In 2009 we were commissioned to remix Kings of Leon's "I Want You." We enlisted our two friends, Adam Forkner of White Rainbow, and Rebecca Carlisle-Healy, to play bass and sing on it, respectively. This was to be for an album of remixes that ended up being scrapped and this remix was never released. We're going to leave this up on the Internet until someone makes us take it down. 

Kings of Leon - I Want You (YACHT Remix)

Download “Party at the NSA” and your money goes straight to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who will defend us all from living in a total surveillance state.

http://partyatthensa.com

Written, Produced, & Recorded by Jona Bechtolt & Claire L. Evans
Bass by Rob Kieswetter
Guitar solo by Marc Maron
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk
Cover art by Tim Lahan

L Y R I C S :

Did you read my mail again?
How do you find the time?
I lost my signal yesterday, 
But it was never mine.

We don't need no privacy.
What do you want that for?
Don't you think it'll spoil our fun
If you let that whistle blow?

P-P-P-Party at the NSA,
Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours a day!

There is a rainbow at the end of every P-R-I-S-M.

Be careful where you look today,
Careful what you share. 
We're gonna make history.
But it won't know we're there.

The world looks stranger when you look
Through electronic eyes.
There's a place in the Beehive State
Where the network goes to die.

P-P-P-Party at the NSA,
Twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours a day!

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Party at the NSA

The Earth, the Earth is on fire!
We don't have no daughter,
Let the motherfucker burn!

We are hungry, we are all tired.
Our tongues they are all on fire.
The walls that we build are higher, higher, higher, higher. 

Strange days lead to strange nights.
You aren't afraid of the dark dark dark dark
When it's where you walk walk walk walk, 
When it's where you learn to talk.

Every day the sky gets lower, lower, lower, lower,
And every day the tide is blacker, blacker, blacker,
And every day the  flames get higher, higher, higher,
Yeah, every day the flames get higher, higher, higher!

The Earth, the Earth is on fire!
We don't have no daughter,
Let the motherfucker burn!
The Earth, the Earth is on fire!
If we cut off the water
Then the jackals would return.

We live like lions, we live our lives
With no more husbands, 
No more wives,
We let our children multiply 'cause we're afraid of dying. 

Every day the sky gets lower, lower, lower, lower,
And every day the tide is blacker, blacker, blacker,
And every day the  flames get higher, higher, higher,
Yeah, every day the flames get higher, higher, higher!

The Earth, the Earth is on fire!
We don't have no daughter,
Let the motherfucker burn!
The Earth, the Earth is on fire!
If we cut off the water
Then the jackals would return.

Dystopia (The Earth is on Fire)

Feel free to download and use in your non-commercial projects, i.e. YouTube videos, radio shows, etc.!

Jona Bechtolt — Keyboards, Ring Modulator/Phase Shifter, Drums, & Percussion

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk: http://stereopho.com

Video: http://plasticsoul.tv

"Plastic Soul" out now on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6FW5Hv

Buy Single

YACHT - Plastic Soul (Instrumental)

My Idea

Finger In Your Eye

🎈I guess now's as good of time as any to share a clip of this unfinished and filthy song about eating balloons that we'll probably never finish.

YACHT - Yummy Balloon (Clip)

Where Does This Disco? — EP
OUT NOW — http://smarturl.it/wheredoesthisdisco

Where Does This Disco? is about love and compact discs. They're both on the edge of becoming obsolete, and they both get scratched if you play them too hard. They're both mirrors, but one is still the best medium we have for connecting with each other.

Where Does This Disco? is our first release on Downtown Records. It's also the namesake for our upcoming North American tour, during which a special editioned object containing this song will be available for purchase. The remix is by the wildly talented Jerome LOL, one-half of DJ Dodger Stadium, and wholly from the Internet.

Written by Jona Bechtolt & Claire L. Evans
Produced by Jona Bechtolt
Additional Production by Rob Kieswetter
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Where Does This Disco?

Where Does This Disco? — EP
OUT NOW — http://smarturl.it/wheredoesthisdisco

The science fiction writer J.G. Ballard once said that "sex times technology equals the future." We argue that sex and technology coexist in our present: we touch, we push buttons, we seek intimacy in screens. When we connect, it works like magic. "Works Like Magic" is the first song we've written with our close collaborators, and bandmates, Rob "Bobby Birdman" Kieswetter and Jeffrey Brodsky.

Written by Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans, Rob Kieswetter, & Jeffrey Brodsky
Produced by Jona Bechtolt
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

As featured in the Google Chromecast TV ad: http://youtu.be/6mWvQFx59VU

Works Like Magic

We looked into the future
In a visionary state,
A psychoactive state.
There’s nothing in the future,
It’s up to us to make…

Utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia!
Utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia!

We all know when we wake up
That this is what all we get,
This is what we get.
Think fondly about life,
But still think strongly about death.

Utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia!
Utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia!

A higher source is calling
And you don’t have to commit,
You don’t have to submit!
The future works upon us
As we all work upon it.

Utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia!
Utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia, utopia!

Utopia

Where Does This Disco? — EP
OUT NOW — http://smarturl.it/wheredoesthisdisco

Written by Jona Bechtolt & Claire L. Evans
Produced by Jona Bechtolt
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

Terminal Beach

Pre-Order the album on iTunes: smarturl.it/YACHTfuture

Special Edition 2x LP at Amoeba: http://ittfwb.cool/ITTFWBCLP

Compact Disc at Amazon: http://ittfwb.cool/ITTFWBCCD

Lyrics:

I’m not afraid of love, so tell me what you’re thinking of. 
Or are words just not enough? Just romantic semantics!
 
I’m thinking of a word often written, never heard.
All the letters overturned—just a verbal tactic.
 
Never feel as alone as when you give me busy tone,
when I’m left holding the phone, holding mobile plastic.
 
Hold me up to your face! 
Hold me close to your ear!
 Hold me close to your head! 
I’m on the line, why aren’t you here?
 
Ringtone! Ringtone!
I’m calling, look at your phone!
 
Ringtone! Ringtone!
It’s me lighting up your phone!
 
There’s something in your voice signaling me through the noise. 
You are not like other boys.
 
When you make a sound the air your body falls around, 
forming vowels, forming nouns. Forming mobile plastic.
 
Ringtone! Ringtone!
I’m calling, look at your phone!
 
Ringtone! Ringtone!
It’s me lighting up your phone!

Ringtone

I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler

Reeling from the loss of Prince, we dug up an unfinished cover of "Annie Christian" we started in 2011, while recording our DFA album Shangri-La, and finished it. "Annie Christian" has always struck us as one of the weirdest Prince songs, a loose narrative of dark true stories from 1979-1981: John Lennon's assassination, the Atlanta murders, and the FBI's Abscam corruption sting. Prince was wounded by the evil in the world, and did a great deal both privately and publicly to bring the light. 

Annie Christian (Prince Cover)

Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) [The Emperor Machine Remix]

I Walked Alone (Get A Room! Remix)

Strawberry Moon - EP

Strawberry Moon

It's true, we played a live set at Giorgio Moroder's birthday party April 26th, 2018 at the Globe Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. Photos here: https://www.facebook.com/yacht/posts/10155907107322479

MINI MIX TRACKLIST:

Fad Gadget — Lady Shave
Maurice & Charles — Moroder in Milan
M — Pop Muzik (Todd Terje Remix)
DJ Nori — Happy Sunday (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Pharaohs — Island Time
Killing Joke — Almost Red
Clara Mondshine — Die Drachentrommler (Pilooski Edit)
Major Swellings — Mann Grot
The Gist — The Long Run
Roni Griffith — Spies

We Played Giorgio Moroder's Birthday Party (a mini mix by YACHT)

"Le Goudron" is a surrealist revolutionary song originally recorded in 1969 by Brigitte Fontaine with The Art Ensemble of Chicago; YACHT has reinvented its naive-apocalyptic candor for a neon-soaked dance floor, our preferred autonomous zone.

Le Goudron

Le Goudron (Long Version)

Le Goudron (YACHT Remix)

A mix by Jeffrey Jerusalem & YACHT

Tracklist:

Love Unlimited Orchestra - Welcome Aboard
It's A Fine Line - Grease
James Curd - Open Up Your Mind Feat. Devin Byrnes
Sticky Stockholm - Daka
Simian Mobile Disco - Thousand Year Egg
MU - Paris Hilton
Mike Dunn - Let It Be House
Armando - Don't Take It (Thomos Edit)
The Barking Dog - Mamarracho
Cajmere - Percolator
Virgo Four - Forever Yours
Maurice & Charles - Moroder In Milan
Snuten - Wild & Free Feat. Fox 'N' Wolf (Todd Terje Remix)
Punks Jump Up - Get Down (Special Cccrash Mixxx)
Carte Blanche - With You (Featuring Alexis Taylor)
MNDR - Faster Horses (Jeffrey Jerusalem Remix)
Ghostape - I Feel Your Soul

YACHT Presents…Acid Punks

Chain Tripping

(Downtown) Dancing

Second Summer is a state of mind: overcoming obstacles in order to be close to what you love, a temporal place where sun never goes out no matter what season it is in your hemisphere. Like the original Summer of Love and its acid house revival, the Second Summer of Love, our aim is true: to create environments of total freedom.

Produced, Recorded, & Played by Jona Bechtolt
Vocals by Claire L. Evans
Additional Vocals by Rob Kieswetter & Anna Oxygen
Additional Keyboard by Rob Kieswetter

iTunes

YACHT - Second Summer

Support us on Bandcamp: https://yacht.bandcamp.com/track/multi-family-garage-sale-single

We're revisiting all our influences in quarantine. 

This is a cover of "Multi-Family Garage Sale," from Land of the Loops' 1995 7" single (and 1996 album, Bundle of Joy). This album made a huge impact on me (Jona) as it showed me that bridge could be built between DIY Pacific Northwest indie-pop and sample-based electronic music. 

If you're taking a lot of walks around your neighborhood right now, this is a great soundtrack for looking at the world and appreciating small things. 

"Land of the Loops’ Alan Sutherland was just another Minor Threat fan who couldn’t hold a band together until his conscientious parents bought him a sampler for graduation. The result was a couple of cassette releases and a CD for Seattle’s Up Records, Bundle of Joy, that lures Beat Happening’s Heather Lewis and others into what the Young Marble Giants might’ve done had they had the technology—a loop-driven basement party for the international pop underground." (Will Hermes, SPIN 1996)

Credits

Released April 11, 2020 
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT 
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

YACHT - Multi-Family Garage Sale

Support YACHT on Bandcamp: https://yacht.bandcamp.com/track/avril-14th-single

YACHT Quarantine Cover Series No. 4 

This is the most beautiful Aphex Twin song, "Avril 14th," from the album Drukqs (2001), composed originally for a high-tech Yamaha player piano called the Disklavier. It's been raining nonstop in Los Angeles and we've been spiraling inwards into all our favorite music; we read Marc Weidenbaum's 33 1/3 book about "Selected Ambient Works" recently and learned that Richard D. James does a lot of his best work in between naps. This is a song for the in-between period of sleep and waking.

Credits:

Released April 14, 2020 
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT 
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

YACHT - Avril 14th

Week six of quarantine and now we're dreaming about long nights driving aimlessly around Los Angeles with our friends, pinballing from place to place and feeling the sense of aliveness you get just from being in cars, showing up to parties, leaving, heading somewhere else, to the club, always moving & never going anywhere, detached from time until the night turns to morning. "Popularity" is our favorite song from our favorite Sparks album (1983's "In Outer Space")—a perfect ode to being a vapid LA person going everywhere at once, and to the simple satisfaction of being around other people and feeling popular. By the time we get back out into the world we'll have forgotten what our favorite places are called too. This whole album is perfect and nails a balance of reckless energy and deep loneliness that feels very appropriate to our moment.

Lyrics

I like you and you like me a lot 
And we do those things that can make us feel hot 
Then we join some friends, all of them are all right 
And we talk a while, then we climb in our cars 

What a night, we all drive into town 
Where we'll park our cars, and meet the rest of our friends 
At a place that's called, I forget what it's called 
But it's really great, and all our friends will be there 

Popularity 

I like you and you like me a lot 
And it's nice to be all alone with you too 
But it's also nice being out with our friends 
Cause they're all all right, maybe that's why we're friends 

Popularity 

I feel great, but it's getting real late 
So I'll drive you home and you'll slide up real close 
I'm so glad we met, and I like you so much 
And I'm also glad that I got all those friends 

Popularity

Credits

Released April 23, 2020 
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT 
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

YACHT - Popularity

This is a cover of the 2004 song "You Fuck Me Up," by Dub Narcotic Sound System, a lo-fi funk band named after the recording studio in Olympia, Washington, where many of our friends and extended Pacific Northwest community have recorded albums over the decades for K Records and various other satellite labels. 

The original vocal on this song is performed by the Olympia underground art-ward multi-instrumentalist staple Heather Dunn (Tiger Trap, Liarbird, Lois, Raincoats, The No-No's, Halo Benders, Dennis Driscoll) whose fantastic and loose performance taps into an undeniable, elemental horniness. It's very alive. 

This music, and the larger constellation of music that constitutes its scene, has always represented, to us, the very fundamentals of punk. 

In its infinite capacity to miss the point, Pitchfork called this song "horrifically off-key" and "endlessly bad" back in the day.

Lyrics

Touch my nose and undress my belt 
It just the way that we used to felt 
It fucks me up night til noon 
When will you come again it’s never too soon 

You fuck me up, baby 
Up down and sideways and back again 
You fuck me up, baby 
Your shits so good yeah I wish you would 

Look through the soles of my shoes for clues 
It’s been hot so I ask just what to do 
You fuck up from night til to noon 
But when you’re gone come back ‘cuz it’s too soon 

You fuck me up 
Your hair fucks me up 

That’s why I creep 
That’s why I weep 

You fuck me up 

South states goes round and round 
Old records go round and round 
This town goes round and round 
Big wheel go rou nd and round 

Come take my heart and send it to me 
Come here now and you will see 
A rabid power my love can be 
A rabid power that’s a reason to dance with me 

You fuck me up 
I can’t get up 
I can’t stand up, baby 
Round and round￼ I ain’t stop and 
You fuck me up 
I can’t stand up for the love ‘cuz you got me strung out 
I am the one that you want without a doubt 
Come on and scrape come on and scream a little more 
You fuck me up baby watch me and I head for the door 

You fuck me up 
I like the way you fuck me up 
You fuck me up 

Steamy windows 
Condensation 
Evaporation 
Elation 

Steamy windows 

You fuck me up, baby

Credits

Released May 1, 2020 
Recorded, performed, produced, and mixed by YACHT 
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk

YACHT - You Fuck Me Up

(Downtown) Dancing - Remixes

(Downtown) Dancing (Peaking Lights Pleasure Mix)

(Downtown) Dancing (Peaking Lights Pleasure Mix Instrumental)

(Downtown) Dancing (Selector Dub Narcotic Version)

YACHT & Eric Andre Present:


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TRACKLIST

1 Daniel Avery — Drone Logic (Factory Floor Gabe Gurnsey Remix)
2 Todd Terje — Strandbar (Samba)
3 Bill Wyman — (Si, Si) Je Suis un Rock Star
4 Gramme — Too High
5 Mutsumi — Look Down At Your Feet Below
6 Holger Czukay — Cool In The Pool
7 Tomas Barfod — Saturdaya
8 A la Carte — Doctor, Doctor (Jeffrey Jerusalem Edit)
9 Matias Aguyo — Rrrrr
10 Siriusmo — Doctor Beak
11 Wet Ones — Cool
12 Fun Fun — Happy Station
13 Julio Bashmore — Au Seve

+:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:++:+

Mix by Jona Bechtolt
http://teamyacht.com

with Selectors Jeffrey Jerusalem, Bobby BIrdman, & Claire L. Evans

Drops by Eric Andre
http://ericandre.com

Artwork by Tim Lahan
http://timlahan.com

Dr. MDMA, M.D.

YACHT stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology, but they're neither young nor all-American. YACHT is three people—Jona Becholt, Claire L. Evans, and Rob Kieswetter—working in Los Angeles, California, asking questions and answering them with records, texts, videos, objects, installations, scores and performances. They make as much as possible with as little as possible and learn by doing.

Chain Tripping is their Grammy-nominated seventh album, composed by running their 18-year back catalogue through a scotch taped-together assortment of machine learning models and then reckoning with the results.

YACHT

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