THE JUAN MACLEAN

Quick listings-type stuff first. I’ve been asked to tell you about the New York based electro-pop/disco-house artist Juan Maclean; how his new/great electropop/disco-house album is called The Future Will Come; how it’s the longawaited follow-up to 2005’s stellar Less Than Human LP; how it’s co-produced by the DFA’s James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy; how Juan is touring through Australia this Spring; how these days Juan more/less keeps his sci-fi/robot shtick to a minimum and, I guess in some kind of contrast, how The Future Will Come includes ten very human dance-pop songs, all with vocals, many featuring Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, and many of that many having like this Human League meets disco feel to them. How, alongside Hercules & Love Affair’s self-titled debut, also courtesy DFA Records, Juan’s Future is set to become a pillar of downtown New York’s recent re-appreciation of vintage disco and early 90s disco-house and, for lack of a better turn, unironic, unadulterated, say-what- you-mean, 100% pure love positive force dance music. How the mensch, if you will, no longer hides behind the machine.