- Digital
PREP, Eddie Chacon
Call It
How Do You Are? /- Cat No: HDYA-NEO-14
- Release: 2025-05-02
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In 2015, the four members of Prep came together to cut deep grooves that mine contemporary R&B and electronica while hearkening back to the soft, sheer sound of the late '70s and early '80s.. The love for that style united vocalist-lyricist Tom Havelock, keyboardist Llywelyn Ap Myrddin, drummer Guillaume Jambel, and producer Dan Radclyffe. Prep is pop music that feels tip-of-the-tongue familiar even though you've never heard it before. They have a massive following in some Asian countries, especially Indonesia, Thailand and The Philippines, collaborating with local stars Live and in recording. Their self titled debut album arrived in 2020, followed by "The Programme" (produced by Renaud Letang) from 2024, featuring the original version of "Call It", their cooperation with legend Eddie Chacon (of Charles & Eddie - "Would I Lie To You" fame).
SO how did the collab come together: "The first time we heard Eddie Chacon's Holy Hell we fell in love with it instantly and thought "we have to do something with this guy". A year later we were going to be in LA for a few days, so we had a word with our label, they got in touch, and next thing we knew there was a session in the diary.
That one day with Eddie at the Stones Throw studios in Pasadena was one of the best we've ever had, where everything just happened very naturally: we met, we got on, had tacos, Eddie had a melody idea, we put a beat down, chords down, the equipment worked, the stars aligned... We wrote 'Call It' in an afternoon. It's 'Georgy Porgy', it's 'Always There', but really it's neither. It's us and Eddie Chacon, channeling a lot of good feeling through a roomful of drumboxes, synths - and an electric sitar.
DJ Supermarkt was a huge fan of the original track already, but the idea to have LA's Turbotito remix the track was a dream come true.
SO how did the collab come together: "The first time we heard Eddie Chacon's Holy Hell we fell in love with it instantly and thought "we have to do something with this guy". A year later we were going to be in LA for a few days, so we had a word with our label, they got in touch, and next thing we knew there was a session in the diary.
That one day with Eddie at the Stones Throw studios in Pasadena was one of the best we've ever had, where everything just happened very naturally: we met, we got on, had tacos, Eddie had a melody idea, we put a beat down, chords down, the equipment worked, the stars aligned... We wrote 'Call It' in an afternoon. It's 'Georgy Porgy', it's 'Always There', but really it's neither. It's us and Eddie Chacon, channeling a lot of good feeling through a roomful of drumboxes, synths - and an electric sitar.
DJ Supermarkt was a huge fan of the original track already, but the idea to have LA's Turbotito remix the track was a dream come true.