"Cod sperm sacs, I had that," muses James Murphy, multitalented record producer, DJ, founder of New York's DFA Records and mastermind behind dance-punk phenomenon LCD Soundsystem. Apparently, despite averaging two or three trips a year to Japan, the country — in particular its restaurants — still has the capacity to throw up surprises.
"Sometimes they'll try to be really accommodating," he continues, "but sometimes you'll get a chef who's just totally, 'F**k you, you're getting cod sperm sacs,' " Murphy continues, although it takes more than that to faze him. "That attitude," he concludes, "actually appeals to me much more, being from New York."
To many, Murphy represents the sound of postmillennial New York punk and dance music, from his early days playing old Can and ESG records at private parties, through the birth of DFA Records and its subsequent success with The Rapture and their song "House of Jealous Lovers" to Murphy's own band LCD Soundsystem, whose critically acclaimed and Grammy Award-nominated second album "Sound Of Silver" was released last year.