Hot Chip Side Dish

This one comes straight out of the Myspace presses: DFA Records has a new release from a side project of two guys from Hot Chip called Booji Boy High. I almost passed this one up, but luckily you can hear both songs from the Doubleshaw 7" on DFA's Myspace page. Here's the dirt on Booji Boy High taken from DFA's description:

Booji Boy High is a new project from elusive musical tag-team duo, Georgios Panayiotou and Mother Markzbow. Coming On Strong with the bounciest bounce of the next year, New Rave left dead in its grave, replaced by the rainbow rhythms of the New Age.

And that's about all there is so far. But, alas, the sound and vocals are succinctly the Hot Chip flare. This side project is definitely more about the electronic/synth/drum machine aspect of Hot Chip, but with the same quirkiness and frenetic syncopations of the band most of us have come to love so much. I'm excited about the project and I hope we'll see more material come out this year. The 7" is ready for your sale at the DFA webstore. For the time being, I've posted the b-side to Doubleshaw, "Twist Myself ," ripped from DFA's Myspace page:


Booji Boy High - "Twist Myself Again"

Klaxons vs. to my boy

I don't know how this passed me by, but via Palms Out Sounds I just picked up to my boy's remix (released through Kitsuné Music) of the Klaxons' "Gravity's Rainbow" (one of the best singles from last year, in my opinion). The remixers are a duo that put the electronics in UK art-punk, while the remixees are a trio that are paving the way for the New Rave genre (whoever came up with that term, because I didn't--honestly!) bound to pass or fail this year. The UK sound is much more present in to my boy's music, but luckily for us, their reworking of "Gravity's Rainbow" sticks to the New Rave books.


Klaxons - "Gravity's Rainbow (to my boy Remix)"



While I think the original to "Gravity's Rainbow" (so far only available to the U.S. on their Xan Valleys EP) is amazing, this remix is worth the listen. The Klaxons will hopefully make great strides here if their full-length turns out to be just as exciting. Along with the remix, I'm throwing in to my boy's second single, "The Grid," a song that would perfectly score an 80's science fiction b-movie; their music is so retro-future, it's dangerous. Besides to my boy being signed to XL Recordings, both bands consist of members who I think are younger than I am. Talk about wasting my adolescent years...


to my boy - "The Grid"

Mon Maison Votre Maison

The latest Kitsuné Maison compilation (3) has been growing on me lately, more than the first two did. The more I hear Freeform Five's "Home Wit U" (whose vocals channel Bernard Sumner of New Order, at least to me) the more 3 tops my list. The Simian Mobile Disco track "I Believe" is straight out of the now-defunct Simian's third album that never was. But the one track that I always wait for in anticipation to come up is Alex Gopher's "Motorcyle (Wet Clutch Short Edit)" a track too French to be MSTRKRFT but too MSTRKRFT to be Alex Gopher.

From what I am familiar with, Gopher came out with his first full-length in 1999 with You, My Baby & I riding the wave of the '99 French House scene and channeling as much dance-funk as Cassius's sound at the time. The last I heard of him was the superb collab with Julien Delfaud & Etienne De Crécy for Super Discount 2's "Fast Track" aka "Someone Like You," the best dance single from 2004, if you ask me.

Now we get this new single show up in Maison 3 that has Alex Gopher channeling electro-disco house at its finest, and MSTRKRFT should be jealous. But of course Gopher's track has that special French twist to it, like Sprite Remix with its tropical fruit twist on the old taste. Let's hope this new year will see more of Alex Gopher; in the meantime, check out his track!


Alex Gopher "Motorcyle (Wet Clutch Short Edit)"