New Hot Chip Song OMG :)
- story Matthew Schnipper
And it sounds like it Aladdin wrote it for his girlfriend after the genie smoked him out. If Hot Chip was a planet it would be the Sun, but only when it’s night where you are because of MYSTERY. They smell what the Rock is cooking. And he is cooking Neon Mediterranean Hot Pants Hot Chip Stew. He is slow broiling that shit like a good roast. They are probably vegetarians though. Which is cool so are some of us. Not that we’re proud of it. Seriously, Hot Chip is so awesomeeeee. Look we just finished a lot of work and are going to rip mid day bongs and jam this jam, TTYL bros!
Audio: Fischerspooner, “We Are Electric” (Hot Chip Remix)
- story THE FADER
Hot on the heels of their Robert Wyatt collabo and a meeting of the minds with Peter Gabriel comes Hot Chip’s remix of Fischerspooner’s “We Are Electric.” It’s almost like they put every team-up request in a hat and just started picking things at random. This time dudes get minimal, stretching out sparse electronic texture for eight minutes. Prepare to go nuts when the egg shaker drops into the mix toward the end, proving once and for all that 2009 is all about tiny thrills.
RCRD LBL Freeload: Buraka Som Sistema, “Kalemba (Wegue Wegue) (Hot Chip Remix)”
- story THE FADER
Anybody who thought Hot Chip could make Buraka Som Sistema sound more gangster, please raise your pale, skinny arm, because we sure didn’t. Whichever of the Chippers did this obviously thought that the original just didn’t have enough heart-mummering bass on it, nor did it sound enough like happy hardcore about halfway through. Both laudable observations. Grab the remix below and watch the video for the original above.
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posted on Feb 9, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Buraka Som Sistema, electronic/dance, freeload, Hot Chip
Freeload: Hot Chip is the New Retirement Fund
- story THE FADER
In the last week, our dear electronic friends in Hot Chip have released a couple of surprising collaborations with music heroes of the past: a cover of their own “Made in the Dark” with avant-pop wizard Robert Wyatt (literally, that dude is Gandalf on the mic) and a cover of Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” with proto-Tunde Adebimpe/best Genesis-ian Peter Gabriel. The Robert Wyatt collab is from a new EP the group is releasing for the holiday season (see their website for details), and the Gabriel thing is an unreleased potential b-side from the “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” single this year which made its way onto an XL Recordings sampler according to Abeano. Both are so excellent, so warm and wisened, that we’ve decided to change the magazine’s mission from emerging artists to artists with emerging old man ears and gray hair. Despite their excellence, though, Peter Gabriel singing It feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel, too doesn’t make any more sense than Ezra Koenig singing it.
Download: Hot Chip f. Robert Wyatt, “Made in the Dark”
Hot Chip f. Peter Gabriel, “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”
Dollars To Pounds: Chips On The Side
- story THE FADER
The mighty Hot Chip headlined two nights at Brixton Academy last week, including a Friday late show. It was possibly the best I’ve ever seen them play: they always seem to come across better in front of a club or festival crowd, segueing tunes into each other for maximum aural strobe effect, and this time they had a live drummer for added traction ‘cross the Academy’s slippery floors. Joe wore a black suit and Al a dazzling white one, flanking Alexis who came on engulfed by a giant harlequin gown and matching paper crown before stripping down to white dungarees.
There were two new songs, one called “Alley Cat,” which sounded like a continuation of the twilight soul mood of ‘Made In The Dark’’s closing numbers. Then again, the new Chip album could easily go in the opposite direction, as signalled by a throbbing trance version of “Boy From School.”
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posted on Nov 12, 2008 in DOLLARS TO POUNDS tags electronic/dance, Hot Chip, Jesse Rose, Little Boots
Freeload: Max Tundra, “Playboy” (Hot Chip Cover)
- story THE FADER
“Playboy” was definitely one of our favorite songs on Hot Chip’s debut Coming on Strong, but it came out so long ago that we didn’t even have a website then and couldn’t write about it on the internet like everyone else, though we did get our chance in print. Fortunately for us, Domino just put up a free download of Max Tundra’s new cover of “Playboy,” so we can finally say Hey, have you guys heard this song “Playboy”? It’s one of our favorites on Hot Chip’s new album Coming on Strong. Maybe Max Tundra will cover it someday and make it just a little bit weirder, that’d be alright.
Download: Max Tundra, “Playboy” (Hot Chip Cover)
Freeload: Alexis Taylor (of Hot Chip), “Coming Up”
- story THE FADER
No one at Treader bothered to send us a promo for Alexis Taylor’s new solo album Rubbed Out, even though we have been sending telepathic requests since we heard about it, but Slutty Fringe got one and has graciously posted this soft-spoken cover of Paul McCartney’s still incredibly bananas “Coming Up” from the record. You can buy Rubbed Out right now from Cargo Records—they ship to most places.
Download: Alexis Taylor, “Coming Up”
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posted on Oct 23, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Alexis Taylor, electronic/dance, freeload, Hot Chip, Paul McCartney, rock
Hot Chip Is Scared of the Dark + “Wrestlers” Video
- story THE FADER
We don’t really think of the Hot Chip guys as giant peyote skull dudes, but this was the winning design for the glow-in-the-dark T-shirt contest they had with Threadless. Then we figured maybe it would make more sense once we activated the glow-in-the-dark technology. What would the shirt reveal? A brain? Prince’s face? Prince’s face in the shape of brain? A pair of thick rimmed glasses for the skull? Then we went home, stuck are chest up to a halogen lamp and hid in the closet with a mirror. The answer: four delightfully cute pixies. Life is full of surprises.
Bonus: Hot Chip’s “Wrestlers” Video
Online Record Shopping With Hot Chip
- story THE FADER
Hot Chip just sent out a press release about their upcoming tour dates and this recent live iTunes EP of a concert taped at Germany’s Radialsystem V festival. Which is fine and dandy and as dependably rad as everything else the Chip does – but the records they bought on that trip to Berlin are even better, if their new Top 10 chart for Beatport is any indication. Heard of Prosumer and Murat Tepeli? Us neither but they make JOINTS, apparently. Their mellow “Serenity” is up top, alongside Radio Slave’s jacking remix of Minilogue’s “Space,” techno gems from Phil Kieran and Dominik Eulberg, and six more intriguing, genuinely unexpected electronic selections that are all well worth the download. MOAR!
Freeload: Little Boots, “Stuck On Repeat” + Necessary New Toy
- story THE FADER
We admittedly dropped the ball on Little Boots by not posting this until now even though it has been in the rotation for a couple months already, but fortunately for you and us songs don’t go bad. “Stuck On Repeat” was given a little extra wobble by Joe of Hot Chip, but it’s clearly Victoria (a select few might remember her from Dead Disco) creating the magic, as you can see in the video above of her recreating the song on the crazyass Tenori-On, which yes, you may buy us for no reason. Also worth checking out is the “Magical” demo on Little Boots’ MySpace.
Download: Little Boots, “Stuck On Repeat”
