Telegram! - "Message for You, Sir" EP / Self-released
It was a toss-up between Apparat and Telegram!. Call me a favoritist, but I went with the guy I knew personally over the German engineering maestro that you'll likely be reading about here next week anyway (as we use tons of excuses to talk up Apparat and all things remotely Bpitch Control-related). So I'll tell you a little story: I just got this EP from a friend of mine, one John Murray, and he's the man behind Telegram!. Murray's a man of beats as he'll readily tell you, and as I know him personally, I think explaining a little bit about his personality will help you better understand not just this particular song but the EP as a whole.
The man gets his bills paid and his business done partly because he always needs stuff to keep him occupied. Music has proven to be a successful way for him to do that, and it shows on "Message for You, Sir" because, even though there are seven songs on his debut, none of them run over four minutes and you can find everything from the flittering, fluttering helicopter beat that happens to be a personal favorite of mine here on the ungainly titled "Disjointed, Unnerving, and Continuous (I'm Not Going Outside Today)" to a pseudo-Genghis Tron cop on "Joanna Whitmire" to a track akin to subtractiveLAD on "Milestones and a History of Ups and Downs." The focus is that there is none: Anything can happen next, and though it's all vaguely in honor of Fruit Loops and the possibilities thereof, you never know how that's going to be translated.
One thing Murray likes using is samples. I must confess to also being a sucker for a well-placed snippet from an old film or political diatribe, just to spice things up (and perhaps this explains my love for From Monument to Masses, but that's neither here nor there). Though not all songs are based on a sample, frequently it feels like a song is constructed either around or through one. I don't often promote locals but, let's face it, Chicago is like four times the size of Columbia so I don't get as much of a chance to. Even still, there's always bound to be something humming beneath the streets in a college town, and in the case of the University of South Carolina's infamous catacombs, it's electro that lurks beneath the smiling faces and bland jock-rock and easy breezy acoustic strumming of a Saturday night Starbucks solo artist. Message for you, sirs and madams alike: Murray is a fly-by-night kinda guy, so if you're into fetching this for yourself, hit up his MySpace and let him know. Sharing is caring and that's what we're here for: You. Cheers.
Posted by pmmasterson at audiversity.com
Hi Telegram! I've posted a new track!
In celebration of my soon to be ten thousand friends I have released "BitOfun, The Original 2006" This track became the "BitOfun" on my page. But I promise you it is very different. Come and check it out and let me know what you think, I hope you'll enjoy it.
many thanks in advance for your ongoing support
Regards Gary
