Soon-to-be club-floor classic
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By ANDYANDROGYNE
ANDY, “Baby” / “Funhouse”
You know him by any number of aliases. As Andrew Todd Rosenthal, he was the auteur of Martini Ranch alongside award-winning actor Bill Paxton, creators of KROQ rotation mainstays “How Can the Labouring Man Find Time For Self-Culture?” and “Reach.” As Ice Berg, he was one-half of the groundbreaking Heeb-Hop group M.O.T., whose self-titled Sire/Warner Bros. album produced such still-classics as “Town Car” and “Emmes G,” their kosher homage to Chinese food and java beans.
As ANDY, he’s now spinning chill/trance Chicago/Detroit house music with this pair of soon-to-be club-floor classics. “Baby” is the first song with that name to sample the sounds of an actual infant, incorporated into a white-hot EDM smash featuring its own musical nod to the “If I should die before I sleep” lullaby. The sinister “Funhouse” offers a salacious carnival barker with a come-on to a sinister side show that doubles as a pole-dance anthem. “This is ridiculous!” Ridiculously good, that is.
Roy Trakin
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