Peking Duk Welcomes Us to ‘Paradise’ With Long-Awaited First Album

Life’s a party when you’re living in paradise .

That’s the bassline according to Peking Duk , the duo of Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles, which has been dropping electronic bangers for more than decade and which, on Friday (Aug.

14), blew open the gates to Paradise , their debut album.

Good things and long waits, well, they’re fused at the hip.

Paradise arrives with an array of guest talent, from Killer Mike, Rico Nasty, Phantogram, to Aussie singer and songwriter Matt Corby, and is three years in the making.

At the top of the 14-song collection, the familiar voice of Jack Thompson, the legendary actor and activist who led a slew of classic films in the ‘70s and ‘80s and presented to the world one of the enduring images of the hard-partying, and equally progressive, Australian bloke.

The lads got the surprise of their young lives when, in their teens, met Thompson in Hyde’s mother’s kitchen.

“My mom’s got some friends in strange places.

And Jack Thompson seems to be one of them,” he quips.

Another familiar sound, the Roland TB-303, the match that lit the ‘90s rave scene, drops in on the track, appropriately titled “Jack Thompson,” and the adventure in Paradise begins.

The production pair can’t be blamed for being idle.

Or slack on output.

Hyde recently completed the latest cycle as his alter-ego, the party-animal pop star Kelli Holiday, a project that yielded an ARIA Award (best video for “Dancing2”), a domestic top 3 album for Capital Fiction (his second solo effort) , and tour dates across North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Styles has been on the road, too, with Y.O.G.A. (You’re Only Great Always), his own solo project that drips in outlaw country spirit and after-hours rave energy.