― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
i'll bump this thread on fri so kids can maybe pre/at-show meetup
― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
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― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 6 August 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Hot Chip's new cover of Matthew Dear's Don & Cherri is so lovely.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
how do i eat hot chip
― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
carefully
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
the remix of 'La Forme' is aight
― blueski, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.
― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm surprised by how much ilm hated these guys back in the day!
― ^@^, Sunday, 16 September 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
thought the kraftwerk covers were meh
― jaxon, Sunday, 16 September 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"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 (sixteen years ago) link
"Shake A Fist". Whoa. brane. melted.
― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.
― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have any particular feelings either way about this band FWIW
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2191611,00.html
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Out at the Pictures, song of the year, right?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
i havn't even heard it yet but this shit is going to be huge around here
― gman, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
made in the dark is a MASSIVE album. crikey.
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck these guys
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Has this leaked?
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep it's leaked, i agree about the slow stuff being better too. The background whistles in "We're Looking For A Lot of Love" are very nice
― theslothproject, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i listened to this once on the drive down during xmas. i thought it was terrible. the wife who's a huge fan.. thought it was terrible.
― jaxon, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i've only heard a couple tracks from this band ever, most of which i wasn't into, but that 'shake a fist' track is good.
― Jordan, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck these guys http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/m/1/dean_finger.jpg
― winston, Saturday, 26 January 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
they certainly do inspire a great deal of ire, but it seems to be all based on their "impurity" and the fact that a lot of their fans seem to be obnoxious buttheads
― winston, Saturday, 26 January 2008 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link