The second single to be lifted from Del The Funky Homosapien and Amp Live’s collaborative album Gate 13, is one of the LP standouts entitled Help featuring L.A.-based singer Adult Karate. A brief but lightly operatic opening (inna Fifth Element Diva Dance stylee) segués nicely into the most Deltron-like of all the album’s tracks as Del’s unmistakable voice takes the mic with a sackful of sci-fi references he must have had left over from his last outing with Automator and Kid Koala. Not that I’m complaining you understand, material from a man of Del’s stature is always welcome. Oh and of course there’s also Adult Karate’s chorus on which he does a vaguely Lennon-esque type thing. Adding in a lightly operatic breakdown laced with electronica and making sure that haunting piano loop and the opera bird are close at hand throughout the whole thing sees Del and Amp provide ample evidence that the last thing they needs musically is help.
(Out now on I.O.T. Records)