Electro duo Fan Death sparked blogosphere buzz in 2008 with the hearty throwback thump of the single “Veronica’s Veil.” On the group’s debut EP, A Coin For The Well, artists Dandi and Marta serve up more hip-rattling new-wave and cut a groovy swatch of slinky neo-disco.
Lifting their name from a Korean urban legend about the potentially fatal nature of sleeping with a fan in the room, the ladies of Fan Death are not playing around on “Power Surge,” a retro dance floor anthem which bubbles over with earnest, breathless lyrics and the urgent whine of disco violins.
The latest DFA-signed troupe decided to remix the hot pop star, and just wasn’t satisfied with one. The tracks remix Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” which are both off of her latest EP Bad Romance (The Remixes, Pt. 2), from Interscope Records.
The first track, the “Hercules & Love Affair Remix,” takes away from the typical club-hitting sound the Gaga team creates and adds a house splash Hercules & Love Affair is known for. This is the extended version of the dance track, taking you into the eighth hour of an all-nighter.
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.
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 ...
Andy Butler and Hercules and Love Affair know exactly how to shake a room into an earthquake. This summer, Butler’s letting us in on some of the house and disco magic that’s turned him on at the club in his day, as well as new tracks by some of his favorite artists, like Flagranti and Daniel Wang, and a fresh cut by Hercules And Love Affair. Case in point: everything on compilation Sidetracked awakens the ants in Butler’s pants. He says, “So, one moment you might imagine me sitting on top of a speaker at a 90’s warehouse party with legs dangling and fist in the air, or another in a various state of undress dancing in my living room (daydream at your own risk…).” Cool, because I want some payback for all the shameless distraction “Blind” …
Andy Butler, the musical mind behind Hercules and Love Affair, will release his first mix CD under the H&LA for the UKs Renaissance label, titled Sidetracked on Jul 13th. This marks the launch of the label’s Sidetracked series, meaning dance music from DJs outside of the usual mainstream UK club fodder. In this case, that means lot sof underground house, old and new, along with a new H&LA cut, “I Can’t Wait.”
CD ONE – MIXED 1. WestBam – And Party 2. Sax – No Pares (Don’t Stop) 3. Hercules & Love Affair – …
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