It's not often you hear a track that instantly transports you to the sun-washed climbs of Miami and rapturous dancefloors of Ibiza - but from the moment this tune kicks in – bang, you're there!

Around one year ago the guys from Dutch duo Klankarbeit, decided to approach all round house and techno don - Michel de Hey - with a bunch of fresh tracks. And upon listening, one particular tune stuck out like the Eiffel Tower to the EC Records boss – enter the Nina Kinert caressed - 'Art Is Hard'...

Now, as many will know, the Dutch house legend doesn't play many vocal tracks, so if during one of his sets you hear human tones spilling out the speakers – you just know it has to be something special; and this our friends is just that. Sounding like M¦Nus Records cross-pollinating with Moloko, it's a tune that has all the makings of an anthem without ever forcing itself on the listener. As it's subltle, refined – slightly twisted and off-kilter – and just loaded with thick, undulating groove.

And after one year of relentless testing – and a classic, back-and-forth tussle to clear the original vocal - it is now ready to be released. This is end of year list material if we ever did hear it!



FEEDBACK
timo maas: cool vibes
Ripperton: Nice track, will try it out. Thanks!
Chris Fortier : ripper
Mr G: nice feelin this
Paul Hamill - Psycatron / Planet e / BBC Radio Ulster (ZOO): this is a hit. cant wait to play it out.
Nico De Ceglia: Oh yes!
Tobi / Moonbootica: I like this a lot.
Flash Brothers: Nice deep tech housey tune
Jamie Anderson: support
Demi / SOS: oh simply superb..as it says on the tin...
Dave Seaman: quirky and cool vocal tech
Reuben Keeney (Toolroom Records): Nice track!
Mark (George FM) : support
Honey Soundsystem : X-O-X
Severino (Horsemeat Disco): W O W. Who is this??? THIS IS A BOMB!!!WOW WOW
Paul Carr - Baunder / Soundexile: Interesting track. Will try it out, thanks!
Sylvester Martinez / Yolanda Be Cool: support!
Southmen (925-Digital) (Yoshitoshi) (Hedkandi): nice track
David Gausa : Love it!
Jesse Scumfrog - Scumfrog: Pure beauty!! Full support!
Dave Johnson / Area 32 Radio:
Real nice, Thanks.
Joachim Dyrdahl - diskJokke: mm mm mm m!!
Matt Thomas - King Unique: who can say no to a cheeky bit of clarinet & vocal house?
Justin Sloe - Justin Sloe / Droog: been playing this like crazy, jam
charted it: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/droog/top10
Anderson Noise: good stuff
Goddollars - Goddollars (A Club Called Rhonda): support!
Amos - Amos / Waifs & Strays: this is great...real dance floor weapon
Omid 16B : full 16bs of support
Paul Chambers: support
Scarlett Etienne / Starlett: Fun, I like!
Shock and Awe!/Michael Vida/Pathfinder : yet another sick release from EC!
JONTY SKRUFF (DTPM/ TRAILER TRASH): like it; will check further
Marco Di Stefano - Def Starr: Pretty cool
John Hutchison - Tokyoblu (Bounce/ Fool Moon): Brilliant track!!!!!
Jeffrey Reed - Disastronaut (Choice Cuts/ Audiosushi): support
Javier Estalella - Buenavista (Razzmatazz) (Spain) (Javier Estalella): i want summer back
Paolo Di Liberto - Paolo Di Liberto / We Take Polaroids (This Is Ground Control...): couldn't be any cooler
Pablo Lollypop - Lollypop (Spain) (Imagina club): support
Tharindu Elkin - Tharindu (TWISTED/ WTF!): support
Chris Bones / Black Rabbit: great beat!
Simon Gossiaux - Fantome : support
Paul Jackson - Jax (FREAKIN): love it. stomping house for some serious main room action. will play loud!
Geoff Ticehurst (Shuffle / Freshly Squeezed ): Absolutely yes! Love this. Great vocal, great production.
Bas Elgharib - Bas (Plastic Love, Culprit) (Plastic Love): Nice track, will have to give this a play and see how it all goes down.
Ko Kimura
Andy Baxter (Pacha Ibiza+World Tours/ Cafe Mambo Ibiza): Great vocal
Mole & Aya (planet patrol/ ibreaks.co.uk): Love this!
Charlie Gardner - Charlie G: love it!!
Gary Haigh - Little Bastard: Like this!
Julian Peake - Vern (Type): Nice vibey tune.
Paul Budd - Pablo Contraband (Disco Deviant Special/ Release): Superb low slung deep house. Nice amount of vocal, balanced and cool track will def be supporting this weekend.
Karl Frampton - Off The Cuff (Passion): this is hot thanks loving the production & vox ;-)
James Crone (53 Degrees/ The Rainbow Warehouse): supportingibly sound amazing off my head at 5am!
Dan Ormondroyd - Dan / Kahuna (Various - London): great
Simon Francis - Simon Francis (House FM) (Plinkplinkfizz): Great groove on this that kind of creeps up on you. Definitely going to be a staple in the set for a bit!
Luke Brancaccio (Various - Worldwide): Amazing. by far the best tune in blinkin ages... love it
Albert Masferrer - Kosmos (Spain) (BOOMBOX/ NASTY MONDAYS): great!
Matthew Chandler (Aerial Noise): I'm liking the marring of the vocal and the backing production. I think this will do very well on the floors.