Kicking off Fool’s Paradise’s 2024 in style, Ridney and Husky unite on a glamourous Disco House jaunt titled, ‘You Ain’t Breaking My Heart’, featuring Xira on vocals. Loaded with all the essential credentials of a shimmering floor-filler,‘You Ain’t Breaking My Heart’ boasts filtered brass hooks, decadent sweeping strings and funky guitars, wrapped in a powerful sultry vocal performance from Xira. Additional mixes come from Husky, who brings a playfully uplifting piano house re-vibe, topped with a long atmospheric break down; and ramping up the funk factor, Chi-Town producer, Emmaculate, brings a live disco flavour, adding an irresistible funky bass groove and swinging disco drums.
Awarded “Essential New Tune” 3 times on Pete Tong’s BBCR1 Essential Selection, UK producer and DJ Ridney has released music on Defected, Toolroom, Armada, Newstate, Perfecto, Fool’s Paradise, Ministry of Sound, Nervous, Size and Spinnin, to name a few. His remix of Flo-rida ft. David Guetta “Club Can’t Handle Me” featured as part of the UK No.1 single package. His music has amassed over 4 million global Shazam’s, with 225k monthly streams. Ridney also runs the Paharas Musica record label.
Sydney’s producer and DJ Husky is well known for his distinct soulful, deep and disco solo productions, as well as his output as one half of Random Soul with production partner Yogi. You’ll find his works on his own labels Random Soul Recordings and Bobbin’ Head Music, as well as labels such as Salted Music, Purple Music, LouLou, Nurvous, Guesthouse, Armada Music and Soul Divine, to name a few. Over the last decade Husky has deepening his catalogue success via 2 full length artist albums, along with singles and collaborations with Mr V, Armin Van Buuren, Martina Budde, Andre Espeut, Lee Wilson, Shyam P and many more.
Chicago’s Eric Welton, AKA Emmaculate, began DJ’ing and making tracks in 1990. Over the years, Emmaculate made a name for himself as a DJ, Producer and Engineer working with top artists in Chicago and abroad. Emmaculate has scored successful releases on Yoruba Records, Nervous Records, T’s Box Records, The Djoon Experience, collaborated with the likes of Byron Stingily & Marshall Jefferson, Terry Hunter, DJ Spen, Osunlade, Roy Davis Jr. and Glenn Underground, to name a few.