The label telegraph was born during 1999 due to a collaboration of Jean Guillaume Cabanne, always impregnated with funk and dance floor oriented, Telegraph productions are dissociated by more daring experimentation on sounds and rhythms. This is a parallel project with the French label Logistic Records, founded in 1995 by Alexandre Petit and Eric Dalbin.

In what matters to the album, it’s for me one of bests until now and promises to be a huge success due to the enormous quality it carries. “Simple truth” is the firs track of the album showing with simplicity the deep funk that is inherent to Tom Ellis, with sensual vocals that go through the music, always an excellent work in what concerns to bass and a great two sound loop. “Anyhoooo” has the participation of Suz with an abstract vocal, a pretty acceptable one floating on a super danceable rhythm. The fist part of the album ends with “lost The number” containing a beginning full of obscure anomalies and than, on the 3rd minute the show begins, always in the same rhythm, including some small ingredients to satisfy our gentle hears. To begin the 2nd part of this magnificent Lp we find “PPP”, one of my favorites. In this track we can watch the true Tom Ellis style inside of deep minimal funk scene, a simple but genial track. Until 3.35 min it follows the normal routs with a very good rhythm, an interlaced percussion and, as always, the very well worked bass… and for that moment on the party starts wit a synthesized melodic tones and a constant voice followed by multiple little noises coming from everywhere and sculped basses, excellent to a fine tasty summer afternoon. In that way is a more solid track, with a more accelerated rhythm but never stepping out of the initial patterns: a constant rhythm, a spooky voice and the same tones, all of this always in the right moments.. It’s without any doubt an underwater journey reminding huge water bubbles and intact corals. To end the Lp we count with “Right On, developing light mental disturbances giving us the impression that we are in a hip-hop night. Maybe not as danceable as the others but it contains a great quality in it’s percussions…

Tracklist:

01 – Simple Truth
02 – Anyhoooo Feat. Suz
03 – Boogie Turns
04 – Lost The Number
05 – Ppp
06 – Mostly Harmless
07 – In What Way ?
08 – Right On

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Label: Telegraph
Catalog#: Tel37LP
Released Date: 06.07.09

To me, he is one of the revelations of 2008 besides his already vast curriculum as a producer. A musical genre pretty minimal/deep, very dense, united by a universe of particles, all of them getting to the floor without any abnormality, with very little highs and lows.
After a “Club Soda” released by Minibar, disc on what i acknowledge the great talent of this producer and became in love with it, it comes now this “Twaddle” launched by Floppy Funk, a house of great value and well know of Tom Ellis. Composed by 4 musics all of them with good quality. ” Bad Son”, one of my favourites, marked by its fabulous growth and the necessary pauses very well placed. “Zone On” is weirdly strange, and its well followed by a soul-jazz loop and a deaf vocal. “Babseyish” has a great rhythm, with long and good pauses and the respective and wonderful entrance. The Loud noises are very weel placed too. To end this one is “Skip the Skitz” witch is perfect to real club with all the minimalism required to it’s real satisfaction.

a1 - bad son
a2 - zone on
b1 - babseyish
b2 - skip the skitz