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Member Since5/3/2006
Band Websitewww.tzu.com.au
Band MembersTZU Mondays Banner Photobucket YEROCK-Corey Mcgregor-Drums,Samplers
JOELISTICS-joel Ma-Vocals,guitar,bass
COUNT BOUNCE-Phillip Norman-Vocals,guitar,bass
PASO BIONIC-Shahab Tariq-Turntables, Duzy
WHAT-Keys

Mondays
Sounds LikeWhat is the Cover Up Motel? It’s a Computer Love anagram, and it’s what we like to call a brand new old album.

It is TZU's J Award nominated Computer Love album with a limited edition bonus CD containing a re-mix of every track. Fourteen producers were each given a Computer Love song to manipulate as they saw fit. The artists chosen were those who TZU are fans of, and represent the most creative and cutting edge sounds in the Australian hip-hop/electronic scene in 2009

The roll call is as follows:

Blue King Brown - who share TZU's love of roots music and social commentary and take on radio favourite ‘Got to Do’ with Natalie adding a verse from the female perspective. Melbourne lads Polo Club shine with their 80's-core re-telling of ‘Mondays’. M-Phazes - takes the laid back funk of the Renee Geyer collaboration ‘Take it Easy’ and comes up with a piece of glorious summertime soul.

Jackson Jackson maestro Jan Skubiszewski re-imagines ‘Right of way’ as a melancholic, bossa nova with crisp drums and airy sounds. Capitalising on TZU's love of electronica , TSOMM turn ‘Computer Love’ into a nerdy space dance floor anthem while Hermitude handle ‘Myriam’s Song’ with class and synthesisers and a twist of sound effects. Plutonic Lab smoothes out ‘Get Up’ and Trials from the Funkoars brings rock swagger to ‘Step with the Pressure’. The Herd’s premier producer Sulo focuses on the heavy bass and political content of ‘All Fall down’ while Mister Savona brings home the dancehall flavour with the reggae rhythyms of ‘Burning Up’.

Newcomers Sietta bring the future funk with bubbling synth's and cracking drums on ‘Number One’ and TZU keys player Duzzy Watt chops up ‘We Got the Feeling’ and infuses it with some keyboard boogie goodness. Grrrlla Step producer Airi bakes ‘Axis Tilt’ into a slamming apocalyptic jungle mash and Terminal Sound System show the world who the real crazy thinker's are with their experimental masterpiece of ‘Crazy Thinker’. All in all the surprises are many and the quality high. Hear it to believe it.

Check into the Cover Up Motel and we’re sure you’ll want to stay for more than one night. This is no gimmick. This is the truth.

In the last days of 2006 Joelistics , Count Bounce , Paso Bionics and Yerock hitch hiked a ride in the back seat of Michael J Fox's time traveling Delorian on a mission to record their new album. Here is a transcript of the conversation that took place...

*

Michael J Fox - Hi TZU.
TZU - Hi Michael J Fox.
Michael J Fox - Where can I take you guys ?
TZU - Take us to the 80's Michael J Fox.
Michael J Fox - Why ?
TZU - Because the 80's was a space time continuum intersection and we need to travel back there to re shape the future. In our present day the fashionably hip illuminatti are obsessed with this particular decade and yet they focus on the wrong elements. We must go back there to set things right. The future is in our hands.
Michael J Fox - Okay TZU.
TZU - Hey Michael J Fox ?
Michael J Fox - Yes TZU.
TZU - Bummer about the Parkinson's man. We'll try and fix that too.

*

TZU returned from the 80's with their new album ' COMPUTER LOVE ' but first...Let's recap on the story so far.
In 2004 TZU released their debut album Position Correction on to an unsuspecting Australian public. It announced the arrival of an eccentric hiphop crew with classic songs like 'Summer Days' and 'Wild Stylee' and immediately identified them as leaders on the forefront of the burgeoning local hiphop scene.

In 2006 TZU released their follow up album Smiling at Strangers to critical acclaim. The album was nominated for the inaugural Australian Music Prize and featured the songs 'She gets up' , 'Coming Round' and 'In Front of me'. With it's broadened palette of live instruments and a passing nod to 60's psychadelic pop music ,Smiling at Strangers proved to their growing audience that here was a group willing to take chances and experiment with their sound.

In 2008 TZU once again smash the pre-conceptions of what hiphop can sound like with their third album 'Computer Love' . Within the 14 songs on Computer Love TZU tackle serious subject matter such as domestic violence , work place psychosis , First time love and the relationship between linguistics and reality as well as serving up a solid dose of their trademark good time party raps referencing such things as man boobs , Ned kelly and space travel. As rappers Joelistics and Count Bounce manage to pack the freshest of flows with social conscience and a sense of humor.

The production is tighter than ever and draws influences from such diverse sources as old stax and motown feels to the future rhythms of the late great J Dilla. They have also explored the dirtier sound of 80's electro infusing their beats with crunchy old analog synth's and giant 808 bass drums.

They enlisted the help of Tony Espie ( The Avalanches 'Since I left you' and Cut Copy's latest.... ) to help mix the album so it was right in the bass bottom end for dance floors and they have collaborated with a number of female singers most notably the great Renee Geyer , who adds a touch of class and soul to the new record.

TZU are well respected for their high energy shows that fuse live instruments with the classic turntables and sampler set up. The have played most of Australia's biggest music festivals including Splendor in the Grass , Falls , BDO , Pyramid Rock , Woodford , Apollo Bay and they have shared stages with De La Soul , Mos Def ,The Pharcyde , Michael Franti's Spearhead , Blackalicious and a who's who of local Australian music greats from many genres and now in the year 2008 with the help of the good bits of the 80's and a time traveling Delorian TZU have created an album that truly travels Back to the future with an updated live show to match.

Be warned Australian hiphop never sounded so Bulk Ace.
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Quinn Riley

Quinn Riley



Oct 19 2009 7:43 AM

Dude, you so fuckin' rock.  When the hell are you comin' to Orlando??!!
Der Fall Böse

Der Fall Böse



Oct 19 2009 7:43 AM

Greetings from the Germans

Paul

Paul



Oct 19 2009 7:43 AM

hey Ciao !!
BRENT MULLER

Brent Muller



Oct 19 2009 7:43 AM

NO1 COULD HAVE RELEASED YOUR FIRST CD THE WAY U DID
URRR>>ORIGINALITY IS UP AND OUT THERE WAY WAY AWAY FOM
EVERYBODI SITTING ON ANOTHER HIPHOP TABLE>> WOWWOWOW 
DJ TR!P

DJ TR!P



Oct 12 2009 11:14 PM

CURSE OV DIALECT-new lp out 14/11(aus)30/11(eu)

CURSE OV DIALECT-new lp out 14/11(aus)30/11(eu)



Aug 14 2009 3:34 AM

CURSE OV DIALECT EUROPE&JAPAN TOUR AUG-SEP 2009

Thursday 27 August
Tilburg ,Netherlands
@Hall of Fame

Friday 28 August
Paris France
@Le Glazart

Saturday 29 August
Antwerp,Belgium
@Scheldapen

Sunday 30 August
Amsterdam ,Netherlands
@OCCII

Tuesday 1 September
GENEVA SWITZERLAND
@l’usine

Wednesday 2 September
NEUCHATEL,SWITZERLAND,
@queen kong club

Thursday 3 September
BERN,SWITZERLAND
@reithalle

Friday 4 September
LAUSANNE,SWITZERLAND
@espace autogéré


Sunday 6 September
ZURICH,SWITZERLAND,
@kalkbreite


Tuesday 8 september
NANTES,FRANCE,
@POL’N

Wednesday 9 September
NANCY,FRANCE,
@MJC PICHON

Thursday 10 september
BAMBERG,GERMANY,
@MORPH CLUB



friday 11 september
HAMBURG,GERMANY,
@Hafenklang


saturday 12 september
City--BERLIN,GERMANY,
@TBA

sunday 13 september
INNSBRUCK,AUSTRIA,
@PMK

monday 14 september
KRAKOW,POLAND,
@Łódź Kaliska

Friday 18 september
KYOTO,JAPAN,
--Urban guild

saturday 19 september
OSAKA,JAPAN
--Rockets+Saomai

sunday 20 september
NAGOYA,JAPAN
--Cafe Domina

Friday 25 september
TOKYO,JAPAN
---Shinjuku Marz

saturday 26 september
FUKUOKA,JAPAN
---Rock Arrows
sunday 27 september
TOKYO,JAPAN
---WENOD RECORD STORE(INSTORE GIG)
misha

misha biggs



Aug 14 2009 3:34 AM

MISS U GUYS.....!!!!!  ITS JUST NOT THE SAME.....
dza / RBMA 2010

dza / RBMA 2010



Aug 11 2009 4:06 AM



SMW

Sean Williams



Aug 11 2009 4:02 AM

Kiowaツ

Kiowaツ



Aug 11 2009 4:02 AM

ahah love the mmusiccccc :)
Mondays were playing at dreamworld on sunday :p
Casper

Casper



Aug 11 2009 4:02 AM

big ups fellas!
Lawrence Van Heusen

Lawrence Van Heusen



Aug 11 2009 4:01 AM

Hi My Friend How R U?
I Hope Everything Were Fine

Here Is A Poem That I Wrote And I Want 2
Share With U...

Tell Me If U Like It And Have A Nice Day....



SECRET WORLD

Alone in the dark
Where u are?
I can't feel u
I can't hear u

Why?
We are on
Different places
At the same time
I want to be
With u
In the same place
At the same time

Alone in the dark
I hear my name
From far away
A beautiful voice
From a beautiful Lady
Step by step
I’m getting closer
2 cold 4 been real

High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
The front door is open
She let me in
She’s in front of me
Now we are
In the same place
At the same time

Grab my hand
Let’s find home
Maybe is up in the sky
A golden compass reflect the sun
Maybe we r in the right way
Grab my hand
Kiss my heart
Take me into another world
Far away from this chaos
Take me into a beautiful world
A secret World
Where always is sunrise
Two full moons
A beautiful World
That nature design
Just for u and me

-L.V.H.-
Deccas

Deccas



Aug 11 2009 4:00 AM

Hey guys! Im declan and i have a passion for your music! Your the fucking bomb. I knocked up this poster just for a bit of fun. You should probably make it an actual gig. I'd give you mad props for that.
Anyway hit me up if your really cool. :) Keep being HIP-HOP-NOTIC

Cheers Declan,




The S.K.A.M

The S.K.A.M



May 17 2009 7:34 AM

Hey fellas

Cheers for the ad, we are Strippergram, a spinoff band of Upskirt Shazaam (now deceased) who supported you guys last time you came to WA.

Hope our paths cross again!

Keep the funk alive!
Adriano Rizzo

Adriano Rizzo



May 17 2009 7:34 AM

yeah you guys are awesome my fuckn whole family listens to you guys
Tai Chi Swayze

Tai Chi Swayze



May 11 2009 11:42 PM

I had a compilation CD with you guys on it once. My sister nicked it. There are still awkward silences at family gatherings when the topic is brought up.

Anyway, now that we're friends I figure we start dance move rehearsals soon?




Swayze
x
birdofparadise

Mitchell Bird



May 11 2009 11:41 PM

tzu=
f***in AMAZING/the bomb diggity
life goal=
get one of ur shinny silver jackets...
SWEAT!

SWEAT!



May 11 2009 11:41 PM

Hello friends & lovers...
Come & feel the heat with us on Saturday nites at Alia!!
Half-price cocktails from 8-11pm plus some of the land's finest mixing DISCO, FUNK & HOUSE all night long!!
No riff-raff door policy.
If you'd like to be on the guestlist, simply message us back or send us an email: guestlist@sweatsaturdays.com

xx
SWEAT.

Cori B.

Cori Blackburn



May 11 2009 11:41 PM

Thanks for the add...are you ever going to come thru Chicago? :o)
Clarkie

Clarkie



Apr 29 2009 6:07 AM

u are the best band
Dylan

Dylan Brown



Apr 27 2009 10:24 AM

i agree,
Put summer dayz back on ur myspace :D
ka[boxed in]teee

ka[boxed in]teee



Apr 23 2009 2:12 AM

come back to west oz!!:(
xoxo
maddi&joe

maddi&joe



Apr 16 2009 4:31 PM

HEYY!

Thankyou for accepting aye:)

You should take a listen to our tunes, tell us what you think:)

ppeacce
x
kirsty.

Kirsty Csifo



Apr 16 2009 1:04 PM

you guys need to get out and tour :)
you were amazing in melb at big day out!
cant wait to see you all again
ben

ben rudling



Apr 14 2009 2:38 PM

hey guys love the new cd.
My TZU shirt from the brotherhood of hip hop mutants tour is starting to fall apart and i am devo about it.
is there anywhere i can buy a new one?
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