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| Hot Chip |
Hot
Chip performing live at Bonnaroo 2007
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| Background information |
| Origin |
 London, England |
| Genre(s) |
Alternative
Dance
Electro-pop
Neo
Soul |
| Years active |
2000–present |
| Label(s) |
EMI
DFA |
| Website |
http://www.hotchip.co.uk/ |
| Members |
Alexis
Taylor
Joe Goddard
Owen Clarke
Felix Martin
Al Doyle |
Hot Chip are an English electro-pop
band.
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Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Members
- 2.1 Alexis
Taylor
- 2.2 Joe
Goddard
- 2.3 Owen
Clarke
- 2.4 Al
Doyle
- 2.5 Felix
Martin
- 2.6 Other
members
- 3 Discography
- 3.1 Albums
- 3.2 EPs
and singles
- 3.3 Other
releases
- 3.4 Remixes
- 4 References
- 5 External
links
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History
Hot Chip formed in 2000 but some of the members already met
earlier. 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
since 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 was re-releasing 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
attention by critics. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize
and was Mixmag's Album of the Year. 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 also plaudits
for his music
video, which was directed by Nima Nourizadeh, and was also named
as the best single of 2006 by British music magazine NME.
The Band is also well-known for their Liveshows, because they
often play their songs in a completely different way then on their
records. Recent Festival appearances including Glastonbury,
Sónar, Benicassim,
Electric
Picnic, Bestival,
Lovebox,
the Reading and Leeds
Festivals, the Summer Sundae festival and the Big Day
Out
They released also a DJ Kicks compilation in 2007, which was
accompanied by a new song called "My Piano", which was also released as
a [[12 Inch]12"]].
At the moment, the Band is 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 already posted
on the band's MySpace
page
and another one was also played Live ("Ready For The Floor"). The band
first planned to release the Album not until 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
- Coming on Strong
- May
24, 2004
- The Warning
May
22, 2006 #34
(UK)
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
- 2006 "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse from Rehab
(Remixes) (EP)
- 2006 "Kids With Guns" by Gorillaz
- 2007 "In The Morning" by Junior Boys from The
Dead Horse EP
- 2007 "La Forme/Aerodynamik" by Kraftwerk
from Tour de France Soundtracks
References
External links
