Released: 12.07.2010
Label: Make Mine
Although on his debut EP 
Teej claims I Got Electrocuted, he didn’t. The pedant in me can’t help but point out that if Teej had been electrocuted his debut release would also be a posthumous one. Electrocution is, of course, death by electric shock, and although Teej’s electric shock didn’t kill him, it was enough to hospitalise him and inspire this here EP of sonic wizardry. And if we’re honest “I Got A Nasty Electric Shock” is a shit name for a record.
The opening, scratchy guitar chords of the title track are soon joined by a dark and brooding mix of beats and bass. Stop/start phrases cut through a wandering and high keyboard melody and, before you know it, we reach an abrupt end. A short and perfectly formed piece it may be but, at just shy of two minutes, it was just getting going.
Plural ups the anti. Buzzsaw synths, ethereal bleeps and swells, and schizophrenic guitar phrases are this time joined by live drumming which proceeds into wayward, arm-flailing chaos as the track around it does the same. There’s a lot here to please fans of the elecro/post-rock crossover pioneers Errors.
Taking things down a notch or six, Heart Timing (inspired by a post-electric shock hook up with a heart scanner) is a welcomed calm after the preceding storm. Landscaping fuzz (a la Fuck Buttons) and a simple, rising, heart beat bass line bed in as dancing melodies flitter around each other.
Closing the EP are Sound Speed Ashes, coming off like a soundtrack to Streets Of Rage, with the 8-bit synths joined by thick bass and choral moaning, and Flying Deep, a slow motion ode to deep powder inspired by Teej’s love of snowboarding.
For a debut EP from a man that’s never even played a live gig before I Got Electrocuted is worryingly accomplished. Teej’s obsession with vintage synths and the application thereof has produced a record with a dizzying pallet of textures, layers and ideas. It’s electrifying (now where did I leave my coat?)
