Hello peoples of planet Earth ,
                                                  So 2008. What a year ! We released Computer Love , people liked it and we toured the bejesus out of it. Hope you guys got to one of the shows.
Anyway we are heading out on the Big Day Out tour in early 2009 and to keep things interesting we have embarked on a remix album of every track on Computer Love with a little help from our friends. Here is the list.

Right of way - Jann ( Jackson Jackson )
Computer Love - Scientists of Modern Music
Take it Easy - M-Phazes
Myriam's song - Hermitude
Get Up - Plutonic Lab
Got to do - Blue King Brown
All Fall down - Sulo ( The Herd )
Axis Tilt - Arie ( Grrrlla Step )
Step with the Pressure - Trials ( Funk Oars )
Crazy Thinker - Terminal Sound System
Burning Up - Mr Savona
We got the Feeling - Duzzy What ( TZU keyboard player )
Mondays - Polo Club
Number One - Sietta

We're in the process of mastering all the tracks and let me just say there's some gems there.
So we will be re-releasing Computer Love with a bonus cd of all the re-mixes.
If you already own CL then you will be able to download the re-mixes from I-tunes and from our web site.
Also if you get a chance check out our 'Like a version' cover of the You Am I classic song 'Heavy Heart' which is up on the JJJ web site.
Peas and good viel to all of you.

By now I'm sure most of you who listen to our music have realised that TZU are not really the most Alpha male-ish kind of guys in Australian hiphop.
we don't really swagger like we have something to prove.
We don't aspire to the life style that you see advertised in film clips on video hits , we don't dumb ourselves down and Pip and I have never really written a proper battle rap. Oh well.
In fact when it comes to subject matter we pride ourselves on exploring new frontiers and we try and handle well worn topics with something that I hope our audience recognises as originality.
We've never really been too concerned wheather our lyrics have 'street' cred or if they make us sound tough and intimidating , which is not to say we don't wield anger , we just don't fashion armour out of it , in fact quite the opposite , our litmus test is - Is it authentic , does this make me more human and does it bounce ?
The older I get the more I keep searching for that. Art that rings true.
The same way that when you first hear Bill Hicks you think ' Fuck me , he's being a bit honest ' Or you see a Daniel Kitson show and think " Not a punch line in sight but I like the way his mind works". Or you see a Wes Anderson film and think " yep that makes me feel more accepting of my weird flaws and self doubts ".
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away we decided that what we said was just as important as how we said it.
And the music we said it on top of better be top shelf.
Our first record Position Correction was made when Aussie hiphop was still teething. It was made when we were all young and idealistic and we wrote songs about summer. The production was handled mainly by Paso and Yeroc and was composed almost entirely by samples from old records.Position Correction was our most hiphop record and was as true to the traditional form as four misfits could manage. It still remains probably our most popular record amongst the hard core.
Our second record Smiling at Strangers was made during a time when we were all feeling a bit sickened by the state of hiphop as a dominating consumer culture so we felt we needed to reach for something else , something outside our immediate sphere of influence. We plugged in guitars and mic'ed up drum kits and wrote songs about love and shit. We tried to subvert our own style , our own cliches and that of the genre we operated in. It alienated alot of people but was a liberating album to make.
The new album 'computer love' feels like a perfect melding of the two. It subverts the genre but stays true to the form. It sounds familiar and totally experimental. The topics we rap about are self referential but also universal. Sure there are love songs and politics on there but we approached them differently. We also touch on domestic violence , drug addiction , work place psychosis , and man boobs.
At some point we realised this album is the final in a trilogy. It's the apex. The album that fuses together what we did with Position Correction and what we tried to do with Smiling at Strangers. It's also the last official album on our label Liberation. I really hope you get to hear it....

Ladies , gentlemen , girls , boys , hermaphrodites , dogs , and anyone else who reads blogs.....
We now have 10 mutha fucken tracks mixed for the new album which we have tentatively titled ’Computer Love’. We have 6 more to go and then ooh la la we will have our third opus completed.
And did I mention that it sounds gooood...
We are working with Tony Espie at Sing Sing studio’s. Tony Espie who is responible for mixing the Avalanches classic ’Since I left you’. Tony Espie who often enters into a vortex of delays and reverbs and emerges as the psycadelic banshee of love.
As for singles , we will be releasing a song called Computer Love in the next month or two
so listen out for it and keep checking our myspace as we will be putting up tracks from the album at random as little teasers.
If anyone asks what the new TZU ish sounds like and you wanna flex , tell them that TZU have gone out in to space , re connected with their hiphop roots , collaborated with Aussie soul legend Renee Geyer , and tried to push the boundaries even further.
Stay tuned folks...

Lyrics to Reminisce.

I got the letter that you wrote and it was typically distant
While I read it I retraced your footprints
searching for signs in your words and lines but,
time has since severed ty's that bind
Maybe you only get one shot and maybe I missed it
I miss you , I wish you were here with me now
I remember my time with you , in you , all that we have been through
These memories are something I still cling to
I catch glimpses in the faces of strangers , the strange thing I face is
the same thing on all of their faces like
we're all wearing a mask
and everyone has got a someone who haunts their past
This track is just a chronicle concerning us
co-authored in eachother call it love call it trust
I'll recite it in my sleep when I drea you back to me
wheather or not your in my arms
I will always set you free.

Reminiscing walking down these streets
These days we don't even speak
I think about you when I'm on my own
I think about how much I've grown
I'll kill the memory if you do to
You hold me back like I do you
Another break in this space and time
all it does is just remind me of..

Since we last spoke I think I wrote a novel
Let me sum it up , it goes babe I miss you
I could say it in a million ways
write a million songs on a million albums
it will always come out wrong
If I told you I was drowning
would you throw me out a rope
Even if I said don't I'd prefer to drown
Would you hold your ground
while I scrambled for mine
would you dive in with me
just to spend some time
You were my refuge when it rained
I would run to you for shelter
when the weather pressure built up
I would hide inside your cellar
The sunnier the days became
the more we tried to run
till it happened that we both struck out and killed the sun
For what it's worth the world is yours
and all that's in it
If I give you space can I one day come and visit
If it's not to much to ask
can I reserve a piece of sky in your heart
just a part , you can set the limit.

Reminiscing walking down these streets
These days we don't even speak
I think about you when I'm on my own
I think about how much I've grown
I'll kill the memory if you do to
You hold me back like I do you
another break in this space and time
all it does is just remind me of you.

I've had a surprising number of people tell me that they saw it. Probably cause they were hung over and there was nothing else on tellie.
Anyway I've had a few people ask if I would post the poem that I performed on the Sunday Arts show on ABC. here it is unedited and unabridged with all the LSD and jesus testicles references still intact. Keep in mind that this poem is a performance piece and sounds better coming out of a mouth than it looks on a monitor.

I am by virtue of my own nature a passionate creature
I'm a pizza eater , a police deciever , a fire breathing truth speaker
with a meat cleaver ready for the head of Anthony Callea.
I mean I'm a dreamer like Martin Luther or mark Viduka or Sargent Pepper
I'm a flesh computer with a brain barretta
The living personificaton of the alphabet right down to the last letter
And language is a living entity according to Terrance Mckenna

I am by virtue of my ancestors , a traveling man...
like a troubadour or a minstrel
But I'm a minstrel with principle
I'm a minstrel with principles that are simple
I'm a minstrel with simple principles that are sensible
like don't fight a war over petrol
Don't follow governments that are deceptional
And people who get plastic surgery look extra terrestrial.
What else ?
If jesus ever does comes back you'll find him at some hippie festival
getting technical in a teepee drinking chi eating seaweed
using his testicals in rituals getting mystical and sexual
saying things like 'everybody be cool'
I'ma be like 'word bro , pour me another glass of merlot'
and get your testicles out of her inferno.

I am by virtue of my first few acid trips
a foot soldier of the infinite paradox
I use a mic like a cattle prod
and I rattle locks when I connect the dots
i'm a long list of issues to work through
staying out way past my mental curfew
and I'll immerse you in the glue of my world view
and do whatever works dude
But I warn you when I corner you with my point of view
and I coin a few linguistically catchy platitudes
i'm just a pawn like you.
And my attitude is a growing fued bettween a brain that's bruised
and a heart with a very short fuse
Touch me and I will go boom.

I am by virtue of my Y chromesome
another Napoleon , Hitler , Ossama Bin Al capone
In that I'm capable of doing things that you can and can't condone
I am muslim , hindu , buddhist and christian
both perpetrator and victim
I'm the dictionary definition of the human condition
with a self sabotage gene and when it kicks in
I'm capable of doing things which will make your head spin.

I am by virtue of my five senses in full support of pulling down fences
From the imprisonment of the defenceless to middle east tensions
to world leaders with tempers whose policies are senseless
Every day I wake up and wonder where the dissent is
I ask the previous generation about theirs but no one remembers
It seems their fire burnt down to embers
they forgot about the emphasis
and got fat like that singer from Memphis did
now they're busy in 9 to 5 trenches paying mortgages on weekenders
where they holiday in Decembers buying white goods and blenders
land cruisers and mercedes Benz'es.

But I am by virtue of my intellect
...just another damn hypocrite
full of bullshit like a televangelist at a pulpit
or a full sick Lars Ulrich.
I listen to Bill Hicks and I'm painfully aware that this world is broken
because the human race is fixed
It's sick it's the pits and we're all in it's grip
and it sits in my mind and it starts to play tricks
But I still think of myself as an idealist
with a wish list and a clenched fist and a french kiss
for everything that exist from Tehran to Texas
I'm a bleeding heart leftie pacifist amorous anarchist activist Cassius Clay kind of brain
with a massive appetite for change.

So.... recently I got a job with Multi Cultural Arts Victoria. It wasn't a real job but it was an intereseting one. My mission statement was to collaborate on a piece of music or text with a barrister named Julian Burnside. For those of you familiar with his work , I'm sure you'll understand my near beatles level hysteria at meeting such a great man. For those of you unfamiliar , google now.
As it turned out , it wasn't much of a collaboration. I met Burnside for coffee twice and we had some long and winding conversations about law and human nature.
Here is one of the spoken word pieces inspired by those conversations.

Yeah , I saw it
I couldn't believe my eyes
Then the more I thought about it I wasn't that surprised
It seems old fashioned racism is the new Aussie pride
Just add a little hate and turn your barbie in to a riot
ty the flag around your neck and wear it like a cape
congregate and rendezvous and text message your mates
And if you ain't white then it's likely you ain't safe
Damn straight that shit that went down was all about race.

And don't it make you laugh when they talk about our values
Most of what I'm proud of puts pollies in bad moods

I come from a country made up of convicts , dispossessed blacks and chinese gold miners
immigrants and horse riders , sailors , saints and pirates
all shapes and sizes , all colors and climates.
So tell me why they stereo type us as blonde haired blue eyed kids.

I come from a country with a frontier mentality
From Henry lawsons balladry to Brett Whitly in the gallery
to magnificent natural savagery to Barry Humphries in a frock
Where the women and the weather and the tempers are hot.

I come from a country of ill repute
of giant oversized roadside fruit
Where every meal has meat
where our greatest military celebration was a stunning defeat
Where our hero's are rat bags like Kelly and his gang
The same hero's who the government of the day set out to hang.

And now they talk about our values and don't it make you laugh
how can you know who you are if you don't know your past ?

Yeah , I saw it
I couldn't believe my eyes
Then the more I thought about it I wasn't that surprised
two hundred thousand people on Sydney harbour bridge walked a mile
In an effort to make peace with they're past and reconcile
And all the shock jock radio dj's were struck dumb
And even the most out of line minds didn't seem so numb
No one was concerned with who was right or wrong
And we were all proud of a country in which we all belong.

She gets up...............................................

I know a girl who's laughter makes the whole world
feel like it's brand new again
She's my lover and then my best friend and when
we talk on the phone she makes my heart groan.
like medicine or Thomas Edison
She gives me lessons in how to lighten up
My baby but she's one crazy slut
and that ain't no disrespect that's a compliment
She's angelic , a smart allic and dynamic
all havoc makin me manic a mad panic
Got me going full throttle like my name was Aristotle
I'm enamored by the damage that she's doing causing trouble
I damn fools how I feel I admit it
Whatever you want sweet girl I'll go and get it
For the minute well I think I've said enough
One more thing , girl I like you heaps and stuff.

She gets up to rock and roll
gets down with plenty of soul
Is cool and in control and she warms my bones
when the night gets cold
Sweet song got me on my knees
my sins are all redeemed and it
feels right when I'm here with her
sweet music baby and that's my word

Way oh way oh

She's the kind of girl who's got more finnese
She ace every test and she demands respect
She's got the kind of body that was built for sex
an intellect to match and then smarter than that
She's one of a kind and when she dance she grind
she don't wear much make up but she make up her mind
The decisive type she'll have you in a flash
Do you like a car crash and put you out with the trash
And when she comes she's loud in your ears
a thousand tears cause she's older than time
A big behind with no career in mind
She'll give you goose bumps send a tingle up your spine
i find I'm in step with her when I get next to her
Blow a kiss to her baby your my cold cure
I could go on your all that and more
tre belle mon amie je ta dour.

pre chorus

She gets up , she gets down

We go together like stiff drinks and hang overs
We go together like accidents and blood donors
We go together like we should go together , be together
stay together from now until forever
We go together like coffee and cigarettes
We go together like dogs , cats and vets
We go together like day going in to night
like if we did get together it would be all right
You disarm me and charm me too
I wanna wake up every single morning with you
I know it's wierd it's a strange idea
it's the thing we feared we said we'd never take it serious
But look at us both happy and delirious
The pair of us yes it's really quite hilarious
We have a good time and we make a good team and I'm keen
if your keen if you know what I mean.



In front of me .............................


shes sitting right in front of me
i'm caught up in a fantasy'
shes sitting right in front of me
i cant believe her company
shes taking all my mind away
yeah shes sitting right in front of me

its all in your mind dont get contorted
this type o lady bend you back and foreward
got the effect of somethin that you snorted
everybody rockin to the way her body orbits
round and round she looks so awesome
maybe i could/na thats just your endorphins
we gotta work together act with caution
she'll pick you up and drop you like porcalin
we'll go and get a coffee i just want to get to know her
i'll write her a rap/man she'll wrap you like a boa
look just go home and write a lament
go and listen to your INXS live cassette
a suiside blond/well my pride is strong/
wrong he can make any guy repent

Right there in front of me I think her names Kylie
Real intellectual she works in a library
Damn she's sexy. "Man your Keen"
What should I say "I don't know , tell her you read"
I'ma tell her that I rap in the hope that she likes me
"She'll think your a freak"
Nah , she'll think I'm exciting
Chicks these days have a soft spot for hiphop.
"Nah , she only likes alt country and prog rock"
Then I'ma tell her I'm a balladeer with a career
a guitar and a car and I breathe clean air.
"She'll only want you for your money"
That's funny , I'm as broke as a third world economy buddy.
"It doesn't matter mr. rapper you connect like hippy's do"
What she likes the inner me
"Yeah , she likes the inner you"

hey guys you can check out our new clip here its pretty cool

http://videos.antville.org/stories/1401292/