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| Genre = [[Alternative Dance]]<br/>[[Electro-pop]]<br/>[[Neo Soul]]
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Hot Chip

Hot Chip is an English electro-pop band.

History

Hot Chip formed in 2000; some of the members had already been friends before the formation. Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard first met at Elliott Secondary School in Putney, where they claim to have had an impromptu wrestling match on the school playground. They went on to become good friends and began making music togather at the age of 17.

After years of self-releasing records, they signed with Moshi Moshi in 2003. Their debut LP Coming On Strong was released in 2004. They soon started working on their second album and in the meantime they signed a US record deal with the Dance-Punk label DFA Records who re-released their debut album in late 2005.

In 2006 Hot Chip released their second album, The Warning. Now signed to EMI in the UK, the band gained much more mainstream appeal as well as the attention of critics. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was Mixmag's Album of the Year[1]. This album spawned also two UK top forty singles: "Over and Over" in March 2006 and And I Was A Boy From School in May 2006. Over And Over received attention for its music video, which was directed by Nima Nourizadeh, and was also named as the best single of 2006 by British music magazine NME.[2]

The band is also well-known for their live shows, because they often reinvent their songs on stage, creating a completely different sound to what might be the official version. Recent festival appearances include Glastonbury, Sónar, Benicassim, Electric Picnic, Bestival, Lovebox, the Reading and Leeds Festivals, the Summer Sundae festival and the Big Day Out and Splendor In The Grass (2007) in Australia.

They released also a DJ Kicks compilation in 2007, which was accompanied by a new song called "My Piano", also released as a 12".

At the moment, the band are working on their third studio album, which is tentatively titled Shot Down In Flames. Two new songs ("Shake a Fist" and "I Became I Volunteer") were posted on the band's MySpace page[3] and another one, "Ready For The Floor", was played live. The band first planned to release the album in 2008 but is now hoping for a release date in 2007.

Members

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Alexis Taylor

Taylor provides vocals and some percussion, and plays keyboards and guitar in Hot Chip. He is influenced by, amongst others, Prince. When traveling on the London Underground or bus, he often taps new lyrics into his mobile phone as a text message.

Taylor studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge between 1999 and 2002, during which time Hot Chip played a variety of gigs (with various line-ups) around Cambridge's live music venues.

As well as performing solo from Hot Chip at three different live shows, Taylor has also contributed to folk group The Memory Band, playing various instruments in early live shows and contributing vocals for currently unreleased material. Additionally, Taylor is also working on an album with Scritti Politti frontman Green Gartside.

Alexis is also married.

Joe Goddard

Joe Goddard is the vocalist and synthesizer operator for Hot Chip, as well as providing some percussion. He is also responsible for much of Hot Chip's home studio production. When Goddard was 12, he met bandmates Alexis Taylor and Owen Clarke at secondary school. Goddard became very good friends with Taylor and they eventually started making music. Goddard grew up listening to hip hop records in the early 1990s and some big influences are Souls of Mischief and Madlib.

He and Taylor write the lyrics of Hot Chip songs.

Owen Clarke

Owen Clarke plays the guitar and synthesizer for Hot Chip live shows. He is responsible for some of the band's guitar and keyboard riffs, on songs like 'No Fit State'. His playing style, which features in the recordings as well as the live shows, is viewed as unique and greatly admired by many.

He is also responsible for much of Hot Chip's design and illustration work, including the strange keyboard that features on the cover of 'Coming on Strong' and the famous primary coloured blocks associated with 'The Warning' artwork.

Al Doyle

Al "Do-It" Doyle (also known as MC Quantisizit) plays the guitar and synthesizer for Hot Chip. He also contributed backing vocals for the song "Colours" on The Warning. Generally he is willing and able to play anything that he can lay his hands on, leading to his nickname Al "Do-It" (homonymous to "I'll do it"). He has a background as a classical cellist, and plays cello on the track "Reasons" and 12-String on "I Wish I Wish" and "The Light" by folk group The Memory Band.

Doyle is behind some of Hot Chip's remixes. This includes reworks of bands such as MIA, Mattafix, Placebo, Radio 4, Battle and Jim Noir. As MC Quantisizit, Doyle "toasted" over the Hot Chip remix of SIA.

Coincidentally, he attended the same school as Ricky Wilson, lead singer of the Kaiser Chiefs.

He is playing guitar, keyboards and percussion in LCD Soundsystem on their 2007 tour, replacing Phil Mossman.

Felix Martin

Felix Martin programs and operates drum machines for Hot Chip during their live shows. He usually operates an Elektron Machinedrum and an AKAI MPC1000. He runs a studio in London with Al Doyle, from where he works on some of the many Hot Chip remixes, alongside a variety of other projects. He has programmed drum machines and played other instruments which can be heard on the various Hot Chip recordings.

Other members

  • Pat Mahoney
    Pat Mahoney is the drummer from LCD Soundsystem, but has played drums both filling in for and supporting Felix Martin in recent live shows in America.
  • Hagop Tchaparian - (drum machines)
    Helped out in the early years, later becoming their TM, he has filled in for Felix Martin and has since been making music as "The Letter G".
  • Rob Smoughton (former member)
    Now of one-man synth-soul outfit Grovesnor, Rob has since supported his former band on tour.
  • Scott Bennett (formerly guitar, backing vocals, thumb piano)
    A School friend of Alexis, Joe and Owen who was in the band prior to the release of Coming on Strong and features only on early EPs and Coming on Strong.
  • Daniel Paton (original drummer)
    A member of Fitzwilliam College. He left the band before they became successful.

Discography

Albums

EPs and singles

  • 2001 Mexico EP (CD)
  • 2002 Sanfrandisco E-Pee (CD-R only EP)
  • 2003 Down With Prince (12" only EP)
  • 2004 "Hittin' Skittles/Back to the Future" (limited 7")
  • 2004 "Playboy" (7", 12" and CD)
  • 2005 The Barbarian EP (12")
  • 2006 "Over and Over" #32 UK (coloured 7", 12" and ECD)
  • 2006 "Boy from School" #40 UK (2x coloured 7", 12" and ECD)
  • 2006 "Colours" Did not chart in UK (2x7", 12" and CD)
  • 2006 "Over and Over" #27 UK (Ltd. 7" w/ poster, 12", CD, ECD)
  • 2007 Live Session (iTunes Exclusive) - EP (iTunes-only download)
  • 2007 "My Piano" (12", download)

Other releases

  • 2005 All Filler, No Killer! Tour only release (CD)
  • 2006 Live at The Horseshoe, Toronto Tour only release (CD)
  • 2006 Live at The Horseshoe, London Tour only release (3" CD)
  • 2006 Mixture Promo only v/a compilation (CD)
  • 2006 Mixture 2 Promo only v/a compilation (CD)
  • 2006 Remixes & Rarities Promo only
  • 2007 DJ-Kicks: Hot Chip v/a compilation (LP, CD)

Remixes

References

  1. ^ "[1]"
  2. ^ "NME 2006 Poll". NME.com (2006). Retrieved 20 January, 2007.
  3. ^ http://www.myspace.com/hotchip

External links

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