5 Questions with: Andy Butler from Hercules And Love Affair
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http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2008/12/5_questions_wit.phpHercules And Love Affair is probably the most exciting (and inarguably, gay) thing to happen to dance music in years, it's freshness a strange thing considering it takes a startlingly upfront cue from the earliest days of old man disco. Even stranger, though: The group is a hodge podge of New York misfits ranging from ex party-kid Andy Butler to the sweetly androgynous Kim Ann Foxman to glam transsexual Nomi to one of the most unique voices in music -- period -- vocalist Antony (of Antony & The Johnsons). While the latter singer's vibrato is what makes H&LA pop, Butler's branchild spawned from his beats and was signed to LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy's DFA label almost from the jump. We talked to the enigmatic producer from his Brooklyn apartment about disco music and why it's more than (and maybe now anything but) goldfish platforms, 1 a.m. coke binges and nauseating dress shirts.
