URSULA 1000 - Kinda Kinky ASkillz Remix

Let’s set our time machine back 20 years to 2002. New York’s Ursula 1000 aka Alex Gimeno, DJ/Producer/Multi-instrumentalist, started working on his sophomore album after the success of his debut, The Now Sound of Ursula 1000. His steady diet of 90’s lounge revivalism, UK Big Beat, German Club Pop, European Library Music, spy soundtracks and Japanese Shibuya-kei started to sharpen his skills in producing his own take on this melting pot of retro grooves and futuristic electronic beats. This vision would be more fully realized for this new album. He had an idea of a travelogue collection of songs, every track like a new stamp on your passport. For the opener, he originally had iconic model Verushka in mind for vocals. Locking her in became elusive and so he had a re-think. Swinging 60’s London. Groovy mod scenery. He needed a fun voice for this. Enter Rebecca Mader, who at the time was an up-and-coming model and actress, later to star in the hit series Lost and Once Upon a Time for ABC. A mutual friend connected them and she nailed the perfect cheeky, sex kitten delivery! Inspired by the 1966 film, Lord Love a Duck, featuring Tuesday Weld, where her character goes sweater shopping and runs through a laundry list of exotic color schemes, we riffed on that idea and made it our own kaleidoscopic palette. This song had it all...sitars, Hammond organ (performed beautifully by Brother Cleve of neo lounge act Combustible Edison), big beat drums and some acid house tweaks to make it into a nice retro/future cocktail. Originally released on Thievery Corporation’s 18th Street Lounge label and now on Ursula’s own Insect Queen Music imprint, this song would be called “Kinda’ Kinky” as would the album on which it was featured. Ursula was able to score world renowned contemporary artist Shag to design the cover in his distinctive space age bachelor pad style. For this 20th anniversary, Ursula decided to revisit this classic cut and give it a re- rinse, adding some tasty flavors of today but keeping its original kitschy vibe. For the flip, we have the one and only breakbeat legend A.Skillz transforming “Kinda’ Kinky” into a funky, disco house groove monster! The RANDOM HEROES hit hard on this single with a hip-hoppy beat excursion with a great soul sample on the chorus. Remixers of the moment FLOW DYNAMICS flip the cut into a funky breakbeat stomper, while SOUL HARMONICS give the cut a jazzy house rub. Very cool.