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Hercules & Love Affair make spiritual DJ-Kicks mix
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 3 September 2012
Hercules & Love Affair will curate the next volume of !K7’s DJ-Kicks mix series, which is released on 8 Oct. In doing so, they join the ranks of past guest curators like Annie Mac, Nightmares On Wax, Hot Chip and Four Tet.
Featuring a brand new Hercules track titled ‘Release Me’, it spans the many scenes the band have inspired and felt inspired by, from “proto house, through New York’s golden years in the 90s, to Chicago jack tracks and modern takes on house music’s halcyon days”.
HALA’s Andy Butler, who has also strewn vocal samples from his personal yoga guru across the mix, says: “I wanted to include a spiritual aspect because nightclubs, as silly as they are in some ways, there is a religious experience to it for a lot of people, and that’s the way it was for me when I was young”.
He enlightens us further: “I’ve had nights when I’ve danced for hours until I was a mess of sweat at Body & Soul and people would come up to me and ask, What are you on? And I was like, I’m not on anything, I’m just having a spiritual moment. So I wanted a bit of that in the mix”.
Dance music as religion, it all makes perfect sense. As does this tracklisting:
Mankind – Don’t Keep Me Waiting
Rhythm Mode:D – Can You Feel It (Reach To The Top)
Hercules And Love Affair – Release Me
Fax Yourself – Strut Your Techno Stuff
Klubb Kidz – Don’t Want To Hurt You (Skool Flava Dub)
Solution – Feels So Right
DJ Duke Presents Freedom – Love Don’t Come Easy (Power Dub)
Cloud 9 – Do You Want Me
Mark Imperial – The Acieed That Ate New York
In Flagranti – Magojiro
Haze Factory – A Bit of Redemption
Fierce Ruling Diva – Allemaal, Allemaal!
Jump Chico Slamm – Feel Free
ZAM – Africa Freedom (Johannesburg Dub Mix)
