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Avant-garde modular wizard Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard have teamed up for their new collaborative Neptunes EP, out on the Domino imprint Smugglers Way. Neptunes is the result of two electronic music powerhouses coming together to create new and thrilling sounds out of pure collaboration. With hard-hitting beats, intricate synth programming, and a melodic sensibility that retains a strange and alluring aura, it’s pure body-moving stuff that stimulates every neuron firing off in your brain.

Featuring a low-slung bassline, gorgeously wavering synths, and pleasingly chopped-up vocal samples, first single and title track “Neptunes” originates from Goddard’s desire to make a tune reminiscent of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo’s visionary, singular approach to hip-hop production as the Neptunes.

“I loved what the rhythm made me feel when I first heard it,” Smith says. “I actually thought he was tapping into Neptune as a planet, and the qualities I felt it possesses. So my side of things brought out more space-themed sounds as a result.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard - Neptunes
2. Joe Goddard - Rapid Fire (Feat. Laima)
3. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Around You
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Around You (Joe Goddard Remix)
5. Joe Goddard - Rapid Fire (Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Remix)