Have you ever wondered what would happen if High Places and Dan Deacon had a love child? Aside from the hotly disturbing picture this thought paints (no offense to anyone), it would probably sound something like Best Hits.

We first heard Best Hits at a show on April at New York’s Cake Shop where they played alongside fellow freak, dance-electronic outfit dANA. A three-piece (two guys, one girl), Best Hits take the calypso-meets-jungle aesthetic of High Places and adds the increasingly popular 8-bit acid house glitch to create something that is equally at home in both the noise/avant continuum and a straight up glo-stick waving dance party.

After catching their incredibly fun set at Cake Shop, we approached them and asked for recorded material. Later that week we were hit up with an e-mail letting us know they recorded the entire set and made it available for download. So here is their entire set from that night with track listing below. And if you like what you hear, you can download the entire set here, or go to their MySpace to hear more.

Best Hits live April 10 @ Cake Shop | NYC

Best Hits April 10 set list @ Cake Shop | NYC
1. Queen Reade
2. Hot Water
3. Finally
4. Cheriol
5. Tons of Eyes
6. Like Dat
7. Secret Miami

Another freak, electronic outfit who now calls Brooklyn home and like giving away their music for free, which is good news for us. With an ambiance of Soft Circle, the frenetic craziness of Lucky Dragons and the pop sensibilities of Dan Friel, dANA mixes anything and everything to pull off hipster noise-art that doesn’t make us cringe.

Once again taking a tip from our friends who have their ears firmly planted to the ground, Impose posted the entire Vvssta EP (”Vista”) here, of which we have the unquestionable banger, “Luv Express”. But before you go condemning Impose for just giving it away, take note of dANA’s musical philosphies. The Bard-based band with ties to warped electronic projects like Best Hits and GDFX preaches, “free share, no violence// say NO to copyright, NO to agro music bros, NO to grassroots capitalism, NO to limited edition fetish, NO to lmt edt’d krautpsychfuzzpsyche. death to the cult of genius+beauty. tear down the boys-only music club. !! ffree is easyy/ easy is fun. copyright is boring violence of+against minds. copy/use/steal/share/burn/decompose/dissemble/eat/profanatize/de-sanitize.” [sic]

Coming soon to a d.i.y. show or a NY Times review near you.

dANA – “Luv Express”