Hot Chip è un gruppo musicale di elettro-pop e dance formato da cinque ragazzi nel 2000 a Londra.
Fondato inizialmente da due giovani ragazzi cresciuti nella stessa scuola londinese, Alexis Taylor, cantante e tastierista, e Joe Goddard, cantante e percussionista, dopo il rilascio del primo Ep, il gruppo si apri a Owen Clarke, chitarrista, Al Doyle, chitarrista e percussionista, e Frelix Martin, fino a prendere la sua attuale forma.
Membri
Alexis Taylor – voce, tastiera, chitarra, percussioni, piano
Joe Goddard – voce, sintetizzatore, percussioni
Owen Clarke – chitarra, sintetizzatore (live)
Al Doyle – chitarra, sintetizzatore, percussioni,
Felix Martin – s (live)
Ex componenti
Hagop Tchaparian
Rob Smoughton
Scott Bennett
Daniel Paton
Discografia
Album
Coming on Strong – 24 maggio 2004
The Warning – 22 maggio 2006 – numero 34 (UK) numero 81 (IRL)
Made in the Dark – 4 febbraio 2008 - numero 4 (UK), numero 8 (European Top Albums)
One life stand – 1 febbraio 2010
EPs e singoli
2000: Mexico EP (CD)
2002: Sanfrandisco E-Pee (CD-R only EP)
2003: Down with Prince (12" only EP)
2004: "Hittin' Skittles/Back to the Future" (limited 7")
2004: "Playboy" (7", 12" and CD)
2005: The Barbarian EP (12")
2006: "Over and Over" numero 32 UK (coloured 7", 12" and ECD)
2006: "Boy from School" numero 40 UK (2x coloured 7", 12" and ECD)
2006: "Colours" Did not chart in UK (2x7", 12" and CD)
2006: "Over and Over" numero 27 UK (Ltd. 7" w/ poster, 12", CD, ECD)
2007: Live Session (iTunes Exclusive) - EP (iTunes-only download)
2007: "My Piano" (12", download)
2007: "Shake a Fist" (12")
2008: "Ready for the Floor" #6 UK
2008: "One Pure Thought"#53 UK
2008: "Touch Too Much"
Altri Lavori
2005: All Filler, No Killer! (tour only release, CD)
2006: Live at The Horseshoe, Toronto (tour only release, CD)
2006: Live at The Horseshoe, London (tour only release, 3" CD)
2006: Mixture (promo only v/a compilation, CD)
2006: Mixture 2 (promo only v/a compilation, CD)
2006: Remixes & Rarities (promo only)
2007: DJ-Kicks: Hot Chip (v/a compilation, LP, CD)
Remix
2004: "Biting Tongues" by Faultline
2004: "Where I Belong" by Sia
2004: "Take Your Mama" by Scissor Sisters
2004: "Ladyflash" by The Go! Team
2004: "Perspective" by Kevin Mark Trail
2004: "TKO" by Le Tigre
2005: "Bootprints" by King Creosote
2005: "Destroy Everything You Touch" by Ladytron
2005: "Do As You Please" by Diefenbach
2005: "Do the Whirlwind" by Architecture in Helsinki
2005: "U.R.A.Q.T." by M.I.A.
2005: "Gold Mine Gutted" by Bright Eyes
2005: "Multiply" by Jamie Lidell
2005: "Passer By" by Mattafix
2005: "Roxxy" by Brooks
2006: "Kids with Guns" by Gorillaz
2006: "Kindling for the Master" by Stephen Malkmus
2006: "Launch Yourself" by Adem
2006: "Nothing's Going to Change Your Mind" by Badly Drawn Boy
2006: "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse from Rehab (Remixes) (EP)
2006: "Right Where You Are" by Amp Fiddler
2006: "Slowly" by Max Sedgley
2006: "Steppin Out" by Lo-Fi-Fnk
2006: "Tendency" by Battle
2006: "Tetanus Crisis" by Dondolo
2006: "Walking Machine" by Revl9n
2006: "Who Needs Actions When You Got Words" by Plan B
2007: "In the Morning" by Junior Boys from The Dead Horse EP
2007: "Gabriel Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2" by The Elysian Quartet
2007: "Girls & Boys in Love" by The Rumble Strips
2007: "La Forme/Aerodynamik" by Kraftwerk
2007: "I'm Designer" by Queens of the Stone Age
2007: "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" by CSS