Music / IncomingHoly Ghost! RecommendsNew York's melodic nu-disco band on DFA talk tacos and rescuing French bulldogs.ShareLink copied ✔️August 19, 2009MusicIncomingTextFlora Yin-Wong In a world of electronic music, Holy Ghost! currently signed to LCD Soundsystem's DFA Records, also home to Hot Chip and The Juan MacLean are sticking to old school techniques of using live instruments and analog sounds to create their own breed of dance music. The duo Nicholas Millhiser and Alex Frankel originally part of the live rap group, Automato as produced by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, have now released a string of synthy 70’s disco italo tracks such as 'Hold On' whilst remixing Modular's Cut Copy, MGMT, and Panthers. Also contributing their remix skills to Moby's 'I Love To Move In Here's all-star remix pack with the likes of Crookers, Proxy and Popof, their remix of Phoenix's 'Lisztomania' was released on Kitsune and also covered In Flagranti's Business Acumen, a double dose of disco. Here they give us their recommendations...Can you recommend...... three new bands?1. Jessica 62. Black Meteoric Star 3. Let me think about it. ... three old bands?1. Chic2. Six Finger Satellite. 3. Fleetwood Mac... a record label?Can I say DFA? ... a website?http://frenchbulldogrescue.org/... a film?I just rediscovered Do The Right Thing. Amazing. ... a book? How It Ended: New and Collected Stories by Jay McInerney. ... something on YouTube?The Clash on The Tomorrow Show complete with Toms and a young Futura 2000 painting in the background. ... a radio show?Beats in Space. That's really the only one I've ever listened to.... something to do on a day off?If you're in New York take the train out to Brooklyn and get a taco at Taco Santana on Keap between Broadway and South 5th. I recommend the Santana taco with chorizo or al pastor (pork and pineapple!).... a song everyone should hear?'Never Gonna Leave You' by Evans Pyramid.Their new single 'I Will Come Back' as remixed by Classixx and DJ Mehdi is out now, whilst their debut album will be released early next year. Their releases can be heard and downloaded free on Green Label Sound. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREFinnish alt-pop star Pehmoaino: ‘Art helps us survive this dark country’10 great albums you may have missed in the last three monthsOnMeet the creatives turning up the heat in Lagos with Burna Boy and OnLamb is making ‘electronic lyrical’ music that sounds like no one elseArabic shoegaze duo Kiss Facility speak a language deeper than words‘Nazis can’t dance’: Photos from London’s House Against Hate protest rave5 tracks you can’t miss from March 2026ADL: The best and worst tracks on Yeat’s new album‘A cig in one hand and an inhaler in the other’: Fcukers know how to partyThis book looks inside the mad world of Lee ‘Scratch’ PerryDazed Mix: Lauren AuderZaylevelten is leading a Gen Z Nigerian rap revolutionEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy