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The Sexual Harrassment EP is now also available on digital via these stores: Turntable Lab; Bleep; Boomkat; Zero-Inch; Juno; Clone.

Check post below for vinyl links.

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After over two years of development, the Sexual Harrassment covers EP is finally out! It features fantastic versions by Dâm-Funk & Lil’ Kenny, Sweat.X, Jimmy Edgar & G.rizo, and Robert O’Dell.

Available now on vinyl from our distributors, Rubadub, and coming to other good vinyl stores within the next few days (I’ll add links as I get them). The digital release will be available from the 25th April.

USA: Turntable Lab (with review); Groove; Amoeba;

UK: Piccadilly (with review intercut with press release); Bleep (with review); Boomkat (with review); Phonica; Juno; Beatdown; Redeye; Rough Trade;

Europe: Word and Sound; Clone; Rush Hour; Deejay; Vinyl Distribution; iMusic; HHV;

Japan: Technique (with review); Newtone; Jetset.

Here’s a preview of all four tracks:

Give It To Me Hot EP preview by Citinite

More information, taken from the press release:

Give It To Me Hot is a 4-track EP that pays tribute to one of the hottest, raunchiest (but sadly short-lived) funk/punk groups from the early 80s, Sexual Harrassment.

Sexual Harrassment was started by radio DJ Lynn Tolliver whilst he was working at MCA Records, and the Cleveland-based group had a gold single on the Heat/Montage label. Their rarer 6-track album from 1983 has become a collector’s item.

To do their tracks justice, we asked modern day artists who are synonymous with a sex-driven funk attitude to either cover or reinterpret the originals.

LA-based vocalist Lil’ Kenny starts us off with a sweat-inducing rendition of ‘You Are My Sexual Connection’. Backed by limit-pushing production from modern funketeer Dâm-Funk, the powerful bassline, searing rides and deep-throated vocals are as honest and uncompromising as we could have hoped for.

Sweat.X’s interpretation of Sexual Harrassment’s most famous track, ‘I Need A Freak’, follows. Spoek Mathambo and Markus Wormstorm’s compulsively dark vision, with its broody, frustrated funk sound, riffs on themes of unsated desire and pleasure-pain.

Jimmy Edgar contributes a backing track unlike anything he has ever done before for little known gem, ‘Exercise Your Ass Off’. Combined with the energising vocals from G.rizo, the track reminds us of the 70s New York alt music scene whilst simultaneously feeling like the beginning of the next wave.

Finally Robert O’Dell rides in with his unique style for ‘If I Gave You A Party’. Co-produced by Jeppe Loverman, this version is by turns unsettling and thrilling and has proved to be the most popular on the EP amongst DJs we promoed the tracks to.

It’s a fine way to close an EP that we hope stays true to the candid, fun and untempered spirit of the originals.

S E X U A L   H A R R A S S M E N T   I N T E R V I E W An interview with Lynn Tolliver, the man behind the original Sexual Harrassment tracks, is now up at the Citinite blog.

S E X U A L   H A R R A S S M E N T   I N T E R V I E W

An interview with Lynn Tolliver, the man behind the original Sexual Harrassment tracks, is now up at the Citinite blog.

G I V E   I T   T O   M E   H O T   P R E V I E W Here’s a sneak preview of all four tracks on the next Citinite release, the Sexual Harrassment covers EP. Give It To Me Hot EP preview by Citinite

G I V E   I T   T O   M E   H O T   P R E V I E W

Here’s a sneak preview of all four tracks on the next Citinite release, the Sexual Harrassment covers EP.

Give It To Me Hot EP preview by Citinite

S E X U A L   H A R R A S S M E N T   A R T W O R K 2011 is going to be a busy year for Citinite, and first up is Give It To Me Hot, a remix project featuring Dâm-Funk, Lil’ Kenny, Sweat.X, Jimmy Edgar, G.rizo and Robert O’Dell. The four tracks on the EP are cover versions of tracks originally by the 80s funk group Sexual Harrassment, whose most famous tracks were ‘I Need A Freak’ and ‘If I Gave You A Party’. There’ll be more info about the release very soon, but in the meantime I wanted to put up the artwork, this time by the great Sheela Rahman from San Francisco.

S E X U A L   H A R R A S S M E N T   A R T W O R K

2011 is going to be a busy year for Citinite, and first up is Give It To Me Hot, a remix project featuring Dâm-Funk, Lil’ Kenny, Sweat.X, Jimmy Edgar, G.rizo and Robert O’Dell. The four tracks on the EP are cover versions of tracks originally by the 80s funk group Sexual Harrassment, whose most famous tracks were ‘I Need A Freak’ and ‘If I Gave You A Party’.

There’ll be more info about the release very soon, but in the meantime I wanted to put up the artwork, this time by the great Sheela Rahman from San Francisco.