Yulia Niko & Alfonso Muchacho flip an ’80s anthem into a late-night weapon, “Bad Habits” out now via Get Physical Music

When Yulia Niko touches a classic, it doesn’t come back the same. For her latest move, the Berlin-based selector teams up with UK underground spirit Alfonso Muchacho to rewire Jenny Burton’s 1985 hit “Bad Habits” into something darker, sweatier, and cut for 4AM basements.

This is not nostalgia. It’s a pressure cooker of rolling percussion, a low-end built to rattle Funktion-Ones, and a vocal performance that oozes heat and attitude. The bones of Burton’s hook are still there, but they’ve been stripped and re-dressed in leather — less disco gloss, more warehouse pulse.

Niko brings her signature touch of minimal elegance, all clean lines and perfectly weighted tension, while Muchacho laces the cut with his trademark textures and shadowy mysticism. The chemistry hits hard: soulful, hypnotic, and dripping with late-night menace.

“Bad Habits” lands ahead of Niko’s Body Language Vol. 26 compilation, out September 19 on Get Physical. If the rest of the record carries this kind of bite, expect it to be one of the season’s defining snapshots of where vocal house and underground techno collide.

Listen here: Get Physical Music – Bad Habits