I've got a tape I want to play.

This is just another reason why I love edits.

Take the best bits, stretch them out until you're begging for more.

It keeps coming until the beat stops.

LCD Soundsystem's "45:33" is a concept album, an exercise in marketing, a trial for a (then) upcoming album and an exploration into disco, in all of its guises.



From cosmic to leftfield to four-on-the-floor beats to soft and mildly ambient synths.

The 2nd (or 3rd portion, depending on what cuts/edition you have) is probably my favorite. Although I am known to drop the next part when I spin records at parties, this is the one I pull out more often when I am looking for rainy days songs, or for a little bit of disco zen.

The song would later be re-cut and re-edited to be used in the song "Someone Great", my favorite track on "Sound Of Silver". To be honest, it was my least favorite the first time I heard it. I thought of it as a bit of a throw away.

Then one night at a friend's summer party, we sat outside, with the song blaring through the windows. It was in the middle of nowhere, and that lonesome lull of a synth-laden bassline hooked me. Right in the heart.

And then I listened. Really listened. And I understood.

The instrumental version does not have the same lyrical push to it, but I feel that by listening to it, I feel like the two songs are almost palimpsests of one another. You get the feeling it conveys, even without the melancoly lyrics. And you still feel the open space even when you concentrate on the words being spoken-sung to you.