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Chromeo
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Chromeo is Pee Thug and Dave 1: best friends since their adolescence, virtuoso musicians, walking hip hop encyclopedias, and the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture. After spending the three years since the release of their debut album, She’s In Control, jet setting, globetrotting, and embarking on an overall sensual conquest of planet Earth, Chromeo headed back to their Montreal lab to put together album number deux. The result, Fancy Footwork, is quite simply the most smoothed-out, hook-heavy, unabashed lovers’ funk since Chromeo’s last album.
Holy Ghost!
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Holy Ghost! (DFA) are born and bred New Yorkers Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser.
The two disco and hot sauce enthusiasts met in elementary school and have been playing
in bands together ever since. Yes, they've managed to branch out that little.
After working as studio musicians and live players for DFA Records honchos James
Murphy, Tim Goldsworthy, and Juan Maclean, Frankel and Millhiser formed Holy
Ghost! over a shared love of analog synthesizers, Larry Levan era-disco, and good old
fashioned pop music. At the insistence of Murphy, the duo released their first original
song, "Hold On," on DFA Records. The song's recipe - a mix of Italo beats and pop
vocals sans irony - hit a chord worldwide and became a major cross over success. Club
support from DJ's as different as A-Trak and David Mancuso came instantly,
and mainstream support followed suit. Itunes named "Hold On" Single of The Week and
spawned thousands of downloads daily.

Propelled by the success of "Hold On," Holy Ghost! released a string of hit remixes for
artists like MGMT, Cut Copy, Phoenix, and Moby, and traveled across the world DJ'ing
on every continent (except Antartica). The group's second original single, " I Will Come
Back," received further critical acclaim from taste makers like Pitchfork and saw heavy
rotation on MTV2 with a brilliant, New Order inspired video.

After releasing a cover swap with British band Friendly Fires on XL/DFA, the duo will
unveil their Live band and release an EP of new, original music on DFA in early 2010.
To support it, they'll open up for LCD Soundsystem in the US and then head to Europe to
play summer festivals. Their full length debut is due out later this year.
Telephoned
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Telephoned was born one night in Brooklyn when DJ/producer Sammy Bananas (Fool's Gold) and singer/party starter Maggie Horn (Good Peoples) decided to record their own version of T-Pain's "Can't Believe It." Their track was neither remix nor cover - instead, the duo fashioned a postmodern take on both, warping the original beat into a hypnotic club track and bringing out the dreamy qualities only hinted at in Pain's auto-tuned melodies. Sammy and Maggie's fresh "Can't Believe It" quickly became a DJ favorite - even making it into mix rotation on LA hip-hop station Power 106! - so they decided to keep recording as a team, cleverly named after the kids game of Telephone: no faithful copies, just a party line of unexpected twists. "Pop Champagne" is their latest concoction, turning Ron Browz' rap hit into a spacey dancefloor gem ("Bottle service electro meets Triplets Of Belleville!" says Ms Horn) that's instantly addictive and massively charming. More reworks are on their way, turning pop into new-school standards and continuing to put a fresh spin on party music. Telephoned is off the hook!
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