Continuing the countdown to the forthcoming ‘My Friends’ EP by super Swedish talents Tobtok and farfetch’d, the duo now reveals track number three. Sharing its name with the EP title, ‘My Friends’ is another quality release, oozing freshness in its modern stutter house production with inspirations of the classic French house scene.
When long-time friends Tobtok and farfetch’d sat down to write the six-track EP – due for release in September – the only plan was to make music that they liked.
From the experimental ‘I Like When You’ that packs in breaks, glitch house and 90s piano raveto the high-energy stutter house track ‘So Good’, the EP has already proven to be a diverse and exciting body of work that goes all out with technique, micro sampling and vocals manipulation.
With supporters in Auntie Flo and Sam Divine to being on seriously heavy rotation on KISS Dance, this fresh new project is already having the desired impact.
With a vast catalogue of work that precedes them, it’s important to remove all preconceptions of what you think you know about Tobtok and farfetch’d. Forget their platinum-selling records, streaming numbers and chart positions and just listen to the result of when they start producing for the pure fun of it.
Speaking about how the latest single ‘My Friends’ came together, Tobtok explained,
It started out with an obscure rap sample that said, “my friends”, which gave me French house vibes like the Justice vs. Simian track ‘We are your friends’. We played around with the vocal and used a Mellotron String – a tape replay keyboard – for the chorus. It needed more vocals, so Jerry sang on it – the first track he’s ever sang on. While we wanted to keep the track clean, we also wanted to avoid it being repetitive, so we introduced the phone call section in the middle, which has classic nu disco vibes.
‘My Friends’ by Tobtok & farfetch’d is out now via Perfect Havoc. Stream / buy here https://perfecthavoc.lnk.to/MyFriends
