Great Club Music From 2011

Clockwise: Yovanni, Kris Searle, Cazwell, and Simulover.

When you hit the clubs in 2011, it would be surprising to NOT hear some if not all of the acts pictures above. Especially if you are hitting a LGBT club! They put out some fantastic music, an not just this year.

At the beginning of the year, Cuban-born Yovanni released his single Hello. The song, with the strong elements of Dance and Rock, showed the countless influences of the boy who grew up in Miami. After studying music, he ventured out to make his own statement. This he did. Bold, futuristic, and spicy hot are just a few of the ways you could describe the video. Watch Hello.



You can purchase Hello on iTunes and Amazon.

Earlier this year, a new release came out by Simulover. It is a duo made up of SIRPAUL and Alex Lauterstein, two talented men working in New York City. I am a huge fan of SIRPAUL's work, and had seen him live where he was assisted by the strikingly handsome DJ, Alex. So I was excited to hear the music they made together, and once it hit the internet, I was not disappointed at all. The Simulover album was great stuff, a combination of dance, electronica and industrial music that showed no limits. Check out their first video for the song Tourniquet.



You can purchase the Simulover album on iTunes and Amazon.

For the fifth consecutive year, Kris Searle has won the prestigious 21st annual Los Angeles Music Award for Best Dance Electronica Artist of the year. The British-born Kris splits his time between his home in the UK and his new adopted home in Los Angeles. Searle recently released Falling For Your Light, a great Electronic Pop song.



You can purchase Falling For Your Light on iTunes and Amazon.

It is sometimes tough to write about someone like Cazwell, who has been making great music for several years, and who is just so damned fun to watch and listen to. He recruited a bunch of hot dancers and they made some videos for songs like Ice Cream Truck and Get My Money Back off the 2010 release, Watch My Mouth. Whether it is more fun to watch the video, dance to the song, or just listen to his music on the iPod, you can decide. Cause I just can't, I love to do it all.



You can purchase Watch My Mouth on iTunes and Amazon.

Simulover • Tourniquet

Simulover, the project of Alex Lauterstein and SIRPAUL™, has found a new outlet for all their creative juices, as it were. They debuted the first videofrom the self-titled album. Tourniquet, the second cut, is their ode to some fetish behavior, set to the driving beat of electro-dance. But is it about fetishes, or is it more about how we look at them, both in ourselves and in others? .



The video was directed by Andreas Anastasis, who was at the helm of the SIRPAUL videos. Anastasis has often toyed with the idea of reality, and what lurks just beneath the surface of people. He composes the images using the two stunning men, contrasting and blending them at will, with a startling ease. Whether they are using plastic, latex, hemp or some other artifice as a second skin, the video studies human sexuality.



For more about Simulover, visit Alex and SIRPAUL on their official website here. You can also find them at their FAceBook page here, and Twitter here. You can find Simulover's debut album on iTunes here, and on Amazon here.