Today Andy is joined by TLF a.k.a Christoph 'Hadl' Hassel. Hadl appeared on the show back in 2020 as half of Siamese Youth, but today he’s flying solo to talk about the origins of the TLF project, 80s music, playing pianos, and collaborating with one of his childhood music influences Chris Huelsbeck. Hadl also chats about top-lining for other artists, Right Said Fred, classical music, and Rondò Veneziano. There’s even a brief cameo from Happy the dog!

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Check out TLF here:
https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/planet-sadness
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GbRRHyryPjbyhEdI81OOt
https://www.instagram.com/tlf.music.b/
https://www.facebook.com/tlf.music.b
https://twitter.com/tlf_music_b

Don’t Forget to Check out ALL the artists featured on the show:

Chris Huelsbeck:
https://www.huelsbeck.com/
https://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/chris_huelsbeck
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHuelsbeckOfficial/videos

Jaki Nelson:
https://www.instagram.com/jakinelson/
https://open.spotify.com/user/12160608057
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3uuyXftahccVsQbEmZG5k8?si=qvRTAF2QSreQl6q3wPAL6g&nd=1&dlsi=31cd598cb8e940d2
https://beacons.ai/jakinelson


Today’s Tracklist:
TLF = “La Serenissima”
TLF - “Honey Hive"
TLF & Chris Hülsbeck - “The Air We Breathe“”
TLF - “Sadder Than…”
TLF - “Marching In Like…”
TLF - “Sad Is Fight”
TLF & Jaki Nelson - “Things Will Never Be The Same Again”
TLF - “Better Days”


Beyond Synth - 433 - TLF

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