‘We got our percussion instruments from the Early Learning Centre. The main hi-hat was made on a kids’ set of silver cymbals’
Hot Chip was just a duo in the beginning. Joe [Goddard] and I met at Elliott School in Putney in 1991, when I was 11, and bonded over making music. We performed covers – Pavement, the Velvet Underground – at school and started writing and recording our own songs on Joe’s 4-track tape recorder. We listened to alt-country artists, such as Will Oldham and Smog, and to dance music, R&B and pop from the US, productions by the Neptunes and Timbaland and tried to make something of our own that was a weird hybrid.
