Browse by Label: DFA RECORDS

Artist:	MACLEAN/THE RAPTURE, JUAN
Title:	Give Me Every Little Thing/Killing
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2128

"DFA is finally back in the game with not one, but two new singles from artists The Juan MacLean and The Rapture. A: 'Give Me Every Little Thing is the third release from The Juan MacLean, but with even more bounce to the ounce. It is like the sound of two hard drives humping to a Hot Chocolate record. It has nothing to do with fleeting trends and everything to do with a classic jam. Vocals by Nancy Whang and James Murphy of LCD soundsystem / dfa. B: Hot off the anthem of 2002, 'House of Jealous Lovers', The Rapture return with 'Killing', the newest single off their highly anticipated debut, Echoes. A perfect mixture of neck snapping Neptunes-esque funk and signature DFA grit."

Artist:	J.O.Y.
Title:	Sunplus
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2135

"The Japanese band J.O.Y. consists of the creative forces of K.U.D.O (Major Force West, Skylab, UNKLE) and Kan Takagi (Major Force, solo artist). Both went on to make major contributions as remixers, recording artists and collaborators with everyone from David Holmes to the Psychonauts to De La Soul, as well as helped found Ape Sounds Records, an offshoot of Nigo's iconic clothing label A Bathing Ape. For the first J.O.Y. single, 'Sunplus', KUDO and Kan enlisted the help of another Japanese music legend, Yoshimi P-We of the Boredoms/OOIOO. The results were one of the most off-beat, drum heavy pop singles DFA had heard in a while. Tim Goldsworthy, on half of the DFA as well as a founding member of UNKLE and Mo Wax Records (and collaborator with Major Force West) jumped at the chance to be reunited with his old mates, once he heard the track, so Tim, and DFA partner James Murphy remixed the track into something even more sideways than the original, replaying drums and guitar and creating a strange dream-band, where Bjork fronts the Slits in No-Wave Heaven."

Artist:	BLACK DICE
Title:	Creature Comforts
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2137CD

"This is the official follow-up to their DFA debut CD and Double LP Beaches & Canyons. It finds the band pushing in yet another direction, at once unmistakably Black Dice, and noticeably different. Recorded with Steve Revitte (Liars, Kill Me Tomorrow), the DFA & Nicolas Vernhes (Fisherspooner, Fiery Furnaces). Venturing further into their own psychedelic, increasingly electronic world, Creature Comforts is as expansive, experimental and structurally unique as its predecessor, but there is a new sense of playfulness and accessibility mixed with naīve wonder and not-quite-steady rhythms. It is hazy, dreamy, but they have suddenly emerged as a band with an untouchably original terrain, mixing dub, Tropicalia and the entire history of psychedelic rock music into one heady concoction."

Artist:	JUAN MACLEAN, THE
Title:	Happy House (Lazaro Casanova Remix)
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	DFA 2230A-EP

"The Juan Maclean returns with the second single from his top-form second album, The Future Will Come. This time, he chooses what began as an underground sensation worldwide, and over the past year slowly bubbled up from the indie dance floors to the main rooms of mega clubs coast to coast. With that in mind, DFA invited a wide range of dance music's all-stars to reinterpret and remix the song." Side A: Lazaro Casanova Remix; Side B: Paul Woolford Apocalypse Version

Artist:	MICHOACAN
Title:	In The Dark Of The Night
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2235EP

"The one-two kick drum beat that starts 'In the Dark of the Night' functions as a bit of a tease. Instead of merely establishing the languid pace of the track, it has the power of suggestion, and its stark nakedness raises the question of what will happen after the music fully launches. A few seconds later, a punch-drunk, flanging keyboard is the first clue that the listener is in for an off-kilter ride; the sauntering bassline that next appears adds a springy, funk bounce. But it's the tripped-out, multi-tracked vocals of Fernando Miranda Rios -- a.k.a. Michoacan, the producer behind this slow reveal -- that give the song its peculiar, space-y vibe. It's like David Byrne with funk aspirations and a vaguely cosmic feel. The B-side remix, courtesy of Italy's Clap Rules, feels like more of a re-build. The song has been taken apart and put back together with brand new parts. Instead of more relaxed, dazed funk at the core, it's a glittery, disco-ballsplattered track with glossy keys all around."

Artist:	YACHT
Title:	Psychic City
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	7" PIC. DISC
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2237EP

"YACHT returns with a special limited-edition product and the first picture-disc DFA has ever made. The single compiles two remixes of 'Psychic City' never before released on vinyl. First, Los Angeles superstars Classixx effortlessly transform the song into a slo-mo electro-dancefloor steamroller. Joe Goddard (member of the band Hot Chip and head of forward-thinking Greco Roman Records) then flips the track into a lost mid-'80s classic, as if OMD were trying new ideas for a John Hughes film."

Artist:	LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
Title:	Movement
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	DFA 2141CD

"DFA lynchpin and LCD Soundsystem honcho James Murphy returns with a brand new single taken from his highly anticipated debut album. As for what 'Movement' is about....in James' own words...'That's mostly about the 'new rock', which is a movement without the bother of having any meaning. You know a journalistic movement that announces, 'Rock is back! The guitar is back!' Whoo-hoo. But for what? Its like saying, 'The high-waisted pant is back!' Its fucking vacuous and the bands are tedious. They all sound like The MC5. I get excited about The White Stripes 'cos they're some people who are obviously trying to do something of their own. But most bands will never be good because they don't even ask themselves why they're bothering until its too late.' This is probably a good time to bring up the major influence on James's vocal style. The Fall's Mark E Smith haunts this album's more testy testimonies. James makes no attempt to pretend it's an accident. 'Movement' is released on 2 track CD and 7" backed with another new (and exclusive) track 'Yr City's A Sucker'."

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Artist:	VA
Title:	DFA Compilation #2
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	3CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2140CD

Artist:	Q&A
Title:	Tumbling Cubes/Trap Door
Label:	DFA RECORDS
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	DFA 2213EP