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telafonica

post-retro abstract electronic pop

About Me

^post-retro abstract electronic pop^^^^^^
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we always love new friends but don't really want to be added to the thousands on some anonymous groups' mailing lists - if you would like to be our friend please send a message as well. we will do the same in return.
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buy some telafonica music - visit the 4-4-2 music website to order our albums, all prices include free postage to anywhere in the world. or just send an e-mail here to tell us what you'd like.
our newest album is titled 'morpheme'. it features some of the music you can here in the music player on this page, plus a whole lot more, and has hand silkscreened and hand stamped artwork made with lots of love and care.
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graphic design/visual arts
photography/visual arts
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2006
Band Website: telafonica.com
Band Members: adrian elmer - programming,voice, bass / david hughes - programming, graphic design / marcella hughes - voice / stephenfox - processing / rebecca elmer - voice, melodica, bells / eliza magill - voice, handysound / blake wassell - voice, guitar, cornet / samantha lee - art / mele-katalina cluff - art / carlos barrios - art ///////;;;;;;/////// / kim van der aa / david shooter / emily hughes /
Influences: underworld, lipstick-- ___chemical brothers, itch-e and sctratch-e///radiohead, portishead, daft punk , future sound of london....the beatles, bjork, stone roses, howie bxxxxflaming lips, pink floyd, gorillaz, tricky, gus gus+++=++primal scream, massive attack///deepchild, u2, acid house....gerling, britpop, neu!, eno, the knife----, fennesz, tunng....
Sounds Like: LATEST RELEASES

442-009
: Telafonica: :
: The Punches Or The Lies
Released September 2007
: CD/Digital Download
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442-005
: Telafonica: :
: Morpheme
Released April 2005
: CD/Digital Download
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4-4-2 Music e-Single of the Month Club
December 2006
Telafonica
A. The Man With The Golden Sickle
b/w B. Side One
Free mp3 download + hi-res artwork

OLDER RELEASES

Split e.p. with Lipstick
Free mp3 download + hi-res artwork

6 track e.p.
Free mp3 download + hi-res artwork

7 track e.p.
Free mp3 download + hi-res artwork

Record Label: 4-4-2 Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

show this saturday, june 14 postponed

due to unforseen circumstances, our show which was scheduled for this saturday, june 14, alongside meem, the e.l.f. and jordy lane, has had to be postponed. we apologise for any inconvenience and wil...
Posted by telafonica on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:21:00 PST

thursday may 29th at the excelsior

thursday, may 29 sees telafonica take the stage in between two fairly impressive (we think) bands - ampersand with their new waves of post rock and underlapper who do whatever they feel like with abso...
Posted by telafonica on Wed, 21 May 2008 02:14:00 PST

sat, may 17 on departure lounge radio

this saturday, trevor parkee has invited telafonica to join him on his show on 2ser fm called departure lounge. trevor will do his thing from 3-4, then telafonica will hijack the plane and...well, we...
Posted by telafonica on Mon, 12 May 2008 04:30:00 PST

just like now - saturday may 10

in case i missed anyone in the spamming department - adrian
Posted by telafonica on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:40:00 PST

apologies and facts about a booker

hmmm...bookers, bar managers - a very grey area indeed.firstly, this blog post is a very big apology to everyone who was expecting to see us play last night at paddy maguires. we are incredibly sorry...
Posted by telafonica on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:55:00 PST

where did the band go??

we haven’t made an official announcement anywhere, so this is probably as good a place as any. if you’ve been following proceedings over at out regular blog (telafonica blog) you might ha...
Posted by telafonica on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:55:00 PST

the punches or the lies now available at cdbaby

the punches or the lies is now available at cdbaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/telafonica) if you would prefer to use their online shop. of course, you can still buy it direct from 4-4-2 music using their...
Posted by telafonica on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:44:00 PST

the punches or the lies reviewed in textura

the first review for the punches or the lies comes via textura magazine: Telafonica: The Punches or the Lies 4-4-2 With the forty-minute 'EP' The Punches or the Lies, Sydney electronic trio Telafonica...
Posted by telafonica on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:56:00 PST

live @ the sound lounge - thurs, dec 6

telafonica live with carlos barrios doing live painting.  we're on at 10:30.  all ages welcome. adrian    ...
Posted by telafonica on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:27:00 PST

getting into gear - launches, e.p.s etc

so we've finally got some new things ready for general consumption.  there's a new ep which features the lead track 'this is the new thing' and a whole bunch of remixes of tracks from the album w...
Posted by telafonica on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:20:00 PST