NYC Industry Titans Lula vs Eddie Cumana and Alan T vs Franklin Fuentes Square Off for Techno Tune “Like An Android”

Club kids, it’s time to get on your dancing shoes: Underground veterans Lula, Eddie Cumana, Alan T, and Franklin Fuentes team up to release 90s-esque techno banger ‘Like An Android.’

Picture this: It’s the late 90s, maybe early 2000s, and you find yourself at an underground rave somewhere in the depths of New York City. You can feel the pulsing techno and progressive house beats deep in your chest. You dance for hours. Now picture this in 2023 and you’ll know exactly what it feels like to listen to ‘Like An Android,’ the new KULT Records release by Lula vs Eddie Cumana and Alan T vs Franklin Fuentes.

‘Like An Android,’ set to be released exclusively on Beatport on June 2 before streaming everywhere on June 30, is touted by KULT as a techno record with “house music programming, sequences, and technique,” “hypnotic vocal hooks,” and “a crowed connecting breakdown.” The 126BPM vocal mix version of the track features a hard-hitting beat with programmed vocals provided by Lula and Alan T, while Franklin Fuentes adds his robotized voice to the bridge.

Not only is the track sonically stimulating, but the story behind the words is just as enticing. The lyrics “The Androidz are coming, the Androidz are here,” are repeated at varying octaves throughout the song. However, rather than describing the robotic monotony of some human existence, ‘Like An Android’ turns this stereotype on its head. 

‘The Androidz,’ in this case, are “all those human beings that are awake and march to the beat of their own drum,” according to KULT Records. Rather than being “hypnotized into a routine…like they have been programmed like an Android,” the Androidz of the song take life by the reigns and put thought into everything they do–including “even moving, dancing, walking, and talking like an android.”

‘Like An Android’ brings together four industry veterans of the underground scene that embody this individualistic and avant-garde mentality. Lula, the first of these self-proclaimed Androidz, has been a staple of the underground music scene for nearly thirty years. She’s provided vocals on cult classics like ‘The DJ, The Music and Me’ by Creamer & K, ‘Ecstasy (Take Your Shirts Off)’ by Johnny Vicious, and ‘There Is Only One,’ also by Eddie Cumana, to just name a few.

Eddie Cumana himself is another key player in the underground scene, embodying the distinct New York underground sound for over three decades. He’s garnered support from musicians around the world like Danny Tenaglia, Carl Cox, John Digweed, Fatboy Slim, and others. A longtime collaborator with Lula and Alan T, ‘Like An Android’ marks another revolutionary partnership between the artists.

Meanwhile, Alan T puts the ‘persona’ in ‘personality.’ This larger-than-life character is a staple at the door of Club Space in Miami and has become the host of the underground scene in addition to expanding his scope into fashion, studio arts, and musical performances. He’s vocalized on many a track with Lula, including Eddie Cumana’s ‘There Is Only One’ and ‘Now.’

Last but not least, Franklin Fuentes is the fourth and final of the Androidz to join the track, providing his emblematic voice to the hook. A beacon of the New York queer underground scene, Fuentes is most known for his work on ‘The Robots Are Coming’ by Friscia & Lamboy and ‘Diva Snap’ by Serevino n Farley. 

Preorder ‘Like An Android’ (the Extended Vocal Mix, the HighKey Lit Dub Remix, and the Mixshow Edit) here now.

Lucie Turkel

Lucie Turkel joined the Exron Music team a little over three months ago and has blasted off into the realm of otherworldly music ever since. Core memories in the dance music scene include scoring VIP tickets to Kygo’s UTOPIA, a 12-hour trip to Ibiza (the island) to see David Guetta perform, and seeing Flume play his Tennis Court remix on an actual tennis court. In addition to her work with Exron, Lucie works as a full-time campaign coordinator at Live Nation and freelances for Reader’s Digest. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

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