Vince Clarke (Erasure) launches project together with Paul Hartnoll (Orbital) – first single expected in June
“Better Have A Drink To Think” is the first single from Erasure’s Vince Clarke and Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll. The duo will see the single released as a one-track download on 3rd June 2016.
The single acts as a teaser for their collaborative album “2Square” to be released shortly after under the Vince Clarke & Paul Hartnoll moniker and this via VeryRecords.
VeryRecords is a micro download-only label started in 2016 by Vince Clarke of Erasure. For VeryRecords it will will be its first release. The label describes itself as a “very small record label dedicated to releasing very fine electronic music”.
Clarke and Hartnoll have composed and recorded 8 tracks for the album in the style of ‘Home House’ as they say. According to both artists, it’s a new electronic sub-genre which is defined as ‘music you can dance to, in the privacy of your own living room’. We never heard of it though.
Paul Hartnoll (Orbital) recalls how it all came about: “Vince approached me and asked if I wanted to work with him on some tracks he had demoed. I set about adding and fiddling around and then we both spent a week finishing and mixing the record in my Brighton studio. Between us we’ve chalked up more than 50 years of making electronic dance music, we’re both Dads, and it was time to hold out the hand of collaboration and help each other up onto the dance floor to dance as only Dads can.”
More news as we get it.
Support Side-Line
More people read Side-Line than ever, and there is still no paywall and no advertising. Readers pay for it instead - from $5 a month.
Why we ask
Advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news organisations we have not put up a paywall, and we refuse to add annoying advertising, so we need to ask for your help. Side-Line’s independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce, and we do it to push the artists we like, who are equally fighting to survive.
Handled by PayPal.
Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!
