Groove Armada Shakes It On "I See You" Single, Video
Fronted by the DJ duo of Tom Findlay and Andy Cato, Britain's Groove Armada is preparing to launch a North American tour next month support of its recent "Vertigo" album and its "I See You Baby" single, which currently has rumps shakin' in dance clubs across the U.S.
The cut features vocals from Gram'ma Funk, a singer Cato and Findlay told MTV News they met while visiting (and partying in) the Balearic Islands off the southeastern coast of Spain, and whom they invited to record with them back in London.
[article id="1445176"]"'I See You Baby' we recorded about a year ago, I suppose,"[/article] recalled Tom Findlay.
[article id="1445176"]"It was about a year ago,"[/article] agreed Andy Cato, [article id="1445176"]"in a horrible place called Tottenham, which is North London. It's where the studio used to be, and [the track] features the vocal talents of an extraordinary woman called Gram'ma Funk.
We
met her in Ibiza, which is the big party island in the Balearic Isles,"[/article] Findlay said. [article id="1445176"]"We brought her over, gave her a few Red Stripes, and got her going. She came up with a lot of vocal stuff, probably ten minutes of vocal stuff, most of which was far too rude to broadcast, but a little bit went into that tune.
And we pieced it together,"[/article] Cato continued, [article id="1445176"]"to say, 'I see you baby, shakin' that --'
Can we say 'ass?'"[/article] Findlay asked aloud. [article id="1445176"]"Excellent. 'Ass.'
'Shakin' that --'"[/article] Cato prompted.
[article id="1445176"]"Ass,"[/article] Findlay said. [article id="1445176"]"And it's been remixed by Fatboy Slim, which is great." [RealVideo][/article]
The "I See You Baby" single has spawned a sleek video currently in heavy rotation on MTV2. Groove Armada admitted that they would have
liked to have had more of a say in the casting of the clip, which features gallivanting models being monitored by an ever-so groovy security guard.
"Well, the video is one of those strange ones," Findlay said. "We really didn't have that much to do with it, I've got to be totally honest. We saw the treatment and we had a few concerns about it, and we made a couple of changes to the treatment, which was cool.
I really like it," he added. "It's the first video that we've ever really spent any money on. Most of the videos we do are for tiny, tiny budgets, so it's kind of got a big, American sheen to it, which I like.
It looks proper," Cato said. "It
looks like a proper video.
We would have liked to have been at the casting session," Findlay explained.
The Groove Armada will set sail across North America beginning on June 1 with a DJ date in Mexico City and wrapping up on June 19 in New York City (see [article id="1429759"]"Groove Armada Brings Own Army To Live Gigs"[/article]).
