Let Your X's Be Y's

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RELEASE DATE MAY 2008 TETINE - Let Your X's be Y's (Soul Jazz Records CD/LP) MAY ‘Let Your X’s Be Y’s is a wild mix-up of Punk-Funk/New Wave/Post-Punk/Electro - a personal collection of wit tropical mutant art pop tunes at times evocative of early 80’s New York punk funk & avant gard via old school electro. Tetine have carved an unusual musical path constantly exploring the boundaries between music, art, video and performance and their infamous live events range from rock gigs to gallery installations; from opening last year’s ‘Tropicalia – A Revolution in Brazilian Culture’ festival at the Barbican Centre in London to numerous performances for gallerie, art spaces and festivals from Paris (Palais de Tokyo), to Chicago (The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music Festival) and Sonar. “Let Your X’s Be Y’s” is Tetine’s first full album on Soul Jazz Record. It includes their two previous singles on Soul Jazz Record, “A Historia da Garca” and their most recent “I Go To The Doc Aside from their own music, Tetine have also been instrumental in bringing the Brazilian underground music and art scene to the attention of the UK for a number of year. They compiled, curated and presented the first ever album of Baile Funk outside of Brazil (Funk Carioca, 2005) as well as an essential primer to early-80s Post-Punk from Sao Paulo (Sexual Life of The Savage, released on Soul Jazz Records in 2007). Both these albums have influenced a new generation of DJs and beat-makers in the UK and US. "Tetine are Feminist, un-followers and inventors of their own scene; an uncut diamond. If Art is really dead, then Tetine belong to a "nameless" genre - the makers of something wild, something alive." Chicks On Speed "Tetine was my first inspiration in terms of intellect, presence and their amazing performance. It was right there in front of me but it made such a strong impression and I never forgot that was what real music is about: freedom and purity and, of course, in many different way, FUN! I've never seen something like that coming from Brazil, or actually, anywhere!" CSS .

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