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Article: HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR
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- The Stranger
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- June 19, 2008
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HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR
Hercules and Love Affair
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Leave it to a gay man who reportedly produces in the nude to come up with the best dance music album of 2008. While all the other techno dorks were busy working the laptop track assembly line, NYC producer Andrew Butler took the road less traveled, focusing on "proper" music rather than the dated futurism of bleeps and bloops. Granted, Butler's approach might be totally repellent to dance minimalists (session musicians? horns? song arrangement? what is this... Dream Theater?), but Hercules and Love Affair arrives as a much-needed kick in the head: House music hasn't sounded this olive in well over a decade.
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