Op:L Bastards - The Job Op:L Bastards

*Red Vinyl

Finnish electronic music legends Op:l Bastards’ cult classic album The Job remastered and reissued with previously unreleased material in December Op:l Bastards, the mythical legends of Finnish electronic music, are finally getting the reissue they deserve. The band’s seminal 2001 album The Job is being re-released in deluxe double-LP and CD editions, as well as digitally. The release is a collaboration between Svart Records and Timo Kaukolampi’s Öm Sound. During their first, brief four-year career, Op:l Bastards left a deep and lasting mark on the international electronic music scene. Now, these remastered tracks from the original DAT tapes are joined by five previously unreleased tracks, of which Everyday Love is out now on Svart’s YouTube channel. Listen to the track HERE The music and visual world created by Op:l Bastards can be viewed through the lens of cultural critic Mark Fisher’s idea: “To be in the twenty-first century is to have twentieth-century culture on high-definition screens.” The band’s playful retrofuturism emerged from the sharp rhythms of Detroit electronica, the attitude of 1980s New York punk disco, and Spacemen 3 -style hypnotic guitar drones. It is a genre-defying, timeless monument to an era when the future still sounded like something entirely new. The 2000s ultimately brought nothing comparable to Finnish or international electronic music – there was never another Op:l Bastards. Despite this, this music, created 25 years ago, still sounds bewilderingly fresh, fun and utterly futuristic. It has withstood the ravages of time exceptionally well and resonates with new generations just as powerfully as it did upon its release.