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Drop The Lime Announces New Single

3rd Nov 2010

Rockabilly and Dance Music.

At first glance, not a likely pairing. And yet both have roots in the seedy club underbelly: smoke-filled back rooms and underground drinking dens, coiffed, leather-jacketed masses moving to a propulsive beat. Both born of late night rebellion, youth culture and the rhythmic pound of the bass.

New York native Luca Venezia, aka Drop The Lime, was brought up on a staple diet of Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Richie Valens, and learned to play guitar and sing from a young age. Like every kid, he wanted to be a rock star. Fast-forward a few years and a love affair with club music – specifically the UK-centric sounds of drum’n’bass, jungle and 2step garage – soon began, solidified by a short move to Berlin and an immersion in house, techno and the never-ending warehouse parties the city is famed for.

But the tattooed, Brylcreemed Venezia – every inch the ‘50s teen idol – never lost his love for the sounds he grew up with and ‘Hot As Hell’ is testament to that. As a producer who nearly always includes a Rockabilly segment in his DJ sets around the world, it was only right that he should bring it all together in a track that sees him singing like Gene Vincent on amphetamines over an endless harmonica loop and one of the killer breakdowns he’s famous for.

Drop The Lime is spearheading a new sound. Is it Electrobilly? Rockabass? Who knows… but one thing’s for sure – we’ll be dancing to it. ‘Hot As Hell’ is released on January 30th 2011 and is the lead single from his much anticipated album Enter The Night, which drops in February 2011.

‘Hot As Hell’ not hot enough? Stay tuned for remixes from French wonder boy Canblaster, Institubes numero uno Para One, Birmingham-based heavy hitter Will Bailey, Nouveau Yorican (aka Laidback Luke & Gina Turner), Aussie blog royalty VANDALISM, chart-toppers Yolanda Be Cool & fresh UK Funky talent Lil Silva.

As Carl Perkins sang in ‘Dixie Fried’… “Rave on, cats!”

Catch Drop The Lime in Europe:
November
05 The Bunker, Bristol
06 Audio, Southampton
06 Kraken Wakes, Portsmouth
08 Revolutions, Reading
11 Dub Boro at Echo, Loughborough
13 Scimmia Pazza, Catania, Italy
18 The Masque, Liverpool
19 Deepsession at Lafacinio, Rome
20 Bugged Out at XOYO, London with Mumdance, Greco-Roman Soundsystem and more
24 Club Zombie, Madrid
25 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
26 Bugged Out, Manchester
27 STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
30 Bigger Than Barry @ DQ, Leeds
December
02 Smack, Leamington Spa
03 Nouveau Casino, Paris
04 Nitsa, Barcelona
07 Killer Kitsch, Glasgow
08 Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
11 The Roxy, Prague