Yolanda Be Cool ProfileAussie club-tune peddlers Yolanda Be Cool and their We No Speak Americano collaborator DCUP (Duncan MacLennan) have teamed up once more, releasing a dancefloor-ready cover of the usually sedate Sugar Man, penned and performed originally by enigmatic guitar virtuoso Sixto Rodriguez.
Aside from the telephone-line filters and phases laid over the intro, the low-res, dawn-of-VHS-era visual aesthetic of the clip is about as recognisably 1970s as it gets over the three-and-a-bit minutes of the song. Otherwise, it's stuffed full of four-to-the-floor kick drum, winding build-ups and sudden seizure-inducing drops yet lacks a sense of wholesomeness, what with all the artificial sweeteners, if you will.
Also, YBC & DCUP's protagonist has a massively creepy Robin Thicke vibe going on, right? It's not just us? OK. OK, cool.
Anyway, that cover is a thing that exists. We just thought you'd like to know. If you're hoping to catch it in the flesh, Yolanda Be Cool will be playing NYE On The Harbour in Sydney at year's end, alongside the likes of Hermitude, Crooked Colours and Hayden James. See theGuide or The Music App for more details.
