I read a rumor on a message board that startup musicians are selling their Macbooks and buying kiddie instruments.
Do you know any tips for surviving the electro-recession? With the weakening U.S. Dollar, America might not be able to import bangers from foreign markets. The rising price of music production software is putting holes in all of our pockets.
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**CMMNTS about dealing the electro recession**
molly has left a new comment on your post “What Music Will Sound Like After the Electro-Reces…”:
i will build an underground haven, and call it the guns’n'bombs shelter (remix), where i will hibernate until electro comes back. and since it will be dark under there and you won’t be able to see anyway, you can wear shutter shades all the time at no cost, to keep hope alive.
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i am concerned. i think everyone wearing muted colors this summer is the first sign that people are starting take a look at their drug use, insincerity and flighty scenester mentalities about art and culture and get a little scared. we all know that we can’t do this forever, especially those of us who are 30 or pushing 30.
i personally love this life and wish it would last forever. i know many of us are wearing plaid now and throwing away our neon. but what’s next? earth tones? baggy jeans? chain wallets? music made with real instruments? fear the grunge revival. fight for your right to partie without particularly caring about the people you partie with, or the problems of the world. i don’t know where burma is, and for now i don’t want to know.
when you’re making plans with your alt friends to take your alt babies to the alt folk mixed gendered version of lilithfair in 2k15, you may wish you had held out a little longer before throwing out your neon. just wearing it a few more weeks might have added just a few more weeks to the survival of the electro partie economy. and when we’re old worry about our kids’ grades, we’re gonna miss those few weeks.
there’s plenty of time left to have fun and i don’t mean to be alarmist about all this. i just think we should wait until a few alt celebrities die of drug overdoses before we start getting all down about our lifestyles. I think we can love one another deep down in an unspoken way without breaking out acoustic guitars and signing about it.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “What Music Will Sound Like After the Electro-Reces…”:
Everyone knows the UK is the window to the future. Everyone is listening to dubstep and minimal now, duh. Or pretending to like Bmore.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “What Music Will Sound Like After the Electro-Reces…”:
ELECTRO MUSIC WILL NOT END IN 2009.
have you heard of this w.a.l.e.d.a.n.c.e. shit?
once white ppl get bored with Justice the hip hop crews will ride it on out. all you have to do is start clubbing on the other side of town. ya heard me?
THIS IS GOING TO BE A DIFFICULT TIME.
WE HAVE EACHOTHER TO HOLD ON 2.
And gas prices are so high, yall!
Might have to buy a hybrid that runs on Sparks and Grey Goose.
Please share tips about how we are gonna get through this impending electro-apocalypse.
“Hold on, & Hold Tight”
-Holy Ghost!
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it’s not just electro that will be affected by the recession. Advances in computers are gonna make all music a thing of the past, we’ll soon have MUSIC/DRUGS 2.0, where everyone has microchips in their brain and it makes them want to dance and talk about meaningful stuff.
after that there will be MUSIC/DRUGS 3.0 where the microchips will make you think you are dancing and talking about meaningful stuff.
Until then, P0ST M0RE B@NGERS.
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and Health remixes.
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MUSIC/DRUGS 2.0 and 3.0 are the most compelling memes of 2008. i can’t wait for the future!
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HOLD ME CARLES
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE NO IT
AND I FEEL FYN
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i hr tht u & yr band hve sold yr trntbles & bot gytars. i hr tht u & yr band hve sold yr gytars & bot trntbles.
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As long as there are people who love electro, it will never die. Now Djs just have to come with something that make us want to party for a few more years.
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QUESTION:
Wouldn’t it be easier to simply switch over to coal or wind-based energy? I do not like the idea of nuclear power because my friends in North Korea who I teletext with will be unable to use it, and I do not think that is fair.
Thanks,
The Man That Electricity Forgot, Zebedee Williams.
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Zeb is obviously a FGGT…
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in my country, Zebedee actually does mean faggot.
so not kidding.
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Definitely needs a lot moar Bilibda Butchers for recession of 2009
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P0ST MORE WORDS THAT MEAN FAGET IN OTHER LANGUAGES
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you’re a little late on the W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. post, but it was low on the radar!
Electro will survive, Parties will be viewed and hosted on the new invention called Internet II, and iChat will prob. be named something like iLive.
(mainstreamers like Jay-Z will conform and go to Apple and sign contracts to release their music in digital formats only, and vinyls will die)
fin.
p.s. the future looks great
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ELECTRO IS POST-DEAD
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i’ll second the dubstep + mnml comment. 2xduh.
although many of the ORIGINALS like matthew dear and jamie lidell are now creating half-ass collaborator jam bands. its like recession. what does that say about the future of electro?
justus is just going to keep remixing their own tracks until they can create a whole album of their tracks remixed by themselves.
busy p is now focusing on himself and taking an ed banger hiatus.
maybe aa will stop being so cool?
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people in the uk aren’t just listening to dubstep and minimal. madzurka and chodzony go down well in the polish ghetto’s. there’s so much shit electro out there now you know it’s going to be dead either this year or next.
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i’d totally give that dude a tug job
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soon someone will invent a virtual alt world where electro will NEVER END, the goggles you wear are in the form of shutter shades and your body lives in a tank filled with sparks to keep you hydrated and cool, drunk too. almost like the matrix!!!! and in this world your mind is free to be whatevr you want, a boy looking scene girl, a club pedo, dudebro, anything you want! i cant wait
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the electro-recession will undoubtedly take it’s mental and physical toll on all of us.
No electro partie=
no partie pix=
no alt hos aiding in the quest for the perfect pair of alt boobs=
no more tug jobs
Even in the face of impending electro despair, this guy cares enough to color coordinate his outfit with his kiddie xlyophone.
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back to stadium rock and 7oies pants?
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