Out of the favelas and discotheques come the psychic beats of Telepathique’s Last Time On Earth.
The combination of DJ/producer/drummer Erico Theobaldo and vocalist Mylene Pires hails from the massive megalopolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their disco-tech music is as teeming as the shantytowns and rainforests of their home. Sort of a ‘dance party on a disc’, Last Time On Earth might be what they’ll play at the apocalypse.
Like any good party, Earth starts out on fire with “Déjà Vu”, who strong, pulsating beats open the record well, along with Pires’ distant, echoed vocals. Things take a darker turn on “Eu Gosto”, but that track contrasts well with the shinier “Déjà” – the bright lights and dark nights of the dance club. The middle of the album plays like the middle of a party, with one track sliding into the other, from the disco-beat electronica of “Telefunk” to the smaller, works-their-way-in beats of “You Don’t Know” (though “Gosto”s follower, “Love and Lust”, is too repetitive and simple).
Telepathique broadcast their home city with “Sex Drugs and Funk ‘n’ Roll”, rocking the poverty-stricken favelas that pervade Sao Paolo. And like the Earth (hopefully), Last Time On Earth ends strong, with the expansive disco/electronica exploration “Wild” (sort of a ‘Henry the Navigator of the 21st Century’), and the compelling latin bossanova lounge singer croon, “Vida Inteira”. If Brazil is the country of the future (and always will be), then listen up…
MP3 Stream: "Vida Inteira"
- Anna Vesely
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Out of the favelas and discotheques come the psychic beats of Telepathique’s Last Time On Earth.
The combination of DJ/producer/drummer Erico Theobaldo and vocalist Mylene Pires hails from the massive megalopolis of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their disco-tech music is as teeming as the shantytowns and rainforests of their home. Sort of a ‘dance party on a disc’, Last Time On Earth might be what they’ll play at the apocalypse.
