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If this item in stock, then you will get an infomation E-Mail!TBD first made a noteworthy noise with the release of >What Is This?<, their 2009 debut that found favor with critics, DJs and audiences for both its seditious take on dance music – and avoidance of worn-out conventions – and sheer sublimity. It was fitting success for an outfit founded by two musicians who, bored by the sounds around them, set out to >create something new, fresh and not confined by restrictive genre pigeonholing.< On the heels of that pitch-perfect release, as well as remixes for luminaries including Permanent Vacation, Runaway, 2020 Soundsystem and Populette, to name just a few, TBD – comprising Rong Musics Lee Douglas and ex-!!!/Outhud bassist and producer Justin Vandervolgen – is back with a 12 inch of idiosyncratic new music.
A-side “Oh My” starts with a raygun firing and a static-y snare, then adds more leftfield sounds, including high-frequency squalls and electric blips. When, mid-song, the hushed breakdown starts, it’s propped up almost solely by a precision beat – before it expands with handclaps, electro-stomps and bubbling synths. The song rises to its apex – complete with drums crowding in and electrical pulses growing more insistent – on the back of what sounds uncannily like a spaceship coming in for landing. The musical conflagration explodes with a sonic boom, then slowly rekindles using ear-piercing droid squeaks, Pacman chomping sounds and spiky guitars shredded to bits. On the B-side is a surprisingly straightforward remix of “Oh My.” Whereas the original is all frenetic energy and electro-spazzes, the re-working – redubbed “Okay, Cool” – is a less anxious affair. The second track lifts the original’s unmistakable beat, but reigns in the ornamentation. Still, there’s plenty going on here: What begins with just a few essentials builds to greater heights, ending – quite unexpectedly – at nearly twice its original volume.
