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
Label: Telegraph
Catalog#: Tel37LP
Released Date: 06.07.09
