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(of the stage; when they play live)

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

jaxon referencing terry from just one of the guys just made my day.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm starting to think that the only Hot Chip tracks that really do it for me are No Fit State, The DFA's remix of Just Like We (Break Down), and Over and Over. It seems like the more I listen to other tracks from The Warning and Coming On Strong the less I like them. I really enjoyed those tracks live, but at home they put me to sleep more or less. So aside from the big 3 mentioned above, I'm apathetic...but maybe time will tell.

― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's a classic conundrum - great live band, dud on record.

― hearts, Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

chantilly, i know what you mean. while i was all gushing about their new 'un on the other thread, my enthusiasm for the record has steadily dwindled and now i often concede, letting my eager skip finger goes blang blauh several times.

its still way way fun and i can still feel it with my hands and my tongue but something seems a bit temporary about it all. (god, jaded about an album not even released for another 2 months - someone cut me up soon.)

― {apal moon, Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

free show at NYC's South St Seaport on Friday.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/upcoming_events/events.php?id=30357

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

mmm... anyone who hasn't seen them live or seen them earlier when they were a 3-piece, check that out...

they were fan-fuckingtastic at Sonar

I'm very puzzled by the "temporary" comments people seem to be making - of all the new artists 2000-onwards, these guys are one of the few that get constant replay - probably the album I've listened to most this year, never really outstays its welcome. if a better record comes out this year it'll be shock.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

i really didnt like their first album, but this one basically roolz.

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

I thought this was the thread where I was clowned for saying this sounded like dance music with an 'indie filter.' But its not. Nonetheless, "20-inch rims with the chrome now/ Blazin' out Yo La Tengo."

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.slate.com/id/2146447/

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

i have listened the shit out of the Warning this summer.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah definitely my favorite album of the year. i'm going to be at that seaport show too, duh, they rocked it when i saw them at cmj last year (before having heard any recorded output). plus since i'm reppin astralwerks for the summer its like a responsibility

i'll bump this thread on fri so kids can maybe pre/at-show meetup

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

This and Destroyer's Rubies are becoming my summer albums.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

deej, Hot Chip - The Warning

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

"over and over" has some good moments, like the synth freakout (freakout maybe too strong a word, but it's cool), but then not too long after it they start singing again and it's like, if you're talking about repetition and making me think about the wonderous qualities thereof, i think i'd rather put on a house/techno/whatever dj mix where the music won't get interrupted every 4 or 5 minutes. i guess that's why i don't appreciate indietronica or whatever it's called

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

"But Hot Chip's primary passion is contemporary rap and R&B."

What's up with all this stuff about American R&B/hip hop? I don't hear it in the music. Is it press sheet hype or what?

― Gavin (Gavin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

What's up with all this stuff about American R&B/hip hop? I don't hear it in the music. Is it press sheet hype or what?

The short answer is you're not listening to enough mainstream R&B radio.

The long answer is go pick up the current issue of (gags, puts iron to head) URB, where you can read about how Hot Chip attempt R&B but it 'all comes out wrong' (paraphrasing). You can interpret this in any number of ways, but you're a smart chap so I'll let you do the legwork.

Bottom line - they carry inflections from contemporary R&B/hip hop production, but when removed from their context said inflections often sound far afield. As they do with the Chipsters.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Bottom line - they carry inflections from contemporary R&B/hip hop production, but when removed from their context said inflections often sound far afield

I agree with this -- though I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "inflections", and I think it goes beyond the production. To me, Hot Chip sounds closer to contemporary R&B than it does to other forms of electronic dance music such as German micro-house. Like the Pet Shop Boys did in the '80s, they are working out of a popular R&B and dance idiom, but because of the singing voices and other influences, they end up sounding rather different.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

BUMP for tonight's Seaport show (hope the rainstorms are done)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

They were fun; I left before the encore, tho.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 August 2006 14:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

encore was if i remember correctly 'down with prince' off the first record

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 6 August 2006 01:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

There's sod all US hip hop production on the new record anyway... more 2step garage ("The Warning", Hardcore ("Careful") soul("Look After Me"), dance rock (a la DFA- "Over and Over") maybe a hint of R'n'B... (Just Like we Breakdown") electro-funk... ("Arrest Yourself")....

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

That Seaport show was a blast. They were much better live than I was expecting. I also left before the encore, but that's mainly because we were tired and hungry.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Hot Chip's new cover of Matthew Dear's Don & Cherri is so lovely.

― Alba, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

how do i eat hot chip

― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

carefully

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

kraftwerk remixes too?!

there's also a promo of a new single called 'shake a fist' going around.

― haitch, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

the remix of 'La Forme' is aight

― blueski, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

haha I actually wound up liking The Warning, though not enough to give the earlier stuff another try.

― da croupier, Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.

― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

i'm surprised by how much ilm hated these guys back in the day!

― ^@^, Sunday, 16 September 2007 20:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

thought the kraftwerk covers were meh

― jaxon, Sunday, 16 September 2007 21:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Ready For The Floor" is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there on the list of songs that need to hit the internet right this expletive-deleted second. V. excited about the Soulwax one, too (although I still think their much-derided bosh-bosh-bosh remixing strategy kicks much ass, so ymmv)!

― jamescobo, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Shake A Fist". Whoa. brane. melted.

― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.

― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

they are boring drips. it's like indie record store nerds finally got into r'n'b and dance music because pitchfork told them that's ok now, then decided to make really boring "eclectic" music.

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

Please can you and every other dullard stop assuming that everyone's life and interests revolve around fucking Pitchfork? Or go and do it somewhere else?

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

not everyone, just goons like hot chip. c'mon, the singer sounds like neil from the young ones.

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

Mencap OTM. also, max, claiming that they are indie kids gone dance, probably says more about you than them. they gleefully sent up this attitude in "down with prince".

― jed_, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

I don't have any particular feelings either way about this band FWIW

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

i am a dance kid that now listens to a bit of everything. (like everybody these days, natch)

but not hot chip!

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

The 30 seconds after the studio dude comes in on 'Shake a fist' are probably my favourite musical moment of the year.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 14:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2191611,00.html

― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

every remix, every dj set, practically every song (bar the erol rmx and over & over), every zany gig with them lined up in a self-conscious row by these guys is utter utter shit. the ultimate one-hit wonder who lucked into some bizarro world of cool by virtue of being on dfa

― s.rose, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I kinda wish they'd stick to the slow stuff - it suits them so much better than the clever-clogs dance shit. The title track of 'Made In The Dark' is stunning.

― Kiff, Sunday, 13 January 2008 22:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

Out at the Pictures, song of the year, right?

― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.

agreed! i picked up Made in the Dark yesterday (promo copy, full artwork etc.) and it's fantastic. i liked the previous two records in spots, and not so much in others. but this is their best work, by far. very very good.

― stephen, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

i havn't even heard it yet but this shit is going to be huge around here

― gman, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

made in the dark is a MASSIVE album. crikey.

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

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