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London-based Italian electronic-dub producer Gaudi mixes up this quick and pleasing selection of thoughtful beats, including a track off his No Prisoners album, released last month on Six Degrees Records.
It came as a devastating surprise when Charles Cooper of Telefon Tel Aviv died earlier this year, and now Joshua Eustis is opening up about Charlie in Anti-Gravity Magazine.
Are you mad at Charlie at all?
Sure. I like to tell myself, to give myself comfort in a very selfish way, that it’s a natural response to something like this. But I can’t really be mad at him because the Medical Examiner, for instance—I’ll tell you this, since everybody is wondering—ruled inconclusively. They couldn’t rule that it was a suicide, because there wasn’t enough evidence to indicate that it actually was. It very well could’ve been an accident and that’s what the Medical Examiner thinks at this time. We get the toxicology report in a week and it’s going to stay between me and his …
So sad, so so sad to have to report this, but one half of brilliant Chicago-based Telefon Tel Aviv, Charlie Cooper, passed away five days ago. Sad this is because I had the pleasure of working with a 2007 remix compilation by the duo and through them became absolutley obessed with Apparat (the boys had given devine treatment to the track Komponent, HIGHLY recommended!), Ellen Alien, and a whole brilliant world of minimal tech that is arrising today. Sad this is because ‘Immolate Yourself’, the band’s 2009 LP, basically is a masterpiece, really just a stunning record I wish everyone could hear and feel. Highly appropo it is I suppose that at 31 Cooper would leave such a timeless piece of work to enjoy.
Having basically become to sad to speak at this point, I encourage each …
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