Zion Traveler, by Telecult Powers

Zion Traveler

by Telecult Powers

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Zion Traveler LP
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	1.	Thoughts Through Space 15:08
	2.	Spirit Telephone 10:24
	3.	Space Through Thoughts 05:44

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For the uninitiated, Telecult Powers is the superforce of Mister Matthews and Witchbeam, two weirdos of the highest caliber, bred in Cleveland, nurtured in Brooklyn and now protecting a transdimenional wormhole connecting Crown Heights and New Orleans respectively.

They hit Brooklyn by storm, years ahead of the surge of the current synth infatuation, and clearly stood out by way of their sincerity to their art and most importantly, the substance that backed it up. With but a modest arsenal of mystical synth-gun boxes designed and meticulously hand-assembled by Mister Matthews, these two turned every shithole venue and divebar they graced into a hovering spacecraft that for moments took you away from the $7 beers, high rents and endless neon spandex that Brooklyn had become.

This is a definitively fresh perspective to the evolution of synthesized music in the modern era. This is not the rehashing of cliched 70s synth motifs passed off as "original" or "experimental". This is the cusp. Mister Matthews and Witchbeam will be fondly remembered in the great Tome of 21st century Musicians as journeymen who actively moved electronic music beyond it's overly-glorified past into a new age of enlightenment.

After countless tapes and cdrs, it is astounding that no one has given these two the wax they've so deserved. I am proud to be a positive force in getting this LP into the world. It's the least I can do.

Housed in a full color jackets designed by Witchbeam, LP include digital download code as well as exclusive Mothers Third Eye issue cataloging key events of the next millennia, provided by their future selves, not unlike Biff's Sports Almanac. Use at your own risk.

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released September 6, 2011

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