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The group
Lambchop have often been praised for their eclectic and ambitious musical outlook, beginning with a funhouse view on classic country music on their first few albums and evolving into an intelligent, visionary chamber pop ensemble. But even
Lambchop's biggest fans probably didn't anticipate
HeCTA, a side project created by
Lambchop leader
Kurt Wagner and featuring his bandmates Scott Martin (whose other projects include Hobbledeions) and Ryan Norris (also a member of
Coupler).
HeCTA was created as a vehicle for
Wagner's growing interest in electronic dance music, and inspired in part by his appreciation of the book Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence.
HeCTA wasn't
Wagner's first brush with electronic music; he co-wrote the song "Give It" for
X-Press 2, U.K. producers
Zero 7 worked with
Lambchop on a remix of the
Nixon track "Up with People," and
Lambchop collaborated with electronic duo
Hands Off Cuba for an EP called
CoLAB.
HeCTA's debut album, 2015's
The Diet, featured
Wagner on vocals, keyboards, programming, and editing; Norris on synthesizers, vocoder, guitar, bass, programming, and editing; and Martin on drums, percussion, keyboards, programming, and editing. ~ Mark Deming