James Murphy & Pat Mahoney
Pat Mahoney - brought up on an intriguing diet of folk music and, funnily e… Read Full Bio ↴Pat Mahoney - brought up on an intriguing diet of folk music and, funnily enough, in the white suburbs of Ithaca, New York, reggae - developed an insatiable appetite for music and rhythm from the very start. When he turned 13, he traded in his saxophone for a PA and a mic, becoming lead singer of his first punk band, Distorted View. Three years of basements, garages, coffee houses, and his first manager ("It was fucking fun. We had a manager who was like 17 and had a car; he would take us to shows. He had a car that had no foot floor, it was just the street running by underneath it"), and eventually Distorted View made a turn for goth.

Unhappy with this musical direction, Pat instead taped a pair of drum sticks to his hands and picked up a white Pearl Export drum kit for an onslaught of basement punk shows with his second band, The Five Deadly Diseases (each of the five members named after a disease - Chris Syphilis, for example). A few years and an art school education later, Pat was recording for his next band, Les Savy Fav and found himself a good friend in their sound engineer, the indie/punk home-studio recording guru James Murphy.

Raised in the equally sheltered streets of Princeton Junction, New Jersey, James Murphy had garnered himself a reputation as a live and studio engineer ("recording bands on my 4-track for sandwiches") after a lifetime of starring in various bands himself. Subsequent to his first band at the age of 12, The Mystery Meats, the band names flew in over the years - The Extremes, ? ("We were just a question mark for a while, pre-Prince, just the symbol, I mean, not pre-Prince existence, but pre-Prince being the symbol. And pre-!!!"), Pony, Speedking - but James always found time to balance producing, recording, engineering and performing. Humble but foretelling beginnings for someone that, a decade later, is now heralded as a hugely important figure in electronic music; the "disco infiltrator" that's considered largely responsible for fusing dance and punk music. As the leading man and lyricist of his musical project LCD Soundsystem, the quintet has celebrated two Grammy nominations (for their self-titled debut LP LCD Soundsystem and the classic Daft Punk Is Playing At My House) and received fantastic critical acclaim for their second album released earlier this year, Sound of Silver.

Throughout it all, his best mate Pat Mahoney keeps time on drums and keeps his company on tour for LCD Soundsystem, and the two now have the divine opportunity to explore the globe with the band's relentless schedule. But flashing back to the fateful day Pat first came into James' studio, precisely at the point that dissatisfaction with noise bands and indie rock had reached a halting climax for both of them, their introduction to each other and to dance music was an ecstatic one.
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Don't Don't I go up Then back to bottom every week You'd prolly paint…
I Feel Your Love Comin' On I feel your love coming on (Just) Like the calm before…
I Got My Mind Made Up I got my mind made up Come on you can get…
Tell Me That I'm Dreaming â??Members of the Congress, I have the high privilege, and…


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Contagion [Instrumental]…
Convergence [Instrumental]…
Deconstruct Been least 40 days and 40 nights since I've been…
Deeper Within Where do I go from here My thoughts are stuck within…
Feeding the Machine An overwhelming thing that couldn't be That could be this v…
It Never Rains in Southern California Got on board a westbound seven forty-seven Didn't think bef…
Jet Airliner Leavin' home, out on the road I've been down before Ridin' a…



No One Can Tell You Lost - a life that's lost beyond the hope of…
Red Alert [Instrumental]…
Shadow's Fall [Instrumental]…
Shot Down Hey Little girl, What's the matter with you? Don't you like …
Since Forgotten It's not an ego I'm not trying to mess you up I…
Strange Why's everybody actin' funny? Why's everybody look so stran…
The Chauffeur Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving All looking…
The Last One I fail to be (what you need from me) I fail…
Through Your Eyes I can't lie, I see why you are this way …
Thumbs Got on board a westbound seven forty-seven Didn't think befo…
Touching the Earth This life, and all the things I'd known Turned away, and…
Visitors After all these years discovery's not blind Unsubstantial f…


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