Emerging: Telephoned

(photo by Brooke Nipar)

What initially started out as just another hang out session between Fool's Gold madman Sammy Bananas and the five boroughs' finest hype woman--her voice is fly too--Maggie Horn, Telephoned has, sort of, spiraled into three separate tracks, each pecking their existence from a hip hop standard from 2009. And what's become of this jumping off point (T-Pain's "Can't Believe It", Ron Browz's "Pop Champagne" and the latest, "Turn My Swag On"--riffing off Soulja Boy Tell-Em and featuring Telli from Ninjasonik) is an edit that transcends the original's ace aim and shifts it from the center, in whatever direction Bananas or Horn are feeling. These three are all tracks made specifically (and really, only) for the party. It's "night out" music, floating and pumping with high energy for the floors and soaring into spacey, atmospheric terrain for the come down. What we happen to favor most is the fact that there's not a sense of either Maggie or Sammy really wanting to give more room to the other, meaning that neither the production nor the vocals swoop in on the opposite's territory, making for a clean, nearly-too-infectious time.

(mp3)    Telephoned feat. Telli Federline - Turn My Swag On

(mp3)    Telephoned - Can't Believe It

Godspeed!