On Twitter last week, the writer Rich Juzwiak posted this: “There is shit on the Juan MacLean album that sounds like soulful house if they removed the soul and left the corpse singing.” Rich meant that as a dismissal of the album, but it also gets at what I like about it. The new In [...]

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The Juan Maclean used to be the disco-house solo project of the former Six Finger Satellite member and DFA Records standby John MacLean. More recently, though, the former LCD Soundsystem member (and frequent MacLean collaborator) Nancy Whang joined up full-time, making it a duo. The new In A Dream is the third proper Juan Maclean [...]

DFA OG John MacLean — AKA the Juan MacLean — will be back with another LP of expertly assembled dance music next month. The album, entitled In A Dream, once again features LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang on vocals; she’s been a full-time Juan MacLean member for several years, but she’s out at the f...

The Juan Maclean, the former Six Finger Satellite member who became an old-school house producer, has been cranking out transcendent dance anthems since the early days of DFA. In the last year, he’s given us a pair of monster 12″ singles, “You Are My Destiny” and “Feel Like Movin’,&...