- 1. Urban Delights - Hard & Easy 3.25 6241 plays
- 2. Urban Delights feat. Mary Byker - 00 Gringo (Calling London) 3.49 26783 plays
- 3. Urban Delights - Crack Your Head 5.14 6930 plays
- 4. Urban Delights - The Funk Bass 5.18 1709 plays
"Hard & Easy" is the second EP in a series of six on the way to the new Urban Delights album "Analogue Players In A Digital World" in october. Whereas the first release concentrated on more song related material, this EP focuses on the the rougher and edgier side of Urban Delights. Four uptempo songs (three bonus tracks and one album song) push the rules aside: playful vintage sampledelic madness clash with futuristic neo-synths, grungy guitars collide with twisted party breakbeats. Rocking style clash for the dancefloor, with a strong reference to uk club culture. One song features Harry K.´s old band mate from Apollo 440 times, lead singer Mary Biker, on the vocals.
The cover art features the hamburg streetartist and art rebel "rebelzer", a painting inspired by "Hard & Easy" - one of 12 artistic interpretations of the upcoming album songs.
hard & easy
Maybe Kurt Cobain is still alive and discovered a love for the uk club culture - this would explain how "Hard & Easy" came about. A Nirvana-like melody flies through wobbly bass sounds and grungy guitars, but the sound system has already taken over and keeps the party going with uptempo party beats.
00 gringo (calling london)
Mary Biker, the former lead singer of Apollo 440, is the guest vocalist on this twisted declaration of love to his home town london - he recorded the vocals in his new home town, Rio De Janeiro. Harry K.´s longtime friend has already been featured on the title track of Urban Delights first album, "Revolution No. 1", again he adds his unique flavour to this fast comic-like party stomper, a unique clash of retro samples, quirky synth lines and catchy vocals that make you "swing from the hip now swing from the hip now swing!"
crack your head
This uptempo breakbeat track transformes from a combination of dark synths and surf guitars into a happy ska grove monster.
the funk bass
Imagine a space ship filled with breakbeats, synth lines from the future & hypnotic rockguitars from the past, with aliens declaring to be "tearing down the wall of sound to get to the funk bass" - then you´re close to what this unique robotronic party track is all about.
