New Stereogamous release “Face Love Anew”
Hey peeps, Stereogamous (my music project with Jonny Seymour) has up until now done some pretty fucking cool remixes (LCD Soundsystem, Kylie, George Michael, Sia, Sam Sparro, etc) and I can proudly announce our first original release. It’s a collaboration with Shaun J Wright (ex Hercules and the Love Affair). It’s out on vinyl and iTunes. So excited about this one. For details, check the press release. Love, and beautiful summer vibes to you all.
Cheers
Mac!
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World’s Most Revered Counterculture Queer DJ’s, Producers, and Club Promoters Collaborate on an Industry First
New Maxi-Single emanates hope, love and optimism from the global underground dance scene nearly destroyed by the AIDS Holocaust
//Presented by CockTail d’Amore (Berlin) and Honey Soundsystem’s HNYTRX (SF) Produced by Stereogamous (Sydney) featuring vocals by Shaun J. Wright//
//including remixes by Horse Meat Disco (London), Kim Ann Foxman (LA), The Miracles Club (Portland), The Carry Nation (NYC)//
San Francisco, December 11, 2012 —For each of the collectives, DJs, and producers involved with the new singleFace Love Anew, it’s not about being the biggest party or topping the charts. Their endeavors are next generation artistic projects with a focus on community, culture, activism, and queer history. While each are very successful in their own right, coming together in this way for Face Love Anew is not only a show of support for the single, it’s the first time this global gay underground music scene and community have been linked together with a single focus.
In the face of AIDS, survival was the first and only priority of the queer community for many years. While still a major threat the world over, we are able to once again regain our focus on the art and influence that was nearly wiped out in the 1980s. An entire artistic generation and their potential creative and vibrant contributions to the world, from Keith Haring, to Freddy Mercury toSylvester, were lost during the AIDS Holocaust. In 2012, we are truly “facing love anew.”
With a renewed faith, optimism, and polysexual vision the next generation of queer counterculture is channeling the past while catapulting dance culture into the future. Whether it’s hosting hottest dance destinations in the world, or DJing the intimate parties where DJs go to dance, the talent working on Face Love Anew are sought out the world over for their deviant sound, style, and production techniques. From thePanaroma Bar at the Berghain in Berlin, to Club Kooky in Sydney, to Honey Soundsystem in San Francisco, thesepromoters and musicians are influencing the influencers in music.
For this industry first single, presented by Honey Soundsystem HNYTRX andCocktail d’Amore; produced by Stereogamous (Paul Mac and Jonny Seymor); featuring vocals by Shaun J. Wright, this is the debut collaboration of the biggest names in the counterculture queer music scene.
Inspired by the amazing live vocals from the birth of disco (reminiscent of Sylvester and Patrick Cowley dance tracks) combined with Chicago House,Face Love Anew is an ode to the musical past and with an arrow pointed into the future.
“The collaboration has been a longtime coming as everyone involved in the release has a lot in common over the past five years and we have been collaborating in all sorts of ways with the core goal of forwarding the underground house/techno sound and reputation of queer nightlife,” said Jacob Sperber of HNYTRX. “We decided to come together on this single because not only do we love the song, but we also saw an opportunity for this to be an anthem for a movement in club culture / dance music that has been highly invisible to the mainstream since the 70s and 80s.”
For Face Love Anew, Stereogamous recruited the vocal talents of Shaun J. Wright (Chicago)–most notable for his moving live vocal sets, contributions to Hercules and Love Affair, and his own solo releases on Mr. INTL records–to give us a peak dance track that slowly envelops you, building from classic four-to-the-floor house into a spectacular psychedelic headrush where optimism prevails.
Availability
Vinyl, Available NOW: Remembering early dance culture was bound by the grooves in a record and live performances, the initial release andpreview of Face Love Anew was initially launched on a limited pressing DJ vinyl November 27. Only 500 copies were pressed. You can order, and [LISTEN HERE]
Digital, Maxi-Single Available Dec. 11: The digital release, will include exclusive remixes by Horse Meat Disco, Kim Ann Foxman (Needwant, Hour House is Your Rush), The Miracle’s Club (Ecstacy), and The Carry Nation (NYC). You can order, and [LISTEN HERE] or iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/face-love-anew-feat.-shaun/id580449547
Early Supporters
The release has garnered support from The Magician, Terry Farley, Claude Young, DJ Kaos, Robert Owens, Doc Martin, Tatu V and Dirt Crew and is making it onto many #1 top ten lists for December.
About Stereogomous
Building on a string of homosexually charged remixes with a polysexual club appeal, including LCD Soundsystem’s “I Can Change” and Light Asylum’s “A Certain Person,” Stereogamous is regularly commissioned by George Michael, Kylie Minogue, and Sia, as well as breaking independent acts MEN (JD Samson) and We Have Band. Having given live acts like the Presets their start, Stereogamous’s auditory experience, appeal, and influence goes beyond the realm of digital/club-only musical experiences. With this track, future live performances will punctuate the gravity of this track around the world, giving it another dimension of interaction, touching down wherever inspiration prevails in dance culture.
Honey Soundsystem’s HNYTRX
HNYTRX is the offshoot record label of Honey Soundsystem. Established in 2010 after the release of the Brotherhood Compilation – where artists from around the globe were selected for submission of recorded works – members of HNY set forth a mission in curating new, underground and gay artists with forward thinking sounds and help expose their music to create a better, more tasteful world. Later releases by HNYTRX includes a remix for Street Hero’s track “End of World”, a collaboration with Butt Magazine for the Butt Bias cassette only mixtape and most recently a seven inch of the highly acclaimed track by Alexis Blair Penney “Lonely Sea”.
About CockTail d’Amore
CockTail d’Amore is a Monthly Berlin Party & Record Label. CockTail d’Amore has rightfully earned its place as one of Berlin’s top alternative gay parties. While all genders and orientations are welcome, the monthly event’s populace leans heavily toward the unfair sex, with masculine pheromones and booming soundwaves wrestling in midair. The night is hosted by DJs Boris & Discodromo, whose prime motivation is their passion for music, a passion they’re sharing with open-minded friends and strangers in a carefree atmosphere.