Ever since the soulful and epic hit “Blind” secured proto-house as the rival sound set to kill off grinding electro for aging hipsters, Hercules and Love Affair mastermind Andy Butler has become a pied-piper for the disco children. Butler picks some of his favorite “heavy handed” disco-house crossover cuts for a new podcast on URB.com.
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“It Looks Like Love”
“I wanted to put on a 1989 remix that’s funny because it was an updated version then, which obviously now its not terribly updated. But it sounds really fun because it has these late ’80s sounding drums. It’s a really effective remix of a great classic disco song. It’s fun to blend from that into modern contemporary music. I’m more interested in old edit and old remix right now than contemporary younger guys.”
In Flagranti
“I Can Thrill And Delight”
“It’s a very short song but it samples an old Dash track. It’s not exactly disco, but it’s an early ’80s. I don’t know what you’d call it. Kind of industrial disco? What they do exists in between the remix and the edit. They have a very overt approach into incorporating disco samples into their music.”
John Rocca
“If You Want To Be Real”
“I think it came out in ’84 or ’83, but this remix was done in ’87 by Farley Jackmaster Funk who is a legendary Chicago pioneer of house music. John Rocca is a guy who started out making music in the disco era with a band called Freeez. The song [he’s most famous for] is ‘I.O.U.’ He has a really high falsetto and I really love his music.”
Felix
“You Can’t Hold Me Down”
“It’s a project between Niki Siano from Studio 54 and Author Russell. Its one of these tracks that exists between disco and house music, which is an era of music that kind of interests me. You would think that it was a little confusing when technology hadn’t completely eliminated the live musician from the picture. I was asked to do an interview about Arthur Russell, and I was happy to do because I had things to say, but I realized if there was a contemporary of his that I feel more akin to it is August Darnell from Kid Creole. Arthur’s music is a little on the abstract side for me. August Darnell is the opposite extreme. He’s so direct its almost like show tunes.”
Dave Valentin
“Flute Juice”
“A really fun record I found last year. It’s kind of like electro-disco-Brazillian thing, with drum machines and chants. The music I’m gravitating toward [for the podcast] is a little bit more on the ’80s drum machine tip. That’s not necessarily representative of what I’ve been playing, but I wanted to do that for this. I don’t know why.”
Permanent Vacation
“Zuker Hut”
“I’ll probably throw on a little bit of new stuff from artists or labels that I’m supportive of. Maybe something from Permanent Vacation, this track that I’ve been playing sometimes called ‘Zucker Hut.’”
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