Oh, oh, this is good, the next edition of !K7's always good 'DJ Kicks' series is being put together by those Hot Chip boys and will be available via record stores on 21 May. The press release includes a quote from the band, though I'm not sure what it really has to do with the compo, see what you think.
Hot Chip: "We started making music because we were bored with a lot of other music. We loved the idea of 'pop' music but not the people who make 'pop' music now. We loved Phil Spector and the Beach Boys, Kraftwerk and Robert Wyatt, Timbaland and Madlib, Brian Eno and Devo, Anti-Pop Consortium and Aphex Twin, Will Oldham and Royal Trux. We loved dancing to 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' by Flatt and Scruggs, and 'Cut The Midrange, Drop The Bass' by Cylob. We thought pop music should be more imaginative than it is at the moment, that it should affect you and inspire you".
Hmm, none the wiser, but not to worry, the tracklisting's all you really need to know with things like this, and look, here it is.
Grovesnor - Nitemoves
Positive K - I Got A Man
Gramme - Like You
Subway - Persuasion
Soundhack - B1
Tom Zé - Cademar
Hot Chip - My Piano (DJ-Kicks)
Wax Stag - Short Road
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone Extended Remix)
Young Leek - Jiggle It
Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto - In The Basement, Part One
Black Devil Disco Club - On Just Foot
Dominik Eulberg - Der Buchdrucker
Grauzone - Film 2
This Heat - Radio Prague
Wookie - Far East
Gabriel Ananda - Doppelwhipper (Live)
Marek Bois - You Got Good Ash
Lanark - The Stone That The Builder Rejected
Pete Um - The Man's Got Me Beat
Nôze - Love Affair
Audion - Just Fucking (Roman Flügel's 23 Positions In A One-Night Stand Remix)
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Ray Charles - Mess Around