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Hot Chip is a band from London made up of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke, and Felix Martin. Their second album, The Warning, came out in 2006. It was nominated for a Mercury Prize, and named one of the best albums of the year by NME and Pitchfork. And later, NME would include it in their list of best albums of all time.
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It began as a Casio based track. So when Alexis wrote this very gentle, delicate song, I remember feeling like maybe this is a moment when we should try to be kind of embracing a different groove and trying something a bit more uptempo.
“I sampled a kick drum from this DFA remix of Decepticon by La Tigra. Really great remix. One of my favorites at the time. You know that we discussed this with James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy from the DFA many years ago. And they told me that they had taken that kick drum from Is It All Over My Face by Loose Joints, the Arthur Russell project.”
“We really had no training in like engineering and making records. We were really making it up as we went along. I had a very small amount of equipment and we were using a computer, but in quite a rudimentary way, doing it all in this bedroom.”
“I just spent hours and hours cutting up these little bits of audio and moving them until they were perfect and kind of playing with the delays on these notes because we wanted the groove of this thing to just be super kind of tight and funky and mechanized.”
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