Pepe Deluxé – Operation Thunderbroom
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Pepe Deluxé – Operation Thunderbroom
11 September 2026 – Pre-save here
The new single from those fiendish, Finnish cads, Pepe Deluxé “Operation Thunderbroom” is a wondrous, sonic odyssey forged in the heart of black hole that could destroy our entire galaxy with a single note!
When even Pepe Deluxé – the dictionary definition of eclectic – admits that “this one might be pushing the bar a bit”, certain questions naturally arise.
Like: How low can you actually go?
For centuries, subsonic frequencies have been credited with everything from striking the Fear of God into churchgoers to rumbly-tummy “brown notes” and even US Military & NASA’s Cold War vibration experiments. Lower still, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been humming in a B-flat some 57 octaves below middle C. And finally dropping over the event horizon: according to physics, a bass note of around 1000 decibels wouldn’t merely blow every speaker on Earth – it would become a black hole larger than our little galaxy!
Thus began Operation Thunderbroom.
A progressive funk anthem masquerading as a sonic field manual, Operation Thunderbroom is Pepe’s jubilant celebration of the Thunderbroom – the electric bass guitar – and its magnificently rotund relatives. Less a song than a full-scale campaign on behalf of low frequencies, it finds Paul Malmström cheerfully deploying his entirely unreasonable arsenal of basses to sweep the floors of the Temples of Boom.
Joining the expedition are Pepe’s resident human sampler Charlotta Kerbs, channeling the spirit of Betty Davis, legendary keyboard pyrotechnician Jens Johansson, and Kimmo “Hendrix of Accordion” Pohjonen. And because rumble is nothing without thunder, stickmeister Teppo Mäkynen’s drums for the Operation were captured not in a studio but in a basketball gymnasium – ‘cause “basketball’s got that bounce”.
What about Extra Deluxé Booty? Reporting for duty from Pepe’s Phantom Cabinet collection of Incredible Instruments is the legendary Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, the world’s largest pipe organ, with too many pipes to count and enough low end to negotiate a thoroughly uncivilized eight hertz. Fear… sorry, dear God!
Operation Thunderbroom keys the gates to Pepe Deluxé’s forthcoming twin releases, Age of Wunder I and Age of Wunder Part B – a pair of EPs that somehow also happens to be an album, because repetition has never been part of the Deluxé operating manual.
Age of Wunder I and Age of Wunder Part B Out 19th November on Catskills Records.
The Operation continues inside Pepe’s own Sanctum Sanctorum Musæum Studio: an esoteric Wunderkammer overflowing with gloriously unpredictable studio equipment, historical curiosities, improbable inventions and assorted oddities, not all of which appear to be entirely in agreement with reality. Visitors are kindly advised to remain on the designated path for their own safety.
Here we’ve merely begun by asking: “How low can you go?”
The Musæum Studio is already working on the deeper questions.
Keep your ears peeled for future correspondence.
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Pepe Deluxé – Operation Thunderbroom
11 September 2026 – Pre-save here
The new single from those fiendish, Finnish cads, Pepe Deluxé “Operation Thunderbroom” is a wondrous, sonic odyssey forged in the heart of black hole that could destroy our entire galaxy with a single note!
When even Pepe Deluxé – the dictionary definition of eclectic – admits that “this one might be pushing the bar a bit”, certain questions naturally arise.
Like: How low can you actually go?
For centuries, subsonic frequencies have been credited with everything from striking the Fear of God into churchgoers to rumbly-tummy “brown notes” and even US Military & NASA’s Cold War vibration experiments. Lower still, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been humming in a B-flat some 57 octaves below middle C. And finally dropping over the event horizon: according to physics, a bass note of around 1000 decibels wouldn’t merely blow every speaker on Earth – it would become a black hole larger than our little galaxy!
Thus began Operation Thunderbroom.
A progressive funk anthem masquerading as a sonic field manual, Operation Thunderbroom is Pepe’s jubilant celebration of the Thunderbroom – the electric bass guitar – and its magnificently rotund relatives. Less a song than a full-scale campaign on behalf of low frequencies, it finds Paul Malmström cheerfully deploying his entirely unreasonable arsenal of basses to sweep the floors of the Temples of Boom.
Joining the expedition are Pepe’s resident human sampler Charlotta Kerbs, channeling the spirit of Betty Davis, legendary keyboard pyrotechnician Jens Johansson, and Kimmo “Hendrix of Accordion” Pohjonen. And because rumble is nothing without thunder, stickmeister Teppo Mäkynen’s drums for the Operation were captured not in a studio but in a basketball gymnasium – ‘cause “basketball’s got that bounce”.
What about Extra Deluxé Booty? Reporting for duty from Pepe’s Phantom Cabinet collection of Incredible Instruments is the legendary Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, the world’s largest pipe organ, with too many pipes to count and enough low end to negotiate a thoroughly uncivilized eight hertz. Fear… sorry, dear God!
Operation Thunderbroom keys the gates to Pepe Deluxé’s forthcoming twin releases, Age of Wunder I and Age of Wunder Part B – a pair of EPs that somehow also happens to be an album, because repetition has never been part of the Deluxé operating manual.
Age of Wunder I and Age of Wunder Part B Out 19th November on Catskills Records.
The Operation continues inside Pepe’s own Sanctum Sanctorum Musæum Studio: an esoteric Wunderkammer overflowing with gloriously unpredictable studio equipment, historical curiosities, improbable inventions and assorted oddities, not all of which appear to be entirely in agreement with reality. Visitors are kindly advised to remain on the designated path for their own safety.
Here we’ve merely begun by asking: “How low can you go?”
The Musæum Studio is already working on the deeper questions.
Keep your ears peeled for future correspondence.
