Coming down from 2008's astounding self-titled debut, Hercules and Love Affair's low-key second album, last year's Blue Songs, was a bit of a disappointment in its lack of flashiness and memorable hooks. When artists contribute to !K7's DJ-Kicks series, they usually bring along a new tune, and this cut taken from the solid mix made by HaLA's Andy Butler suggests that he might be righting his project's ship, a sensuous mix of click-clacking disco that wouldn't have been out of place on the first LP.
Here's Butler explaining the new cut: "I wrote this song with my friend DJ Whitney Fierce. She is a great dj, and very knowledgable about dance music from many cultures. She also rocks food coloring for hair dye, which makes her very tasty in my book because it makes me think of Mink Stole, a great actress from Baltimore in some of John Water's [sic] films. This song lies somewhere between Stock Aitken and Waterman and Manchester's Hacienda sound, while Whitney sounds very Bananarama on it. Mark Pistel busted out his E- Max on this recording with some original samples he compiled in 91, so that made us all dance in the studio."
Listen here.
Here's Butler explaining the new cut: "I wrote this song with my friend DJ Whitney Fierce. She is a great dj, and very knowledgable about dance music from many cultures. She also rocks food coloring for hair dye, which makes her very tasty in my book because it makes me think of Mink Stole, a great actress from Baltimore in some of John Water's [sic] films. This song lies somewhere between Stock Aitken and Waterman and Manchester's Hacienda sound, while Whitney sounds very Bananarama on it. Mark Pistel busted out his E- Max on this recording with some original samples he compiled in 91, so that made us all dance in the studio."
Listen here.
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I love them, didn't love their second album like the first one but they are magnificent live.
I love them, didn't love their second album like the first one but they are magnificent live.