Well, some of them are keeping busy
It seems Chris and Mark have gone back to their sometime hobby of working with Japanese artists, this time working with singer Kuriyami Chiaki. There's an article here which is mostly in Japanese, but Chris's comment on the track he and Mark wrote is there in English:
Mark and I had been getting really into alot of French Pop-Rock music from the 1960's! The Parisian-made pop music back then was different to how they were doing it in London and New York. It was ultra crisp, super-tight, up-beat, aggressive dance tracks. Stylized rock and roll records. Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Halliday, Michel Polnareff, and Brigitte Bardot were some of the artists that inspired our track. We wanted to see what would happen though, if we hardened up the percussion, and made it bouncier, tougher, and more raw, like an early hip hop track. It's 1980's Brooklyn vs 1960's Paris!!
I'm really not surprised at Chris's further experiments with hip hop, he seems to have become quite a fan lately. A far cry from the 'scandal' of 2003 when a magazine (I think it was NME?) called him racist for saying that gangsta rap was bullshit.
It's not the first time Mark and Chris have worked with Japanese musicians; in the hiatus of 2008 they produced a song for Superfly and also appeared in the film clip:
Haven't you always wanted to see Chris Cester wielding a pimp cane?
Mark and I had been getting really into alot of French Pop-Rock music from the 1960's! The Parisian-made pop music back then was different to how they were doing it in London and New York. It was ultra crisp, super-tight, up-beat, aggressive dance tracks. Stylized rock and roll records. Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Halliday, Michel Polnareff, and Brigitte Bardot were some of the artists that inspired our track. We wanted to see what would happen though, if we hardened up the percussion, and made it bouncier, tougher, and more raw, like an early hip hop track. It's 1980's Brooklyn vs 1960's Paris!!
I'm really not surprised at Chris's further experiments with hip hop, he seems to have become quite a fan lately. A far cry from the 'scandal' of 2003 when a magazine (I think it was NME?) called him racist for saying that gangsta rap was bullshit.
It's not the first time Mark and Chris have worked with Japanese musicians; in the hiatus of 2008 they produced a song for Superfly and also appeared in the film clip:
Click to viewHaven't you always wanted to see Chris Cester wielding a pimp cane?