FC Kahuna

Three years ago, Dan and Jon Kahuna made the decision that would decide their future - they closed the doors on the Big Kahuna Burger, the club that made their name but lost its way, and opened them on new night Headstart. The result was a new sense of direction, one that has now given birth to "Machine Says Yes," their debut album as FC Kahuna. "Machine Says Yes" is an electrifying fusion of futurist acid house and silicon soul, driven by the sense of adventure and distaste for the mainstream that have always been the pair's stock in trade. "We've been looking back at where we're from to find out where we should go," says Dan. "Headstart pointed us in the right direction. We know what we're about now, there's much more of a gut feeling about what we do." Dan (fair hair, breathless monologues) and Jon (dark hair, wry asides) go back a long way, to a street called Woodcross Fold in Leeds, UK. Daniel Ormondroyd was seven years old and lived at Number 46. Jon Nowell was nine and lived at Number 65. They bonded fast, playing soccer half the time and records the other half. They would record songs onto a little tape machine and talk over them. The passion for joining together disparate tunes stayed with them into their adult years. Talking over them, thankfully, did not. The two drifted apart after school, but soon met up again on clubbing excursions to the Leeds Warehouse in 1988, where the play list pointed the way to future endeavors: "loads of bleeps all night except for