Hot Chip talk `Ecstasy´ and the loss of producer Philippe Zdar ahead of LA concert
(WorldNews Music)

Felix Martin, synth wizard for Hot Chip, is at his mom’s house, a centuries-old place in the English countryside where he is surrounded by more trees than people when we connect by phone for this interview. “It’s the antidote to being in airports and on tour buses,� he says of the getaway. Hot Chip has been on the road for the better part of the year with jaunts through the U.K., Europe and the U.S. Returning to the States for another leg of the tour, they’ll be playing at Los Angeles’ Shrine Expo Hall Sept. 27 before finishing out the year with a string of European gigs. In the midst of all that touring, the British indie-dance band dropped their seventh...