mixtape maestro (2.0)

Whether or not the fact that Duck Sauce is a team-up between A-Trak and Armand Van Helden means anything to you (and really, it should!!), all that one really needs to absorb is how ace the side-project’s first single “aNYway” is.

Essentially nothing more than a sampled chunk of the 1979 Final Edition gem “I Can Do It (Anyway You Want)” that’s been beefed up into an irresistible disco house stomper, the makings of “aNYway” may not be all that complex, but damn if it’s simple looping of a gleeful Studio 54 swing and handful of exclamatory soul lines doesn’t make any dark cloud currently hovering over your life instantly dissipate once you’re completely swarmed by it’s euphoric, Studio 54-centered hold.

Alongside it’s entertaining clip of an Afro-ed, Jackson 5-like entity lighting up a ’70′s variety show stage with their infectious boogie, “aNYway” re-strengthens one longing for not only “Soul Train”‘s return to the airwaves, but a brand new edition completely soundtracked with stuff like this rather than the comparably weak definition of what’s considered “rhythmic music” these days.

Check out the video, followed by an MP3 of the sample source, below.

Look for Duck Sauce’s debut EP, Greatest Hits, via Fool’s Gold sometime later this year.

DL: “I Can Do It (Anyway You Want)” (alt)