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- Skill Level:
- Professional
- Craft:
- arranger, programmer, producer, singer, songwriter, lyricist
- Instruments:
- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electronics, computer (pc), Synthesizer (All), computer (mac)
- Genres:
- electrofunk, electroacoustic, disco house, electro, Hip-Hop, funk (all)
- Influences:
- Machines, Robots, Animation, Life, Vinyl Toys, all kinds of funk and electro tunes, velcro, neon spandex, sweat bands, calculator watches, pet rocks, lemurs , dead wood, glitter, shades in the shape of flamboyant stars, cheezy synths and sources
ABOUT GRAMAPHONE CHILDREN
Gramaphone Children, born Jaree Thanapura in Lexington, Kentucky, spent his early childhood years in eighties America before his family relocated back to their hometown of Bangkok, Thailand, in the early nineties. As an adult, he is now an all-around musician and multi-faceted songwriter/producer, and though influenced by and adept at a number of musical genres (funk, soul, hip-hop and glam, among others), he admits that it is eighties pop culture that has most likely left the strongest impression on him. Artists such as Prince, Cameo, Roger Troutman of Zap & Rogers, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, the Beastie Boys, Beck and Herbie Hancock, as inspiration, and their influence is evidenced by his acclaimed solo work for Bangkok mini-label Kitsch Cat, namely the exuberant, electro-pop funk of Sugar Rush and the lush, new-wave-ish mellowness of One Pink Saturday with their catchy vocals, crafty production and witty lyrics.
Before settling in a comfort zone of electro-pop, funk and soul, Gramaphone Children was a major contributor to Thailand’s various “indie” music scenes—Hualampong Riddim Studios featured his Beatles-esque piano ballad Tender Pieces in the About Pop compilation; he produced the ambient-sounding Foreshadows for Dicksonian Records as well as the funky How High for DDT magazine; and Thai record label and production house SmallRoom featured his breezy, bossa-flavored cover of Flipper’s Guitar’s Sent It to Your Heart on the compilation Smallroom 006 – Flipper’s Players. As a close friend and colleague of Kitsch Cat co-founder Cyndi Seui, Gramaphone Children was also featured on Cyndi Seui’s acclaimed "Micro Bitz Life" and "My Name is DOS" albums.
A former employee of Bangkok's Smallroom production house / record label (who he currently freelances for), Gramaphone Children now works from his very-own Vinyl Hub Studio, writing, producing and programming music, vocals and lyrics for television commercials, radio jingles, talk shows and even an English-teaching children’s program for four satellite TV channels in Thailand. In addition to co-producing albums by renowned local acts as well as remixes for both Thai and international artists, Gramaphone Children is putting the finishing touches to his first full-length album "Ah-Huh-Ah-Huh", a collection of addictive electro-pop, funk and new wave that tips its hat to the eighties, due in 2010.
- Band or Group:
- KITSCH CAT BANGKOK MINI-LABEL / VINYL HUB STUDIO
- Favorite Lyric:
"Psycho-somatic addict-insane." (The Prodigy).
"We gotta lay them chickens before they hatch." (Some redneck on CMTV)
"Gentlemen may walk but never run." (Sting)ABOUT BANGKOK'S KITSCH CAT MINI-LABEL
Take a quick spin through Siam Square or Chatuchak Market and it’s clear: Bangkok’s youth culture knows how to do retro. From deadstock sunglasses to modernist furniture, the past is not only present, but lovingly curated and feverishly consumed. The cool kids behind the Kitsch Cat project, however, are taking an obsession with a previous decade (namely the ’80s) to a whole new level.
Kitsch Cat was born a year ago when Thai electro-pop fixture Cesar B. De Guzman (aka Cyndi Seui) and graphic designer/musician Peera Suk-a-Suk (aka Yuri’s Nominee) began brainstorming on a music collaboration—something personal and separate from their day-jobs at indie label Smallroom Records. Soon their friend Jaree Thanapura (aka Gramaphone Children) joined in, and over weekly dinners at a Thonglor ramen joint, the concept evolved: a mini-label to push the electronic music envelope, through compilations, T-shirt design, a blog, and any other means necessary. “We didn’t expect it to come out so ’80s,” Thanapura explains, “but it ended up that everyone was doing something relating to ’80s music, and it just snapped into place… kinda like velcro.” Velcro is cited as an influence in the liner notes of the first CD compilation, alongside “8-bit video games, vinyl toys, Rubik’s cubes, calculator watches, and spandex.”
The six artists on the compilation remix their reference points into something fresh. Juicy synths and shiny horns are chopped almost beyond recognition in D.J.S.C.P’s dense composition, while Gramaphone Children’s “One Pink Saturday” is a tweaked John Hughes film theme song. The King of Pop is alive and well in Cyndi Seui’s tracks, cross-shuffled and sped up for an impatient age.
After the CD’s release last fall, Kitsch Cat won admirers in France, Japan, and beyond (swamping De Guzman with lots of remix work for electro acts like Astrolabe and Freaku). Ironically, the local scene is discovering them from the outside-in, through international music blogs. Meanwhile the Cats are working on upcoming live shows, the next CD compilation and corresponding T-shirt, and perhaps even a custom-designed “Kitsch Cat” effects filter. Their grand plans to “create electro madness on the dance floor” are well under way.
THEME MAGAZINE issue 20: written by Samantha Culp
- Day Job:
- Professional daytime thumb wrestler / moonlighting as an amateur mime
- Website:
- www.kitschcat.com
- How I Work:
Fueled on cigarettes and freshly brewed coffee, laid back but hard working and flexible. Throw me any genre of music and I'll do some nice damage to it. Just drop me a line and I'll get to you as soon as the opportunity arises! I'm a man of my word, once committed, there's no turning back until a product has been made. Leespect!
- Experience:
VARIOUS COMPILATIONS IN BKK AND ABROAD
-About Pop Compilation (Hualampong Riddim Record label)
-Flipper's Guitar (Smallroom Records, BKK)
-Smallroom Allstars (Japan)
-DDT Compilation (DDT Magazine)
-Sick Tool Auditory (DIY Indie Label)
-Dicksonia Compilation (Hong Kong)
-backing vox and lyrics
(Cyndi Seui's "My Name is DOS" album 2008, "Microbitz Life" album 2007 Smallroom)
-Chris Wright's Stand-up Comedy theme song (2009 Vinyl Hub Studio)
-Superstar Academy TV program, Thai version of American Idol, "DTP" (Vinyl Hub Studio)
-Sugar Rush Kitsch Cat 001(Kitsch Cat BKK mini-label)
-One Pink Saturday Kitsch Cat 001(Kitsch Cat BKK mini-label
-Just Give Your Love-in Kitsch Cat 002 (Kitsch Cat BKK mini-label)
-Neon Love Light Kitsch Cat 002 (Kitsch Cat BKK mini-label)
-Interstellar Kitsch Cat 002 (Kitsch Cat BKK mini-label)
-Various televised advertisements, radio jingles (Panasonic, Seed Radio, Quantinus, Cyber Planet, DTAC, Yamaha, Toyota etc. etc.)REMIXES
-Cyndi Seui [Breaking Into Bitz] "Gramphone's Just Feed ur Love RMX " (Kitsch Cat Label)
-Talkless [My Scarlet Arms] "Gramaphone's Come-Come RMX" (So:on Dry flower label)
-NFT80 [LOL] "Gramaphone's Sledgehammer RMX" (Motherlanguage Records)
-Jah of York [Top of My Brain] "Gramaphone's Robot Pop RMX" (Amsterdam/New York)
-Labbet [Gonna Miss You When Your Gone] Gramaphone's Rice Capsule RMX (Sweden)
- Equipment:
OUTBOARD GEAR
-Universal Audio Solo 610 mic pre & DIbox
-SM Pro-Audio sound isolator
-Lexicon MPX 550 multi-fx processor
-Roland digital sampler
-Neumann TLM 103ni mic
-MOTU UltraLite sound card
-Mackie mixer
-Roland Space Echo RE150
-Korg Kaoss Pad KP3,
-Line 6 PODxy,
-Line 6 FM4 filter
-Banshee Rocktron talk boxPERCUSSION
-HD1 Roland Digital drums
-SPD 8 drum pad
-Tabla drumsSYNTHS & PIANOS
-Nord Micro Modular
-Yamaha CS5
-Casio CZ 1000
-Roland Alpha Juno
-Korg Delta
-Chickering baby grand pianoGUITARS
Gibson SG electric
ESP electric
Fender acoustic steel string
Spanish custom nylon guitarDAWs
-Logic
-AbletonCOMPUTERS
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Macbook Pro
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hey bro. can you check out my entry www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/10798 votes are needed...thanks...
yea man cool. i really like your sound, so id like to challenge myself by rapping to that sound. do you have anything in the works we could do?
hey thanks for the comment on my song...i've got some ideas i will talk to you about.....i'll keep u posted...also love your lucid dreaming song...later....
Thanks for the add...i love our stuff...and would love to work/collab.....
Cheers m8, but its an even better film =D, u got sum impressive tunes yourself. Is heart break not workin?
hello thanks for the comments on my page. I was wanting to send you some of my tracks in broken up loop form so you could reconstruct them to you liking. leave me a message telling me if you are on "skype"if not i'll set up aN ACCOUNT WITH whatever messenger you use to send you the files. I like your tracks ,lucid dreaming is really cool .
Great Music tracks! So glad to be connected!:) Have a super creative week!
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Awesome tunes man, loving the vocoder on Sugar Rush particularly, funky tracks, keep on making them!