Translated from the Latin, Sao Paolo, Brazil's motto, "Non Ducor, Duco" means, "I am not led. I lead." The city is a sexy, dangerous, pulsating melting pot of nearly 20 million humans, situated near the soothing sea and the teeming rainforest - it’s apropos, then, that it’s also the hometown of Télépathique. Comprised of DJ/producer/drummer Erico Theobaldo (aka DJ Periferico) and vocalist Mylene Pires, the duo mixes deep carioca from the favela with jungle-tinged house, electro, breakbeat and old school bossa with a sensibility that is deeply punk, and truly of their city. Although their story is probably new to most North Americans, both Theobaldo and Pires have long been accomplished in their own rights overseas, with and outside of their work in Télépathique. Pires' solo work as a vocalist is steeped in African and Brazilian music traditions, and Theobaldos remix of "Dadinho" on the City Of God soundtrack became a smash hit (he also produced Brazilian artists Otto and BiD, to wide acclaim). Télépathique's debut full-length, Last Time On Earth continues the genre-bending dialogue that their Love and Lust EP engages in.

Since Erico and Mylene first locked themselves in Mylene's new Sao Paolo home (she is originally from Rio De Janeiro) in 2005 during the Brazilian carnival season and, in Erico's words, "turned off the TV and started to produce compulsively", lots has happened: the band has played in Festival Hype @ Tejo in Lisbon with Massive Attack, Diplo, and Hot Chip, killed it at the Brasil No Ar Festival in Barcelona and has set the dance floor afire at the club Guanabara in London.

In 2008 Télépathique introduced Last Time On Earth to the North American crowd, performing in many American and Canadian cities in a 14 dates Tour. In four of them, Télépathique was the opening act for British artist Tricky, in his Tour Knowle West Boy.


LAST TIME ON EARTH - 2008

Vital and immediate throughout, Last Time On Earth's range of influences is stunning and the integration of those elements is enthralling, urban and provocative. "Sex, Drugs And Funk & Roll" mixes raw pop guitar with the gritty carioca of their cities' ghettos, "UR A Joke" pairs simple throbbing techno synth with Pires' conversational vocals -- she tells the listener that she belongs to them, then coldly throws dismissive insults: equal parts turn on and f*ck off; a perfect alchemy for dance tension. "Love and Lust" draws on European electro-pop, delivering a groove with a mechanically German coolness. "Telefunk" and "Wild", clocking in at six and a half and seven and a half minutes each, respectively, show Télépathique's expert ability to be both expansive and progressively beat-heavy. Amazingly, Last Time On Earth was intimately recorded and produced by the duo using only a laptop, a couple of microphones, synths, a guitar, Pires' voice, and the pair’s genius beat instincts. The album saw its original South American release in 2006; but this is the first time Télépathique's music has been released in North America.

Deja Vu

Love & Lust

“Check out the sultry, chain-smoking cool of Télépathique’s singer Mylene on this big beat, electro rock romp.”
Spin Magazine - May 2008

“When this Brazilian duo unleashes its debut album later in 2008, it is going to kill people.”
Popmatters.com - May 2008

“Telepathique certainly bring a whole new sound to the dance floor.”
SPIN.com - July 2008

“the album is unlikely to leave any listener, as Pires sings on “I’m Not the Man You Think I Am,” “burning with indifference.”
Washington City Paper - July 2008

“The band’s blithe grooves and tales of desire link it to the knowing internationalist hedonism of CSS and Brazilian Girls, with plenty of its own smart twists.”
The New York Times - September 2008