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Zeehas; 12 Wait was a New York City-based experimental pop duo consisting of Dylan Sparrow and Alex Simon that existed between 2001 and 2003. The band's style incorporated a number of disparate elements within each song to generally form a cohesive work of highly synthesized avant-pop. The sound is generally first compared to new wave groups of the 80s, but the songs include elements of industrial, ragtime, video game music, and countless other things that range from straight pop to totally unclassifiable. The band's live shows as a duo were known to be energetic, confrontational, fun, and occasionally chaotic. The only Zeehas; 12 Wait release was a self-released CD in 2002 entitled To The Maxxxxxxxxxxx, and is currently out of print. The disc had 18 songs, was given out at shows and distributed through the band's (now defunct) website, and was close to an hour in length. Although initially panned by many record reviewers of the day and criticized for being too obtuse, the album soon thereafter found a cult following in certain circles, eventually hitting the #1 spot on WPRB's charts and beating out several key major-label artists. However, this success was short-lived; as documented in the East Bay Express, a software glitch that year year began scrubbing entire charts as incomplete if a single entry failed to match CMJ's internal database. As a "fix," editors began filling the offending gaps with CMJ's own Certain Damage compilation CD (for which it sells tracks to label