{"id":478,"date":"2009-01-23T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/beta\/?p=478"},"modified":"2011-07-20T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T16:07:30","slug":"telepathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2009\/01\/23\/telepathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Telepathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telepathe\u2019s Busy Gangnes on the Brooklyn band\u2019s sound and vision.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-478 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2011\/06\/telepathe_2flattened.jpg'><img width=\"345\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2011\/06\/telepathe_2flattened-345x483.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2011\/06\/telepathe_3flattened.jpg'><img width=\"345\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2011\/06\/telepathe_3flattened-345x483.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the flesh, Busy Gangnes and her ex-girlfriend Melissa Livaudais don\u2019t look like hip-hop fanatics. Slim, boyishly pretty and favouring the oh-I-just-threw-this-on sweater and jeans look more associated with Sofia Coppola circa 1999 than hardcore electronica, the Brooklyn 20-somethings don\u2019t even look like rock chicks. But they formed their current outfit Telepathe \u2013 pronounced \u2018telepathy\u2019 \u2013 from the ashes of a regular four-piece called Wikkid.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started Telepathe as a reaction, because we were bored,\u201d explains Gangnes, who trained as a classical pianist. \u201cWe wanted to make some drastic changes, we wanted to make greater sonic landscapes and play around with structuring songs in a different way.\u201d Gangnes was a punk in high school, which goes some way to explaining Telepathe\u2019s fuck-you attitude to the music mainstream. \u201cLooking back,\u201d she says, \u201cI guess I decided I wanted to start a band when I realised that people could make music and not technically know \/\/how\/\/! I love the idea that anyone can do it. There are no rules\u2026 it&#8217;s about creative energy. And besides, does the world really need another regular rock band?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Lately, Telepathe (named in honour of an animal psychic the pair wrote about on an early track) have been pitched as a vital prop of the avant-garde Brooklyn scene that \u2013 since the breakout success of sound collagists TV On The Radio \u2013 has been making headlines in the music press. But Gangnes is quick to point out that the hype is just that. \u201cWe get asked about the \u2018scene\u2019 all the time,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd yeah, Dave Sitek from TV On The Radio produced our debut album, <em>Dance Mother<\/em>. But we keep getting asked to be photographed with bands we don&#8217;t even know! People think there&#8217;s this movement there; that every band knows every other band, and it&#8217;s one big cosy family. The truth is that there \/\/are\/\/ tonnes of bands there, which is awesome. But it&#8217;s not quite the scene that people are asking us to tell them it is!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appropriately enough, Telepathe\u2019s music is all about mental associations, either the ones the listener imagines or the ones Gagnes and Livaudais deliberately make themselves. It didn&#8217;t take long for them to hit their stride. \u201cAt first we wanted to use more effects and ambient sounds in our music,\u201d continues Gangnes. \u201cBut then, slowly, after about a year of experimentation, we got into the idea of using computer programmes. We definitely wanted to make dance music, but although it&#8217;s dance music, it&#8217;s not strictly club music. I&#8217;m a dancer from a contemporary dance\/choreography\/performance background, so it&#8217;s dance music in a wider sense!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the casual ear, the band\u2019s sound is deceptively familiar: imagine the sounds that would emerge if Pony Up joined the Human League in the studio and Timbaland fought Tackhead at gunpoint for the final mix. Gangnes has no comment to make on the subject: she\u2019d rather be listening to rappers Three-6 Mafia than precisely defining what makes Telepathe tick. \u201cHip-hop is the most current pop music that we feel is the most influential,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt&#8217;s the most futuristic music out there already. We wanted to be inspired by that, which you can probably hear in the music \u2013 with the beats, the bass and the hi-hat patterns \u2013 we use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An open, unpretentious woman, Gangnes prefers not to comment on the band&#8217;s sometimes \u201cpost-apocalyptic\u201d lyrics. But she does admit that she recently spotted an unhealthy obsession with death, war and childhood. When asked to pick her favourite song from <em>Dance Mother<\/em> she becomes equally tongue-tied. \u201cI think it\u2019s &#8216;Crimes And Killings,&#8217;\u201d she says, then pauses. \u201c&#8217;Or Devil&#8217;s Trident.&#8217;\u201d She pauses again. \u201cActually, between those two, it&#8217;s a toss-up. I really love the melodies and the beats we came up with. 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