TB-203 has been hiding in plain sight on Slacker 85 for a couple of years now. The New York producer, known to longtime house heads as Tommy Bones, first surfaced on Seth Troxler’s label in 2024 with ‘Movin’ alongside Danny P, then injected a shot of undiluted acid into Troxler and HoneyLuv’s ‘Sex & The City’ featuring Paul Johnson on Tuskegee. This summer he landed ‘Dream Sequence’ on ‘He Ain’t Here’, the mammoth 35-track compilation Slacker 85 released in July, and his records have become a regular fixture in Troxler’s sets along the way. Now the project gets its full statement: a self-titled debut album, out October 2nd on Slacker 85.
The album runs ten tracks deep and every one of them is built with the dancefloor in mind. TB-203 is a rhythm-first producer who starts with kick, bass and clap and then gives each element its own space and purpose, and that discipline is audible across the record. ‘M2’, already picked up as a Beatport curation highlight, carries the acid lines that have become something of a signature for the alias, while cuts like ‘Trip’, ‘Next Level’, ‘Another Banger’ and ‘Discombobulated’ move between jacking Chicago-leaning house, rougher tech house and rave-flavoured peak-time moments. The New York vocal connection runs through the record too: Caliber steps up on ‘You & Me’ and The Ave delivers the hook on ‘Move’, two key tracks that tie the album back to the city’s classic house lineage. ‘Like That’, ‘Decisions’ and ‘Fantasy 2.0’ round things out without a single filler moment.
In his own words, TB-203 calls the album a reintroduction rather than a reinvention: a sound that sits somewhere between classic New York and modern European dance music, raw, disruptive and edgy on the surface but simplistic, real and heartfelt at its core. That reads as a fair summary. It sounds like a producer with decades of experience who has stopped overthinking and simply put everything in the pot.
That experience is real. Tommy Bones grew up an hour outside Manhattan, moved to the city in the early nineties and has been DJing since 1989 and producing since 2000. His catalogue spans Kingstreet, Wave Music, Defected, Nervous, Kenny Dope’s Dopewax and Louie Vega’s Vega Records, and he runs his own House of Bones imprint, whose releases have found their way into the bags of Loco Dice, Jackmaster, Honey Dijon and DJ Koze. The TB-203 alias, launched on Slacker, is where he channels the rougher, more acid-leaning side of that history.
Slacker 85 itself is Seth Troxler’s self-described legacy project, launched in 2023 with the SLACKER001 compilation and a stated appetite for the oddball, esoteric and diverse. Since then the label has hosted Danny Daze, Jackmaster, Kenny Summit, Skream, Marc Houle and Audion among many others, and ‘He Ain’t Here’ showed just how wide that net has become. Handing a full album to TB-203 feels like a natural next step for both sides: a label that prizes character over polish, and an artist who has plenty of both.
Release Date: October 2nd, 2026. Buy Here
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