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Crush a Cold One and Rock Out to Tommy Trash and Taisun’s “IOUE”

“Moral of the story: don’t drink beer… Actually, f*ck it—drink beer.”
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Fresh off his "Lose My Mind" collaboration with Fool's Gold label boss A-Trak, Australian producer Tommy Trash is back with another team-up—"IOUE," this time with fellow Aussie turned LA export Taisun, otherwise known as Bass Kleph.

"IOUE" is a club-rattling combination of rock, funk, and electro, its vocoded chants of "I-O-U-E" giving off nostalgic whiffs of Justice's 2007 classic "D. A. N. C. E." and Boy Noize's "Ich R U." It's the kind of record you want blaring on your cheap college dorm speakers during the weekly pre-game to get you properly hyped before piling in a cab to hit the club.

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According to Taisun, the pair's friendship goes way back; for a while, they were even roommates in Australia. Though each has remixed the other, they hadn't actually worked together. In email to THUMP, Trash explained that once given the opportunity to do so, their goal was to make "something you could sing along to, but also rock out to."

Expanding on their collaborative process, Trash adds, "Stu [Taisun] and I would get together once every few months to work on this record and drink some beer. Fast-forward three years later, and we finally have the end result: something that started as a completely different big-room tonal kick record which has transformed into a fun throwback electro house ditty.

"Moral of the story: don't drink beer… Actually fuck it—drink beer."

Listen to "IOUE" below. The single is out today on Fool's Gold.

Fresh off his "Lose My Mind" collaboration with Fool's Gold label boss A-Trak, Australian producer Tommy Trash is back with another team-up—"IOUE," this time with fellow Aussie turned LA export Taisun, otherwise known as Bass Kleph.

"IOUE" is a club-rattling combination of rock, funk, and electro, its vocoded chants of "I-O-U-E" giving off nostalgic whiffs of Justice's 2007 classic "D. A. N. C. E." and Boy Noize's "Ich R U." It's the kind of record you want blaring on your cheap college dorm speakers during the weekly pre-game to get you properly hyped before piling in a cab to hit the club.

According to Taisun, the pair's friendship goes way back; for a while, they were even roommates in Australia. Though each has remixed the other, they hadn't actually worked together. In email to THUMP, Trash explained that once given the opportunity to do so, their goal was to make "something you could sing along to, but also rock out to."

Expanding on their collaborative process, Trash adds, "Stu [Taisun] and I would get together once every few months to work on this record and drink some beer. Fast-forward three years later, and we finally have the end result: something that started as a completely different big-room tonal kick record which has transformed into a fun throwback electro house ditty.

"Moral of the story: don't drink beer... Actually fuck it—drink beer."

Listen to "IOUE" below. The single is out today on Fool's Gold.