two or three years ago, i was getting a late night burrito when i ran into my friend dan. he and his friends had just graduated from law school that day and were having a little party at his friend vinnys place just up the street. we headed over there and were playing beer pong listening to a pretty cool electronic mix when suddenly something sounded familiar. it was “something great” by lcd soundsystem, but it was only the music, not the lyrics. i assumed that he had just gotten some sort of dj track of it that was music only and that the cd we were listening to was some kind of mix.

i asked about the track and he just told me it was lcd soundsystem, which i already knew, and that he was going to see them in a few days at the majestic theater. i, too, went to that show (on my top 10 most fun shows list i believe) and anticipated hearing this song live but they didnt end up playing it. the coolest part about their show is that while theyre an electronic group at the core, their live show is almost completely played live and without recordings. i also just learned that al doyle is also a member of hot chip. that is kind of awesome. definitely a talented group of kids if you ask me.

i planned on looking for the instrumental track when i got home from the post-graduation celebration but completely forgot, until today when i heard “someone great” on the radio and remembered this instrumental track id heard a few years earlier. so i googled “someone great instrumental” and kept getting results for something about 45:33 and part III but i had no idea what this meant. after a little further investigation, i discovered that nike had actually commissioned lcd soundsystem to create this 45:33 minute track as a reward to all of their nike+ users in celebration of the program logging its 10 millionth mile. pretty cool/crazy that i never heard anything about this. but now i know all about it and am eagerly anticipating listening to the whole thing again. the 45:33 track was later re-released by dfa records (of which lcd soundsystem front man james murphy is the co-founder) and split into parts, so what youre hearing today is part III, which later became the music for the track “someone great” on lcd soundystems “sound of silver” album. the track below is a little lengthy but i still like it a ton. the little bit that comes into the mix at around 1:20 kind of just ties everything together for me.

lcd soundsystem – 45:33 part III

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