Tv Girl & Monster Rally: Average guy (Blame) (Single, 2013)

El ingenio de Monster Rally y la fina ironía de Tv Girl, maestros del sonido Sampler y del Pop más exótico, se han fusionado en este precioso sencillo titulado Average guy (Blame).
“TV Girl and Monster Rally have teamed up to bring you ‘Average Guy’. 
TV Girl has added vocals and a new arrangement to Monster Rally’s track ‘Blame’ off of the Beyond the Sea LP. 
‘Average Guy’ is being released in anticipation of TV Girl and Monster Rally’s very special Los Angeles (4/27 at the Bootleg) and San Diego (5/25 at Soda Bar) performances” (Bandcamp)

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Tv Girl: The wild, the innocent, the Tv shuffle (2012)

Por fin llegó el momento. Por fin Tv Girl, una de las agrupaciones que más han aparecido por el blog en estos últimos tiempos, han estrenado todo un Lp: The wild, the innocent, the Tv shuffle (2012) es el título del mismo. Trung Ngo y Brad Petering han facturado un disco tremendo: toda una maraña de samplers, Retro-Pop, Electrónica, Chillwave… dan como resultado final un álbum muy entretenido en el que prácticamente no hay desperdicio. Quince cortes en su mayoría breves que repasan toda su filosofía del Pop.
Algunos tramos del disco les han quedado muy digamos Retro-Pop, con temas como Misery, It evaporates, I wonder who´s kissing now, Mirror mirror (con introducción del “Killer” Jerry Lee Lewis), Sweater, On the fence…
Igualmente pasan por un pequeño período más “electrónico” (Loneliness can be demanding, The artist); para pasar al mejor tramo del disco, ese en el que se dejan llevar por la vena más cool y verseada: Loud and clear, Flip the record!
Tv Girl ha decidido, para evitar problemas legales, denominar a su disco Mixtape, con idea de que los numerosísimos samplers que aparecen en el mismo (afirman que unos 85, algunos repetidos), puedan pasar digamos que “desapercibidos”. En sus propias palabras:
“we wanted to make something completely different. Something that was sprawling and ambitious and conceptual. So that’s what we did.This record is our farewell love letter to sampling. As an unsigned band, we are in a unique position to take advantage of this legally nebulous practice, and we wanted to push that particular aspect of our songwriting to its logical extreme before changing courses. There are around 85 sampled elements in the mixtape, not including individual drum hits (but including full drum breaks). It’s a tribute to the music, TV, and Internet ephemera that has captured our hearts and minds as we composed it in our various bedrooms over the past year or so”

Lo cierto es que el invento les ha salido a las mil maravillas, y funciona, ¡vaya que si funciona! El nivel de diversión y de excitación apenas si se resiente durante toda su audición, y raro sería que no encontrases uno o dos temas con los que ambientar tu lista de reproducción o tu pinchada veraniega.
Por cierto, dos notas curiosas: Tv Girl vuelve a regalar su disco, acompañado de un librito con actividades variadas en Pdf desde su Facebook o desde la plataforma de Stereogum. Segundo: como entretenimiento, el dúo propone reconocer al menos diez de los samplers utilizados. Yo he localizado algunos pero otros son más difíciles… ¡Anímate! 

Tv Girl – The wild, the innocent, the Tv shuffle (2012)

“The Wild, The Innocent, The TV Shuffle is the debut album for San Diego duo TV Girl. But it’s being called a mixtape, due largely to the fact that it’s assembled almost entirely from the “nebulously legal” practice of sampling. TV Girl made their name by a song, “If You Want It,” that rather brazenly lifted a large Todd Rundgren sample, and that holds throughout their free-to-have mixtape. 
TV Girl aren’t coming at samples from your standard hip-hop crate-diggers angle, but from a far more inspired, 2010s specific one. When confronted with the deluge of pop-cultural stimulus that pours from computers every second of every day, sampling becomes a necessary daily skill, a coping-mechanism that helps us make sense of all that’s coming at us. 
“There aren’t enough television shows or songs on radio to keep me distracted,” sings either Trung Ngo and Brad Petering —biographical and technical details are very thin on the ground thus far— as a symbol of just how lovelorned the narrator is mid-”Keep Me Distracted”; the idea that anyone could find a lack of television or music circa 2012 being utterly absurd. 
The duo use television as a symbol of the constant noise of contemporary life: their band name a commentary on the modern day; The TV Shuffle that feeling of constant flicking between entertainments in search of something, anything. They flick through samples like a wandering channel surfer, endlessly restless and happy to mash up genres. And they even invite the “TV in the Bedroom,” singing “I don’t know what’s real or dream” as bedroom gymnastics reflect the sex acts on the television, and every night you drift off to sleep to the soft blue light of the screen” (about.com)

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Tv Girl: Benny and The Jetts (Ep, 2011)

Tv Girl, una vez superados los problemas legales surgidos tras la utilización de un sampler de Todd Rundgren en su anterior y glorioso trabajo de debut (TJB, Diciembre 2010), acaban de editar este verano el que es su segundo trabajo, este Benny and The Jetts, un disco que se aleja algo de los parámetros más popperos de su anterior entrega, para centrarse, aun sin alejarse del Pop con sampleados, en un sonido con algunos toques más Soul. A destacar, sin embargo, Your own religion, el tema que cierra el Ep, un precioso corte con un sampler digamos que hawaiano y con una melodía tremendamente contagiosa. El otro tema destacable es Benny and The Jetts, el titular del disco, canción que trata de manera desenfadada de una chica que escucha el tema de Elton John. El arrope del mismo es absolutamente Soul, y su base rítmica es contundente.
Benny and The Jetts es una perfecta continuación para aquel gran disco de debut, y confirma al dúo californiano como unos verdaderos magos del sampler empleándose a fondo en un formato que, a la postre, resulta el más adecuado para una formación como ésta, utilizando el Ep como el medio idóneo para dar rienda suelta a este tipo de canciones sin abusar demasiado de los samplers. Por cierto, puedes descargar su Ep desde su Facebook.

Tv Girl – Benny and The Jetts (2011)

“You can’t keep a good band down.  Case in point: San Diego’s TV Girl had a run in with the major labels not so long ago.  Their self-titled debut EP featured a Todd Rundgren sample on the single “If You Want It.”  Trying to do the right thing the band reached out to the Warner Music Group, who owns the rights to the sample, hoping to get it cleared.  Warner agreed, but only on the condition that TV Girl would agree to pay a $5,000 clearance fee and100% of any proceeds earned from the track. When TV Girl, who had shared the song for free and weren’t earning any money off of it, unsurprisingly declined Warner’s ransom, Warner promised to snuff out the track by sending takedown notices to the file hosts of every blog that had posted the track (including this one).  Basically, Warner said “We’ve got all the cards – play by our rules or walk away from the table.”  I can imagine that as a new band, having your biggest hit to date fall victim to extortion must be discouraging.
Nonetheless, TV Girl wasn’t about to let that stop them. They are back with brand-spanking new EP titled Benny and The Jets.  The new EP is packed full of bass-filthy pop jams that’ll get your head bobbing and your toes tapping.  The tracks were recorded around the same time as their prior EP, and unsurprisingly have a similar vibe. The Rocket Man referencing title track features a chugging, beefy rhythm section, a glimmering piano melody and more of the slightly-woozy, affectless vocals that helped define their music last time around.  “Baby You Were There” has more of that dirty, busted-speaker bass mingled with a technicolor, tropical vibe built around it’s 50′s-hula-esque sample.  To get to the point: the collection is solid.  Oh yeah, and it is available for FREE.  Download the Benny And The Jets EP from TV Girl’s Facebook“ (turntablekitchen.com)

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TV Girl​/​Dirty Gold Split Digital 7″ (Single, 2011)

Tv Girl realiza un tema de Dirty Gold (Overboard), con su característico sonido luminoso y Retro-Poppero; mientras que Dirty Gold abordan un cover de Tv Girl (On land), bajándole bastante la intensidad y llevándola a su terreno. Este Split lo puedes conseguir gratuitamente desde el Bandcamp que han abierto para la ocasión.

Tv Girl / Dirty Gold Split Digital 7″ (2011)

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TV Girl: TV Girl (Ep, 2010)

 

Si ayer nos hacíamos eco del estupendo Ep de Temple Songs, hoy volvemos nuestros oídos con avidez hacia la música de un dúo de San Francisco que se hacen llamar TV Girl. Trung Ngo y Brad Peterson facturan eso que se dio en llamar Sampler-Pop o lo que es lo mismo: fusilar fragmentos de tema con la intención de incluirlos como base rítmica o acompañamiento para tus propias composiciones. La moda -por las prohibiciones de las leyes de copyright- es hoy por hoy menos utilizada, pero hay ejemplos como los de TV Girl, Monster Rally o The Fantasies que siguen haciendo del Sampler un estupendo medio de expresión. TV Girl es un Ep que se digiere de un tirón y al final del mismo te queda una sensación de necesidad. Porque sus temas son pequeñas explosiones del mejor Pop floreado. Como esas pequeñas bocanadas de aire fresco que tomas cuando sales a hacer footing por las mañanas. TV Girl pueden ser una de las sensaciones del Pop en un futuro próximo. Por lo pronto, temazos como On land (con cierto tono a lo Jesus and Mary Chain), If you want it (con sampler de Todd Rundgren), It´s not something o I don´t care levantan el ánimo de un cadáver.

TV Girl – TV Girl (Ep, 2010)

“You’ll recall San Diego’s TV Girl from our recently released November 2010 Mix.  By way of a little background, TV Girl is the project of duo Trung Ngo and Brad Peterson.  Their recently unveiled self-titled debut EP is free on their bandcamp page and features a series of upbeat tunes that makes indifference sound like it might really be synonymous for having too much fun.  The standout track from this EP is the Todd Rundgren sampling cut “If You Want It.”  It’s a shimmering, but woozy lament from the perspective of a disposable lover, “one last dance and then you delete me from your phone.”  Nonetheless, the fellas from TV Girl don’t seem to mind being used, as they conclude on the chorus: “If you want it, then you’ll get it.”  The preceding track, “I Don’t Care,” is a jittery, bawdy bopper laying out just how much they really, really don’t care about stock market crashes, wars, air pollution, and more, in a way that calls to mind a more roughly-hewn and obscenely glittering version of R.E.M.’s “It’s The End of the World (And I Feel Fine).”  Seriously, try on these rapid-fire lyrics for fun: “I smoke a pack of reds and drink a six pack every day.  I want to stay sane and there ain’t no better way . . . the SATs are unfair — I don’t really care — there are toxins in the air — I don’t really care — the market dropped a million shares — I don’t really care — people are oppressed, but I couldn’t care less — because I don’t really care.” Go ahead and download the EP by following the link above — or don’t — after all, I don’t really care” (turntablekitchen.com)

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