Lewis Brooker - You Can’t Live Without Love [7" Vinyl]

Suit Yourself Music

£10.78

Format: 7’’ Single (45rpm)
Catalogue No.: SYM007
Barcode: 0748322983563
Release Date: 29 Mar 2024
Genre: Acid Jazz

Tracks:
A: You Can’t Live Without Love
AA: She Just Wants To Be My Friend

Lewis Brooker: A Collaboration between Andy Lewis and Hugh Brooker. Andy Lewis was one of the founding fathers of legendary Camden night Blow Up and was recruited by Blur to DJ on their Parklife tour. Always a musician as much as a DJ, Andy played bass for Pimlico, Spearmint and later spent eight years performing with Paul Weller. He also signed to Acid Jazz Records in 2002 for whom he’s recorded a number of albums and singles. Hugh Brooker founded The Night Trains in 1987, who became one of the first acts signed to Acid Jazz records. He also formed The Humble Souls with UK rapper and Fatboy Slim cohort MC Wildski and released the all-time classic single “Beads Things And Flowers” , still played on the jazz dance scene to this day.

Musicians, producers and DJs Andy Lewis and Hugh Brooker started collaborating together last year and issued You Can’t Live Without Love to radio. An upbeat, danceable vocal version of Willis Jackson’s classic Nuther'N Like Thuther’N. Brooker’s passionate crooning and Lewis’s double bass-led arrangement ensured it picked up airplay on BBC London, BBC 6 Music, Soho Radio, Totally Wired Radio and the support of DJ Dawn Parry. All this activity led to demand for a physical release, which in turn promoted a flip side. She Just Wants To Be My Friend is the kind of full-on brassy blast of funk fun that hints what might’ve happened if The Go! Team, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim and Edwyn Collins all went out drinking and ended up messing around in a studio together.

Similar Labels:
Acid Jazz, Freestyle, Jalapeno