Hot Chip / A Bugged Out Mix By Hot Chip
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Artist Hot Chip
Album Title: A Bugged Out Mix By Hot Chip
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Electronica/Dance: General Electronic
Format CD (2)
Released 04/29/2009
Label New State Entertainment Ltd.
Catalog No NEWCD9041
Bar Code No 8 85012 00005 3
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
A Bugged Out Mix By Hot Chip [Disc 1: Bugged Out]
1. Nah Und Fern / Gas (1:01)
(Hot Chip)
2. Space Bumps / Theo Parrish (1:15)
(Hot Chip)
3. Schmedding / Extrawelt & Morelle (4:03)
(Hot Chip)
4. C'est La Vie / Joseph Capriati (2:16)
(Hot Chip)
5. The Claim / Philip Sherburne (3:47)
(Hot Chip)
6. Don't Take It (Thomos Edit) / Armando (0:30)
(Hot Chip)
7. Deliberately Selected / Harry Axt (3:38)
(Hot Chip)
8. Blast / Florian Meindel (1:22)
(Hot Chip)
9. 00/346 & 00/380 (Dandy Jack & The Queen Of Mars Remix) / Schnitzler, Conrad (3:53)
(Hot Chip)
10. Torque / John Tejada (3:29)
(Hot Chip)
11. Hope / Pig & Dan (3:27)
(Hot Chip)
12. Junktion / Prevelist (3:57)
(Hot Chip)
13. Cosmic Sandwich (Cosmic Sandwich Remix) / Cosmic Sandwich (2:01)
(Hot Chip)
14. Take It In (2:49)
(Hot Chip)
15. Moody Bastard / Mark Henning (1:32)
(Hot Chip)
16. One2One / District One Aka Bart Skils And Anton Pieete (3:15)
(Hot Chip)
17. Yeke Yeke (Afro Acid Mix) / Mory Kanté (4:14)
(Hot Chip)
18. Chiclet's Theme / Ican (6:16)
(Hot Chip)
19. Eucalypse Now! / Gabriel Ananda & Dominik Eulberg (2:52)
(Hot Chip)
20. Bloody Notes (Butch Remix) / Alex Cappelli (1:29)
(Hot Chip)
21. Melodrama / Kollektiv Turmstrasse (4:57)
(Hot Chip)
22. Karambolage (Oxia Remix) / Marc Romboy (2:49)
(Hot Chip)
23. Bubble In The Bottle (Pepe Braddock Remix) / International Pony (1:17)
(Hot Chip)
24. I (Long Version) / Max Cooper (8:14)
(Hot Chip)
A Bugged Out Mix By Hot Chip [Disc 2: Bugged In]
1. Winter Home Disco (Hot Chip Remix) / The Pictish Trail (4:28)
(Hot Chip/Va/John Lynch)
2. Rum & Coca Cola / The Andrews Sisters (3:05)
(Hot Chip/Va/J Sullivan)
3. Apeman / Esso Trinidad Steel Band (1:19)
(Hot Chip/Va/Davies)
4. Street Liming / Zongamin (3:26)
(Hot Chip/Va/Fimber Brown/Susumu Mukai)
5. Party Rhythm / Greco Roman Soundsystem (5:58)
(Hot Chip/Va/Joe Goddard)
6. 16th Stage / Osbourne (4:31)
(Hot Chip/Va/Todd Osborn)
7. London Town / Man Like Me (2:40)
(Hot Chip/Va/Johnny Langer/Peter Duffy/Sean Thompson)
8. Love In Store / Fleetwood Mac (2:42)
(Hot Chip/Va/Christine McVie/Jim Recor)
9. What A Fool Believes / The Doobie Brothers (3:13)
(Hot Chip/Va/Kenny Loggins/Michael McDonald)
10. I Can't Resist (Sick Of My Music Mix) / Gramme (1:36)
(Hot Chip/Va/David Bateman/Leo Taylor/Luke Hannam/Sue Lynham)
11. House Jam (Hot Chip remix) / Gang Gang Dance (4:11)
(Hot Chip/Va/Bougatsos/DeGraw/Deutsch/Dewit)
12. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) / Hall & Oates (3:01)
(Hot Chip/Va/Daryl Hall)
13. Shake A Puddin' / Dub Narcotic Sound System (4:01)
(Hot Chip/Va/Dub Narcotic Sound System)
14. Never Too Much / Luther Vandross (3:21)
(Hot Chip/Va/Luther Vandross)
15. Wishing Well/Fix Up, Look Sharp / Terence Trent D'Arby / Dizzee Rascal (4:16)
(Hot Chip/Va/Sean Oliver/Terence Trent D'Arby)
16. Just A Friend / Biz Markie (3:52)
(Hot Chip/Va/Biz Markie/Marcel Theo Hall)
17. The Number One Song In Heaven / Sparks (3:39)
(Hot Chip/Va/Giorgio Moroder/Ron Mael/Russell Mael)
18. Looking For Clues / Robert Palmer (4:51)
(Hot Chip/Va/Robert Palmer)
19. I Want To Be Your Man / Roger (4:09)
(Hot Chip/Va/Larry Troutman/Roger Troutman)
20. Bring It On Home To Me / Eddie Floyd (3:17)
(Hot Chip/Va/Sam Cooke)
Date Acquired 01/04/2011
Personal Rating
Acquired from FYE Burnsville
Purchase Price 11.00

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6.9/10

Perhaps mimicking the structure of your average iTunes playlist, Hot Chip's entry in the Bugged Out mix series, commissioned by the UK dance party organization of the same name, offers one disc of ringing, shuffling techno (Bugged Out) and another, more varied "summer mix" (Bugged In). The package presumably offers something for both esoteric dancefloors and somewhat less exclusive July-time vibe fests, though the disjointed nature and the varying quality of the mixes makes the Bugged Out package a bit of a head-scratcher.
Bugged Out plays more confrontational and pounding than might be expected from a group last seen translating Half Nelson/Willie Nelson gags into electro-soul balladry. It's tempting, too, to question the utility of the mix, which is only minimally (no pun intended) dance-y, exhibits only sporadic interest in proper transitions, and features plenty of knuckled-over faves. Gas smoothes the opening minutes; Preverlist's "Junktion" strangles a middle section; Gabriel Ananda and Dominik Eulberg's "Eucalypse Now!" pounds near the end (there's also a track here by Pitchfork contributor Philip Sherburne). Three minutes of an exclusive Hot Chip track, "Take It In", offers a minor incentive. The track rumbles darkly, Alexis Taylor's easy vocals skinning over its carving bass; a nice treat, but rightly exiled in compilation/B-side/mix territory.
The mix does pick up some steam, climaxing with the wordless, hazy house of Ican's "Chiclet's Theme" before starting slowly, steamily downhill. Closing the set at more than eight minutes, Max Cooper's "I (Long Version)" is a bit of a trek (most tracks clock in between two and four minutes), but the hints of optimism buried in its ruby synths are a fine note to close on. Ultimately, Bugged Out camps in the purgatory between "actual taste-making dance mix" and "an interesting mix by artists you enjoy," though any indie-rockin' Hot Chip fans looking to explore the engine that propelled "Ready for the Floor" might find something to explore here.
The wildcard second mix (Bugged In), on the other hand, isn't as concerned with form or function, earning its seasonal peg with a near-schizophrenic but always warming mix of balmy techno, smooth rock, and fluttery other. The set begins abstractly, with the curators' remix of the Pictish Trail's "Winter Home Disco" (hell, just ignore the title) but quickly burns through calypso (the Andrews Sisters' unskippable "Rum & Coca Cola"), hammering techno (Greco-Roman Soundsytem's "Party Rhythm"), and utter oddity (the Esso Trinidad Steel Band's take on the Kinks' "Apeman") before settling into the windchime lull of Osborne's "16th Stage". From there Bugged In rolls Man Like Me's "London Town" into Fleetwood Mac's "Love in Store", whose 8th-note thrum seems like a natural continuation of "16th Stage".
There are some hokey choices-- we probably don't need the Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes", and Dub Narcotic Sound System's "Shake a Puddin'" mucks up the momentum-- but even 1980s standards like Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" and Luther Vandross' "Never Too Much" feel like natural, light-funk choices (also, re-explore "Just a Friend" outside of a beer commercial). Sparks' "The Number One Song in Heaven" is such a natural antecedent to Hot Chip's dork-disco that its inclusion feels obvious in hindsight.
Bugged In's mix work is still a tad uneven, but no one on your rooftop, or in your Volkswagen, or between your ears will notice, because it plays well anywhere, a slick reminder of Hot Chip's charm and quirk. That it is, however slightly, weighed down by the darker clubroom thump of Bugged Out is responsible for the somewhat depressed score you see above. Make no mistake: Bugged In is worth your poolside July, and doubly so if you're likely to get anything more than "oh, another decent mix" out of Bugged Out.
— Andrew Gaerig, June 15, 2009
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