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Eora/Sydney-based duo, general cultural harbingers, and inner-city sharehouse chaos merchants 2touch are formally introduced with their debut EP, Shug, out via Astral People Recordings. Inspired by cross-genre sounds and the sentimental, the 2touch project fuses the familiar with the delightfully off-kilter, from cryptic yet stickily melodic vocal samples that seem to be speaking their own language to the striking and surreal visual universe built around the project from Naarm/Melbourne illustrator Major Precious. Serving up cocktails of electronic textures in pop-shaped glasses, elasticised vocals wrap themselves around lurching basslines and viscous synth melodies in constantly playful and shifting contortions. At times aesthetically unvarnished but always emotionally high-sheen, the charm of 2touch’s music lies in its irreplaceable, innate sense of character. They specialise in a strain of beatcraft that feels both unplaceable and somehow in-between, yet also fully irresistible and almost immediately recognisable, sitting at the intersection of house, garage, techno, post-dubstep and crossover electronica. Like their forebears in Overmono and Ross From Friends, they produce electronic music which is refreshingly agnostic about setting, sounding as at home in your headphones as it does the club. Inspired by and built for real life, 2touch’s music could play soundtrack to events both big and small, momentous and mundane - from a bleary-eyed study session or the barely half-awake commute to work, to the highpoint of an indelible night out or the solitary, introspective journey back home.