Annie in conjunction with her friend & London based DJ/ producer Erol Alkan (Trash & Bugged Out) announce a special collectable DJ friendly vinyl only series for summer 2005 on 679 Recordings. These releases mix tracks from Annie’s celebrated debut ‘Anniemal’ album, with some of the most exciting production and new remix talent around. Alkan’s involvement comes at Annie’s bequest and he has set out to find people who would “create a series of vinyl featuring the remixing talents of producers who are setting my dancefloor on fire. There’s also the benefit of being first to have these mixes.”
Her unique blend of disco-pop and electro has quickly made Annie one of the most hotly tipped new artists around. Heartbeat will be released as a full single on February 7 backed by a series of exclusive new mixes from Alan Braxe, Maurice Fulton, Phones (featuring Maximo Park) as well as the Royksopp mix. Her highly anticipated debut album 'Anniemal' follows on February 21 on 679 Recordings.
2004 has seen the emergence of Annie as a new force in dance music, DJ across the world, record her debut album and now 2005 looks set to see her truly arrive as a unique and important artist in contemporary pop culture.
The acclaimed fashion designer Peter Jensen is currently working on a special Annie item that will is available now through the B-store, 6 Conduit St, London, W1.
‘Anniemal’ was recorded and produced in Bergen, Helsinki & London with Royksopp, Richard X and Timothy Kaukolampi of cult Finnish electro marauders OP:L Bastards/And The Lefthanded and takes you on a modern musical journey; from the breathtaking eight-minute disco 'Come Together' to the Missy Elliott-esque R&B rumble of 'Always Too Late'.
Standouts include forthcoming single 'Heartbeat', an incredible, Motown-tinged stomper produced by million selling friends and neighbours Royksopp (who had previously turned down working with the likes of Britney Spears) which contains no synthesizers at all, which despite no release was recently voted #1 single of the year for ‘04 by massively influential American music website Pitchfork. Another is the Shakatak-sampling breeze-pop soft-soul classic 'No Easy Love', and of course the still-mighty pop stylings of 'The Greatest Hit’.
Together with Mr X she completed the final pieces of the jigsaw, recording both 'Chewing Gum', and the perilously addictive ‘Me Plus One’ in London earlier this year. The overall result is 'Anniemal', an album that has been embraced from the NME to the Sunday Times to the dancefloor at fabric and everywhere in between.
Her blend of spiky-pop and electro has quickly made Annie one of the most hotly tipped new artists across the globe. Annie has already been embraced by many as a new tour de force in electro-disco, championed across the board by the likes of Mylo, DFA & LCD Soundsystem, Rob Da Bank or Scissor Sisters (who came onstage every night to an Annie track on their last tour). This is mainly due to her own sound which has as much in common with Kylie (to whom she has been compared) as label-mates The Futureheads.
