ANDY BUTLER'S DEBUT SOLO EP 
RELEASED ON MR.INTL
VINYL - Feb 23rd 2015
BEATPORT  - March 16th 2015
iTUNES / digital stores / streaming  - March 30th 2015

After three groundbreaking albums as Hercules & Love Affair, Andy Butler – the driving force behind the retro-futurist disco house kingpins – releases his debut solo EP on February 23rd.  

The EP features two tracks and is released on mr.intl - Butler’s own label.  Leading with You Can Shine - hard-hitting techno-soul and showcasing the impassioned vocals of rising NYC star Richard Kennedy, it’s backed with Personality Track, a whiplashing techy instrumental pounder. 

“Hercules has a collaborative, collective approach," Andy explains, "People who enjoy Hercules anticipate uplifting, vocal-orientated, disco-influenced music, something nuanced and quite musical, a proper listening experience. 'Shine' goes for a more direct approach, a stomping, uplifting club 12" but it's me, isn't it, so it will still have something of Hercules about it."

"I wanted to tap into the gospel tradition, for there to be a testifying quality to the record,” he continues. “Richard and I talk in the lyrics about putting ego aside and allowing people around you to shine. You shine when you acknowledge other people's shine, even, if you will, the creator's shine. I hope we've created something new. House is often soulful but you very rarely hear a big gospel-inflected voice paired with booming, doomy techno."

'You Can Shine' follows an incredible year for Hercules & Love Affair. Their third album 'The Feast of the Broken Heart', was released to exceptional global critical acclaim and the collective embarked on an extensive worldwide tour. A tougher, more electronic body of work than its predecessors, ‘The Feast Of The Broken Heart’ hinted at the direction in which Andy's solo material was heading.

mr.intl was launched in 2009, prompted by Andy’s travels around the world and a “fascination for regional music. I wanted to start releasing music on a global level, offering a representation of amazing music that's happening elsewhere."  Butler has accrued a wealth of new talent and lost underground classics for forthcoming release on the label. The roster includes DJs and producers from Vienna, Australia, Brazil and Iceland, the latter a band called Sisi Ey who are already making waves.  In addition to his own material, he'll be re-releasing lost classics from the acid house and Belgian New Beat eras.

In addition to live appearances with Hercules & Love Affair, Butler continues to criss-cross the globe with DJ dates in Chile, USA, Canada, Mexico and the UK in the coming months.

Connect with mr.intl:
mr.intl officlal site - http://mr-intl.net/
mr.intl Facebook - www.facebook.com/mrintlrecords
mr.intl Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/mr-intl
mr.intl Beatport - http://www.beatport.com/label/mr-intl/16923

Connect with Andy Butler and Hercules & Love Affair:
Hercules site - herculesandloveaffair.net
Hercules YouTube - herculesandloveaffair.net/YouTube-Subscribe
Hercules Facebook Page - herculesandloveaffair.net/Facebook-Like
Hercules Twitter - herculesandloveaffair.net/Twitter-Follow
Hercules Instagram - herculesandloveaffair.net/Instagram-Follow
Hercules SoundCloud - herculesandloveaffair.net/SoundCloud
Hercules MixCloud - herculesandloveaffair.net/MixCloud
Hercules Tumblr - herculesandloveaffair.net/Tumblr
Hercules Google+ - herculesandloveaffair.net/G+
Hercules Free Music - herculesandloveaffair.net/Free-Music - Get free downloads of other Hercules tracks
Hercules beatport - herculesandloveaffair.net/beatport
Hercules Spotify - herculesandloveaffair.net/Spotify


Andy Butler - You Can Shine [feat Richard Kennedy]

ANDY BUTLER'S DEBUT SOLO EP 
RELEASED ON MR.INTL
VINYL - 5th March 2015 [Pre - order vinyl here - http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/andy-butler-you-can-shine-personality-mr-intl/127908)_
BEATPORT - March 16th 2015
iTUNES / digital stores / streaming - March 30th 2015

After three groundbreaking albums as Hercules & Love Affair, Andy Butler – the driving force behind the retro-futurist disco house kingpins – releases his debut solo EP in March 2015.

The EP features two tracks and is released on mr.intl - Butler’s own label.  Leading with You Can Shine - hard-hitting techno-soul and showcasing the impassioned vocals of rising NYC star Richard Kennedy, it’s backed with Personality Track, a whiplashing techy instrumental pounder. Pistons and cylinders gleaming, 'Personality Track' is the steamy banger at the centre of Andy’s debut solo EP.

“Hercules has a collaborative, collective approach," Andy explains, "People who enjoy Hercules anticipate uplifting, vocal-orientated, disco-influenced music, something nuanced and quite musical, a proper listening experience. 'Shine' goes for a more direct approach, a stomping, uplifting club 12" but it's me, isn't it, so it will still have something of Hercules about it."

"I wanted to tap into the gospel tradition, for there to be a testifying quality to the record,” he continues. “Richard and I talk in the lyrics about putting ego aside and allowing people around you to shine. You shine when you acknowledge other people's shine, even, if you will, the creator's shine. I hope we've created something new. House is often soulful but you very rarely hear a big gospel-inflected voice paired with booming, doomy techno."

'You Can Shine' follows an incredible year for Hercules & Love Affair. Their third album 'The Feast of the Broken Heart', was released to exceptional global critical acclaim and the collective embarked on an extensive worldwide tour. A tougher, more electronic body of work than its predecessors, ‘The Feast Of The Broken Heart’ hinted at the direction in which Andy's solo material was heading.

mr.intl was launched in 2009, prompted by Andy’s travels around the world and a “fascination for regional music. I wanted to start releasing music on a global level, offering a representation of amazing music that's happening elsewhere."  Butler has accrued a wealth of new talent and lost underground classics for forthcoming release on the label. The roster includes DJs and producers from Vienna, Australia, Brazil and Iceland, the latter a band called Sisi Ey who are already making waves.  In addition to his own material, he'll be re-releasing lost classics from the acid house and Belgian New Beat eras.

In addition to live appearances with Hercules & Love Affair, Butler continues to criss-cross the globe with DJ dates in Chile, USA, Canada, Mexico and the UK in the coming months.

Connect with mr.intl:
mr.intl officlal site - mr-intl.net/
mr.intl Facebook - www.facebook.com/mrintlrecords
mr.intl Soundcloud - @mr-intl
mr.intl Beatport - www.beatport.com/label/mr-intl/16923

Connect with Andy Butler and Hercules & Love Affair:
Hercules site - herculesandloveaffair.net
Hercules YouTube - herculesandloveaffair.net/YouTube-Subscribe
Hercules Facebook Page - herculesandloveaffair.net/Facebook-Like
Hercules Twitter - herculesandloveaffair.net/Twitter-Follow
Hercules Instagram - herculesandloveaffair.net/Instagram-Follow
Hercules SoundCloud - herculesandloveaffair.net/SoundCloud
Hercules MixCloud - herculesandloveaffair.net/MixCloud
Hercules Tumblr - herculesandloveaffair.net/Tumblr
Hercules Google+ - herculesandloveaffair.net/G+
Hercules Free Music - herculesandloveaffair.net/Free-Music - Get free downloads of other Hercules tracks
Hercules beatport - herculesandloveaffair.net/beatport
Hercules Spotify - herculesandloveaffair.net/Spotify

Andy Butler - Personality Track

Hercules & Love Affair frontman Andy Butler resurrects his revered debut solo EP, reworked by Dan Beaumont & Luke Solomon, Arttu and The Carry Nation.

Originally released on Butler’s own Mr Intl imprint earlier this year, the impassioned vocals of rising NYC star Richard Kennedy are infused with grandiose charm in this unique new alchemic explosion. “I'm happy to share these dubbed out interpretations by some admired DJs & friends,’ says Butler. “Arttu, one of my favourite producers who walks the line between house & techno delivers a tough, signature techno funk sound. Dan Beaumont and Luke Solomon are two UK champs that bring out the disco. Rounding out the package are reigning royalty in NYC clubland and good friends of myself and vocalist/cowriter Richard Kennedy - The Carry Nation who give a DJ Pierre style interpretation. Enjoy.” 

12" - 6th July
Beatport - 10th July
ROW Digital - 24th July


Andy Butler feat. Richard Kennedy - You Can Shine (The Carry Nation Remix)

Hercules & Love Affair frontman Andy Butler resurrects his revered debut solo EP, reworked by Dan Beaumont & Luke Solomon, Arttu and The Carry Nation.

Originally released on Butler’s own Mr Intl imprint earlier this year, the impassioned vocals of rising NYC star Richard Kennedy are infused with grandiose charm in this unique new alchemic explosion. “I'm happy to share these dubbed out interpretations by some admired DJs & friends,’ says Butler. “Arttu, one of my favourite producers who walks the line between house & techno delivers a tough, signature techno funk sound. Dan Beaumont and Luke Solomon are two UK champs that bring out the disco. Rounding out the package are reigning royalty in NYC clubland and good friends of myself and vocalist/cowriter Richard Kennedy - The Carry Nation who give a DJ Pierre style interpretation. Enjoy.”

12" - 6th July
Beatport - 10th July
ROW Digital - 24th July


Andy Butler feat. Richard Kennedy - You Can Shine (Arttu Remix)

Hexxy - Edging / Andy Butler - Bewm Chawqk

MR013

A  Hexxy - Edging 
AA Andy Butler - Bewm Chawqk

Release date: 12" & Beatport 11th December

MR013 A - Hexxy - Edging

MR013 B - Andy Butler - Bewm Chawqk

Andy Butler's mr.intl label presents a special mix from Timothy London of erstwhile electronic music pioneers Macdonald Flack & The Ack Ack Pack. This mix finds a path through Tim's archive of unreleased, and until now unheard, gems of electronic experimentation, produced at home and collected over decades.

mr.intl is currently preparing the re-release of 'Cortina Kidz’ by Macdonald Flack & The Ack Ack Pack (6th May vinyl and digital)- an utterly overlooked part of the tapestry of late 80’s British acid house history. Recorded in a cold water flat on Stoke Newington Road in London in 1987 and then released as a B-side in 1988, its eccentric spoken word overlay and weird lead vocal made it very unlike the prevailing dance music sound of the time. This is a unique recording whose time has come. 

‘Cortina Kidz’ was produced by a young Tim Brinkhurst aka Timothy London ahead of his imminent record deal with Virgin Records with his band Soho, and long before his current role as manager of Mercury Prize winners, Young Fathers.

Tim writes of the time: "Dalston was another semi-dead zone, apart from the 4 Aces club and the very occasional party in a basement. The Kurds hadn’t moved in en masse yet to transform the night-time with shops and basement bars open 24 hours. If you wanted a Mars bar after 2AM it was the petrol station on Stoke Newington Road or no Mars bar.

Warehouse parties were a peculiar phenomenon, musically. Places where black and white youth could meet, sound system culture bumping up against electro and early house, James Brown followed by Afrika Bambatta followed by rockabilly followed by Highlife. It was in 1987 that I really noticed the ‘jazz-funk’ attitudes beginning to creep in and snobify this new scene, as ‘jazz chords’ started to float like floppy burger buns over the top of what were otherwise pounding rhythms and DJs and Black Echoes journalists began to differentiate between the ‘authentic’ and the dilettante or pop. Producers were on the hunt for ‘authentic’ black, female soul singers to sing a top line, but the traditions in the UK were more for Lovers Rock, innocent sounding, slightly off-key West Indian rather than the full-on, churchy belters from across the Atlantic. If I remember rightly, there were just two men in the UK who could rap with the desired genuine American accent and both of them were…American.

I visited Shoom, at one point, but that might have been early 1988. The club had a reputation, for something more than just playing house music, which was still quite hard to find outside of gay clubs, but it was something I didn’t understand. The atmosphere anticipated the pure tingle experience hedonism that infected youth culture in the 90s and I had my feet firmly rooted to the spit-stained concrete of post-punk ethics. At that stage I hadn’t taken cocaine (I thought it was for nasty, self-centered rocknroll dinosaurs) and didn’t know anyone who had ingested MDMA. I had just enough money for a can of Special Brew and half a spliff and that really wasn’t enough for me to lose myself in the surprisingly empty, warped school disco atmosphere. I remember it smelt like a gym and the open spaces on the dance floor were filled by excessive smoke machine use. I had a little dance by myself and left."

Read more from Tim about the era here: http://bit.ly/1UfAeFs

Buy link - http://www.juno.co.uk/products/macdonald-flak-the-ack-the-cortina-kidz/609526-01/









Timothy London - Party On The Circle Line

Phonica 12’' Buy Link
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/macdonald-flak-and-the-ack-ack-the-cortina-kidz-juan-maclean-mrintl/137296

Juno 12” Buy Link 
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/macdonald-flak-the-ack-the-cortina-kidz/609526-01/

Deejay.de 12” Buy Link
http://www.deejay.de/MR014_-_Macdonald_Flak_And_The_Ack_Ack_Pack_-_The_Cortina_Kidz_tim_Sweeney_Factory_Floor_-_12inch__225877

Beatport Download Buy Link 
https://pro.beatport.com/release/cortina-kidz/1752262

Beatport

MacDonald Flack And The Ack Ack Pack - Cortina Kidz (Original 1988 Version)

MacDonald Flack And The Ack Ack Pack - Cortina Kidz (Juan Maclean And Tim Sweeney Remix)

MacDonald Flak And The Ack Ack Pack - The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remixes) 

A1 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remix)
A2 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Acapella)
B1 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Dub Mix)

mr.intl / MR015
Release Date 12” & Beatport 8th July | ROW Digital 22nd July 

MacDonald Flak And The Ack-Ack Pack - The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remixes)

A1 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remix)
A2 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Acapella)
B1 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Dub Mix)

mr.intl / MR015
Release Date 12” & Beatport 8th July | ROW Digital 22nd July

Phonica 12’' Buy Link
www.phonicarecords.com/product/macdo…mrintl/138283

Juno 12” Buy Link 
www.juno.co.uk/products/macdonal…emixes/617197-01/

Rough Trade 12” Buy Link 
www.roughtrade.com/albums/105374

Beatport Download Link 
www.beatport.com/release/the-cort…-remixes/1797919

Juno Download Link
www.junodownload.com/products/the-c…es/3140384-02/

The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remixes) 

MacDonald Flack And The Ack-Ack Pack - Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Dub Mix)

MacDonald Flak And The Ack-Ack Pack - The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remixes)

A1 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remix)
A2 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Acapella)
B1 The Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Dub Mix)

mr.intl / MR015
Release Date 12” & Beatport 8th July | ROW Digital 22nd July

Phonica 12’' Buy Link
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/macdonald-flak-and-the-ack-ack-the-cortina-kidz-lipelis-remix-mrintl/138283

Juno 12” Buy Link 
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/macdonald-flak-the-cortina-kidz-lipelis-remixes/617197-01/

Rough Trade 12” Buy Link 
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/105374

Beatport Download Link 
https://www.beatport.com/release/the-cortina-kidz-lipelis-remixes/1797919

Juno Download Link
http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-cortina-kidz-lipelis-remixes/3140384-02/


MacDonald Flack And The Ack-Ack Pack - Cortina Kidz (Lipelis Remix)

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