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“It's quite a strange sounding song, in a way,” says Alexis Taylor, reflecting on his band’s 2008 single Ready For The Floor. “You wouldn't really write it down as an idea: Let's have gentle falsetto vocals referencing a Batman film, while singing about a kind of brotherly connectedness – and try to be inspired by garage music and Prince.”
With reissues of their classic albums The Warning, Made In The Dark and One Life Stand out now, we sat down with Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard and Al Doyle of Hot Chip to talk about the making of one of the band's most enduring songs.
Find out more about the reissues at: https://hot-chip.co.uk/
In this video:
00:00 – The making of Ready For The Floor
02:32 – Synthesizing drums with a (virtual) Moog Modular
05:02 – Lyrics, arrangement and Batman references
10:40 – Synth melodies
14:45 – Chorus and vocals
17:56 – Bassline and drums
20:42 – Playing Ready For The Floor live
24:41 – Reflecting on why the song works so well
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