LULA "FIRE & BURN" Kult Records
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The release of "Fire and Burn," Lula's latest dance-music single, adds fast flame to a repertoire that has always favored the slow burn
A native of Austria who still lives there, in Vienna, Lula has built a career in the dance-music underground ever since "Goosebumps" and "Read My Lips," her debut tracks, as an icon of the unflappable. Sounding more Berlin – of the decadent, cabaret 1920s – than Vienna, Lula sounded like Nico returning, a disembodied sexual elegance standing firm in an ocean of full-bodied beats. Just as fascinating to fans was that she, a hitherto unknown voice, was put in front of the speaker by Danny Tenaglia, who even then ranked among the true gods of house music. (Tenaglia shared production credit for "Goosebumps" with DJ Vibe and Rui da Silva.)
One wondered where Tenaglia found her? So unlike was she, from the heated divas – gospel voices all – who had previously dominated house music. Lula was the anti-diva, the skeptic, fighting off the beat and the music and – so we dancers wanted it to be – slowly, inevitably, losing control. Oh how wonderful it was to hear Lula slackening, loosing herself, undressing her sexual heat, as it were, under the power of Tenaglia's force fields of rhythm! From the minute that we all first heard "Goosebumps" and "Read My Lips," we were Lula fans. When she eventually – after veering off to who knew where ? – resurfaced in two different time zones: a New York-style production called "Ecstasy," done by the flamboyant Johnny Vicious, and in tasty Berlin-like deca-treats such as "My Empire" and "The DJ, The Music & Me," we were instantly smitten. The force was with her. Her lips were not only read but RED. Red on a whitish, mask-like face, expressionless – but with so much expression! This was style. This was icon. This was house music in all its guises, posed and posturing, horny and crusty, face made up on the outside, burning up inside. As it turns out, Lula was by no means one of Tenaglia's many out-of-the-nowhere/sphere discoveries. Lula says that she "always loved dark, deep, painful, heartbreaking, uncommercial music"....... "I fell in love," she says, "with the speakers and nightclubs at the legendary U4 in Vienna in the 1980s….it was the best, very dark, a great sound system…I was there all the time. I even slept next to the speaker…" At that time, Lula was still in school, but school…lost out. "I became friends with the 2 DJs and they both worked at this great record store, and I started buying all these tracks…" Sound familiar? It should. You're a club kid. You recognize a Sistah, right? Eventually Lula moved to New York – doesn't every club kid, at least once? Of course her timing – and her knack for the right location -- were perfect: "I used to go to the Sound Factory all the time. I think the first time I ever went there Frankie Knuckles was DJing…Unbelievable! How people dressed, how high they were and how friendly and the breakfast in the morning. And this music! Just going through the front door and feeling and hearing the bass pumping already…" Lula was then a "22 year old girl from Austria," but after becoming a beloved part of the scene and developing friendships with everybody and being passionate about clothes and "the hardcore music and dance lovers," she became specifically a loving follower of "Danny," as she still calls him. She was also "a big Danny fan" from hearing a tape that he mixed for "sexy records," as she remembers it. And soon Danny discovered that he was also a Lula fan, and "Goosebumps" was born." Lula considers this one her favorite track. "…because it was totally unplanned," she says." Danny and I never talked about anything like that. All I did was visit him in the studio in the middle of the night…all of a sudden Danny tells me to get behind the microphone and just talk…'I am in the speaker,' he had me say. And there I was, in front of the speaker, as if I was his voice in HIS music…." If unplanned makes Lula like a track, then "Fire and Burn" should be one of her favorites, for it too came about unforeseen." "Funny story," she tells me. "when I discovered MySpace, a BIIIIG Lula fan from Florida, Eric Tenalio, wrote to me. He has a computer, he told me, he lives for the sounds… he never released anything so far! I told him to let me hear some of his tracks…they were very creative…I gave him tips to change certain things…and one day he just fixed up this track…and I loved it. He put this effect in it, the male "fire" word. I loved it. and I told him, I would record some vocals for him, kind of like a present for a fan actually, because he was so sweet and enthusiastic and hopeful. The word "fire" brought some ideas in my head and he added some ideas, too. I wrote the vocals pretty fast and recorded them in Vienna…" Well of course Lula would do that, wouldn't she. Her Vienna and Eric Tenalio's Florida; her 15 years of house music heroine status and Eric's new guy in town. Call it a May September romance; call it Old World meets Miami Vice; call it whatever you want -- the beats, the tumbles, the spaced-out vocals of Lula, mixed now by more and more DJs who want a crack at "Fire and Burn"'s intoxicants, will draw you in closer, chasing her mystery across the house beat universe. Among all your friends, you lucky diva you, all the way to breakfast in the morning. And after breakfast? An entire CD is in the works, Lula's first full-length, multi-track work with many different tastes and spices. Care to join Lula for dinner?
Here is what people are saying about "Fire & burn"
Chus:
Lula strikes back with another killa dancefloors! all mixes are great but original one is my favourite!
Stephan Grondin
I love her voice! love the track!
Victor Calderone
I'm really feeling Lula's new track on Kult. Very good, I will pump it for sure..
DJ Merrit
I like the Jiggy mix a lot...that's the one I'm going to play Sunday!
Peter Bailey:
Rocked the Jiggy mix all weeknd and it was SLAMMIN!!!
Dj Paulo:
oh I like it alot, have had it charted in billboard for a while.
Dj Boris:
Loves the Jiggy mix
Hector Fonseca
Cool Track!
One wondered where Tenaglia found her? So unlike was she, from the heated divas – gospel voices all – who had previously dominated house music. Lula was the anti-diva, the skeptic, fighting off the beat and the music and – so we dancers wanted it to be – slowly, inevitably, losing control. Oh how wonderful it was to hear Lula slackening, loosing herself, undressing her sexual heat, as it were, under the power of Tenaglia's force fields of rhythm! From the minute that we all first heard "Goosebumps" and "Read My Lips," we were Lula fans. When she eventually – after veering off to who knew where ? – resurfaced in two different time zones: a New York-style production called "Ecstasy," done by the flamboyant Johnny Vicious, and in tasty Berlin-like deca-treats such as "My Empire" and "The DJ, The Music & Me," we were instantly smitten. The force was with her. Her lips were not only read but RED. Red on a whitish, mask-like face, expressionless – but with so much expression! This was style. This was icon. This was house music in all its guises, posed and posturing, horny and crusty, face made up on the outside, burning up inside. As it turns out, Lula was by no means one of Tenaglia's many out-of-the-nowhere/sphere discoveries. Lula says that she "always loved dark, deep, painful, heartbreaking, uncommercial music"....... "I fell in love," she says, "with the speakers and nightclubs at the legendary U4 in Vienna in the 1980s….it was the best, very dark, a great sound system…I was there all the time. I even slept next to the speaker…" At that time, Lula was still in school, but school…lost out. "I became friends with the 2 DJs and they both worked at this great record store, and I started buying all these tracks…" Sound familiar? It should. You're a club kid. You recognize a Sistah, right? Eventually Lula moved to New York – doesn't every club kid, at least once? Of course her timing – and her knack for the right location -- were perfect: "I used to go to the Sound Factory all the time. I think the first time I ever went there Frankie Knuckles was DJing…Unbelievable! How people dressed, how high they were and how friendly and the breakfast in the morning. And this music! Just going through the front door and feeling and hearing the bass pumping already…" Lula was then a "22 year old girl from Austria," but after becoming a beloved part of the scene and developing friendships with everybody and being passionate about clothes and "the hardcore music and dance lovers," she became specifically a loving follower of "Danny," as she still calls him. She was also "a big Danny fan" from hearing a tape that he mixed for "sexy records," as she remembers it. And soon Danny discovered that he was also a Lula fan, and "Goosebumps" was born." Lula considers this one her favorite track. "…because it was totally unplanned," she says." Danny and I never talked about anything like that. All I did was visit him in the studio in the middle of the night…all of a sudden Danny tells me to get behind the microphone and just talk…'I am in the speaker,' he had me say. And there I was, in front of the speaker, as if I was his voice in HIS music…." If unplanned makes Lula like a track, then "Fire and Burn" should be one of her favorites, for it too came about unforeseen." "Funny story," she tells me. "when I discovered MySpace, a BIIIIG Lula fan from Florida, Eric Tenalio, wrote to me. He has a computer, he told me, he lives for the sounds… he never released anything so far! I told him to let me hear some of his tracks…they were very creative…I gave him tips to change certain things…and one day he just fixed up this track…and I loved it. He put this effect in it, the male "fire" word. I loved it. and I told him, I would record some vocals for him, kind of like a present for a fan actually, because he was so sweet and enthusiastic and hopeful. The word "fire" brought some ideas in my head and he added some ideas, too. I wrote the vocals pretty fast and recorded them in Vienna…" Well of course Lula would do that, wouldn't she. Her Vienna and Eric Tenalio's Florida; her 15 years of house music heroine status and Eric's new guy in town. Call it a May September romance; call it Old World meets Miami Vice; call it whatever you want -- the beats, the tumbles, the spaced-out vocals of Lula, mixed now by more and more DJs who want a crack at "Fire and Burn"'s intoxicants, will draw you in closer, chasing her mystery across the house beat universe. Among all your friends, you lucky diva you, all the way to breakfast in the morning. And after breakfast? An entire CD is in the works, Lula's first full-length, multi-track work with many different tastes and spices. Care to join Lula for dinner?
Here is what people are saying about "Fire & burn"
Chus:
Lula strikes back with another killa dancefloors! all mixes are great but original one is my favourite!
Stephan Grondin
I love her voice! love the track!
Victor Calderone
I'm really feeling Lula's new track on Kult. Very good, I will pump it for sure..
DJ Merrit
I like the Jiggy mix a lot...that's the one I'm going to play Sunday!
Peter Bailey:
Rocked the Jiggy mix all weeknd and it was SLAMMIN!!!
Dj Paulo:
oh I like it alot, have had it charted in billboard for a while.
Dj Boris:
Loves the Jiggy mix
Hector Fonseca
Cool Track!
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