When is the next electro recession which will leave producers with no fans to dance to their music, and no revenue streams to feed their families?
I think that when people stop going to clubs to watch DJs perform, there will be an increase in beachfront acoustic performances.
[Kings of Convenience - Misread (Live on Ipanema Beach)]
I wonder what the world would be like if Erlend Oye was an over-branded alternative celebrity.
XX BONUS VIDEO FEATURING ERLEND OYE’S SCHLONG XX
How are you preparing for the electro recession?
Are you getting back into old music that you used to appreciate when u wanted so badly to believe that there was truth that love is real?
Are you buying canned goods & bottled water?
Love yall. Be careful. Listen to each new MP3 like it’s the last one you’ll ever hear. Goodnite world.
[non-electro MP3s]
Kings of Convenience Misread
The Whitest Boy Alive Golden Cage [teaches u how 2 appreciate the Fred Falke Remix even more]
Myspaces
http://www.myspace.com/thewhitestboyalive
http://www.myspace.com/kingsofconvenience
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you forgot to tag fred falke, the whitest boy alive, ipanema, and stupid repeated blog post talking about music after electro
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i’ve started to listen kings of convenience again too.
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carles why would you paint such a bad picture for you readers?? i have to go bed soon
:(
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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.
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i started to wear american apparel organic cotton shirts and limited my trips to whole foods to 3 days a week from 5. i am very concerned about the club scene. i only want to support “green” clubs. i need some way to know if my club is using alt energy, like powering things with the sun, wind and apathy. i started to walk to the clubs and carry organic pepper spray if i get into any alt ercations.
M0RE SUSTAINABLE P0STS!!
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temple in sf supports sustainable partying.
http://www.templesf.com/green_info
they care about the world and think you should too. that’s why they’re growing grass on the side of their building.
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I’m from Uruguay, that’s really far away from wherever you are and also one of Homer Simpson’s jokes (LOL URAGAY), but as a third world country with only one big city, we act as a filter to every emerging trend around the world. For example, when The Strokes were all the rage, their haircut + jackets + music + lifestyle brand became so popular here that IT STILL EXISTS, it hasn’t turned into Crystal Castles’ broody hoodie trend. This is because from all the trends from around that time, the only one that was “good” or that “lasted for more than 4 months”. I mean remember Electroclash? There were like 4 electroclashers here.
Tight jeans and fluo colors and Yelle are all the rage her nowadays, but with mainstream rich kids (literally kids, we’re talking about 14 year olds) who can afford to shop at URBN OUTFTTRS, because it’s insanely expensive here. That’s great, but it’s so shallow that these mainstreamers don’t care nor have the drive to find out what is the graphic design to go with their new attitude. They have no idea who So Me is, Carles.
So their lifestyle brand can’t be taken into account of “what’s the graphic design I’ll see in 86% of ads for the next 3 years”.
This, added to a few real ads I’ve seen, I fear that after the electroblogville post-newrave scene ends, there is just nowhere else to go. Everything will completely LOSE ALL CRITERIA. Sites like colorlovers.com will be useless since color combination will be INSANE, same goes for font choice: things that you can’t really place in time but you know you’ve seen before, used with unreasonable effects like isometric drop shadow.
I’m seriously scared for that time of “free for all” where all the “good” or “relevant” graphic designers will be ones with retro styles. Oh wait, I guess that last part already happens right now?
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more acoustic softcore! hawt!!
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SLIGHTLY LESS DOWNHILL
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ELECTRO MUSIC WILL NOT END IN 2009.
have you heard of this w.a.l.e.d.a.n.c.e. shit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLR1ulkK40g
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?
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slightly less bad post than earlier today.
can you plz make that beaner mexican from uruguay a guest blogger?
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no Justice? well, we’ll always have guns n roses!!
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gawd i love erlend. most talented and whitest man alive?
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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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molly is my hero. and i’m bringing all my neon clothing.
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i didnt realize the electro recession had begun, i was sure it would last a couple more years into 2k10 when post-rock becomes popular again. honestly i dont know where else music can go from now, the technology hasnt advanced any to really go FAR OUT THERE. maybe music that sounds like it was made on neptune will be bangin.
ugh i can never listen to the strokes, bloc party, kings of convenience, sufjan stevens, etc ever again, it just doesnt sound right or meaningful anymore.
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god why do people have to sing along when they’re performing? does that piss anyone else off? i mean its one thing if you’re at a gig where it’s so loud nobody can hear your shitty voice and the only part that we can hear is when the artist wants you to sing it or it’s that part of the song that says “FUCK” so you want to belt it out. but here, on a beach? why would you sing along? to prove you are a true fan and maybe be able to tug on erlend’s speedo later? maybe i’m alone on this one but i just don’t get it. it just makes it cheesy and awkward. are you singing to each other? to jesus?
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does this whole new,new wave 80s thing mean that cocaine is coming back?
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I’m pretty sure the next big thing is New Age lifestyle brands. You know, ascended masters and that shit, crystal pyramids and crap 3D images of Homer Simpson walking on that Treehouse of Horror episode where they tried 3D animation.
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i want to be forgotten and i dont wnat to be reminded
oh please dont make it harder
oh, i wont, dear
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Don’t do it Carles,
we still love you!
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I was very touched by what anon said. he accurately predicts the downfall of electro, and how we will look back upon it fondly. But actually, i have been preparing myself. I have been stocking up on sweaters because they go with my child predator glasses. And because of this I know I’ll be alright in the new economy.
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Everyone knows the UK is the window to the future. Everyone is listening to dubstep and minimal now, duh. Or pretending to like Bmore.
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All I wanna know is am I allowed to like Trance if Fluokids posts it?
http://fluokids.blogspot.com/2008/05/la-danse-de-llphant.html
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no
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coldplay
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“alt ercation”
am i the only 1 who LOL’d?
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CRACK IS BACK!
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this is horrible.
electro music – horible (to me)
fluro metro look – why must everyone look like batty boys?
and worst of all, some dude has posted a bulletin about an electro recession soon to come (i hope) and half of you are using it to predict the next scenester look and prepare for it! gah!! must people all look, talk, walk the same?
“i have been preparing myself. I have been stocking up on sweaters…And because of this I know I’ll be alright in the new economy”
so is this a admittance that u are preparing for the next scene?
xxx
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