Warning, nasty music’s aficionados! An over-excited Zebra Baby has escaped from its forced New York shutting up in order to crop all the grass of your musical kitchen garden; this mischievous pet has been conceived by a fiery musical liaison between Ali Ramos (what a wonderful name for a dj and producer coming from the criminal-junkied up Oakland, one of the most nice city in California and even of the city in the world having no south quarter laying on the lovely Lake Merritt) and the cheeky singer Char Johnson, whose sexy vocal skills have been spread in the electro-discoid glittering planet by the famous dance-hitter Hustler by the renowned electronic dance act Simian Mobile’s Disco, whose romantic set was Char’s apartments on Washington Heights. Much to my annoyance, you’re going to make a mistake if you’ll consider this project just another collection of eggy rumble-like buzzing noises and bleepy sounds or just a musical yawn pong, as Zebra Baby’s neighs are blended with breaks inherited from the tradition of the contemporary electronic hip-hop and some nice sound samples all over the play-plot; this Ep issued by the German independent label ITD includes three nice tracks showing ZB sound: the nasty +1 features licentious whinnies (warning: explicit recommendations for cuties denying the existence of sun&moon shines), a phat jumped brass &bass pattern, bizarre inserts of oriental choruses and a bewildering gamelan-ish xylophone, while the next (healthily provocative) track, Jumbo, has a more classical rhythmical riding nicely textured with laser-like sounds and a slight of vintage on heavy bass dubby lines. Propelled by a slice of offensive wantonness as usual, W.A.R. is surely the track I prefer for that abstract sense of balance between a certain vintage taste combined with some trigger-happy dj’s artillery on beat pattern, whose wicked make-up by Chris De Luca (one leg of Funkstorung) could stand as a body of evidence of the appeal of ZB sound with mixer’s possible divertssment! The Ep also includes a booty-breakin remix of +1 by the Bavarian Schlachthof Bronx (Man Recordings), pulverizing the original version and ideally checking pulsations of the pet with a funny trickery game on nice chirpy pulses, but don’t miss the more obscure dubstep-like Booty D’s remix of Jumbo (just on digital download version of the EP) as well as the bizarre way of performance Zebra baby’s going to set inspired by their nippo-Swiss friends Tim & Puma Mimi, based on the funny usage of Skype’s technology (a dj performs on "real" stage, while the singer performs through the wire by using Skype’s videochat!), you could enjoy on Zebra Baby’s myspace! What a wonderful world!