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When regular Joes like you or I wish to declare our love for, say, the Fray, to the world, we plunk down 20 beans for a t-shirt. When the Limey funkateers in Hot Chip do it, we get DJ-Kicks: Hot Chip, the latest in the DJ-Kicks series of taste-confessin' musician-curated mix CDs. It's set to drop May 22 on !K7.

Following in the footsteps of the likes of Annie and Four Tet, the Hot Chip installment finds the band chunking the deuce at artists as far flung as Tom Zé, Etta James, Joe Jackson and Positive K. The emphasis on microhouse, new wave, and hip-hop may not blow any minds familiar with the band's own blend of same, but any chance you have to hear Young Leek's "Jiggle It," you should probably take.

As is the DJ-Kicks tradition, Hot Chip contribute a brand new song, "My Piano", to the mix. It will be released as a 12" single on !K7 on May 8.

The crew will play some DJ gigs in support of the mix, with dates forthcoming. Though they will be appearing at London's Ministry of Sound tomorrow night, March 24. According to a Myspace post, "We have some good new songs for the next album, wrestling seems to be a general theme."

As we reported yesterday, Hot Chip will serve on a jury of their peers in the case of Philly's Plastic Little vs. yo mama, and as we reported many yesterdays ago, the Maurice Fulton remix of their own banger "Over and Over" gets a nod on Spank Rock's FABRICLIVE.33 mix.

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor is also joining up with Scritti Politti's Green Gartside for two gigs: March 29 at Koko in London, opening for Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, and April 7 at Fence Homegame in Fife, Scotland.

As if that wasn't enough hotness, they'll take a brief jaunt about the States before popping up at a couple festivals you might've heard of.

Kickin' it with Hot Chip:

01 Grovesnor - "Nitemoves"
02 Positive K - "I Got a Man"
03 Gramme - "Like You"
04 Subway - "Persuasion"
05 Soundhack - "B1"
06 Tom Zé - "Cademar"
07 Hot Chip - "My Piano (DJ-Kicks)"
08 Wax Stag - "Short Road"
09 New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone Extended Remix)"
10 Young Leek - "Jiggle It"
11 Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto - "In the Basement, Part One"
12 Black Devil Disco Club - "On Just Foot"
13 Dominik Eulberg - "Der Buchdrucker"
14 Grauzone - "Film 2"
15 This Heat - "Radio Prague"
16 Wookie - "Far East"
17 Gabriel Ananda - "Doppelwhipper (Live)"
18 Marek Bois - "You Got Good Ash"
19 Lanark - "The Stone That the Builder Rejected"
20 Pete Um - "The Man's Got Me Beat"

21 Nôze - "Love Affair"
22 Audion - "Just Fucking (Roman Flügel's 23 Positions in a One-Night Stand Remix)"
23 Joe Jackson - "Steppin' Out"
24 Ray Charles - "Mess Around"

So glad to see you:

04-19 New York, NY - Webster Hall
04-20 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
04-21 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
04-22 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
04-23 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse *
04-25 Austin, TX - Antone's *
04-26 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater *
04-28 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
06-14 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival
06-16 Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre #

* with Tussle
# with Tortoise