One of the bands I’ve recently come across and really enjoy are The Hundred in Hands. Based in Brooklyn, the band’s debut album The Hundred in Hands, was released in September of 2010. Their influences are many, and the New York duo are said to have come together over a road trip across the U.S. that involved “Moroder/Molton style disco, French House and minimal techno; post punk favorites like Young Marble Giants, Wire, The Cure & New Order; Black Star, Dilla, De La Soul vintage hip-hop; 60s mod, garage & girl groups and loads of Stuido 1/Trojan era ska & dub.”
After the road trip, the two returned home and quickly wrote their first track Dressed in Dresden, and in the next year continued writing and recording. The duo prefer to mix in analog instruments and machines with electronic methodologies, keeping the sound stepping back and forth between precise electronica and looser instrumentation one might find in straight up pop and rock.
Some of the stand-out tracks on the release for me are Dressed in Dresden:
The Hundred In The Hands - Dressed In Dresden by AnyGroove
Lovesick:
And the track that initially peaked my interest in regard to The Hundred in Hands, Young Aren't Young:
The Hundred In The Hands - Young Aren't Young by Red Sonja
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-Laura in LA
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