LCD Soundsystem

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Few artists of his generation have a superhero origin story as compelling as James Murphy. A failed musician and touring sound man—one who’d spent his twenties chasing popularity in the notoriously insular 1990s American indie rock scene—Murphy had all but given up on his dream of achieving underground celebrity by the time he met another unsung producer: Tim Goldsworthy, the silent partner in ultra-hip UK imprint Mo’ Wax. The latter introduced the former to DJing and ecstasy, and they began to collaborate in the studio as The DFA, introducing a retro disco-meets-post-punk sound to a New York downtown scene whose denizens were craving their own version of the city’s late-1970s and early-1980s creative heyday. The DFA struck gold almost immediately, producing the genre-defining dance-punk classic “House of Jealous Lovers” by The Rapture. That song, in turn, attracted other cool kid, from NYC hipsters Le Tigre to chart-topping hip-hop weirdos N.E.R.D., both of whom approached Murphy and Goldsworthy about remixes (the duo even took a meeting with one of The Neptunes’ client, pop princess Britney Spears). .

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