What is the sweet, sweet music we hear? The laughter of little children? The delicious cooing of golden angels? Or has The Juan Maclean finally released new material to follow up the brilliance of “Give Me Every Little Thing”, which is still probably the best song the NYC house music revival has produced thus far? The answer is the latter, obviously.
Today on RCRD LBL, we give you three brand new-ish streams: the first is of The Juan Maclean’s new single “Happy House”, and then two official remixes: one by Lee Douglas and one by disco edit don Prince Language. The original version is so ‘90s house it could be on the Party Girl soundtrack: all piano loops and cowbells and diva vocals. Fans of just about anything DFA have ever put out will totally flip.
Stream: The Juan Maclean - "Happy House" + remixes
You can buy the “Happy House” 12” at the DFA webstore by clicking here. And just so you know, The Juan Maclean will be DJing the Guggenheim’s First Fridays monthly (more info here). You know, just in case you want to hear that mammoth song played out on a huge sound system. Which you do, of course.
Photo by: Ruvan Wijesooriya
DFA seems to think Hercules and Love Affair capable of big things and when an act has this much strut Drowned in Sound’s reluctant to argue, lest we get bowled over like some pavement strewn spod. The New York City-based quartet are releasing their debut album this spring, see below for the details.
The self-titled debut from H&LA head gent Andrew Butler arrives in conjunction with EMI on the 10th of March; with a single called ‘Blind’ beating that out by a week.
Antony Hegarty (he is a bird now), features on that single, and there are other cameos from NYC arters Kim Ann and Nomi lighting up the silver-eyed pomp of these tracks:
‘Time Will’
‘Hercules Theme’
‘You Belong’
‘Athene’
‘Blind’
‘Iris’
‘Easy’
‘This Is My Love’
‘Raise Me Up’
‘True False/Fake Real’
DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy co-produced the record at Plantain Studios in Manhattan. For now, here’s a sample – ‘Hercules Theme’ is necessarily proud, a ‘xploitation number done without dumbing down, as if PC never existed and slap bass found a way to keep everyone smiling.
This is a trick by the way - you'll be asked to sign up to the band's mailing list. Trust us when we tell you these conmen are worth it, though.
Download: Hercules & Love Affair - 'Hercules Theme'
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- Kev Kharas
