Things seem to be easy for Lali Puna, one band splits, another is formed. After two months someone is interested in doing a first release. After another few months a next offer is expressed. In the end someone asks for doing an album and now you're also part of the story...
Lali Puna aka Valerie Trebeljahr discovered the four-track recorder in early 1998, after a split of the Munich based girl band L.B.Page, Valerie used the four-track as a kind of band replacement and recorded six tracks, two of them never found their way to be listened but the remaininf four became the first entry in the »Reihenhausmusik« series.
After a guest appearance on »Snooze«, Markus Acher (The Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio) became the first band member, »Snooze's« second guest musician Steffi Böhm left the live combination to focus on their projects with Couch and Micha Acher (also The Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio) and her solo works as Ms. John Soda. Through the following months drummer Christoph Brander (Tied & Tickled Trio, Console) and keyboarder Florian Zimmer (Iso 68, Fred is Dead) joined Lali Puna and Lali became a band. Johan from the label K-RAA-K in Belgium asked them to do another single right after their live gig on the 1998 hHausmusik festival and »Safe Side« indicated a development to a kind of electronic music now manifests itself on their debut album »Tridecoder«.
»Tridecoder« features 9 tracks of finest electronic pop music. As they won't deny, personal favourites like Land of the Loops, Stereolab, Susanne Brokesch, Buffalo Daughter, Aphex Twin found their way into the bands' sound. Without being a poor imitation, of course.
Tracks like »6-0-3«, »Antena Trash» and »Toca Discos« show how melodic and pleasant monotony can be, »Fast Forward» on the other hand is a classic pop song with heartbreaking strings. Correspondingly you may find tracks like »Everywhere & Allover« and the four-to-the-floor-instrumental »System On«.
Words for all tracks are written by Valerie Trebeljahr, partly in english (understandable) and partly Potuguese (not understandable), which could be traced back to Valeries school days in Lisbon.
»Tridecoder« was recorded 1999 by Albert Pöschl mixed by Mario Thaler and Albert Pöschl. Vinyl will be released as a co-production between Morr Music, whose first releases was solo electronic artist B. Fleischmann from Vienna, and Hausmusik, the label out of the Hausmusik-Kollaps-Payola-collective. The CD will be released by the renowned US label Darla.