After almost three years after her much-lauded debut album, 2009’s Hands , Victoria Hesketh ’s second album abounds with the same propensities for hip-shaking disco jams that made Hesketh, a.k.a. Little Boots , a pop star. Her first album, Hands , garnered Hesketh that year’s BBC Sound of… poll, beating out big names such as Lady Gaga , Florence + The Machine and her rival for the longest-wait-for-second-album title, [...]
Red Bull Music Academy está por lanzar el documental Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic: 12 Years of DFA , que tal y como su nombre lo indica, relatará los 12 años de existencia del sello DFA , responsable de lanzamientos como Arcade Fire , Hot Chip , Yatch , The Crystal Ark , Hercules and Love Affair , entre muchos más y liderado por James Murphy ( LCD Soundsystem ). El documental incluirá apariciones de [...]
Close's sensual production " Beam Me Up " has proven its remixability, bouncing from the hands of Scuba to George Fitzgerald to Hercules and Love Affair, but of the three house heavyweights, Andy Butler (at the helm of the Hercules project) truly made the track his own. Fitzgerald and Mr. Rose certainly graced the original melody with their own sublime skills - especially Scuba since he contributed to the production from the get go - but Butler offers the most dramatic departure from the original. He darkens up what Fitzgerald made [...]
Stuck on Repeat simply collects together a load of tracks over an un-specified amount of time that we consider essential listening. As always with these types of things there maybe certain tracks you’ve already heard, tracks we’ve missed or accidentally overlooked, so please feel free to hit up the comments with anything you think is indispensable. In no particular order...... Locked Groove - Do It Anyway (Hotflush Recordings) Ian Pooley & Spencer Parker - In My Head (Ovum Recordings) Let The Machines [...]
El inglés Will Saul , también conocido como Close, va a estrenar un nuevo álbum llamado Getting Closer , que llegará en junio del presente año a través de K7 Recordings . Para aminorar la espera, ya podemos escuchar el sencillo "Bean Me Up", que nos muestra un poco cómo se viene la mano: espectacular. El adelanto es una colaboración de Close con el productor Scuba, y tiene en las voces a Charlene Soraia , quien juega un rol fundamental con su potente voz a lo largo de la canción. El sencillo vendrá acompañado de [...]
Aus Music's founder Will Saul is currently applying the finishing touches to his debut LP under his 'Close' alias. Getting Closer is due for release via the 'DJ Kicks' home, !K7 Records, later this month. For the more knowledgeable among you, you are no doubt aware that Will Saul has been releasing defining house records since the early 20002s, however in the last few years it has been his Aus Music imprint that has been setting the pace, with breaking releases coming from Joy Orbison, Ramadanman, SCB, George Fitzgerald, Midland, Bicep and Dusky. [...]
Kim Ann Foxman rose to prominence as a member of Hercules and Love Affair, her moment in the full Hercules spotlight the rollicking, vibrant “Athene.” Her vocals on the track were deeply engaging, not as haunting or virtuosic as Antony’s, but just as winning and real. But Kim Ann is also an artist in her own right, and since leaving H&LA she has been doing her best to maintain her distinction in the dance landscape. “Creature” was a notable success (Hercules mastermind Butler produced and cowrote it). The track was hypnotic and highly danceable. Her latest effort, a remix of [...]
little boots - motorway has it been 4 years since we last heard new material from good ol little boots? though the first single sounds insanely like st etienne (which is not a bad thing), the nu-disco sound is definitely an influence of producer tim goldsworthy (who founded DFA records) and features collabs with the people behind the disco loving hercules and affair. so get your fabulous mirror ball outfits out and get lost in this song! btw, do you love this track? get it for free at little boot's website ! http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wo ngiesMusicWorld
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Following on from the alluringly ominous, opalescent throb of Pale Green Ghosts the burliest of all the Bella Union signees John Grant returns with Black Belt. And just as its chronological predecessor did but six weeks or so ago, its four minutes nineteen put yet more Nordic daylight between Grant's ebullient now and desolate then, with this then being the rather more pensive and introversive catharsis endemic of his Queen of Denmark LP. Despite its lyrics of Etch A Sketching "your way out of this one" and its musical sass [...]
I.BOAT Bordeaux // Samedi 26 janvier // 00h00-06h00 // Plus d’infos sur la page Facebook Préventes Digitick = 13€ // Entrée 14€ le soir même Neuvième édition pour le Bordeaux Rock Festival organisé du 23 au 26 janvier 2013 dans près de 6 espaces dédiés aux activités nocturnes, à la musique et aux arts. Bien qu’étiqueté "Rock", le [...]
Whether it’s a full-on groove fest from Inflagranti, a killer-drivin’ bassline from Moonlight Matters, or a slow grooving series of twirls from Wolfram.. Hercules And Love Affair ‘Painted Eyes’ is a lesson to us all about percussive glamour and straightforward uniqueness. HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR – Painted Eyes (Inflagranti Remix) HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR – Painted Eyes (Moonlight Matters Remix) HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR – Painted Eyes (Wolfram Remix) HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR – Painted Eyes
Hercules and Love Affair's 'DJ-Kicks' mix pays homage to NYC's disco heyday.
Nu-disco god Andy Butler and his Hercules and Love Affair project have been blowing our minds for years now. With the self-titled, Butler cultivated a disco masterpiece, full of slow burn and tainted love that needed to be danced to. Then, with last year's excellent Blue Songs , he moved in a slightly more house driven direction and gave us club bangers one after another. So now, it's only right that Butler gets to join the list of great DJs on the already phenomenal DJ-Kicks roster. And naturally, on his contribution, Butler holds no punches [...]
The last time our winding path intertwined with that of idiosyncratic Denver crooner John Grant , he was busy adulating both Efterklang and Iceland where he'd recently completed work on the record from which this lead track, Pale Green Ghosts, takes its name. The time before that, he was relaying the by then somewhat settled dismay at having recently been diagnosed HIV-positive . Grant has always been a man of contrast, and certainly this preliminary introduction to the forthcoming sophomore solo effort is a sonic world away from the in itself richly varied Queen of Denmark [...]
Here we go. Aussie DJ/production duo Stereogamous return in a big way with their debut single "Face Love Anew", which features the gorgeous vocals of Shaun J. Wright , whom you may remember from his collaboration with Hercules and Love Affair, as well as from his solo single "Forevermore" on Andy Butler's MR.INTL Records. "Face Love Anew" is a proper vocal house anthem that goes deep, deep inside of you and hits all the right spots. It really doesn't get any better than this. The limited-edition 12" vinyl [...]
Channel 4 are to follow up this summer's House Party TV DJing marathon with an additional New Year's Eve edition. The programme launched in the summer with six hours of ad-free DJ slots aired on the channel non-stop. It featured sets from Annie Mac and Grandmaster Flash and now they've announced they'll return for NYE. Annie Mac is set to get involved again, along with Toddla T , Hercules and [...]
Today, San Francisco's Honey Soundsystem & Berlin's CockTail d'Amore released stereogamus' riiiiiidiculously good debut single, Face Love Anew , and on limited vinyl to boot! Stereogamus' production game is tight & the remixes are both excellent, but Shaun J. Wright's vocals really push it over the edge. You might recognize Shaun as a vocalist for Hercules And Love Affair. Like on the Hercules tracks, he delivers a huge, soulful performance. I rarely say this, but don't sleep - this is going to be huge! Order the 12" from Dark Entries Records or grab the [...]
Watch 'Release Me' below. Hercules & Love Affair recently dropped by KCRW. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Hercules & Love Affair - Painted Eyes
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