Chapter 1: What anniversary is Hot Chip celebrating in this episode?
ABC Listen.
Chapter 2: How do samples contribute to the joy in music?
Podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Today marks 20 years since Hot Chip released The Warning. Their second album leapt from the quiet, reflective electro of their debut and catapulted us all onto the dance floor.
Chapter 3: What makes 'Starfish and Coffee' by Prince a jubilant song?
Back in 2020, Joe Goddard and Al Doyle dropped in to Take 5. Their theme?
Chapter 4: What themes of innocence and joy are present in music?
Jubilant songs.
Chapter 5: Why did Hot Chip choose 'To The Moon and Back' by Fever Ray?
Their vibes? Pure joy. I love Hot Chip and this is a wonderful combo. So to mark the occasion, I wanted to relive this chat from the archives. The band were in the country to play Golden Plains Festival and a handful of other shows. We had no idea at the time that the world was about to go into a deep lockdown. So step into the blissful before times and relish in the happiness of Hot Chip.
But in a lot of the tracks like, for instance, Melody of Love, that was definitely a kind of desire to kind of make it this kind of ecstatic moment and make it this really kind of driving. It's almost like this. It's kind of it's kind of quite speedy. It's almost like a high energy kind of disco track.
And yeah, we tried to kind of put everything into like creating a moment that was really joyful in that way.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of freedom in music according to Hot Chip?
And that's partly why we use this kind of it has like a gospel, a sample from like an old gospel record halfway through.
Let me hear you say yeah.
Chapter 7: How does 'Everyman (Has to Carry His Own Weight)' by Double Exposure convey joy?
One more time.
Let me hear you say yeah.
Chapter 8: What joy do Hot Chip experience when performing live?
it's like a kind of preacher talking about, um, no, uh, getting the most out of life. And so, yeah, for, for sure on like certain moments on the album that we were definitely kind of focused on that kind of emotion.
Yeah. I just assumed that that was something that you'd recorded for the album. Where did you find that little sample?
Oh, it was really, really cool. It's like, um, I remember years and years ago at like a record shop in London, I bought a 12 inch that had a reedit of an old, like kind of disco track called time by a group called the mighty clouds of joy.
And I used to play it out all the time.
It's a really, really awesome kind of up-tempo disco record, super soulful. And then I was always, like, looking for other stuff by this group, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, afterwards, and I found, like, a live album by them. And at the start of one of the songs on this live album, it just has a kind of three minutes of kind of, like, preaching by one of the singers in the group.
Let me hear you say yeah!
and it's got this really kind of great crowd noise behind it and the band is kind of like warming up and there's obviously such a great feel in the room and I wanted to use it in a track for years and then finally it kind of just really fit with this music when we started to make it.
How big is that bank of samples and I guess things that you find that you're just waiting to land in the right hot chip song?
Yeah I mean there are definitely lots of other things like that yeah I kind of just keep a you know a file on my on my computer of like bits and pieces that you know as you will know as like a passionate music fan you sometimes just come across bits of bits of older records that just feel like they could totally be recontextualized and kind of brought into another another thing and it's in a cool way so yeah I keep a I keep a store of kind of quite a lot of stuff it's kind of
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