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album cover GOLD CHAINS Live At The Beta Lounge (MX Entertainment) dvd 19.98
Presented for your party pleasure: this DVD compiles a performance by righteous party-monger Gold Chains at San Francisco's Beta Lounge, along with plenty of extra videos and live performances, including the awesome "I Come From San Francisco" video, shot on a BART train! Locals: look for yourself and your friends in the videos. Out-of towners: experience the magic of a Gold Chains show from the comfort of your living room. The live at Beta Lounge portion comes peppered by unfortunate amounts of clean-cut white girls in flygirl pose mode and art-school graduate ghetto parody, but Gold Chains himself puts on a helluva show as always, making the most uptight of booties shake and temporarily redeeming the white-boy indie-electronic hip-hop genre (at least until the next time I'm reminded of the existence of Cex). Although it's funny; I know I was pretty drunk that night, but I remember the show being totally crazy, like crowd surfing, buckets of sweat, jam-packed dance-your-ass-off crazy. Somehow, the video doesn't quite seem to convey the mayhem. Perhaps the filming would have benefitted from another approach, or maybe I was just more wasted than I realized. Hmmm.

album cover GOLD CHAINS s/t (Orthlorng Musork) cd 9.98
I can't believe that this record hasn't driven us mad. In the very near future, it very well may. But at the moment, Gold Chains certainly tickles our fancy for purposefully ridiculous, totally fun electronica/hip-hop. Gold Chains is the boisterous hip-hop pseudonym of San Francisco's Topher Lafata, who now releases his first album through Kit Clayton's Orthlorng Musork. Unlike the disastrous ironic electronica of Cex and Peaches, Gold Chain's megalomania comes with a charming flashiness which is so often lost in the pursuit of being self-effacing, in order to be funny or ironic. In terms of hip-hop delivery, Gold Chains is pretty old school, enunciating all of his syllables upon clearly defined rhythmic patterns and sounding a little quicker, but equally as raspy as Tone Loc or DMX. And his content is equally old school, boasting of almost exclusively about his sexual prowess, but occasionally it's about how much he can shred a microphone with his lyrics or the quality of the parties he throws. Getting some help from Kit Clayton on production, Gold Chains' backing tracks are a mixture of the seductive IDM grooves of Autechre or Pole and the muscular proto-electronica of Tackhead and Gary Clail. While Gold Chains' live shows are infamously IN-YO-FACE, bratty, and juvenile, he has the sense (and the skillz!) to make it all sound sooo good. Oh yeah, the last track is built entirely on a Stereolab song and it works perfectly. I'm not kidding. In short, this is a recommended debut from a local hero, with plenty of 'bling bling' in his future!!
RealAudio clip: "I Come From San Francisco"
RealAudio clip: "No. 1 Face In Hip Hop"
RealAudio clip: "Rock The Parti"

GOLD CHAINS s/t (Orthlorng Musork) lp 8.98
I can't believe that this record hasn't driven us mad. In the very near future, it very well may. But at the moment, Gold Chains certainly tickles our fancy for purposefully ridiculous, totally fun electronica/hip-hop. Gold Chains is the boisterous hip-hop pseudonym of San Francisco's Topher Lafata, who now releases his first album through Kit Clayton's Orthlorng Musork. Unlike the disastrous ironic electronica of Cex and Peaches, Gold Chain's megalomania comes with a charming flashiness which is so often lost in the pursuit of being self-effacing, in order to be funny or ironic. In terms of hip-hop delivery, Gold Chains is pretty old school, enunciating all of his syllables upon clearly defined rhythmic patterns and sounding a little quicker, but equally as raspy as Tone Loc or DMX. And his content is equally old school, boasting of almost exclusively about his sexual prowess, but occasionally it's about how much he can shred a microphone with his lyrics or the quality of the parties he throws. Getting some help from Kit Clayton on production, Gold Chains' backing tracks are a mixture of the seductive IDM grooves of Autechre or Pole and the muscular proto-electronica of Tackhead and Gary Clail. While Gold Chains' live shows are infamously IN-YO-FACE, bratty, and juvenile, he has the sense (and the skillz!) to make it all sound sooo good. Oh yeah, the last track is built entirely on a Stereolab song and it works perfectly. I'm not kidding. In short, this is a recommended debut from a local hero, with plenty of 'bling bling' in his future!!

album cover GOLD CHAINS Straight From Your Radio (Tigerbeat6) cd 9.98
Who rocks the parti? Local darling Gold Chains cracks the whip with five new dancefloor hotties giving a heads up to the Cologne and Berlin Schaffelfieber sound. Having travelled the world in his brief career as Gold Chains, Topher Lafata has absorbed the sounds of other lands to craft his own brand of electrosonic hiphop thunder. Following on his acclaimed debut for Orthlorng Musork, "Straight From Your Radio" is another brief encounter with the hard beat mystic nonmaterialistic witch doctor. Each track is very distinct from the next from the rubbery bass of the lead off track to the absurd cootchie song. So silly and repetitious, it lyrically reminded me of Snow's "The Informer" from '93. Continuing on, "Let's Make It" pumps out the big beats Sweet and Gary Glitter style. Y'know those thumpin' '70s enormo-party anthems! He even does a reworking of Samhain's "Human Pony Girl"! Come join the caravan...
RealAudio clip: "I Treat Your Cootchie Like A Maze"
RealAudio clip: "Let's Make It"
RealAudio clip: "Human Pony Girl"

GOLD CHAINS Straight From Your Radio (Tigerbeat6) 12" 9.98
Who rocks the parti? Local darling Gold Chains cracks the whip with five new dancefloor hotties giving a heads up to the Cologne and Berlin Schaffelfieber sound. Having travelled the world in his brief career as Gold Chains, Topher Lafata has absorbed the sounds of other lands to craft his own brand of electrosonic hiphop thunder. Following on his acclaimed debut for Orthlorng Musork, "Straight From Your Radio" is another brief encounter with the hard beat mystic nonmaterialistic witch doctor. Each track is very distinct from the next from the rubbery bass of the lead off track to the absurd cootchie song. So silly and repetitious, it lyrically reminded me of Snow's "The Informer" from '93. Continuing on, "Let's Make It" pumps out the big beats Sweet and Gary Glitter style. Y'know those thumpin' '70s enormo-party anthems! He even does a reworking of Samhain's "Human Pony Girl"! Come join the caravan...
RealAudio clip: "I Treat Your Cootchie Like A Maze"
RealAudio clip: "Let's Make It"
RealAudio clip: "Human Pony Girl"

GOLD CHAINS The Game (PIAS) 12" 7.98
Don't call Gold Chains a player, he's in love with you. And don't call him played out, 'cause this single is another evolutionary step for the genre twisting, scruffy-voiced laptop MC. Broken electric funk and tech-hop beats infuse one of Gold Chains catchiest, best-produced (and that's saying a lot) tracks to date. Features a hectic pitched-up remix by Kit Clayton, and a groovy house-ier mix by Luomo (aka Vladislav Delay).

GOLD CHAINS Young Miss America (Pias America) cd 15.98
Gold Chains' new album is again a kick ass, completely weird hybrid of hip hop and bedroom electronics so over the top and colorful that it demands a lot of attention. Not as completely catchy as his selftitled debut, this is still exciting and a fun listen. And check out "Break or Be Broken", decidedly non hip hop love song with pretty rock chord progressions, a good direction for Gold Chains.
MPEG Stream: "Young Miss America"
MPEG Stream: "Break or Be Broken"

album cover GOLD CHAINS & SUE CIE When The World Was Our Friend (Kill Rock Stars) cd 14.98
SF indie hip-hop artist Gold Chains brings it again! Rocking a more earnest and cynical parti... When The World Was Our Friend offers up more broken electric funk and tech-hop beats for fans of previous albums, though on a slightly darker and harder note. Congruent to its title, the album is less hoochies in thongs sippin champagne in the hot tub, and more holy shit man what the fuck is going on. More emphasized this time around is frequent collaborator Sue Cie, singing a generous amount of the tracks. When The World definitely pushes Gold Chains into a different realm. Looking forward to it being pushed even harder!
MPEG Stream: "Better Together"
MPEG Stream: "Come To Cali"

album cover GOLD CHAINS & SUE CIE When The World Was Our Friend (Kill Rock Stars) lp 15.98
SF hip-hop artist Gold Chains brings it again! Rocking a more earnest and cynical parti... When The World Was Our Friend offers up more broken electric funk and tech-hop beats for fans of previous albums, though on a slightly darker and harder note. Congruent to its title, the album is less hoochies in thongs sippin champagne in the hot tub, and more holy shit man what the fuck is going on. More emphasized this time around is frequent collaborator Sue Cie, singing a generous amount of the tracks. When The World definitely pushes Gold Chains into a different realm. Looking forward to it being pushed even harder!
MPEG Stream: "Better Together"
MPEG Stream: "Come To Cali"

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