Last night, SoCal
daft punks Cosmic Kids (Ron Poznansky and Dan Ternow) celebrated the
release of their stellar nu-disco 12-inch on Chit Chat Records (hand
silk-screened and numbered, no less) at the SPiN Standard ping-pong club
at the Standard, Downtown LA. Fueled by cans of PBR and
custom paddles courtesy of Pabst Blue Ribbon, midweek partiers bobbed
their heads while working on their backhands as Chit Chat label head
Tony Adams laid down a chunky, chugging disco set (despite a steady
stream of errant ping-pong balls) that included both sides of the Cosmic
Kids single -- the spacey, soaring "Freight To My Soul" (embedded below) and its B-side, a
disco edit of Fleetwood Mac's "Never Going Back Again" -- alongside
classics like Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" and remixes of fellow LA
disco revivalists Poolside and Classixx. A ping-pong club might at first seem an unlikely venue for a dance party, but, said Standard Cultural Director Ben Adams, that was exactly the point. "We wanted to do something a little different." And indeed, SPiN Standard, with its if-Wes-Anderson-directed-