Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor

[Stephen]

It's been available for a while now ahead of it's official release at the end of January but I'll be fucking surprised if this isn't one of the best tracks of 2008. I am super fucking excited for the Wolverhampton gig in Feb.

Here's the excellent video:

[patrick]

thanks for the link. sounds great!!

[dubman]

blegh.

[matt]

the new albums leaked and i'm loving it so far although i was expecting it to be a bit more upbeat as i saw them at the hay-on-wye literary festival back in may where they played loads of stuff off the new album that was incredibly dancey - but i suppose they probably make everything a bit more upbeat when they play live as even boy from school was a lot more upbeat than usual

i'm sure you'll love the show steve as they do lots of jams/improvs etc. over & over was fucking awesome

[matt]

oh and they also did the essential mix last friday which you can listen to here for a few more days

Tracklisting:

One Pure Thought / Hot Chip / EMI
You Have to Dance / Noze / Unreleased
Ready for the Floor (Hot Chip Remix) / Hot Chip / EMI
Golden (Wookie Dub Mix) / Jill Scott / White Label
Drive Your Car / Grovesnor / Greco Roman
I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit) / Chic / White Label
Parage / Justus Köhncke / Kompakt
Sensual Seduction / Snoop Dogg / Geffen Records
Bring U Up / Romanthony / Glasgow Underground
Drop / Timbaland / AV8
Matt John / Olga Dancekowski / BAR25
Don & Sherri (Hot Chip Version) / Matthew Dear / Ghostly International
Mandinko / Lanark / Unreleased
Untitled / Alex Under / Trapez
Falling Stars / Smith N Hack / Smith N Hack
Law of the Land / Undisputed Truth / EMI
Ick Muss Aus Dit Millieu Heraus / Paul Kalkbrenner / B-Pitch Control
Space / Minilogue / My Best Friend
Feelin Plastik / Lucio Aquilina / Trapez
Pongo (Extended) / Giorgio Preiozo and Libre / Net's Work International
Where's My Pill? / Minimow / Hell Yeah Recordings
More Weed / The Surgery / Sticky / Social Circles
Snapdragon / Red Robin & Jakob Hilden / Trapez Limited
Original (Carl Craig Remix) / Tiefschwarz / Souvenier
I Think They Are Trying to Say Something / Jeff Samuel / Trapez
Archangel / Burial / Hyperdub

[Scott Warner]

The problem I have with Hot Chip is that there is this undercurrent of goofiness in what they do - just to be clear, in my world there's a huge difference between fun and goofy, wheras the former is geniunely fun and the latter is annoying. I'm not sure it's a deliberate thing - it's just something I hear in their music. They seemed to have toned it down a bit for the last album but this new single has the goofy back in full force.

[BrotherLovesDub]

goofy....like a monkey with a miniature cymbal?

[Leon]

This track is a bit too much cheese for me. After the promising single that was Over & Over, I was kinda let down with the album. I am going to give that and the coming album a second chance though.

[thee carp dreamer]

ready for the floor will be my favourite track of 2008.

[matt]

there's some links on this page to places you can download the essential mix from in mp3 format

it's well worth checking out - the first hour was done by vocalists joe & alexis plus guitarist owen and is quite housey and the second hour by percussionists/drum programmers felix & al and so and gets more technoey and features mainly instrumental tracks...