1979
MUTTONHEADS
Muttonheads turns back the clock to 1979, the year disco ruled the world. His new single, “1979”, pays tribute to the genre’s great classics and takes him back to the sound of his earliest tracks.
Playful piano chords set the mood from the first bars. Lasers cut through the mix, strings swell and a looped vocal adds the French Touch signature. It’s a pure disco house cut, made to bring the dancefloor together, with a feel-good energy that nods to the past without sounding dated.
For Muttonheads, it’s a homecoming. A pianist before becoming a DJ and producer, he was shaped by Daft Punk and the Italo-disco sound of the 1980s. Since signing with Serial Records in 2004, he has taken that sensibility from early successes like “To You” and “I’ll Be There” to European number ones with “Make Your Own Kind of Music” and radio and club hits such as “Trust You Again” and “Snow White (Alive)”. His 2021 album Climax already marked a return to French Touch sounds. “1979” goes one step further, pairing the spirit of his first tracks with the experience of an artist who has been moving dancefloors for more than twenty years.
So dust off the mirror ball: with “1979”, Muttonheads proves that the disco spirit never really left the dancefloor.