from piccadillyrecords.com
During one particularly wild gig in Paris some years ago The Chap encountered a polite young man who showed himself to be very impressed with the band's work and who would later emerge as the disco superstar that is Joakim. And here he is again, providing us with a remix of "Ethnic Instrument" from the band's recent "Mega Breakfast" CD. This track is the Chap's account of their ambivalent relationship with what is commonly called World Music and turned it into the cute-but-weird disco-rock floor filler it has always secretly wanted to be. A huge guitar riff becomes even more huge, a scary vocoder vocal becomes even scarier, and a swarm of voice cut-ups and guitar glitches adorn a driving disco beat. Love this! On the flipside the refix of "Caution Me", comes courtesy of another polite young man, this time Vincent Oliver, of Lo Recordings and Border Community fame. This is his second mix for The Chap, and a beautifully atmospheric and minimal affair it is. A shredded bass guitar and a m
