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Favorite Records Of 2011

2011-12-24T11:31:00.000-08:00

1. Grouper - A I A (Yellowelectric)

2. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)

3. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)

4. Royal Headache - Royal Headache (RIP Society)

5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)

6. Yuck - Yuck (Fat Possum)

7. Mr. Oizo - Stade 2 (Ed Banger)

8. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)

9. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Acephale)

10. Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)

11. Julia Holter - Tragedy (Leaving)

12. Bee Mask - Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico (Spectrum Spools)

13. Washed Out - Within & Without (Sub Pop)

14. Puro Instinct - Headbangers In Ecstasy (Mexican Summer)

15. Sleep ∞ Over - Forever (Hippos In Tanks)

16. Gold-Bears - Are You Falling In Love? (Slumberland)

17. Neon Indian - Era Extraña (Mom & Pop)

18. YACHT - Shangri-La (DFA)

19. Bryter Layter - Two Lenses (Students Of Decay)

20. Keep Shelly In Athens - Campus Meritus (Planet Mu)

I got it I got it now

2011-10-27T17:02:00.000-07:00

I got it I got it now by TellTheTell

Recorded live Thursday, October 27th, 2011.

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2011-10-27T16:03:00.000-07:00

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Calls From Ray

2011-06-29T16:48:00.000-07:00

Sometimes a guy gets a phone call while his phone is running through a loop pedal. Sometimes that guy has mics already set up and just rolls with it. Full disclosure: most of the material is from voicemails I played through the effects after the original caller got bored of my shenanigans and hung up the phone.

Calls From Ray by TellTheTell

Two Beeps (Unmastered/Rough)

2011-05-16T17:23:00.000-07:00

I'm flirting with the idea of putting out a Les Cousins Dangereux LP out in the not-to-distant future. I've been working on a batch of songs for about two years now. This is the newest in that collection of songs, but I'm really happy with this early version of it. It may get cleaned up a bit for the album, but I wanted to remember this mix of it too. Also, I'm trying to document what I used in each song, so here's the recipe of this one so far:

Casio MT-540 (Pictured) - Drums/Percussion
Sampled Digital Percussion
Microkorg - Bassline
Microkorg 2 - arpeggio/squelches

Two Beeps (Unmastered Rough) by TellTheTell

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Alone Again (Naturally)

2011-05-15T07:58:00.000-07:00

A cover I recorded around 2005 or 2006. It's the first time I used the method that was employed for the entire "Enema Of The State" record.

Alone Again (Naturally) by TellTheTell

Rebecca Black - Friday (Cinkle Edit)

2011-03-20T19:40:00.000-07:00

Everyone gets their fifteen minutes, which I then chop up.

Friday (Cinkle Edit by Les Cousins Dangereux) by TellTheTell

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Les Cousins Dangereux - No One Else

2011-01-14T19:36:00.000-08:00

After covering "Enema of the State" in the summer of 2009, I toyed with the idea of covering another album in its entirety. I started work on a bunch of songs from Weezer's debut in June and worked on it through September-ish, but scrapped the whole project. This song was the only one I really liked, but I just couldn't get the vocals right until my try tonight. Enjoy!

Also, I'm going to transition the whole blog archive over to SoundCloud as it's a lot better than DivShare.

No One Else by TellTheTell

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My Favorite Records of 2010

2010-12-15T17:24:00.000-08:00

25. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
24. Salem - King Night
23. Wild Nothing - Gemini
22. Sleigh Bells - Treats
21. Ke$ha - Animal
20. Antony & The Johnsons - Swanlights
19. Best Coast - Crazy For You
18. Trouble Books - Gathered Tones
17. Caribou - Swim
16. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
15. High Places - Vs. Mankind
14. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
13. The National - High Violet
12. Four Tet - There Is Love In You
11. Cloud Nothings - Turning On (and all those 2010 7"s)

10. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (Young God)

I'm still trying to grapple with the fact that Michael Gira is calling this a Swans album rather than just another Angels of Light one, but the name of the band really doesn't matter. I still am a bit upset since back when I first got into Swans, they had just "died." Soundtracks for the Blind claims in its own liner notes that it's the last Swans album. The live album Swans Are Dead is self-explanatory. That much said, this return is a welcome one. The music on this release blurs the line of Swans' penchant for drones/repetition/creepy kid voices and Angels of Light's fractured americana. The songs are given room to breathe, yet the album itself is the shortest Gira's released in years. It's no Soundtracks, but it's a great balance. If this reunion continues, I'm really hoping for the 17 minute epics, tape loop soundscapes, and found sound that this release is clearly missing. In the meantime, I'll keep listening to this.

9. Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself (Kill Rock Stars, 2010)

In 2004, Xiu Xiu released Fabulous Muscles, the rare kind of record that shows a difficult band making accessible work without compromising their vision. Then they crawled back to "for fans only" territory for a full three albums and countless other releases. I've loved every one of them, but I don't think I'd pick much from La Foret, The Air Force, or Women As Lovers to try to convert someone to Xiu Xiu fandom. Well, Jamie Stewart and company have finally made another album I could play for the uninitiated. Both the title track and "Chocolate Makes You Happy" are phenomenal twisted pop songs in the tradition of Fabulous Muscles, great songs to play for someone who grew up on goth but maybe needs a bit more puking in their music. The rest of the record holds up as well. Stewart is finally figuring out how to record his extremely dynamic voice in a manner that mixes well with all of his electronics and weird percussion, which may have been half the battle in making his music accessible again.

8. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma/Pattern + Grid World (Warp)

I was really worried about Warp records for a while... actually, I still am. I mean, Born Ruffians?!?!?! C'mon! Sure, Clark keeps putting out great records on the label, but he's been on the label since 2001, just barely out of contention for being considered "old guard," plus his music is very obviously catering to old farts like me who grew up on Warp's 90's output. Flying Lotus is the kind of artist Warp needs more of. There's just enough of the old Warp influence ("Kill Your Coworkers" off Pattern + Grid World) mixed with a demented take on MPC hip-hop sampling (nearly half of the tracks on Cosmogramma) plus something just new and weird that I can't quite put my finger on. Steven Ellison has a penchant for doing things in his songs I'd never be able to do, like putting snare drums slightly off-time, making the beat stutter a bit. Little touches like this make these two records disorienting and exciting. People have used a lot more than weird electronic records to achieve being disoriented and/or excited.

7. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)

I'm still not done with the three step process of appreciating this record. My first couple of listens were just like every other record, just taking it in on a superficial label, appreciating that it sounds pleasant. It's a great Sunday morning sort of record. I spent much of my post-third listens taking in the interplay of the vocals with the instruments, appreciating the production value, and paying attention to song structure. Finally, I've been trying to do exactly what Pulp always told me not to do with their records: listening whilst reading along with the lyrics. What the heck are these songs about? I still don't know. Maybe I'll find out before her next album comes out.

6. Autechre - Move of Ten/Oversteps (Warp)

Autechre never stopped making great music, but perhaps their albums have suffered in recent years. In particular, 2008's Quaristice was a bit hard to listen to all at once, simply because it alternated between ambient and beat-oriented tracks. The two albums from this year don't simply divide the calmer and upbeat tracks into two albums. Instead, they take tracks that seem to be culled from the same palette (or at least similar Max/MSP pateches) and group them with like-minded tracks. I like to think of Oversteps as the home hi-fi record. It's the one I sat down and played online scrabble to with Cari walking by calling it 'robot stuff.' I prefer Move of Ten, because it's the "car" album. I can't remember the last Autechre record I listened to in the car so much. Also, it will also always be the record I listened to while following Ray Scott around on his birthday as we drove around the east side like high school kids. Strange that even lifeless robot stuff can be sentimental.

5. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)

Sometimes bands release a great debut album and then make an ill-advised drastic change in their sound. Other times, a band will wallow in obscurity for several albums before changing something drastic that makes all the difference. Other bands never change their sound, even though they should. Beach House hasn't taken any of these paths. This is their third album. It really doesn't sound much different than the first two, but the band is clearly perfecting their craft. They take some of my favorite influences (namely 80's 4AD records), update it, and somehow tone it down. Their subdued approach makes for a record that is hard to get super excited about, but always evokes a "holy crap that was good" every time it ends.

4. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (4AD)

When the first Atlas Sound record came out in early 2008, I didn't really understand the need for a solo project for the frontman of a band that also seemed like a solo project. Seeing Deerhunter live the first time at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival was a terrible experience. The band seemed like bad placeholders for something that was clearly created in and for a studio. The whole difference between Bradford Cox's two projects has really cleared up since then. Atlas Sound's sophomore effort was much more of a solo record. Halcyon Digest is a record clearly made by a band. As a bonus, they've really learned some restraint and self-editing since Microcastle. The songs are more like songs, the lines are more memorable. And the live show. The. Live. Show.

3. Zola Jesus - Stridulum/Valusia (Sacred Bones

Truly great sad music isn't only slow and depressing, it's a got to be a full production. How can music be dramatic without drama? That's why it's so fitting that Zola Jesus' masterpiece album is ten tracks spread across two releases. It cost more money than a single release. There was a gap of seven months between them filled with nothing but anticipation. The whole experience is somewhat reminiscent of what it must have been like to be a fan of The Smiths, The Cure, or Siouxsie and the Banshees the first time around. Buying singles, then re-buying them once they were compiled on something else, then repeating. Going out of your way to scour around for releases is easy when the songs are this good. And like all the great "sad" music, it's really not all that sad. Most of the songs on these releases deal with the aftermath of something terrible... characters struggling to make things right, or at least better.

2. The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador)

It's really tough to listen to a new album by a band that has already released albums you hold in such high esteem. A popular example of this phenomenon is the case of "The Public vs. post-Sinister Belle & Sebastian." Pet Grief was my favorite record of 2006, Lesser Matters would have ranked high in 2003 if I had heard it before making my list for that year. This record was supposed to come out two years ago. Suffice to say the anticipation was super high for this record. The first time I listened to it, I felt unsurprisingly underwhelmed. But then I played it again and again. I just kept putting it on for months until I realized it was A FUCKING RADIO DEPT. ALBUM OF COURSE IT'S GREAT. They changed just enough since the last album, adding a little bit of late 80's synth jabs, a little dub, and even some 90's throwback spoken samples. I still listen to this all the time... a total car album, and easy contender for this number 2 slot.

1. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (4AD)

I didn't really know what to expect out of a new Ariel Pink record in 2010. He hadn't released an album since 2006, and even all the stuff he released between '04 and '06 was already a couple years old when it was released. I don't think I have ever heard a song recorded by Ariel Pink recorded between 2003 and whenever this new one was recorded. I think most anyone would have been able to tell me the 4AD debut would be a bit of a jump fidelity-wise, and surprise... it is produced a bit better. But honestly, it's not the big jump the critics make it out to be. The real difference between this and the old Ariel Pink is that the songs are a LOT better, and I loved old Ariel Pink . Now that I can decipher the vocals more effectively, I understand them a lot less... I'm a big fan of how weird the lyrics are (Case in point: "Menopause Man"). On the subject of individual songs, how about "Round And Round"??!?!?! What a single! It's like the best talk show theme and the best 80's blue-eyed-soul slow motion jam met on an old VHS tape. This record is what independent rock was in 2010.

My Humps (Measels Humps Rubella)

2010-05-13T14:27:00.000-07:00

One from the archives, a remix I did back in 2005. The samples in the beginning are from a song performed/recorded by Chris Burke, who played "Corky" on Life Goes On.

My Humps (Measels Humps Rubella) by TellTheTell

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The Muttering Retreats - Where Is My Mind? (UK Smurf)

2010-04-03T21:21:00.000-07:00

An absurd Pixies cover. Recorded live in one take at a practice then completely mutilated in post-production. May cause ear fatigue.

Where Is My Mind (UK Smurf) by TellTheTell

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Episode 13 - A Springtime Song

2010-04-03T20:50:00.000-07:00

A blurry little song for nice spring evenings.

A-Springtime-Song by TellTheTell

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It seems the original grand scheme for 2010 (remixing all the 2009 stuff) has taken a seat on the backburner, but I'm still considering it.

Episode 12.3 - Everybody's Telling Me Like I Don't Know

2009-12-19T17:30:00.000-08:00

The last of three mixtapes in the December series. This tape is mostly poppy indie rock songs. It was made for Kari and Leia. It's purple and blue, mostly.

Tracklist:

A01 - Air Miami - Airplane Rider
A02 - Jason Anderson - Citizen's Arrest
A03 - Kevin Ayers - Mr. Cool
A04 - Ween - I Saw Gener Cryin' In His Sleep
A05 - Saturday Looks Good To Me - The Girl's Distracted
A06 - Shelby Bryant - Peebly McNownow
A07 - Chain And The Gang - What Is A Dollar?
A08 - The Auteurs - Show Girl
A09 - Plastique - The K-I-L-L
A10 - Team Dresch - #1 Chance Pirate T.V.
A11 - Sleater-Kinney - You Ain't It!
A12 - That Dog. - Family Functions
A13 - McCarthy - Keep An Open Mind Or Else
A14 - The Young Fresh Fellows - If You Believe In Cleveland
A15 - The Need (featuring Joe Preston & DJ Zena) - Talk Potty
B01 - Liechtenstein - Reflections
B02 - Curve - The Color Hurts
B03 - Courtney Love (Lois Maffeo & Pat Maley) - Highlights
B04 - Kitty Craft - Alright
B05 - Beach Boys - She's Goin' Bald
B06 - The Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays
B07 - Mirah - 1982 (Atari)
B08 - Gaze - Nine Lives To Rigel Five
B09 - Marine Research - Sick & Wrong
B10 - Jim O'Rourke - Get A Room
B11 - Lorelei - Windmill
B12 - Royal City - My Brother Is The Meatman
B13 - Walter Carlos - What's New, Pussycat?
B14 - Nobukazu Takemura - Sign

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Episode 12.2 - Look What Fear's Done To My Body

2009-12-19T17:00:00.000-08:00

The second of three mixtapes for the month of December. This one was created for Jacob, Matt, Patrick and Rob. It features noise, electronic and industrial music. There's guns on the packaging.

Tracklist:

A01 - Praxis - NBS-A
A02 - DNA - 5.30
A03 - HEALTH - Perfect Skin
A04 - Coil - The Heart Of It All
A05 - Lesser - Epic Act
A06 - Clint Ruin/Lydia Lunch - Stinkfist
A07 - Boris - ...And Hear Nothing
A08 - Man Is The Bastard - Throne Is Melting
A09 - Clark - Growls Garden
A10 - Duran Duran Duran - Hard Girls
A11 - Melt-Banana - Get The Head Back
A12 - The Melvins - Queen
A13 - Knifehandchop - Not For The Billy (Venetian Snares Remix)
B01 - Conflict - The Guilt And The Glory (Live At Thames Poly)
B02 - Magazine - Because You're Frightened
B03 - The Cranium - Hatch As Hatch Can-But Won't/The Mechanical Breast
B04 - The Wipers - The Messenger
B05 - Prurient - Earthworks/Buried In Secret
B06 - Godflesh - 40 Versions (Wire Cover)
B07 - Jesu - Farewell
B08 - Einsturzende Neubauten - Ich Bin's
B09 - The Residents - Plants
B10 - Caustic Window - Astro Blaster
B11 - Merzbow - Meattrapezoid
B12 - Stunt Rock - I Can't Believe I Ate You Out
B13 - Walter Carlos - Timesteps (Excerpt)

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Episode 12.1 - Listening To All Your Stories Of Car Wrecks And Concerts

2009-12-17T20:14:00.000-08:00

For the month of December, I'm doing something a bit different. For reasons out of my control, I haven't had access to my normal recording space, so I asked friends two weeks ago who wanted to have a mixtape made for them. The response was a bit overwhelming, so I ended up making three mixtapes, each with one to four people in mind when choosing the tracks and sequence. This is the first of those three tapes, made for and given to my wife, Cari. The mix was sourced from compact discs and vinyl (no mp3/downloaded source material was used) and mixed live. There is only one copy in circulation, pictured above. The digital version (downloadable below) is a rip of the actual mix from the cassette, tape his and all. The tracklisting is as follows:

A01 - Starlet - Pin-Up
A02 - Velocity Girl - Forgotten Favorite
A03 - The Cannanes - Miserable
A04 - Lois - Strumpet
A05 - The Crabs - Swallow The Sea
A06 - Heavenly - Sperm Meets Egg, So What?
A07 - My Favorite - 1986
A08 - The Radio Dept. - 1995
A09 - Tiger Trap - Supercrush
A10 - The Busy Signals - Headphoneworld
A11 - Volume All*Star - Couples Skate Only
A12 - Beat Happening - Fourteen
A13 - Sleater-Kinney - Surf Song
A14 - Land Of The Loops - I Confess
A15 - The Lemon Pipers - Rice Is Nice
A16 - The Free Design - Bubbles
A17 - The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels
A18 - The Microphones - Oh Anna
B01 - Windy & Carl - Beyond Asleep
B02 - Mu-Ziq - Ethereal Murmurings
B03 - Trouble Books - Talons
B04 - Lackluster - Thor's Magic Bathtub
B05 - Fripp & Eno - Wind On Wind
B06 - Ramses III - Honey Rose 5
B07 - Cocteau Twins - Plain Tiger
B08 - Keith Fullerton Whitman - Track3a (2waynice)
B09 - David Bowie - Subterraineans

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Episode 11 - Goodbye Prado?

2009-11-30T20:16:00.000-08:00

A big question mark on this one, as it is possibly the last podcast recorded in a rented house.

This month's piece is an ode to two things: drums and procrastination. It's my third try at doing a piece for this month, the last two were abandoned due to frustration that they weren't as good as the previous two months' pieces. So I began this at 7 P.M. on November 30, and posted it at 11:30. The components of this piece are:

Three drum takes (multitracked onto 8 different tracks)
Three glockenspiels
One guiro
Two shakers
One triangle

All of the instruments were played live without any programmed percussion, although one of the glockenspiel tracks is heavily processed. Enjoy!

Episode 11 - Goodbye Prado by TellTheTell

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Episode 10 - Ghost Story

2009-10-24T13:52:00.000-07:00

An almost 16 minute drone for four guitars, one bass, one live drum track and one programmed drum track.

Episode 10 - Ghost Story by TellTheTell

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart meet Afternoon Naps

2009-10-22T18:02:00.000-07:00

Afternoon Naps are a band from Cleveland, Ohio. They just released Parade, their second full-length release, and their first for Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are a band from New York. They just released the Higher Than The Stars EP, their second release for Slumberland Records. I've taken Afternoon Naps' "Mitten Fingers" and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart's "Falling Over" from their respective new releases and combined them, as the original songs bear an uncanny resemblance.

Falling Fingers by TellTheTell

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Follow these links to hear the two original songs:

Afternoon Naps - Mitten Fingers

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Falling Over

Cheesy Blasters (30 Rock Remix)

2009-10-22T17:49:00.000-07:00

I really loved the opening scene of last week's 30 Rock, so I decided to take some samples from the episode and turn them into a song. Enjoy! I'll have a long-form piece ready in the next week and a half.

Cheesy Blasters by TellTheTell

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Episode 9 - Visual Aid (for Jason)

2009-09-17T14:18:00.000-07:00

I made the September podcast under the watchful eye of a camera, so you can see what would go into something like this.

Episode 9 - Visual Aid (for Jason) from Tim Thornton on Vimeo.

Higher quality audio version:
Episode 9 - Visual Aid (For Jason) by TellTheTell

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Episode 8 - Is This Going To Take Long?!?!? Vol. 2

2009-08-27T18:11:00.000-07:00

Tracklisting

Bela Bartok - Introduzione: Allegro Vivace
Derek & Clive - You Stupid Cunt
Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red
Snakefinger - The Vivian Girls
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Live at the Tremont Theater Part 2
Peggy Lee - Fever
Mx80 - Little Pony
Pan Sonic - Ilmenemismuoto (Appearanceform)
Knifehandchop - Hooked on Ebonics (Chill out Mix)
Wolf Eyes - Mugger 3
Prurient - Apple Tree Victim
Audion - Titty Fuck
Clark - Growls Garden
The Muttering Retreats - Tiny Song (Coda)
Stunt Rock - Dear Christian Girl Pt. 1
Lydia Lunch - Oral Fixtation
Field Recording - Lydia Lunch vs. Feedback
Terry Riley & John Cale - The Church of Anthrax
Autechre - Djarum
The Residents - When We Were Young
Bastard Noise - Re-Entry Chute Failure
Hatebeak - God of Empty Nest

Recorded live to the cassette recorder above using vinyl, compact disc, mp3, and live field recordings.

Episode 7 - Biggest Moment.

2009-07-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

Episode 7 - Biggest Moment by TellTheTell

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Episode 6 - Nothing To Do With A River

2009-06-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

All of the melodic sounds on this podcast were sourced from apps available on the iphone. Also, several effects on the live drums were also provided by the iPhone RJDJ app.

Episode 6 - Nothing To Do With A River by TellTheTell

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Les Cousins Dangereux - Enema Of The State

2009-06-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

June 1, 2009 was the tenth anniversary of the release of Blink-182's landmark album "Enema of the State." The juvenile, yet sentimental work was a soundtrack for the carefree time and made for great pop radio fodder. It's odd to think that such a light bunch of songs could have struck such a chord with a generation, but it did. In honor of the anniversary of the release of this album, Cleveland electronic artist Les Cousins Dangereux has covered the album in its entirety.

Les Cousins Dangereux is Tim from the band The Muttering Retreats. Hearing about the 10th anniversary of Blink-182's album, he listened to it at the beginning of June 2009. The album is oddly close to him, due to an old coworker who played the album constantly at the record store where they both used to work upon the album's release. Hearing an album so often only forced Tim to actually enjoy it, which was quite the task, considering he didn't enjoy pop-punk, let alone the band that defined pop-punk in the late 90's. But after realizing the album was ten years old and it had made such an impact, Tim recorded one of the songs as an homage. It was so fun, he decided to do the rest of the album, but to not let it take longer than a week. So, since started the first song on June 6, the album needed to be finished, mixed, mastered and posted online by June 13. It was.

Ten years after the release of the original album, it's obvious that Blink-182 utilized the sentimental aspects of 80's pop music and infused it with a signature 90's brand of pop punk and humor. Likewise, Les Cousins Dangereux utilized the sounds of 90's video game music with the capabilities of 00's computer editing. When coupled with the classic songs from Blink-182's album, this homage acts as a tribute not only to a great pop album, but to the whole 1990's.

1. Dumpweed 2:03
2. Don't Leave Me 2:05
3. Aliens Exist 2:04
4. Going Away to College 2:46
5. What's My Age Again? 1:58
6. Dysentery Gary 2:04
7. Adam's Song 2:51
8. All the Small Things 1:41
9. The Party Song 2:18
10. Mutt 2:28
11. Wendy Clear 2:00
12. Anthem (Version) 2:40

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Episode 5 - My Copy Of "Islands In The Stream"

2009-05-30T20:25:00.000-07:00

Episode 4 - Two Windows

2009-04-30T08:37:00.000-07:00

Episode 3 - Field Item

2009-03-30T20:12:00.000-07:00

Animal Collective Remix

2009-03-24T09:57:00.000-07:00

March podcast up this weekend. In the meantime, here's a remix of "My Girls," Animal Collective's anthemic quasi-hit from their latest album Merriweather Post Pavillion.

I didn't like any of the remixes I found of "My Girls" so I tried my hand at one.

My Girls (PDF Edit) by TellTheTell

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Episode 2 - Vapor Hail (In Time)

2009-02-27T19:46:00.000-08:00

Here is the February podcast, just in time for the month to be over. Thanks go out to our contributor on this one.

Polly Scattergood Remix

2009-02-10T11:03:00.000-08:00

I have a Valentine's Day themed podcast on the way, due within the next couple of days. In the meantime, enjoy this remix.

Polly Scattergood is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter on Mute Records. Her self-titled debut album is coming out on March 9th in the UK (I don't know the U.S. release date yet). This is a remix I did of her song "Bunny Club."

Bunny Club (Bronze Mix by Les Cousins Dangereux) by TellTheTell

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Contributors Wanted

2009-01-19T14:22:00.000-08:00

Good Afternoon Readers,

I'm opening up the lines for contributions for our next episode. Please record yourself telling a story somehow related to Valentine's day. It can be anything from a tale of a lost love to your best Valentine's day memory to a complete tirade directed at St. Valentine himself... diverse submissions are more than welcome. Upload an audio file (mp3 is fine, lossless formats encouraged) to a public upload site (i suggest mediafire.com, sendspace.com, megaupload.com), and email it to no_tech_noise@yahoo.com by February 1st. I look forward to your contributions.

-Tell The Tell

Episode 1 - Some Arcane Pet

2009-01-15T09:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the first installment of Tell The Tell. Today's episode is entitled "Some Arcane Pet." This episode includes an introduction to Tell The Tell, along with some warming stories about summers past.