During the 1990’s the Red Hot Organisation, an international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture. released a series of albums called Red Hot +Blue. The first one sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business.  Since its inception in 1989, over 400 artists, producers and directors have contributed to over 15 compilation albums,

 “U Try Livin’”  was one of the tracks on one of the albums which exalted a chorus of wanting to break free. Indeed. While Red Hot’s inaugural rousing righteousness may be rooted in clubbing through the AIDS crisis of the ’90s, the message of empowerment is very much relevant three decades later as we continue to shake off our respective shackles with this remix package lifted from Red Hot + Free. 

“U Try Livin’ (Pressure)” by Black Guy White Guy x 808 BEACH x Anelisa Lamola is the ‘supergroup’ writing/production collaboration of UK soul royalty Kwame Kwaten (D-Influence, Laura Mvula) and Gil Cang (Michael Jackson) with NYC club denizen Bill Coleman (Deee-Lite, Lenny Kravitz, Party Girl), musical wunderkind John “J-C” Carr (Zayn, Sia, Lizzo) and Uk multi-hyphenate super talent, Anelisa Lamola. 

And so remains the mission of The Red Hot Organization — to create global anthems and collaborate with artists for humanitarian charities. Red Hot founder John Carlin often reminds us, “Red Hot is the only company in the world that wanted to go out of business. 30 years later, we’re still here. Glad about that, but sad that AIDS/HIV awareness, humanitarian and LGBTQ+ rights still need to be fought for.”