Brand New FANCY FOOTWORK Video!
BONAFIED LOVIN Video! (directed by Nima Nourizadeh)
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TENDERONI Video! (Directed by Rozan & Schmeltz/Surface 2 Air)
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Check out our interview and mini-mix on Annie Mac's radio show!
Annie Mac's Mash Up on Radio 1
Fancy Footwork, the album. Produced by Chromeo, mixed by Zdar. Artwork by Surface 2 Air. Keeping you dancing, all summer long.
Out now on Turbo/Last Gang (Canada), Vice (US), Back Yard (UK), V2 (Europe), Modular (Australia) and KSR (Japan). Available everywhere on iTunes, Beatport, in all fine retailers and mom & pops. US and Canada, you can also cop it here !
Turbo: "Fancy Footwork" Remixes 12". Includes remixes by d.i.m. , Thomas Barfod and Surkin . Buy it on Beatport
BackYard: "Fancy Footwork EP" gatefold 10". 4 tracks from the album plus remixes by Zdar and Guns N Bombs . Buy it on Beatport
Turbo: "Tenderoni" Remixes 12". Includes remixes by Etienne de Crecy and Proxy . Buy it on Beatport
BackYard: "Tenderoni" single (12" and CD). Includes remixes by MSTRKRFT and Sinden . Limited 7" single includes "Call Me Up". Online EP includes all remixes. Buy it on Beatport
Turbo: "Bonafied Lovin" Remixes 12". Includes remixes by Riot In Belgium , Jori Hulkkonen and Les Petits Pilous . Buy it on Beatport
BackYard: "Bonafied Lovin" single. Includes remixes by Headman , Teenagers and Yuksek . Limited 7" picture disk available here . Limited 7" embossed sleeve available here (includes "You're So Gangsta"). Buy it on Beatport
Chromeo is P-Thugg 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, actually. What makes this footwork so fancy, you ask? Step the fuck off and open your heart to the finest distillation of Minneapolis groove this side of Mazarati. Dave and Pee are back in the ‘07 to heal the fractured soul of dance music. Teenage lovers, 20 something blogpoders, 30 something burn-out ex-raver “graphic designers†and 40 something sistas can all finally party under one roof...and that roof has a name, AND that roof is on fire, and the only ones who can put out that funk-fire also happen to be the guys the roof is named after: CHROMEO.
Does analog synth wizard P-Thugg still rock nightgown-sized DipSet t-shirts, talk through a keyboard, and have the thousand-yard stare of a well-practiced gangster? You bet he fucking does. Does vocalist and guitarist Dave 1 still dress like a French Lit professor from 1965? Can he still ask you to twerk without coming off like an imposter? You better believe he can.
Chromeo is slick. Chromeo is dripping with reverb. Chromeo is Moog riffs, luxurious harmonies, macho guitar solos and real-deal songcraft. From the dancefloor-ready singles “Fancy Footwork†and “Tenderoni,†to the autobiographical Jew-boy ballad “Momma's Boy,†to the epic sax-laden album closer “100%,†Fancy Footwork rolls you through a sleek, melodic world where all you need to worry about is whether you’ve got your sunglasses on and the right moves to keep up. Remember the debate when Chromeo first came on the scene? The endless back and forth about whether those boys were joking or not? Well, Fancy Footwork will put any vestigial haters to sleep forever. There ain’t nothing “ironical†about this music. It’s Hall & Oates riding on 22’s, busting shots in the air with Quincy Jones driving. That shit ain’t funny.
So there you have it: Chromeo, the band reborn...the sex, the beats, the dream, the suits, the gloves, the laughs, the tears, the past and the future. All rolled up into one big blunt, smoked up through Pee’s talkbox tube and exhaled into your brain. Enjoy.
