#185: Chromeo

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome Montreal, Canada's own, Chromeo back to the Upper West Side! Dave-1 and P-Thugg stop by to discuss their fifth studio album, Head Over Heels, which is executive produced by A-Trak and drops June 15th, their collaborations with DRAM, The-Dream, French Montana and Stefflon Don and more, why they chose to record this project in Burbank, California, how they challenged themselves in the studio, and what it means to follow up a radio-friendly song like Jealous. Chromeo talks growing up in Montreal as crate diggers, discovering funk through DJ Quik, maintaining mundane jobs while recording music was a hobby, the humor and sincerity of their music, how they nailed their first big show for Vice in New York City and subsequently failed in front of tiny audiences, how they landed a record deal on an obscure Canadian techno label, why Myspace and dance music helped turn their careers around, what a pop record feels like, what Atlantic Records expects of them, the criticisms they read and save, and how their big goal is to improve. All that plus the Michael Bolton-like songs that got cut, an EP with The-Dream, thoughts on the Yodeling Kid, Tekashi69, recording in France, the sophistication of The Simpsons, Phil Collins vs. Peter Gabriel, Awesome 80's compilations, their amazing new stage and much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we get into today's episode of a waste of time with It's the Real, we wanted to make mention because there has been such a big demand for this.
0:07.2	We have new t-shirts available at It's TheReal.com slash shop and the one that you guys asked us for the most are t-shirts with our A-KAs on them.
0:17.9	And Jeff, there's a lot of A-KAs on them.
0:20.5	We have so many A-KAs because we change it up every single time.
0:24.1	10 years of A.K.A.s. Never repeated an A.k.a. and now we have T-shirts that feature so many of them, including... Yo, what up. It's Eric, aka. Moving Base, aka. Jazz.
0:32.6	Yo, what up? It's Jeff, aka. Alcoholism, aka. Heartbreaker.
0:35.8	Yo, what up. It's Eric, aka. About That Life Jazz. Yo, what up? It's Jeff, aka Alcoholism, aka Heartbreaker.
0:38.8	Yo, what up?
0:38.8	It's Eric, aka About That Life, aka Mikey likes it.
0:39.2	Yo, what up, it's Jeff, aka Pink in My Drink, aka Peptobismal. Yo, what up, it's Eric, aka the Math Tudor, aka, you don't want no problem. Yo, what up is Jeff, aka Five Fingers of Death, aka Isoater Gloves.
0:42.2	Yo, what up? It's Eric, aka Trapper Dye, aka the Oregon Trail.
0:53.0	Yo, what up is Jeff Eric aka Trapper Die aka the Oregon Trail
0:56.2	Yo what up is Jeff aka Romus and Romulus aka Latin Kings
0:56.0	Yo what up it's Eric aka Coke and Mentos aka Pop and Bottles
1:00.0	Yo what up is Jeff aka Buckshot Shorty aka Bambi
1:03.0	Yo what up it's Eric aka Petri dish aka for the culture
1:06.0	Yo what up is Jeff aka Get These Hands aka Hummerabi Code You what up it's Eric aka Petri dish aka for the culture. Yo what up is Jeff aka Get These Hands aka Hummerabi Code.
1:09.0	Yo what up it's Eric aka planting seeds aka Ho activities.
1:12.6	Yo what up is Jeff aka Titty Boy aka T-shirt in the pool.
1:16.6	And so many more.
1:19.6	Go to It's theReal.com slash shop right now.
1:22.6	Cop an aka T-shirt.
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