Biography
Tele & Big Tie Moldies is the second installation of Matt Kamm's Tele Cheeseburger Adventures project. After releasing his first record under the pseudonym Tele & The Ghost of Our Lord, claiming he had been possessed by a ghost of the past, present, and future, Kamm found new adventure in untraditional recording methods. Recording his second full length completely with a left headphone piece as a microphone, Tele explored new sounds and vast frequency ranges upon mastering peaking, gut-wrenching audio.
"Future Frontier," released November 2008, Cheeseburger's second full length (both fall just short of 30 minutes) was recorded and completed in the 3 months following the release of his solo debut. Highly influenced by the writings of prophetic time traveler John Titor, who warns the world of a soon coming new American Civil War and a brief but powerful World War III; The album, set in 2015, depicts a savage and explosive future tonally, while the lyrics reflect on a world once enjoyed and provide situational remedy for “running to the end of the earth.”
Tele V. Cheeseburger (Telethon Veginald/”Veggie” Cheeseburger) is the alias of Matt Kamm, musician, songwriter, home recording artist, screen-printer, traditional and multimedia artist. Born July 12, 1984 in Winter Park, FL. A mystic at heart, Kamm embraced at a young age a love for the mind expansive arts and a desire to follow the great “madmen” of our world. After refuting his birth name, Tele V. Cheeseburger was born into endless circumstance, an entity that was free to create and communicate naturally through the gridwork of the arts.
A self taught artist, musician, producer, and entertainer, Tele “Veggie” Cheeseburger is heavily influenced by other home recording artists such as Ariel Pink, R. Stevie Moore, Dino Felipe, and Daniel Johnston. Growing up, Tele was inspired by teen punk rebellion music like Sonic Youth and Screeching Weasel, as well as the melody rich music of the 60’s. These influences, as well as his recent obsessions (Wendy Carlos, Bruce Haack, & Prince), are apparent in the unique style of music that he currently creates.
Currently recording in his studio, which he dubbed “The Borelandome Stratosphere,” with his band, The Bluetooth Banned, which formed officially in May 2009, Tele meticulously writes, records, edits, and produces new material for his upcoming 6th release “Barter Crystals/Explorations,” a synth-punk album themed as an alternate universe where currency is obsolete and exploration is inevitable.
Telethon Veginald Cheeseburger’s “Him & Her Hymns” EP, released on March 26th, 2009 for free to celebrate the launching of GoneNRecords.com, Tele’s home label.
In November of 2008, Tele released a split cassette to accompany a tour with Portland, OR’s The Ocean Floor on Swim Slowly Records and Gone & Records. The premise of the split was to mimic the stripped down nature of the tour. Choosing recordings that could be represented from a one person live show. Along with this tour EP, Tele had just finished his third full length “Hydrophonia,” which he calls “a hi-fi trip into modernica, in which he experiments with (get this!) clean sounding recording, neo-tribalism, euro-pop, and Wendy Carlos-ism.”
See Also Tele V. Cheeseburger, Tele & The Ghost Of Our Lord
Tele has shared the stage and/or toured with R. Stevie Moore, Ryland Bouchard, Dino Felipe, Snak Truck, The Ocean Floor, Nothingberry Plasma, The Visitations, M. Coast, Elf Power, The Starlight Mints, Mt. Eerie, Unicornicopia, Machinedrum, Kevin Blechdom, Irene Moon, The Octopus Project, Harry Merry & a few others.
3 tours 4 releases from home label Gone & Records, 1 with the help of Portland, OR's Swim Slowly Records
Reviews:
"The Bluetooth Banned is the latest branch in the knotty world of Telethon Veginald Cheeseburger (the nom de plume of experimental musician Matt Kamm). He describes the full-band project as a more straightforward rock act, which is true but relative. As this performance validated, it’s a punky garage-pop bash-out that hits pretty directly. But in Kamm’s lexicon, “straightforward rock” also happens to include that old sit-down organ your elementary school music teacher used to rock in class. “Interesting” is a word that applies to virtually everything Kamm does, but this band is the most spirited project I’ve seen him involved in yet." ~Orlando Weekly, Bao Le Huu
"This is what happens when the lounge singer at Zelda’s local Village Tavern starts trying to mess with the system. Everything was A-OK while the guy threw some Manilow in his Bacharach, but now that he’s heard those Beach Boys and mainlined 80s schlock pop, the denizens of Zelda-land (Mercay Island?) aren’t feeling the milk buzz they used to. Time for the harder stuff?" ~Impose Magazine
"Telethon Veginald Cheeseburger, a.k.a. Tele V. Cheeseburger… He’s a character oozing with the spirit of art, and creates it in every moment of his performance." ~MetroMix
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