It's a duet of the first song on their new Album, Business Casual.
Chromeo - Hot Mess Featuring Elly Jackson by Chromeo
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Electronic Music In Brooklyn
Go see it.
The venue, LittleField, is awesome. Walking in the front door you are greeted with a huge mural on the wall that, a little investigation told me, changes every month. It’s also a really dark place, with only a few dim lights over the bar and not very much light on the dancefloor. Beers were only 3 dollars for Miller High Life in a bottle, which is not a bad deal. I opened a tab. Also, we were the first person there, but as we came in a DJ started and played for the three of us, sitting down at the back of the dance floor. Slowly but surely, people started coming in, and by midnight the place was pretty full. It was the perfect amount of people for a concert goer, enough to make the party happen, but there was enough space for elbow/ dancing room. In addition, the crowd was filled with really good dancers, and because the place was pretty dark, it was easy to let yourself go and really feel the music.
So, on to the music, the best word that I can describe it as is Fluid. It all melded together, flowed beautifully and never stopped. There was a river of music flooding the dance floor for the entirety of the show. I stayed at the venue for about four and a half hours and there was never a moment of silence, even through three different DJs. The music was easy. It wasn’t abrasive like some electronic music is, it was warm. It also wasn’t too loud, making it easy to talk to people, relative to some other shows that I’ve been to where, screaming in a person’s ear often yields poor results. The DJs were really talented, apart from the first guy who came on, none of them used a computer, it was all done on 2 vinyl turntables, two electronic turntables, and a mixing/ sample board in the middle. The DJs used actual vinyl records to play their music, to use their samples and to create their sound. Watching them it was difficult to tell how their hands matched up to what the music did, unlike a guitar where you can see exactly what the musician is doing, the turntable is like a foreign language to me. I have no idea what one twist of a knob does compared to a flip of a switch. There was no front row at the show either, people were just as crowded at the back as they were in the front, and a lot of people weren’t even facing the DJ. The whole night had a great vibe to it, it felt good, it felt happy. I had had a long day so we left at about 2:30 in the middle of Norm Talley’s set, before the main act, John Roberts even came on. It was a great place, and a great time and I strongly recommend checking it out.
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