Label: Data RecordsRelease Date: 26th October 2009
Format: CD Single
Tracklisting:
1 aNYway (Radio Edit) 2:38
2 aNYway (Extended Mix) 5:25
It's time. It's time to put the "oogie in your boogie" and the "unky in your funk": DUCK SAUCE are soon to unleash their first single on Data Records.
For those of you who have retreated underneath the proverbial rock in the past two months, Duck Sauce are super-duo Armand Van Helden and A-Track (Fool's Gold). As always with such "super groups", fans were posting on forums with fervid anticipation when the rumours of a collab. came about: then, their sweaty brows were satisfied on release of the knowledge that yes, it was happening.
And now, it is exactly a week away from release. I doubt there's a fan out there who has yet to see Duck Sauce's aNYway video, and I also doubt aNYway hasn't hustled on your ear drums yet having been picked up, dropped and pushed by many a mainstream DJ (Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Zane Lowe...), but does it deliver?
Duck Sauce have undoubtedly delivered a disco anthem of 2009 here, one that elicits a sometimes undeniable urge to throw a move or two even in the souls doused in litres of apathy. aNYway is unapologetically 1970's but it is saved from being passé: it feels current and likable. The song does come attached with a heavy burden of 'cheese' and almost too much oogie in your boogie to gulp down, and whilst this is the nature of the genre, it seems somewhat out of place as an October release in the UK. The track is big but not a versatile listen, and now the winds and rain have closed in on the nation I think it's one that should be kept inside the club and out of car sound systems and headphones that leak to the point of not needing your own (a personal itch).
However, you can pre-order the CD Single here at Ministry of Sound and at just £1.99 it is definitely worth adding to your collection: better still, you get free delivery.
Lend a click on the following link to check out their MySpace where you can find video teasers, interviews and a stream of You're Nasty, a track off the upcoming album.
