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via E-mail (9 April 2004): 'Remote Control' is featured as tune of this week in our radio broadcast. Salute from Rome. http://www.spacelab.tk/ Thank you Spacelab.tk! A big TTM Salute back |
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via E-mail: I used to think The Tic Tok Men were one of the best electronic bands but after I listened to your new song Telecommunication I know you are the best. When your next CD comes out I'll be first in line. -Greg K.
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via E-mail: Thank you for making music I adore. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am a fan for life. -rtree22
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for being a fan for life. |
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Website: Not much is known about The Tic Tok Men. What is known is that their CD Arecebo has remained the top selling CD at Ampcast.com for quite sometime now. Their CD Decomputerization has to be their most defiant. A more aggressive collection of songs. With a theme that seems to speak out against the propaganda and oppression from the leaders of the world. Dark Techno, Dark Wave, whatever you want to call them, there is no mistake that it is innovative, in much the same way that Kraftwerk were in the 70's. -The Liberation Frequency |
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Website: If you love abstract, ambient, or space music - look no further. The Tic Tok Men, well known for their exotic electronic beats and melodies, have released a stunning ambient disc that will knock your socks off. -Ampcast.com on the Borderland album |
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via E-mail: I've been listening to your music since about...december of two years ago, and i just wanted to say that i love every piece you have, it's awesome! you guys ROCK, you'll always be one of my favorite 3 artists. thank you for the awesome stuff you provide for people like me! -Bruce
Cheers to you Bruce. Just asking, who are the other two? |
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via Message Board: The golden Age of Space Travel Very lush synth washes, and transmissions from NASA wash the intro of this track into the funkiest reaches of outer space. Symphonic,Space rock of the highest caliber! Funky Bass line and killer drum tracks combine with space ambience/symphonic pads to wash my cares away...5 minutes and 8 seconds of pure bliss! Excellent Track! -PokerStick |
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via E-mail: I downloaded The Best Is Yet To Come and I just want to tell you that I think its fantastic. I love early 80's (and late 70's)-stlye electronica and yours in amongst the best I've heard... I'm in the process of downloading Remote Control and I'll grab the rest later... Excellent work guys! Thanks for keeping the flame alive guys! Your music is so good. -Marv |
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via E-mail: Your music is some of the best i've found on the site [mp3.com] yet, i love it! -Gordon |
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via E-mail: I really really really enjoy your music...and I'm giong to be playing a lot of your stuff on my new internet radio show - New Wave Wednesdays - starting every wednesday on February 7th from 7-10pm eastern time. It's going to be broadcast live on http://uroc.net - just click on the Uroc Radio selection.
I hope to hear from you guys soon and i hope you continue the awesome
work.. Boing boom tschak. |
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via Messageboard: Great! Vocals, I love vocals in an electronic track. I have been working with vocals and I've realised how damn hard it is to make it fit. It can easily ruin an otherwise good song or make it a great track. With this happy smile on my face I continued to listen to a song that made me feel good inside. It has a clear melody, male vocals, tight drums and deserves to rule the charts. Maybe I'm a bit too enthusiastic, but I've been listening to Depeche, And One, Yello and can clearly hear them echoed in the background. The glory of The Tic Tok Men is that they resist the temptation to get all composite ideas going at once. That's what I call rare talent! -Organix [on the song "Transmission"] |
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via Messageboard: The Mechanics Of Light is one of the most amazing tracks i've heard, very few songs have ever put me through the gauntlet of emotions that this song did. The way that the music flows and the creshendo's build are simply amazing. The vocals that are being sung over the music are simply amazing. Listeing to them brought me as close to tears as any song ever has. I began to think of people in my life that i've lost and the how much they ment to me and how much I miss them. And the fact that I hope there still watching over me in some way and know how much I still love and miss them. The Drum's and synth's in this song just blew me out of the water. Its really hard for me to pinpoint one specific spot in the song that was any better than another because In my opinion this is one of the most amazingly produced tracks that I've heard in a long time. I just want to thank Seven and the other Tic Tok Men for creating such a moving, beautiful well crafted song. I give this song a 10.... And once again thanks for giving us the gift of this amazing track. -Thomas Washburn |
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via Website: Taking their cues from intelligent electro-pop bands like Kraftwerk, The Tic Tok Men are an electro-force to be reckoned with. -Dawn Marie - About.com |
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via Messageboard: A cyber love song, sort of an update to the older computer love songs with the mention of modems and chat rooms. Wicked retro basslines and analog synth melodies, as well as monotone lyrical delivery and vocoders abounding. Right now, I'd say who needs more. Hopefully for you, one day this will become world famous techno-pop. -synaptic loop [on the song "Conduit"] |
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via Messageboard: Very mellow piece ... This is the kinda song you'd expect to hear when you get to heaven ... I'm not even joking ... it sounds so surreal and otherworldly ... you really should get yourself a pair of headphones, close your eyes and listen to this one ... really smooth, really relaxing ... five minutes of this song each day and you too can reach spiritual enlightenment -Organix [on the song "Nothing"] |
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Review: I think it's amazing how Seven runs around in stealth mode all the while keeping the sinister musical genius hidden from everyone's view. I just heard The Best Is Yet To Come from The Tic Tok Men and found my mouth on the floor. I also have these little creepy bugs that keep scurrying up and down my back and arms that when I look, they aren't there. So I have to blame this on the music. I believe there is a sinister ulterior motive to this music. It has been designed to reach the subconsciousness and plant suggestions of pleasure and contentment there. Feelings of wow, dreams and complacency. While listening the subject looses all interest in going to work or taking care of any other responsibilities. This track has depth and is crafted as to tell a story. Nothing that is black and white, but rather subliminally. Sounding lushly organic, it's almost hypnotic. I wonder if Tic Tok knows the secret to which synaptic neurons spark these experiences in the human psyche. An acute sense of alchemy that develops a following which travels beyond the victims awareness of what is happening. Yes I think there is a sinister motive here and I must tell the world before it is too late. Tic Tok Men is poised to take control of your being and should be stopped! If not stopped, we will have everyone plugged into their headphones and disregarding their jobs, families, and all responsibility. This could very well lead to total economic collapse!
What ever you do, DO NOT LISTEN to The Best Is Yet To Come. Spare yourself and your family! Spread the word!
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via Messageboard: (a follow up to the above review) OK, I must admit. After listening to The Best Is Yet To Come I decided to telecommute today. And I've been listening to this over and over. I also have been making my way down The Tic Tok Men's page and I am in serious need of a remedy. I am hooked, and I can't see my way out of this.
The The Best Is Yet To Come is only a prelude to what the rest of the music on the page is going to do to you. My best advise is shut your computer off and run! That is
if you know what's good for you. This music is so infectious, you will not even be drawn from your computer to eat or
drink. Which brings up a greater concern than economic collapse. Soon you will be dehydrated and in need of serious medical attention.
If your reading this, it's not too late. Please, what ever you do, do not start down this road! It is extremely difficult if not impossible to recover. Save yourselves!
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via Messageboard: (follow up #2 to the above review) This music is subversive I tell you! This is going to spread and shut down society! Soon, people will not want to work anymore. The postman will no longer deliver your copy of Keyboard, UPS won't deliver that package you've been waiting for, for over a week! The milk man won't come anymore! You people have to stop this! If you don't believe me, just listen yourself (at your own risk)! -W. Moses |
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via Messageboard: Interesting start sound quite 80's (but there is nothing wrong with that). I think is must be all that FM synthesis. I like the vocal samples they add interest and focus to the track. I like the synth work and the drum programming but I feel that the sound could be improved by using different sound's because it sound a bit clinical at the moment, but that is down to personal taste.
I'm now 4:00 into the track and I'm still interested in it. Is that electric guitar I hear.....oh yes. The track has pick up a lot more now the add sounds really
uplife the track, and I take back some of what I said about the clinical sound, it's much more organic now.
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via Messageboard: Techno is less my cup of tea than the other gems you usually uncover, but I can certainly say that this piece is inventive, catchy in a subversive, sublime way, and superbly produced. Imaging, presence, and soundfield ambience are all well thought out, and the impression of dimension is among the best I've heard. My tweeters thank you. I only wish I was a fan of the genre so I could offer less technical and more emotional feedback, but I try to appreciate everything at one level or another as best I can... Also, their page design is wonderful, absolutely perfect for the sound they produce. -Phil Traynor |
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via Messageboard: This is one of those songs that as a musician you will find your self listening to many times. Why? Well it is because there are so many ingredients here, so many voices, that you want to capture them all and make them breed an albums worth of material. This is no easy task, cuz just when you are thinking you are centered in on... the bass for example, you find your self just just enjoying the ride. next thing you know you just humming the melody. Some very cool elements here, mixed up so well, it is hard to see exactly what the fuck is in the bowl, All I know is this tastes great.
A word of advice for the listener, don't try to figure this out, just sit back and get locked into the zone.
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Review: Everyone's familiar with the large, well-known indie music hangouts like mp3.com and BeSonic. Not as well known is Ampcast, who have their own little unique thing going in their corner of the net. One of the best-regarded electronic artists over in that neighborhood is The Tic Tok Men, the Oregon-based second coming of Kraftwerk. Listening to them will make you want to run down to the vintage record store and try to reclaim that copy of Autobahn your older brother got rid of. Kraftwerk more or less ran out of steam by 1987, but imagine where they would be today if they kept up their mission, and you have an idea of where The Tic Tok Men are going -- sparsely arranged, heavily technoid vocal electronica. "Flatline", at nearly 11 minutes in length (hey "Autobahn was 22 minutes, so stop your whining) is as fine a presentation of their style as any I've heard. "Flatline" moves with the insistence of a monorail. The beat drives this song but never at the expense of balance and smoothness. It abounds with the same kind of faux-semi-real synth strings, bleeps, crisp percussion, and sparse vocals that were Kraftwerk's signature for so long. Another point of note is the arrangement, which is hugely important with such a long track. It's easy to make a long, boring song. It's quite another to make a long, interesting, engaging song. Seldom in any electronic genre (The Orb springs to mind) have I encountered an artist with such a deft sense of balance. Certainly, The Tic Tok Men are inspired by Kraftwerk, but at no time have I ever felt that they were derivative. The Tic Tok Men are simply continuing the unique genre that Kraftwerk created. "Flatline" demonstrates their adroit handling of the sound.
Rating 9.10 of 10.0
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via Messageboard: I am starting to really dig your way to lay a kinda retro atmosphere to your track, after listening a couple more time to your track "the best is yet to come" and to this track. There is a certain mysteriousity(I know there is no such word, I couldnt explain it better than this own invented word ) to your track, the use of vocals(which is awesome, as usual), the long (ala)strings melodies and the great (many)transitions set a foggy ambience to the track. The kind of rare sounds(or ordinary, but passed through some filters) you used in this track, do not interrupt each other, they all fit together very good. good production, harmony, feel, vibe, everything Good track !! Keep it up ... -Nimrod |
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via Webpage: Ominous vocals telling tales of machines and cybernetic mysteries, echoing in the darkness, surrounded by old skool synths and sounds. Welcome to the world of The Tic Tok Men, a cascade of rhythmic beauty that's almost surreal. -Deiru |
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via Webpage: Retreading the electronic territory pioneered by kraftwerk, the Tic Tok Men offer up stiff, pop-friendly grooves fashioned out of cold steel. Mid-tempo rhythms bring digitized vocals to the surface over rubbery melodies and technoid squiggles. -Listen.com |
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via Messageboard: Why did you have to write a song so good that it is constantly is in my head... no matter WHAT's going on. -Mick J. [on the song "Decomputerization"] |
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via Messageboard: TTM aren't my favourite band for no reason. -Cormac Strain |
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via Messageboard: Definitely one of the best indie artists I've heard on the net. Cyberage techno that flows through the channels of your mind, even well after the song is played. Seemingly influenced by Kraftwerk, and other electronic bands from the 80's, these guys take those sounds and make them their own. The cd Remote Control is excellent in both writing and production. Your ears thank you for the candy -Toni Dalee |
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via E-mail: If I was on a desert island with only one song and I had to chose your's or Kraftwerks new Expo 2000 I would have to go the way of Tic Tok. Very cool. -Cameron |