Tele:funken: A Collection Of Ice Cream Vans Vol 2
Nick Hasted, Uncut, July 2000
LIKE LABELMATE Max Tundra's debut last month, Tele:funken, aka Tom Fenn, here attempts electronica disconnected from the dancefloor, skipping round the looped conservatism of current club culture, looking instead to the tastes of his childhood to repair machine-pop's rusting feel for the future.
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