“Live the Dream.”

A tiny clip of vague inspiration from John DeLorean: worldwide hustler, bon vivant, automobile engineer and developer of the eponymous muscle car (and chariot to one Martin Seamus McFly), the De Lorean DMC-12; also, the man whose story is told through the context of Stainless Style, the new record by super-duo Neon Neon.

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The collaboration between blip wiz Boom Bip and super furry singer Gruff Rhys brings its DeLorean-devoted sonics to the platform at Amoeba Music in West Hollywood tonight, playing a free in-store for what should be an early evening crowd filled in equal parts by fans of the Echo Park transplant’s local DJ sets, a number of SFA loyalists, and innocent Amoeba regulars whose hopes for a quiet Monday of shopping will be trampled by thumping party jams curved by Italo disco and the life of an undersung playboy.

As for the gentlemen playing said jams, their pulsing duet feels the warm gallery light of North American record stores tomorrow (though its international release actually occurred today). Nearly as thick in guest accompaniment as it is in strobelight-sharp synthesizer strikes, the album finds folks like Fat Lip, Spank Rock’s Naeem, and Har Mar Superstar all contributing in their own ways to a Cobrasnake-sponsored dance party that’s as kitschy as it is catchy. Although I’m still a bit mixed as to how I feel about the record as a whole, I’d like to share with you here two songs from Stainless Style that my ears have embraced pretty snugly.

Neon Neon: Belfast / LISTEN
Neon Neon: Luxury Pool, with Fat Lip / LISTEN