Hot Chip
Type in hotchip.com and you get directed to Corporate Computer Centers, who provide unprecedented levels of customer service, knowledgeable staff, quality products and quick delivery. Investigate Hot Chip the band and you get something not dissimilar to that. Their relentless touring and stage smashing live shows are example of their great customer service to their fans. Their techno wizardry of their instruments is proof of their knowledge. Their catalogue of genre bashing, psyched-up electro-licks are indeed quality products. As for quick delivery, their third album, Made in the Dark has come just in time in a market of nu-rave overload. Outline exclusively catch up with Al from the band…
I’m talking to you on the release date of your latest single, Ready for the Floor. Do you pay much attention to the movement of the charts?
Erm, personally no, not really. Obviously I’ve got a vested interest in the charts this week because I’ve actually got some music in there, but usually I wouldn’t take much notice. I don’t really know where to look either; I suppose you just look it up on the internet or something, but it’s not something I follow particularly. Ever since the demise of Top of the Pops I suppose, which made it very easy to understand where everybody was, it hasn’t been such a big thing. It was a real shame I didn’t get to go on it, I mean, that was my dream, to play on Top of the Pops! But unfortunately we were about 6 months too late to get a chance to go on it. I remember being taken round the BBC studios and just seeing the dusty remains of the Top of the Pops studio – they just hadn’t cleaned it for a little while!
With the increased risk of your album leaking before its release, how do you approach trying to retain the wow factor of your release date?
Type in hotchip.com and you get directed to Corporate Computer Centers, who provide unprecedented levels of customer service, knowledgeable staff, quality products and quick delivery. Investigate Hot Chip the band and you get something not dissimilar to that. Their relentless touring and stage smashing live shows are example of their great customer service to their fans. Their techno wizardry of their instruments is proof of their knowledge. Their catalogue of genre bashing, psyched-up electro-licks are indeed quality products. As for quick delivery, their third album, Made in the Dark has come just in time in a market of nu-rave overload. Outline exclusively catch up with Al from the band…
I’m talking to you on the release date of your latest single, Ready for the Floor. Do you pay much attention to the movement of the charts?
Erm, personally no, not really. Obviously I’ve got a vested interest in the charts this week because I’ve actually got some music in there, but usually I wouldn’t take much notice. I don’t really know where to look either; I suppose you just look it up on the internet or something, but it’s not something I follow particularly. Ever since the demise of Top of the Pops I suppose, which made it very easy to understand where everybody was, it hasn’t been such a big thing. It was a real shame I didn’t get to go on it, I mean, that was my dream, to play on Top of the Pops! But unfortunately we were about 6 months too late to get a chance to go on it. I remember being taken round the BBC studios and just seeing the dusty remains of the Top of the Pops studio – they just hadn’t cleaned it for a little while!
With the increased risk of your album leaking before its release, how do you approach trying to retain the wow factor of your release date?
