Written by Sandeep Sehbi

DFA records and I have an interesting relationship. I first became aware of them when I was driving my car on I-675 in 2003, and ‘House of Jealous Lovers’ (The Rapture) came on the radio. It was the now defunct WOXY, an independent radio station that was based out of the Oxford, Ohio area. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was listening to my first DFA band.

I later got into LCD Soundsystem, and after I did a bunch of internet sleuthing, found myself listening to a series of DFA records mix CD’s. These were great compilations of the artists on their labels, but often times on these compilations they would release special DFA remixes. 

These remixes are pretty rad. I’ve listened to them countless times. While jogging. While thinking. I lived years of my life to the soundtrack of DFA. (I highly recommend checking out the mini-docu floating around the internet). I once tried to become an employee of DFA Records. Not very hard. *(I think I looked up their employment email and sent them a resume, once, a long time ago. I was very validated. And then I moved on with my life.)

Shocking Pinks is signed to DFA records (Black Dice, Hot Chip, The Juan Maclean, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Shit Robot, Sinkane) they’re also signed to Flying Nun Records (The Verlaines, Pavement) and Stars & Letters Records. They’re from New Zealand. They’re playing our city tomorrow. This is their first ever North American tour I’ve been told.