Coming off the momentum of their critically-acclaimed self-titled debut, Hercules and Love Affair have been commissioned by label Renaissance to spearhead their new Sidetracked project, a series of compelling and diverse DJ compilations.
H&LA’s debut edition can be viewed as the soundtrack to a night at the club, actively and eclectically picked for their high energy content, which blends into one other with acoustic ease, allowing us safe passage from one jam to the next. Playing with space and time, Hercules head Andy Butler enters into sizable trances of sonic pleasure, keeping a consistent head nodding and danceable bass line while piling up different elements into an anachronistic salad of old and new melodies all combining and fusing to make something refreshingly current.
Butler provides a fantastic mixture of music suitable for summertime fun, carrying their infectious disco-era stylizations over to their DJ set with tracks like Fax Yourself’s ‘Sunshine’ and Gino Soccio’s enjoyable ‘Dream On.’ In addition to the mixing of classic house and disco songs, there is an exclusive Hercules and Love Affair track in there titled ‘I Can’t Wait’ that compliments the total feeling of the compilation with its potent electricity. If this upbeat, highly danceable music is what’s in store from Hercules in the future, then I can’t wait.
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