin before - no excuse, ive been aware of them for a long while...i had listened to them, the first two albums are right there on spotify... sometimes you need a bit of time and to be in the right moood. this week was that time. this song is off Antibodies. I posted this cos the video was slightly better than the excellent new single Still Windmills. they just seemed to sounds better and better!

Also check out the new wonderful art work and packaging for the  new album here.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND -  TELEGRAMME

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CALAVERA SUMMER SERIES

We are celebrating this summer with mini print series, 'Telegramme's Calavera Summer Series'. A special set of three A3 Risograph prints with enough colour to keep the hazy summer rolling till next spring.

Printed by Landfill Editions the 3 prints are available either on their own or as a complete set of three and to accompany the prints we have put together a special haunting summer playlist to enjoy while you stare in to their flowery eyes and get whisked away in to the endless summers of yesteryear.

Prints are hand numbered limited editions of 50 each. When they are gone they are gone.

NEW SHIRT AVAILABLE IN THE GENERAL STORE