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"Tetine calls the resulting aesthetic 'tropical punk' , a title they used to brand a show of radical Brazilian contemporary art ..." XLR8R, August 2008 |
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"New world of Sound." Danny McFadden, Metro, July 2008 |
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"What makes Tetine so good is that their off-beat, messy quality makes them natural, seemingly effortless, and therefore beautiful." Vanessa Labi, URB, 4.5/5, June 2008 |
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| "The off-kilter, mutated funk, electro and sound manipulation that comprises this inventve and gravely album is an absolute treat." Joe Shooman, PLAN B, June 2008 | ||
"Let Your X's Be Y's è stupendo (grazie ancora, Nicola) con le sue tracce post punk stile ESG, primi Human League e il suo stile essenziale e rigoroso. Ora vado a riascoltarmi I Go To The Doctor, prima di uscire." Album of The Month, Tommaso Toma, Rodeo Magazine, June 2008 |
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"Il's se sont mis a la musique, avec une fixation sur l'electro au premier sens du term, soit le hip hop new yorkais sous influence Kraftwerk pratique par Afrika Bambaaata et consorts au debut des 80's ... Meilleur morceau LET THE X BE X" Technicart France 4/5 |
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| "The gleeful merging of 80's synths, baile funk beats and Bruno Verner's non-singing voice allow them to push over an hour mark." Tim Jonze, UNCUT 4/5 | ||
"Numa irresistível progressão, “Let Your X Be X” começa tensa e paranóica, enquanto camadas de ritmos entram sucessivamente em cena, transformando-a num arranha-céus electro-italo-disco – estratégia também usada na badalhoquice baile funk de “Melô do Carrão”. “Entertainment nº242” é um exercício de estilo funk-new wave entusiasmante, e “What a Gift to Get” e “Russian Roulette” levantamentos engraçados da synthpop fria e monocórdica dos Pet Shop Boys e dos Visage." Time Out , Lisboa May 2008 |
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"Soul Jazz have snapped them up and the results are hot" Dazed and Confused - Recomended Albuns, May 2008 |
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"Ingested with their history in mind,‘Let Your X's Be Y's feels as playful as it is relaxed - soundtracking an artistic project that wears its authenticity, confidence and continuing need for experimentation proudly on its sleeve. Less ‘we do not give a fuck’, more ‘we do not need to give a fuck’ - a crucial difference in a music market riddled with attitude, desperately seeking substance." Stuart Buchanan, Fat Planet, April 2008 |
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| "Let Your X's Be Y's currently out on Soul Jazz Records has provocked a curiosity within me. Like peeling back the layers of an onion revealing a pungent core and a sense of a reducing one to very real tears Tetine make music that when fully explored reveals much more then one-liners over kooky beats." PIX, May 2008 | ||
| "Sprecht mir nach: „Tetine werden das neue Ding aus Brasilien. Ihr New Wave of Post Baile Punk Funk fickt sie alle.“ Wir haben sie uns nicht ausgedacht. Es gibt sie wirklich." VICE Germany, April 2008 | ||
| "Tetine viva baile punk." interview TRAX, June 2008 | ||
| "As usual, real innovators like Tetine rarely get the props they deserve. So if the freaky tweaked electro-booty bop of Let Your X’s Be Y’s bring to mind the baile funk jams you’ve heard before, it’s probably because fellow Brazilian knuckleheads Bonde do Rolê and CSS copped their best moves from Tetine’s Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado, who started working as Tetine way back in 95 when DJ Diplo was just record nerd Wesley Pentz." Tim Perlich, Now Toronto, June 2008 | ||
| "High grade electronica from veterans Brazilians" Q, June 2008 | ||
| Let Your X's Be Y's album of the week, TNT Magazine, March 2008 | ||
"Often those who benefit least from the rise of a new musical style or scene tend to be the originators, the pathfinders or the mavericks. Tetine sit right in that bracket. They are the sharp end of the Sao Paulo Baile-punk-funk mash-up scene that served up CSS and Bonde Do Role in quick succession. Formed in 1995 by Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner, Tetine released their first album Alexander’s Grave in 1996 through their own label, High School Records. Let Your X's Be Y's may be their first official UK release but it is, in fact, their eighth album; and it’s excellent. They are already well known in London having moved here in 2000 when invited to become resident artists at Queen Mary’s College, University of London. And, noted for their work with performance artists like UR=HOR, led by choreographer Adriana Banana, the band developed their reputation throughout Europe with pieces like Samba de Monalisa, a collaboration with the French artist Sophie Calle. Their encouragement and support of musicians from Sao Paulo and the Baile-funk scene helped raise the profile of acts like CSS, who repay the favour here with an excellent remix of the lead track, I Go To The Doctor. The album is a breath of fresh air; at times evocative of early Pet Shop Boys, on tracks like What A Gift To Get, and at others conjuring up the template for the joyful sound of new Brazil on Ai Amor/Me So Horny. The whole thing is an embarrassment of riches, and as a piece it holds together with wit and charm. Kinder than their full-on live shows it pulls you in and holds you with its ever changing flow and colour, never boring, always inventive. Name checked by musicians like Chicks on Speed, CSS, Diplo and Sinden they have also appeared with acts like Dizzee Rascal. Their recent headliner at the Last.fm sponsored night at Bethnal Green’s Working Man’s Club was a reflection of their prominence on Last’s hype chart. And with summer festivals pencilled in across Europe, their underground cool is likely to come into the sunlight. Check them out on Resonance FM (http://www.resonancefm.com) where they have a regular show. Whether or not they are that concerned with being pop stars is a mystery, the music says yes but the band themselves are so much more than that." Nick Tesco, Music Week, March 2008 |
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Brazilian duo Tetine were a huge inspiration on CSS, who turn up here for a typically boisterous remix. The original is the prime-pick, though, a joyful playground chant of pop Baile Funk. Its silly to the point of inanity, but good Lord it’s fun. FACT, March 2008 |
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| "Brazilian duo prone to rithualistic performances headline with a sound that ranges across electro punk, atonal orchestral pieces, baile funk and Miami bass..." Time Out London, Critics Choice, March 2008 | ||
| An electrifying night out by Rahul Verma, Metro, March 2008 | ||
Tetine Interviewed by Joost Van Bellen. Rauw zine, November 2007 |
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The A B C of Tetine - published on Key Magazine, Brazil, Nov 2007 |
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"The Brazilian electro punk push continues apace with this duo who fuses baile funk, punky noise and performance art to engaging effect." Time Out London, June 2007 |
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"You need a musical glossary to keep up with the kids these days. I’d only just learned what emo was (and to avoid it at any cost) when I started hearing about ‘Carioca funk’ – electronic punk from Brazil, laden with synth effects, shouty vocals and filthy lyrics. Current champions include the brilliant CSS and Bonde do Role, but predating both are arty avant-garde duo Tetine, who take over the Whitechapel on Friday. Expect all kinds of experimental multimedia mayhem and a chaotic live set from a pair known for their crazy get-ups. Put it this way, if you’ve been looking for an occasion to model your sequinned jumpsuit and horse’s tail, this is it. Baile funk, ghetto post-punk, call it what you will, it sounds pretty damn good to me." Melanie Kramers, Lecool, Jun 2007 |
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"Cool beans. Here's a new manifestation of the Brazilian Baile. Tetine is a production duo leading Sao Paolo's avant garde music scene. In addition to having Brazilian sensibilities, Tetine adds striking elements of electronica, house, and new wave to create the strange brew. "A Historia Da Garca(1)" sounds like a soundtrack for a dystopian flick: acid sounds; cool Portuguese raps, and spooky new wave synths. It's one of the freshest sounds I've heard in ages. The flip, "Slum Dunk(2)," is not the Baile Funk you are expecting. Rather, it's some Aphex Twin-esque mellow electronica, complete with vintage sounding drum synths. I'm dropping the recommended here on originality." Turntablelab, April 20007 |
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"Licked into shape " Tetine interviewed by Sara Quin, Fuck Magazine, Feb 2007 |
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| "I have known Tetine since 1999, a year before they established themselves in London. I remember they started out as an experimental duo - Eliete Mejorado was part of the experimental art scene in São Paulo..."Ana Garcia, Plan B Magazine Feb 2007 | ||
"Art duo Tetine’s pumped-up punk-meets-funk sound and frenzied on-stage antics make them a creative force to be reckoned with. Having released a prolific eight albums and performed everywhere from Sonar to the Whitechapel Gallery, Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner are beacons of their native Sao Paulo avant-garde electronic underground.(...) This is the radical duo who have brought Funk Caroica – the intense lo-down Miami Bass driven sound (literally meaning “Funk from Rio”) – within London’s cultural radar. Their regular show on Resonance FM, ‘Slum Dunk’, has given essential exposure to Brazil’s most experimental soundscapes, covering electronica to post-punk, since 2002. (...) Fast-forward to now and the London-based pair’s latest single on Soul Jazz Records, ‘História da Garça’ marks a return to their roots. Meanwhile expect their upcoming album to be full of dark sambas – twisted takes on the building blocks of traditional Brazilian music – with a dreamy nod to old-school electro. Their lyrics may still talk of real-life sex and domesticity but this album is set to be worlds away from the sample-laden funk of their earlier tracks like ‘L.I.C.K. My Favela’. “It’s important to show that we have more than one side,' says Bruno, 'just like Brazil.' " Aimee Farrell, Fact Magazine. Nov 2006 |
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"Their latest, L.I.C.K. My Favela (Slum Dunk) is wall-to-wall with sassy party jawns, grrrl-queer liberation polemics, and Miami-bass boom." Jessica Hopper, CHICAGO READER. Sept 2006 |
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"I didn’t quite know what to expect from Brazil’s Tetine (pictured above). Eliete Mejorado came out clad in a bright golden metallic one piece bodysuit complete with a horse’s tail attached to her. Bruno Verner’s dress was much more modest in contrast but he was just as passionate while singing. They both sang and the songs were very keyboard dependent as well. They were captivating, raunchy, and created very danceable music which, even though the lyrics weren’t sung in English, was pretty easy to guess at subject matter wise. If you like CSS, check out Tetine." Radio Free Chicago (Regarding the Wire Festival in Chicago) Sept 2006 |
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"If Colleen's looped flirtations and Yellow Swans' noisy pall seemed worlds apart, Tetine came at us at from another dimension altogether. Quick to point out that they make "funk carioca" and not "baile funk," the charmingly sleazy boy/girl duo bumped, grinded, gyrated, and spat quick-tongued Portuguese over a sick array of beats and samples, encouraging folks to lick their favelas-- sounds naughty, until you realize that favela basically translates to "ghetto." Matthew Solarsk, PITCHFORK . Sept 2006 |
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Dose Magazine, interview with Bruno Verner on post punk. Kevin Ritchie, Jan 2006 |
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The sage Shaquille O'Neal once said, "Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk." Tetine, the performance art/electronica duo forming the core of the UK's Slum Dunk collective, live by that motto. Members Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner, both native Brazilians who have since relocated to London, created Tetine in São Paulo in 1995 by combining various cultural and artistic currents. Lyinersecg at the inttion of performance art, video, and dirty electronica, a Tetine concert comes off as a Latin American version of Fischerspooner, with the raw sounds of baile funk infusing the squelchy beats. (PS) - Flavorpill. New York. Dec 2005. |
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Carmen Miranda indulged Americans with the mid-century stereotype of Brazilian women. The next phase of the stereotype was the chilled-out female singers like Astrud Gilberto and, more recently, Bebel Gilberto. Eliete Mejorado and her partner Bruno Verner are the duo Tetine. Call Tetine the next phase. Marco Werman - The World - BBC Music Online. Dec 2005. |
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Tetine has also increasingly incorporated the aggressive beats of baile funk into their own more rock-oriented music, which Verner dubs "punk carioca" ... Tetine's forthcoming album, L.I.C.K My Favela, draws even more heavily from baile, especially on the Peaches-esque title cut, but Verner isn't interested in making the genre hip like the U.K.'s grime has become. Niles Baronowski, UR CHICAGO. Dec 2005. |
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Tetine
were my first introduction to the dirty brazillian sound of Funk Carioca
(Rio Funk). Before the days of West Side Gang Bang, before all the Diplo
lovin that was going on, these guys were breaking barriers on London radio.
Christopher Lehault, Free NYC. Dec 2005 |
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Who let the cãos out? We're happy to bring back the art-brut duo TETINE, formed in São Paolo Brasil, based in London. Back in March they celebrated their Funk Carioca compilation on Mr. Bongo by throwing the first-ever RIO FUNK party in New York- and it was off the meters..! Now, hot on the heels of their newest compilation of obscure underground post-punk from São Paolo, "The Sexual Life of the Savages" on Soul Jazz, TETINE is touching back down in Manhattan for a night of twisted dirty ghetto DISCO PUNK. Fusicology. Dec 2005 |
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Tetine are the two downright crazy Brazilians, Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado. Well, we can confirm the latter is off her box anyway. We've just seen a postcard of the pair posing outside UK supermarket Tesco; Bruno pushing a trolley in a beenie hat, Eliete stripped down to a gold sequened bikini and red lipstick. It's not so much the outfit that convinced us she's raving mad, or the fact that's she wearing it outside Tesco. It's because she's wearing this get-up in England. We're talking wet, windy and ferociously freezing. Superb! Blending electro with carioca funk and rap, this album is dirty, gritty and utterly underground. Elle J Small, F.Magazine, London. June 2005 |
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| São Paulo's Tetine sweep a joyful grab bag of beats into their DJ- performances sets but the over'riding aim is tostir it up as they did in their ace compilation of Rio Baile Funk- funk carioca (take your pick, but the album was called Slum Dunk) and in their own ghetto electro dancefloor tunes. Time Out, London. May 2005 Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca is a filthy, lo-fi blend of 80's hip hop, early 90's rave, wobbly bhangra, bruta Detroit techno, Miami bass, Kraftwerk samples and hilariously out of date synth stabs, plus bonkers MCs barking at you in Portuguese. Oddly, much of its synthetic, bleepy ringtone sound invokes UK grime (track 6 has clearly 'influenced our own MIA). Can't wait to hear more. John Lewis - Time Out, London. April 2005 - Critics Choice. Who let the cãos out? Those wonderfully crude, butt-bouncing beats from the favelas of Brasil known as funk carioca (or, often, Rio Funk) - sort of a cross between Miami BAss, ghetto-tech, electro and crunk - is becomingincreasingly popular in the northern hemisphere as of late. That trend will only continue with the release of the tons-of-fun Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca, courtesy of the South American music archivists at the UK's Mr. Bongo label. The album is mixed by the São Paulo - based art-and music-scene lunatics Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner, a.k.a Tetine. Time Out, New York. March 2005. This is one of the most arresting and exciting sounds on the planet and quite unlike anything youhave ever heard. Rahul Verma - Metro Life - Dec 2004 The glorious nuance, texture and subtlety of so much Brazilian music is completely fucking absent in this stuff, but who cares? This shit rocks. This comp is selected by Tetine, the punky Paulista performance-art pair who host a Brazilian-beats radio show in London. 8/10. Rupert Bottenberg - Montreal Mirror - Dec 2004 It was the beats that got me - some of the biggest, most booming and booty - moving sounds I had ever heard,with little pretense other than getting dancers into the bump 'n' grind position and keeping them there. T'Cha Dunlevy - the Gazette - Montreal - Nov 2004 Tetine, Brazilian artists Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado have created a dispassionate American travelogue of great tenderness and reserve. As male and female voices offer intimate insights into the directionless, inertial flow of their relationship, a sharply defined soundtrack follows them on a road trip from New York to Vegas…The televangelist rant, cool French tone and Hip Hop lope of the opening suggest an emotionally detached take on Jean Luc Godard’s classic debut Au Bout De Souffle but the mute longing of ‘Amada Amante’ and ‘I Met Him in The Bar’ go way beyond even that’. Ken Hollings, The Wire. June 2002 ‘Brazilian performance-based duo air the dirty beats and pre-recorded voices of their extraordinary new LP Samba de Monalisa, a compelling, narrative based mix of electronica and sampled vocals made in collaboration with Sophie Calle….’ Time Out London, June 2002 |
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Le travail de Tetine et Sophie Calle est à rapprocher de celui de Genesis P.Orridge dans so projet Splinter Test (Welcome to Las Vegas oú l’on perçoit la voix surnaturelle de Roy Orbison) ou bien encore des constructions méditatives de Stephen Jones (Hotel Madrid). Sur le plan de la narration, le glissement du privé au public, de l’intime à l’ouvre, cher à Sophie Calle, démontre avec brio qu’il existe des alternatives dignes aux cogitations loft-storyennes: le journal intime électronique…. La musique atosphérique et lointaine de Tetine apport un nouvel eclairage, inedit et enchanteur, aux autofictions de Sophie Calle'.4/5 Lionel Delamonte, Chronic’art, France, June 2002 'Impresario of indulgence Ian White and Brazilian performance duo Tetine deliver a seriously whacked out evening of mixed media mayhem that covers all the bases and barely stops for breath. Tetine themselves are launching their new dirty beats/ found voices cd made in collaboration with following artist Sophie Calle; there's image work from them, videos by Queen of Endurance Art Marina Abramovic and the marvelous Chicks on Speed; and more much more is promissed. From hybrid to hola!, high culture to 'Here She is Again', why not shake your booty at WAG this Friday?' GE, Time Out London, June 2002 Recommended tune: 'No Sex Last Night' - Tetine vs Sophie Calle. BBC Radio 1, June 2002 Recommended electronica album of the month. Tower Records, May 2002 'Art and Performance. This is sure to be interesting… double slide projections (Here She is Again), videos by Marina Abramovic, Chicks on Speed, electronica and spoken word. Co curating this spetacle are Tetine the Brazilian performance based comprising Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado. They will be playing an exclusively live set to mark their release of their new CD Samba de Monalisa, which was made in colaboration with the artist Sophie Calle at the Whitechapel Art Gallery'. Kultureflash, London, June 2002 ‘L’apport musical du duo Tetine donne aux quelques extraits narratifs ou de dialogues une force et une sentimentalié étonnantes. D’une très belle justesse. D’une just finnesse. L’albu prend vraiment une dimension de document sonore où les instantes clés du film son’t saisis, montrés puis étendus en des plages musicales que décortiquent la scène et la font apparaître a nu…’. Clarknova Magazine, France, June 2002 'Um pouco como a própria Sophie Calle, o Tetine quer refletir sobre dois eixos. As conexões possíveis entre a 'alta cultura' e os mass media e entre o público e o privado (..) Samba de Monalisa recupera de certa forma o viés experimentalista e falado de Alexander's Grave, o álbum de estreia de 1996. Nesse, o 'gatilho' não era o cinema mas o teatro e literatura com fragmentos de textos de Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Strindberg Musset e outros'. Alex Antunes, Revista Bravo, Brazil, Set, 2002 El cine negro se refleja en los ambientes oscuros de 'Welcome To Las Vegas' y el romántico conecta con 'Music For Mechanics' debido sus violines y conversaciones. 'Sandalia Quebrada' vuelve a esa mezcla electrosamba y ambientes sintéticos aderezados por voces, esta vez sin un diálogo explícito. Más preciosista e actual es 'Hotel Madrid', tema que conecta con artificieros de la electronica como Múm'... Estamos pues ante un disco para los amantes de la música electrónica con aporte cinematográfico e experimental (aunque sin ecxesivos riesgo). Lo cual no es poco.' Satelite Pop, Madrid, July, 2002 ‘Fave tracks are 'No Sex Last Nigh' and 'Amada Amante'. Even though it is really quite complex and multilayered, repeated listening is rather rewarding. It is actually quite an accessible album, given the right exposure it could be a cult crossover, attains cult status and so much publicity that it crosses over into mainstream popularity’. Clive Craske, Jazzical Gaz, April 2002 ‘…atmospheric mysterious film dialogue drifting darkly across some strangely scratched electronic riffs. Why you ask? Because the São Paulo based duo Tetine have a thing about the cult French artist called Sophie Calle'. Robert Sandall, Mixing it, BBC Radio 3, April 2002 'E questa ibridazione di lingue (i testi sono parte in inglese, parte in portoghese) e di segni sfocia in un mix di rara potenza di immagini personali e emblemi nazionali; un parto in diretta e il carnevale di Rio, video privati e Sonia Braga, sguardi equivoci in interni e il motto nazionale Ordem e Progresso, ma anche Madonna e Lionel Richie, Nina Hagem e Julia Kristeva'. La Repubblica, Bologna, Italy, Sep 2001 |
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