Jape is Richie Egan, a Dublin resident. A Jape song entitled 'Floating' was the one which Brendan Benson was so taken with on hearing, totally by chance, in a tiny Irish bar, that he felt compelled to first ask the DJ what it was (we are talking here, after all, about a tune by a little known local producer/singer/songwriter) and then to spend the rest of the year covering it every night in his and Jack White's band, The Raconteurs. Quite a compliment, when you consider the only other songs being covered by said supergroup on the tour were Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy', Nancy Sinatra's 'Bang Bang' and David Bowie's version of 'It Ain't Easy'. 'After that,' Richie notes, 'People from labels, and managers, and solicitors and shit started MySpacing me all the time.' A gorgeously stoned, slacker-pop nugget 'Floating' may be (already immortal opening couplet: 'We took our first pill when the music was shit/I said, 'Fuck dancing all night,' and then that's just what we did'), and one that perfectly illustrates its creator's love of both melody and modern, mechanical beat-laden production, but there is more to the Jape story than just one song. Much more...