aaamusic | On 01, May 2011

Mercury Injection/Rock Music Pays Off (Hip-House mix) is Medicine 8’s first original release in a while having only been doing the occasional remix (Say Hello – Black Daniel – Buzz chart top 10) and more recently Bombs! by the Helmholtz Resonators ( picking up a lot of love from Eddy Temple Morris (XFM), Alex Metric (BBC Radio 1) and which is being played daily by Lauren La Verne  (BBC 6 Music). The Acid House duo have been busy conducting secret underground experiments for some time now and have built up a large body of work which they are now ready to unleash on the unsuspecting and the expectant alike!  This double A leads with “Mercury Injection” which is a thumping Acidisco track  with a drop that feels like an injection of adrenaline to the heart!  The track features the vocals of club promoter and tattoo artist, Leticia La Bruja, who runs the infamous “Bonnie & Clyde’s Renagade Rendezvous” club night, consistently championing the weird and the wonderful, from psycho-billy to S&M sailor side shows!  “Rock Music Pays Off” was originally released through Parlophone on Medicine 8’s debut album Iron Stylings and was a collaboration with Schizophrenic Rock ‘n Roll genius Wesley Willis.  Sadly now departed from this world, Wesley Willis was best Known for his uniquely styled but almost identically formatted rock songs which became cult classics, and gained him a huge underground following.  The track consists of a reworking of an impromptue grammy acceptance speech wesley gave on New York shock jock Howard Stern’s radio show.  The guys heard it and thought it was too powerful to be left as a throw away line in an interview so they contacted wesley who thought it was a great idea to put it to better use and revoiced it for them.   Medicine 8 thought it only right and proper to revisit this gem to celebrate their first proper release on their new label, only this time they’ve it given a baseball bat and a mouthful of gold teeth!

Listen to Mercury Injection here: http://snd.sc/eRTtqe

Listen to Rock Music Pays Off (Hip-House mix) here: http://snd.sc/epwP6l
For those of you unfamiliar with medicine 8, they are a maverick alt Acid House duo who have been doing their own thing from the off. They have a diverse range of celebrity fans ranging from Lou Reed (quote below) to Kylie Minogue and spent years living the dream playing the biggest clubs all around the world. They were regulars in Ibiza and the Miami Winter Music Conference as well as appearing at all the major dance music festivals including Glastonbury, Creamfields, Global Gathering, Homelands, a residency at Pacha Argentina and all this in between numerous sessions on Radio 1 and remixing tracks for artists including Orbital, Manic Street Preachers, Nirvana, Tiga and Kylie (who loved their mix so much she asked for it to be played when she walked down the catwalk at Karl Largerfeld’s show). I don’t know why they stopped, they must have got kidnapped or someone got pregnant, but it doesn’t matter now because they’re back with a super fresh sounding double A single that’s kicking the shit out of the summer party season.