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04.07.10Interview: Lenn9o9nAnd so to boldly go where no obscure lo-fi music blog has gone before: an interview with David Charleston aka Lenn9o9n. You've heard the music (see 'Relining Coffins' below) now have a sneak peek through the keyhole into the brain of the man behind it... DG: Probably an obvious question, but where did the inspiration for the name Lenn9o9n come from? "One after 909" is one of the first songs he wrote as a teenager. I don't idolize him, I just empathize with his ambitions, torment, love, anger. DG: When did you start writing music and why? 2003. I think the Brian Eno quote ...
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04.05.10Lenn9o9n – Relining CoffinsLenn9o9n - Relining Graves download: [download#56#nohits] Listen to Alli: [audio:http://www.daydreamgeneration.com/MP3/Lenn9o9n-Alli.mp3] From the first time I heard Lenn9o9n cover The Beatles' 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey' I knew I was listening to something quite extraordinary. Everybody knows that the synthesizer maimed popular music in the 1980s, but here was somebody who might actually make you rethink electronic pop music completely. Not from choice, but necessity (think a 26 year old American travelling the globe with a keyboard strapped to his back, currently alighting in Italy), with the exception of impassioned vocals drenched in precision effects, electronic beats and synthetic melodies are ...