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Klaxons have teamed up with some of the biggest names in the dance world for their new album 'Love Frequency'.
The band - made up of Jamie Reynolds, James Righton and Simon Taylor - have been working with The Chemical Brothers' Tom Reynolds, James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem and electro DJ Erol Alkan for their new record, which is out on June 2.
Guitarist Simon, 31, told the Daily Star newspaper: "We've hand-picked our heroes to produce us, and they were all up for it. I don't know how we've blagged this."
The new album comes four years after their last release 'Surfing The Void' but Simon insists they've been busy.
He explained: "We've not stopped, but it's been an ongoing process of tweaking songs.
"We don't go into the studio and come out at the end of the day with a song. We make multiple versions with our producers.
"We want to define ourselves as an oddball pop band."
The new album is the first time The Chemical Brothers have produced a band and Simon is incredibly grateful to have had Tom on board.
He added: "It's an absolute honour. But us being Tom's first production work feels like there's a lot at stake for Tom as well.
"His studio is like a spaceship, and he gave us a psychedelic Czech vocal sample to work with. That was a new way to write."
The band's latest single 'There Is No Other' is out now.

Paolo Nutini says "walking on stage scares the s**t" out of him.
The 'Last Request' hitmaker - who will be on tour in the UK between May and June this year - insists his "nerves" drive him to take to the stage despite fears about performing in front of an audience.
He told The Sun newspaper: "It's a challenge stepping out in front of all those people. It's never felt entirely natural and I don't think it ever will.
"Walking on stage scares the s**t out of me, big time. But it's not a bad thing because those nerves drive me. Now I'm ready for it."
The star found "success" difficult to come to terms with an often has to "disappear" to find space to take it all in, much to the frustration of friends and family.
He explained: "I needed to try and experience something else. The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much I just have to disappear, to sort my head.
"It frustrates friends and family, they start to take it personally and it really isn't like that. They're getting used to me when I vanish to deal with stuff."
Paolo's biggest fan is his mother, Linda, and he wrote 'Looking For Something' for her, but still hasn't had a chance to play it to her yet.
He added: "I'd already written a song about my dad so owed Mum a tune.
"I think she is just happy that I'm back singing because she gets to go to all the gigs and hotels.
"She came to Dublin and is already asking when am I going back to Vegas so she can come too.
"She turned up a night early at a recent show in London.
"And I still haven't had the chance to play her that song properly.
"She's heard it played live twice but I've still not played her the finished version. I'm waiting to give her the record."

Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis thinks Led Zeppelin will reform again one day.
The music festival chief would like to see the classic rock band headline the event at Worthy Farm and is adamant they will get back together to take to the stage.
Asked if the group would ever reform, he told radio station Ireland AM: "That will happen one day - I'm sure of it. They will do it."
The band - made up of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones have turned down a number of offers and their last big show was at London's O2 Arena in December 2007, where they were joined by drummer Jason Bonham, son of the band's late John Bonham.
Michael also made a cryptic comment about an act who he would never invite back to play at Glastonbury again, although he only referred to them as a band from Manchester "who aren't famous any more ... they fell out".
Meanwhile, the team behind the festival have confirmed a number of acts who will play this year, including Lana Del Rey, Arcade Fire, Dolly Parton, Lily Allen, Disclosure, Blondie, The Black Keys and Warpaint.
They will release the full line-up for the event later this month.

Yes bassist Chris Squire is writing his autobiography.
The 66-year-old musician, who rose to fame in the progressive rock band in the late 1960s, has been working on his memoirs with actor friend Vincent Gallo and hopes to sign a publishing deal within the next year.
He exclusively BANG Showbiz: "I sit down with him, we talk, we record it, then he goes and transcribes it.
"We're about half way through that and have been working on it for about a year.
"We have to schedule time, he lives in Los Angeles and I live in Phoenix in Arizona. We have to find time to do it, sometimes I'll go to him, sometimes he comes to me."
Having previously spoken about his experiences with LSD and marijuana during the 1960s, the book is expected to detail crazy nights on the road as well as chapters about his earlier life and his love of music.
Chris explained: "It's a general overall conversation about my life. Hopefully within a year we'll be able to wrap it up and get it out there. We haven't signed a deal yet, we'll get it written first, I've talked to various people about doing it before.
"I'm sure there will be juicy stuff in there but [groupies] is not going to be the main aspect."
He joked: "Let me see ... there were probably three or four thousand [though]."
The band - which has had a number of line-ups over the years and features new frontman Jon Davison - were also in talks about a Broadway musical but Chris insists there are no plans for it to go ahead at the moment.
He said: "It was a good concept but it's like any Broadway show, it's on six or seven nights a week, you have to put bums on seats for that amount of time. You never know with these things, it could work, it might not work."
Yes will release their new studio album 'Heaven and Earth' on July 8.

The Kinks' Dave Davies claims his relationship with band mate and brother Ray is "toxic."
The siblings haven't played together since 1996 after a number of arguments and the 67-year-old guitarist claims he doesn't want to spend too much time with him anymore.
Speaking to The Independent newspaper, Dave said: "The thing is, there's healthy relationships, and toxic ones. And the older I get, the more difficult I find it being around Ray, because - I don't want to use the word abuse - but I feel my energy seeping away from me sometimes if I'm with him."
Dave insists he doesn't want to be "stuck" in a place feeling jealousy, hatred and envy and "generally being unhappy" around the band's frontman.
He explained: "Being with Ray for too long gets me back in that cycle. But then, families are difficult, and you can learn from discomfort. Ray and I have been each other's most important teachers. Maybe that's the clue to the whole relationship."
However, he also claimed that there was no animosity between the pair, saying: "It's like some people prefer me and Ray to be at each other's throats than to be brothers.
"In my 30s and 40s, I resented the fact that Ray gave me so little credit for my input and creativity. But my love has always been relentlessly directed towards him."
Dave will play his first UK show in 13 years on April 11, with a gig at London's Barbican Hall, and in January Ray discussed a possible reunion for the band's 50th anniversary, which he claims was "as close as it's ever been to happening".

Iggy Azalea has defended her Biggie Smalls remake.
The 23-year-old hitmaker worked with singer Keyshia Cole and sampled the late rapper's 1997 posthumous release 'Mo Money Mo Problems' and Iggy insists it wasn't meant to be a rip-off.
She told America's RapFix Live: "First of all, I love Biggie forever and Tupac, and that's a sampled song. So don't be mad about something that's sampled already."
The 'Fancy' hitmaker went on to explain how music producer Irv Gotti initially approached her about modernising Diana Ross' 1980 hit song 'I'm Coming Out'.
She said: "Irv hit me up and said, 'Hey I've got a record with Keyshia on it and it's gonna be for the soundtrack to this Cameron Diaz movie 'The Other Woman'.
"It was just supposed to be a remake of 'I'm Coming Out', it wasn't supposed to be 'Mo Money Mo Problems', and I didn't know what I was getting into."
But despite critics reacting badly to the release, she insists she's proud of the record and wouldn't go back on her decision.
She said: "I'm from a generation where I don't think 'I'm Coming Out' - I think 'Mo Money Mo Problems'.
"So I thought, I need to get my Ma$e on, and I went with that vibe. Then I think when people heard it they said, 'She's doing the Biggie remake,' and I don't know if it was necessarily meant to be that. It's open to interpretation. I didn't know what I was getting myself into, but if I did I would've said yes. Because any rapper that gets asked to do that is gonna do that."

Harry Styles has been working on new tracks with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder.
The One Direction star - whose band mates Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson also worked with Ryan on their last album 'Midnight Memories' - has stepped into the studio with the songwriter on his own for the first time.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Harry and Ryan have been working on new material together.
"They've met a number of times before with the band but have never worked together properly.
"There's a mutual appreciation there. If there's one person to get the best out of Harry, it's Ryan.
"The new relationship will come in handy if Harry ever try his hand at going solo."
Ryan has worked with the likes of Elle Goulding and Leona Lewis and has been back in the studio writing with Adele on material for her highly-anticipated new album, the follow-up to the chart-conquering '21'.
Meanwhile, One Direction - also formed of Zayn Malik and Niall Horan - have been working on their next record.
Liam said: "We just wanna make good music, and this album - honestly, every lad out there tonight who's thinking One Direction are this and that. Literally, next album - pick up our album and see what you feel."

Michael Jackson's family claim he would not approve of the upcoming 'Xscape' album.
The late King of Pop's nephew, TJ Jackson, who along with his brothers Taryll and Taj formed the pop group 3T, insists his late uncle was a "perfectionist" and would not be happy with the collection of new material being released without his final seal of approval.
Speaking of the album, which sees eight unheard tracks released on May 13, TJ told the Sun newspaper: "I have mixed emotions because as an artist and as his nephew I know he'd want a final listen before anything he did was released to the public.
"Saying that though, that's my uncle and I want him and anything associated with him to be successful."
Michael's label Epic records announced on Monday (31.03.14) that they would release the new tracks from the late singer's vaults with music executive L.A. Reid lining up producers to "contemporise" the record.
Fans have been reassured the album will only be helmed by producers Michael had worked with in the past or expressed a strong interest in collaborating with.
Timbaland has been named the lead producer, while Rodney Jerkins, Stargate, Jerome 'Jroc' Harmon and John McClain have also worked on the project.

Eminem almost wrote a song slamming Kanye West and Lil Wayne.
The 'Monster' hitmaker admits he was disappointed with the music he was writing before he recorded 'The Marshall Mathers LP II' and it "hurt" when he listened to rappers like Kanye who were doing well in the industry.
He told radio station Power 106: "For that time period that I was away, I was watching what was going on in the game. Anything that was hot at that moment, anybody that was really killing sh*t. I felt so bad about myself and the music that I was creating, I felt like I was starting to turn into a hater.
"Singling Kayne and Wayne out at that time period, they were the ones killing it the most to me, and it hurt. I popped a CD in and be like "f**k man, I'm not doing this no more."
He thought about writing and recording a song "dissing everybody" but knew it would be career suicide and decided against it.
Asked if he already had the verses written down, he replied: "I just had the thoughts walking around the studio, deep down I just wasn't happy with myself. There were some pretty dark moments in there man, when I think about my thought processes, when I was high a lot, it wasn't good, it certainly wasn't me."
Eminem didn't think he could make good music being sober before he went to rehab and "couldn't do anything" without being high.
He added: "It was to the point where I was taking pills just to not feel sick."