Can Brooks save Disco Kandi ...

Jason Brooks, original illustrator of the famed Hed Kandi artwork cover sleeves returned "home" last August '07 after a brief stint at Mark Doyle's Fierce Angel label.

About welcoming Jason back to the Hed Kandi family, the label's Manager, Dan Baxter, says, "Hed Kandi has always been about the perfect combination of stylish music and stylish imagery. Jason Brooks is extraordinarily talented and his work is a key part of our iconography and heritage. Nobody represents Hed Kandi better than Jason so his return means so much to us."

Jason Brooks says, "I'm naturally thrilled to be back on the team at Hed Kandi and am looking forward ... to evolving the brand imagery beyond anything I've done before."

Now I have no clue if their compilations are selling well or not, but what I do know is that haven't purchased much of them lately and neither did some of my friends. Disco House is dead nowadays, the formula has been bled to death, quality releases are too few, it's time to move on. Although their Nu Cool series and Twisted Disco ones aren't bad at all.

The illustrator maybe back but the Disco Kandi/Heaven compilations are crappy. Same ol' Fedde LeGrand and Fish go Deep, given a choice between spending cash for a Jason Brooks Hed Kandi poster and a Disco Kandi cd. I'd go for the first.

Disco Kandi at Amazon.com
View exquisite imagery of Jason Brooks on his website
Hed Kandi posters at Hed Kandi