Why has the LCD Soundsystem record taken so long?īecause I didn’t want to put any of the singles on the record. But I promise that the parties will be a little bit not-normal. I’ve been thinking about it a lot, which I’m sure will bum everybody out because it’s time for my album to come out. It’s when things are horrible, and people want something good, which is different than when things are horrible but they don’t want something good. It’s been dead for a while, but it’s starting to get dead-exciting, which I like. It seems like New York’s club scene-which inspired you and Tim to start DFA-has been going through a prolonged slump. So we were determined to make the second compilation better. And we all agreed that it came out too late most people already had the records. It wasn’t completist, nor was it a great listen. We weren’t satisfied with our first compilation CD. Ethan Brown spoke to Murphy about the DFA stable and sound. This month, DFA, under a new distribution deal with EMI, is issuing a sprawling three-CD compilation, covering acts like Black Dice and Juan MacLean. He also started a new band, LCD Soundsystem, which helped refine the style that came to be dubbed “dance rock.” Murphy founded a label (DFA, an acronym for Death From Above) with British expat Tim Goldsworthy in 1999. But then in the late nineties, Murphy dropped ecstasy, turned on to the sounds of dance-music maestros like Larry Levan, and started throwing parties in Williamsburg and downtown Manhattan. For most of his professional life, New Jersey–born rocker James Murphy was just getting by, playing guitar in indie bands that never quite broke out.
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