Countdown to Street Scene: Chromeo

Marjana Jaidi / August 16, 2009

This fall, Chromeo will join more than two dozen of the world’s best artists, DJs and producers when they release their DJ-Kicks compilation on September 29. Their cover of The Eagles’ “I Can’t Tell You Why” (streamed below), is the only Chromeo track on the compilation.

Chromeo isn’t the only artist on the Street Scene roster to release a DJ-Kicks album. Headliners Thievery Corporation released their own interpretation in 1999. DJ-Kicks was started in 1995 by indie label !K7 records, and was originally created for an in-home audience.

If you can’t get to San Diego to catch Chromeo’s performance on August 28, fear not – they’re coming to NYC on October 16. As for Thievery Corporation, who will hit the Street Scene stage on August 29, they’re playing NYC’s Terminal 5 on Halloween.

Chromeo – “I Can’t Tell You Why”

Check out the full track list of Chromeo’s DJ-Kicks after the jump.

1. Kano: “Ikeya-Seki”
2. Pierre Perpall: “J’aime Danser Avec Toi”
3. Toba: “Moving Up”
4. France Joli: “Gonna Get Over You”
5. Donna Allen: “Serious”
6. Lovelock: “Maybe Tonight”
7. Chateau Marmont: “Solar Antapex”
8. Val Young: “Seduction”
9. Soupir: “Larmes de Métal”
10. Lifelike: “Sequencer”
11. Carmen: “Time to Move”
12. Shotgun: “Don’t You Wanna Make Love”
13. Cheri: “Murphy’s Law”!
14. Leo Sayer: “Easy to Love”
15. Shazam: “Luckier”
16. Chromeo: “I Can’t Tell You Why”
17. Diane Tell: “Tes Yeux”
18. The Alan Parsons Project: “Pipeline”