Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough - 25th Anniversary Edition - VINYL LP

The late 1990s were a fertile time in the American electronic underground. A growing body of artists, spread around the nation, were engaging in the latest round of a decades-long transatlantic musical conversation. At the convergence of hip-hop, electronic, and soul music, these artists sought to carve out their own lane. In September 2001, New Orleans' Telefon Tel Aviv, high school friends Joshua Eustis and the late Charles Cooper, joined the conversation with their debut album, Fahrenheit Fair Enough, released by Hefty Records. A labor of love, Fahrenheit was an attempt by the pair Inchto contribute something meaningful,Inch Eustis says today, Inchsomething definitely American, and kinda southern too.Inch On the fifteenth anniversary of it's , Ghostly International is reissuing Fahrenheit Fair Enough with a vinyl edition and bonus digital material.Living in New Orleans in the late 1990s, Eustis and Cooper were in the thrall of two musical orbits American staples-New Orleans' bounce, Detroit's techno, Chicago's house-and British electronica-Autechre, Aphex Twin, Jega. Recorded over the course of a year in Eustis' childhood bedroom in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans, Fahrenheit mapped out a potential for American electronic music in a time of hope. The tracks were meant to be Inchconstantly evolving sculptures.Inch Fascinated by IDM, the pair sought to inject Inchsome swagger into it, loosen it up a little but also make it hyper romantic.InchEustis and Cooper had imagined making a Inchhard club record,Inch but instead Fahrenheit came to be seen as a delicate slice of electronica by fans and critics who misconstrued it's stylistic roots. The music sounds all the more relevant in 2016 because the roadmap Eustis and Cooper desired then exists today. And because today everyone listens to what the South has to say.InchWe just wanted to see if we could make it