Heart & Soul

  1. Extended Mix
  2. Milk Bar Extended Remix
  3. Lenny Fontana Club Remix
  4. DADDIES HOME! Disco Mayhem Mix
  5. Elof de Neve Big Room Remix

I long time work in progress, “Heart & Soul” is a track that was started in 2022 with vocals recorded in Europe. The Original Extended Mix, Milk Bar Mix, and Lenny Fontana mixes perfectly represented where house music was evolving too in late 2022. But as often happens, artists get sidetracked.

“Between running Swishcraft Music, signing and releasing tracks for other artists, producing my two parties or Djing someone else’s parties every weekend, being on the road weekly, and taking on remix projects both solo as Matt Consola or part of the team DADDIES HOME!, I tend to put myself and my projects on the back burner often forgetting my projects are there while I focus on my clients. And that is what happened with “Heart & Soul,” say Consola.

An evolution away from his pop roots and more grounded in classic underground house roots, “Heart & Soul” is driven by strong vocals and piano, much like his solo remixes. Matt continues, “I’m a sucker for a great vocal pop tune. I immediately start to pick it apart and hear it in my head as a piano house track. What’s funny is that for too many years, I didn’t trust my own desires to produce tracks that way and often went bigger and more hands-in-the-air in order to play to the larger peak-time crowds.” He goes on to say, “With every project I take on at Swishcraft and then commission remixes, the one thing I always says to the remix producers is ‘Create the mix you most want to play out’. What was ironic is I wasn’t always doing that myself. I’d look at a project and see what producers I put on the project, saw what genre remixes they were bringing to the package, and then whatever was missing, I produced a mix in that style. I wasn’t treating myself or branding myself as a remix producer.”

Consola admits, he much prefers working as a team. To date he’s partnered with Division 4 (Robert Ladic), Dirty Disco (Mark De Lange), Aaron Altemose (as part of Rip City Boys), and most recently Tommy Marcus (as part of DADDIES HOME!) and Andy Allder. “I love the back-and-forth and ping-ponging of idea you get when you sit in the studio and work on projects. However when your partners are in Sydney, Paris, London or even Houston TX, it’s more working over Zoom, Text, Email or FaceTime. And one side ends up doing a lions share of the engineering. But when I’m working on something alone, I never feel it’s done. And it certainly doesn’t go as fast as when I’ve got a partner.”

While “Heart & Soul” has popped up in edited form on two recent Swishcraft Annual Pride Compilations, This will be the first time the remixes will be available. “Each time a Pride season came, I added a version of “Heart & Soul” with the intention of releasing the project weeks later. And then it never happened. So a few months back, I resisted the project with my Tommy (Marcus) for an additional DADDIES HOME! Remix and set it for a Spring 2025 release. I hope you enjoy it.”

Matt Consola has been a resident of the International Bear party BEARRACUDA for 19 years. He is also a 6 year resident with Chill Bar in Palm Springs, and has been promoting the original International Daddy parties “Daddy Issues” since 2015 in America, Canada, & Mexico, as well as his newer parties “DaddyPop!”, a daytime remixed disco tea dance, “Funky Bear XXL”, and the soon to be launched H.o.L (July 2025). For a schedule of upcoming events visit https://swishcraftmusic.com/events or follow his parties on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19D2Qb1XoY/