Having released across labels like Ministry of Sound, Simma Black, OFFRecordings, Toolroom, Armada, Spinnin, Sink or Swim and Colourize Penny F has co-written and collaborated with a huge array of artists throughout her career, everyone from Lana Del Rey, William Orbit, Ali Love, Yousef and Arthur Baker to MNEK, DJ Fresh, Josh Butler, Jon Pearn and now Paul…
Co-written by Paul and Penny, Hallucinate’s lyrics are inspired by Penny’s spiritual home – Ibiza, where the track will no doubt go down a storm this summer. It’s pure dancefloor euphoria – a sure-fire anthem that builds into an overwhelming sensory rush, just like its title.
Paul: “Hallucinate is one of my favourite new songs. I’ve been a fan of Penny F for a while and finally got to collaborate with her on this one. It’s a wonderful song and Penny has a fantastic voice. I’ve been playing it the last few months and a lot of people have been asking for it. So here it is!”
‘Hallucinate’ is the latest in a string of planned releases this year, all part of Perfecto’s 30th Anniversary. There are special releases, remixes, collaborations, and live events to celebrate a huge milestone of one of dance music’s most iconic labels. Things started earlier this year with the release of ‘Concentrate’, the first-ever collaboration between Paul and Carl Cox, but there’s also a documentary coming, Welcome to Perfecto (which features commentary from the legendary likes of Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Todd Terry and David Guetta and more) and Paul himself will make a series of special DJ appearances crisscrossing America and the UK to Ibiza and Australia –involving the parties, festivals, and superclubs like Cream where he made his name. He’ll be revisiting Perfecto classics and deep cuts like PPK’s “ResuRection,” Planet Perfecto’s “Bullet in a Gun,” and his own smashes like “Starry Eyed Surprise” (the hit collaboration with Crazy Town’s Shifty Shellshock from Oakenfold’s platinum debut solo album, 2002’s Bunkka). And they’ll be releases from today’s most cutting-edge artists and producers including Velvet Cash, Danny Stubbs, Blink, Adam White, and Nat Monday.
‘Perfecto 30’ will celebrate the full heritage and influence of the dance-music empire Oakenfold has built – from helping create DJ superstars out of the likes of Hernán Cattáneo, Mark Ronson, and David Guetta to bringing underground dance sounds to fresh ears. Across the main Perfecto imprint and its four sub-labels – Perfecto Records, Perfecto Fluoro, Perfecto Black, and Perfecto House – the label has touched nearly every significant dance movement of modern times, from progressive, trance, and EDM but also drum and bass, Balearic, electro, and beyond.
Paul Oakenfold on Perfecto 30: “Perfecto is now a thirty-year-old brand: there are generations that have grown up with the sound. They got into dance music and have grown up with the label, collecting our vinyl from day one. It’s turned into much more than a label. So to celebrate that spirit, I’m just going to do what I’m good at and really love – and go out in a blaze of glory for my last dance.”
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