I gave one to Alexis for his birthday on Friday. I picked up one of my favourite records, which is ‘Love is a Hurtin’ Thing’ by Gloria Ann Taylor that was reissued recently. Super basic sounds, but very satisfying and gentle. There’s a reissue of this crazy compilation called Computer Disco, of very early, rudimentary computer music. I picked up all of those reissues, I picked up a Yellow Magic Orchestra record that I didn’t have before called Technodelic, I’m a massive fan of them, and all of their music, really. It’s kind of one of his big hits for the end of his DJ sets. There’s a single called ‘You’re a Melody’, which I think is a classic one that he’s been playing out all the time. I picked up loads of good stuff there, like stuff reissues on Sam Floating Points’ label, Melodies International. Let me think… I had to do a little bit of promo in Sounds of the Universe in Soho, the Soul Jazz shop. What’s on your turntable at the moment? Have you discovered anything new while on tour? He touched upon everything from classic disco, to Japanese indie rock, to the enduring legacy of ‘Straight Up’ by Paula Abdul. Tracks like the genre-pushing lead single ‘Home’ which marries a massively joyous ’70s funk sample from the Detroit band Brainstorm with a throwback to the days of the Paradise Garage, are a testament both to Joe’s encyclopaedic knowledge of dance music, and his ability to never let his finger off the pulse.Ī few weeks after the Berlin show, we caught up with Joe in his London home, where he took us through his notoriously gigantic and jumbled home record collection.
While Hot Chip are a band that have always been the sum of their parts, Electric Lines lays bare Joe’s immense contribution to the band’s success-as their principle composer, the album is a deeper exploration of the kind of disco, house, electro and pop tracks that are such a huge influence on Hot Chip’s sound. Like any good dance musician, Joe hold his audience in the palm of his hand from the get-go, which is even more of an accomplishment here since he’s exclusively playing songs from his new solo record, the sharp and effervescent Electric Lines. Tonight though, it’s just Joe, and it’s almost crazy to think that this soft-spoken man is responsible for some of the most indelible dance-pop of the last decade-but when he begins to play, and the crowd begins to sway with the beat, everything falls into place and within minutes, the whole dancefloor is a writhing, sweaty mess. It’s the same position he assumes when performing with Hot Chip, his band of 15 years, but on those occasions he’s surrounded by his four bandmates, his mellowness contrasting with the dance party encircling him. When Joe Goddard takes the stage at Prince Charles, an intimate dance venue in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood, he seems almost sheepish, crouching behind his keyboard on the side of the stage. “I love playing stuff that other DJs might just fucking hate.”
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