UK dubstep producer Skream adds his slow, dark drum and bass burn to Chromeo’s new single “Night By Night”.
“I was confused when I first heard this: all of a sudden, our song sounded like a Bone Thugs record. That’s because I couldn’t hear Skream’s satanic sub-bass on my computer speakers. Then I switched systems and it made perfect sense. Play this loud and you’ll hear all the hypnotic qualities you’d expect from the grand wizard of UK dubstep.” – Dave 1 of Chromeo.
You can listen now on the player below, or download for free at GreenLabelSound.com.
Canadian artists Chromeo teamed up with Green Label Sound to offer their first original song in two years. “It’s both more disco and more classic rock than our previous stuff. It’s also the first time we try singing falsetto. We wanted a powerful, heroic track designed to provoke pelvic thrusting, coupled with sensitive lyrics about the fragility of relationships. Oh, and we had to get some talkbox in there, too. This was produced using nothing but analog gear in our new Montreal studio, and mixed in Paris by our cohort Philippe Zdar over the summer. With love, always.”
Listen to Chromeo’s “Night by Night” on the player below.
Footwear brand Kickers launch user-generated video for ‘Fancy Footwork’ by Montreal-based electro duo Chromeo. Kickers commissioned this video to celebrate the release of a new and exclusive CSS remix of Chromeo’s album title track.
The Fancy Footwork campaign launched at music festivals last year where revelers were challenged to be filmed throwing down their finest footwork onboard a huge trailer for the chance to appear in a finished Chromeo video. The trailer toured some of the UK’s best live events such as Bestival, T4 On The Beach and Get Loaded. Each clip was uploaded onto video hosting website YouTube, generating 1000s of videos.
The video is a stop frame clip collage created by production animation house Lovebite, who wove dozens of people’s dance-moves together to create a mountain of feet that would go on to power the star of the video; the home-made, motion-powered incredible ‘machine’ unleashing Kickers shoes. Far from being ordinary shoes though, each is brought to life with additional limbs, wheels, helicopter blades and oodles of personality.
Kickers have also partnered with Brazilian party-starters CSS for a remix of the track, as well as a special ‘remixed’ music video. At the sound controls, CSS provide a deft studio re-rub of Chromeo’s Fancy Footwork complete with the kind of 8-bit machine funk that befits a beautifully hotch-potch visual production such as this. The audio file is available for download via the Kickers MySpace.
We got together with up and coming music platform Fairtilizer to present you an interview with Dave from Chromeo and their Top Of 2008 playlist.
Dave gives us some insight on their inspiration and the latest happenings around Chromeo. Also they put together a playlist of their favorite 2008 releases, that you can listen to right here.
As part of their Fall/Winter 2008 collection, Surface 2 Air made a t-shirt with Chromeo. The t-shirt features official Chromeo artwork and comes in limited numbers.
The Surface 2 Air x Chromeo t-shirt is now available at End.
