LALI PUNA [GERMANY]
from ‘i thought i was over that’:
together in electric dreams
this is the dream of evan and chan (remix for dntel)
from ‘scary world theory’:
nin-com-pop
from ‘tridecoder’:
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everywhere and allover
lali puna, always seemingly the bridesmaid and never the bride. they’ve been making consistently intelligent electronic pop music for many years, three albums in the bag, and they still have yet to match the public visibility of many of their contemporaries. and it’s clear that their peers respect lali puna’s work – you need simply look at the long list of people who turn up on their new b-sides, rarities and remix collection ‘ i thought i was over that’. they include boom bip, two lone swordsmen, to rococo rot, alias, sixtoo and more. despite an apparent lack of recognition, this collection is clearly aimed at a growing fan base, one that may have neglected the earlier albums, and who may have come on board for last year’s ‘faking the books’. if you’re absolutely new, this is a good starting point, a wide variety of sounds and styles are represented, from the glittering acoustic glitch of boom bip‘s micronomic remix to the band’s electro dub take on their own remix of ‘left handed’. there’s also some new material too and two covers of slowdive and phil oakey tracks (see above mp3). what’s next for lali puna? the duo at the core of the band, the notwist‘s markus archer and vocalist valerie trebeljahr, have just released a 7″ single on morr’s new imprint, ‘a number of small things’. the single is a cover of a magnetic fields tracks called ‘papa was a rodeo’ and the single is credited not to lali puna, but to ‘john yoko’ – presumably something to do with the standing joke that the couple are the new john and yoko. you can hear a stream of the single at morrmusic.com
THIS WEEK’S RADIO SHOW: lali puna‘s album was the featured album, also recommening the new e.p. from sigur ros collaborators amina – here’s an mp3 excerpt of the track ‘hemipode’, check out the sigur ros site for more info.