In the 2004 British zombie spoof “Shaun of the Dead,” two hapless blokes, svelte Shaun and lumbering Ed, find themselves trapped in a yard as a frothing zombie approaches. With nothing but a box of old LPs to defend themselves, they begin slinging their record collection at the undead man, bickering all the while about the merits of New Order, Sade, and Prince’s soundtrack for “Batman,” and trying to decide which they would preserve at the cost of a grisly death.

It isn’t hard to picture the lead singers of fellow British technopop purveyors Hot Chip performing a similar feat of flinging records. It helps that the smaller frame and gentle falsetto of singer Alexis Taylor juxtaposes with the gruffer monotone of the taller, broader Joe Goddard that is reminiscent of Shaun and Ed.

No doubt the band loves the music of the aforementioned artists, as well as influences ranging from Stevie Wonder to Paul McCartney to Devo, and invokes them all on its two full-length albums, 2005’s “Coming on Strong” and 2006’s breakout “The Warning.” Now, the five members of Hot Chip — Messrs. Taylor and Goddard, as well as Felix Martin, Al Doyle, and Owen Clarke — have contributed selected tracks to their forthcoming release in K7’s lauded DJ Kicks series. The series, which enlists recording artists to program a mix disc of their favorite tunes, essentially asks its charges to fling their formidable record collections at peoples’ heads.

“It was a haphazard process,” Mr. Goddard said via telephone in advance of Hot Chip’s return to Webster Hall this week. “[K7] asked us to get together a list of 30 to 40 tracks … [and] after that, we tried to put them together.” It wasn’t the easiest task, as the selection is eclectic, to put it mildly. Hip-hop, Tropicalia, and Joe Jackson make appearances. The most telling transition on the mix is Hot Chip’s connection of New Order’s sleek “Bizarre Love Triangle” to the twitchy Baltimore house of Young Leek’s “Jiggle It” to Etta James’s raucous “In the Basement” in just two moves. “If we’d done a straight house or techno mix,” Mr. Goddard said, “it wouldn’t have really represented us properly. We had to just have this mishmash of different tempos and things. I think you can see certain elements of what Hot Chip do in quite a lot of the tracks.”

Jumbled, messy, and obsessive with their musical knowledge, but never to the point of overwhelming the songs, Hot Chip has endeared itself do a lot of music lovers in a relatively short time. The group’s members wear their hearts on their sleeves like singer-songwriters, yet eschew the guitar in favor of a battery of keyboards and sequencers that emulate hip-hop and techno. Mr. Goddard admitted to respecting producers “who made music on their own using a small amount of equipment,” citing both bedroom electronica trailblazer Aphex Twin and Jamaican madman Lee “Scratch” Perry as inspirations. Hot Chip emphasizes catchy and quirky pop hooks, intertwines Messrs. Taylor’s and Goddard’s soulful yet boyish vocals, and tethers it all to propulsive dance-floor beats.

It’s this latter quality that has made the group a live act not to be missed. Bearing a DJ’s mindset, Hot Chip can dilate its grooves to fit a mood. It did just this on its last trip to New York (for the CMJ Music Marathon), extending the openings of hits like “Over and Over” to ecstatic peaks just to get the crowd moving before diving into the song proper.

“We want to play some of our older songs, but we just get tired of playing them in a certain way,” Mr. Goddard said. “When we play live, parts can just be as long or as short as we want them to be. If something’s working, [we] just keep doing it for a while. It’s really the most fun moments when you do something you haven’t done before and it works.”

One happy accident from touring makes an appearance at the end of DJ Kicks. Ray Charles’s “Mess Around” has long been a Hot Chip staple, but, Mr. Goddard said, it’s not for the reason you might think. The song may be a classic R&B staple, but it was the late John Candy, who famously played it on the dashboard of his car in the 1987 film “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,” who provided the inspiration. “We were driving around France in a tiny car on tour, thinking about ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’ and that [Ray Charles song], wishing it would come on French radio. And then we turned it on! We were really happy.”

Hot Chip will perform Thursday and Friday at Webster Hall (125 E. 11th St., between Third and Fourth avenues, 212-260-4700).