Life used to be simple. Life used to be about bloggable mp3s. I used to be an mp3 blog. I used to be allowed to ‘like music’ and ‘get gimmick excited about it.’ Do yall think there’s still room for HRO to enjoy music, or am I too alt to enjoy music? How long have yall been reading HRO? Do yall remember when it was about the music, in the mainstream days of blog haus? Will HRO recover, discover ‘love’ and authentic appreciate for music again? Or is HRO just some lookbook childpredtroll bro?
Kinda worried. Just want 2 get authentic. Do yall think that 2k9 will be all about ‘the best electro rising to the top’ or will there be an electro backlash? Do yall still enjoy blog posts that focus on one artist? Have yall heard any good new music lately?
This is a song by Vega that reminds me of my ‘glory days.’ Back when I used to post Lifelike remixes or Breakbot songs and be excited.
These may or may not be the last days of bloggable electro. (WTF is ‘electro’?)
[MP3]
VEGA Well Known Pleasures
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/vegavisions
“We can do the things that we’d like to.”
-VEGA
“I only want 2 do just what my body wants to.”
-AnCo in the hit song “Guy’s Eyes”
Doing what u’d like to do with some1 that u love: Big in 2kForever?
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PLAYLIST AFTER THE JUMP
Gil Mantera’s Party Dream – Waking Vision
The Whitest Boy Alive – Island
Thieves Like Us – Fass
VEGA – Well Known Pleasures
Groove Armada – Drop the Tough (The Twelves B-LIVE REMIX)
The Twelves – I feel Fine
Harlem – Goodbye Horses
Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision
Ariel Pink – Can’t Hear My Eyes
Peter Bjorn and John – Lay it Down (the Golden Filter Remix)
Futurecop! – Tonites Hero
Cut Copy – Lights and Music (Boys Noize Rmx)
The Stills – Lola Stars and Stripes
Ra Ra Riot – Dying is Fine
The Walkmen – In the New Year
The Books – Be Good to them Always
Jeremy Jay – Love Everlasting
MGMT – Of Moons Birds and Monsters (Holy Ghost! Remix)
YACHT – The Summer Song
Lo Fi Fnk – City
Sebastien Tellier – La ritournelle (Metronomy Mix)
Starfucker – German Love
Panda Bear – Untitled (Live on Ma Fama)
Empire of the Sun – Half Mast
Animal Collective – Guy’s Eyes.
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22 Comments
someday I want 2 be bloggable electro.
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electro will only die if you kill it, carles
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//////////Reply by kn
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 3:16 am
@world,
Bangers will die (Crookers, Bloody Beetroots, MSTRKRFT, Steve Asianoki, Ed Bangers).
Good electronic bands will never die (the new Animal Co, Cut Copies, New Orders Greatest Hits, Daft Punk Rock, Alice Glass and the Crystal Castles, Hipster Runoff Remixes). These are all safe.
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//////////Reply by Mean NIN
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 am
@kn,
ze world/electro will l00k up and shout “save as”.
and me’ll whisper “NO, YALL”
THEWATCHMENCOMEDYMOVIEINTEATERSWHATEVER
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electr0.x
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vega playing a DJ set at our masquerade party: myspace.com/etcx2
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I feel like your giving up and letting the nothing win.
there’s still hope in the resurgence of 2007ers (boys noize, justice, smd etc.) who are working on new music.
the new yuksek is great, i’m sure cornelius will be great, daft punk is probably somewhere working on something.
all this to say don’t give up on the style that got you so popular in the first place.
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//////////Reply by Seany
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
@Joseph, “LETTINGTHENOTHINGWIN”
I think people should really start focusing on NOTLETTINGTHENOTHINGWIN.
we would be letting down all the falkors/artaxs/bastians/brandissuicides if we just give up.
dont forget the electosurge of 82′ with all the vamos a la playas/ no tengo dineros
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I sorta want this whole electro/neo disco/80’s rehash thing to die soon so ppl stop dressing like d-bags and clogging up the restroom line every 20 minutes to go do more blow. I’d rather go see a band actually play something than see talentless bros drink booze straight from the bottle while playing their iTunes playlists.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 am
@wishin’,
tru
but it’s not about ’seeing an electro group/dj’
it’s all about the ‘partie’
All I do is partie-The Msktrkrfts
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 am
@wishin’, Because we know it’s impossible to party while listening to good music.
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//////////Reply by son of steinem
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
@wishin’, the whole electro/neo disco/80’s rehash with people dressing like d-bags and clogging up the restroom line every 20 minutes to go do more blow thing was probs here b4 you and will very likely be here “when you’re gone.” kinda wish you’d take a pottery class after work or take up tie-dying 2nd hand tees from crossroads or something to get back in touch w/yourself, w/reality.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
@son of steinem,
lol
SO TRUE!
son of steinem’s “get off my lawn” grumpiness reminds of that limp collection of generalizations that Adbusters called “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.” Post-modernism killed your concept, bro. Embrace the clash of æsthetics. There is only capitalism and pluralism – Murakami style.
Fuck the 90s. Fuck pleur. Fuck your zine and your tapes and your poli-babble.
We’re living in a post-meaning world.
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weak post carles
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if electro is over, who won the electro war? so confused.
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Yo carles lets be real – electronic pop music ain’t goin nowhere ya know?
just let it flow – n maybs u can do what you like 2?
i feel like maybe, sometimes, yo, the world like, might, ya know, not be um. so insular?maybe?
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ever since merriweather came out you’ve been acting like a total FGGT.
the new justice track on birdy nam nam album will get you excited again about electro.
or maybe it was never about the tunes and just about the brand
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//////////Reply by lacey
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 am
@dankface,
srsly tho what happened to birdy nam nam???
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
@dankface, ohhhh nooosss. are you seriously suggesting this blog was ever about music? I can post some crappy electro also but it doesn’t make me a music blog.
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Carles has always seemed to enjoy the most painfully shit electro. It’s a little appropriate, I think.
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yes! The panda bear version of “guys eyes” is the only version I’ll fuck my girlfriend to. We “get vulnerable” and “explore our bodies” when we hear the free-spirited singing and experimental sounds. It works even better on coke, even if it’s been “stepped on” with foot powder. Get a girlfriend son!! We’ll double date
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//////////Reply by panchizzy
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
@c(h)arles, Rofl
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Ps: I live in Austin and Vega is totes my nigga/ homeboy, no joke! Kudos on the futurecop song too. Fuck what these kids say, ur getting “better”. Hope I see u at sxsw.
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I remember when this blog used to not suck. I only read it for nostalgia now
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//////////Reply by delig
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 am
@k, and when i’m high and bored… mos shit is played
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
@k, this blog is rad. ur just desensitized.
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electro wars are over. electro fought itself and lost. Lo-Fi will be bigger this year. electro will be more like new AnCo and less about dancing. hard econ times: less about partying more about chillin with bros.
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//////////Reply by Evan
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
@soap, electro fought the carles but the carles won
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
@Evan, lol
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O yea, go back to the old days of actually blogging about music.
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get your game up entry-levelers..begin listening to noise, minimal and no wave…then we’ll talk.
carles gimmick is wayy too mainstream.
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//////////Reply by soap
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 am
@Joe, totally agree
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
@Joe, props to p-town noise rock/post rock.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
@Joe, ugh
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I was really happy 2 c u r down wit Gil Mantera’s Motherfuckin’ Party Dream. Before I discovered them in high school (via my older, college radio employed bff), I don’t even think I liked synthesizers, partying, or homoerotica.
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this song is weak at best
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@Joentrylev
people play noise bc they can’t play music.
cll me mnstrm, but i prefer melody/rhythm/musicalideas to NOISE
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yo VAN SHE’s remix for “DROP THE TOUGH” is better.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
@The Twelves, <3 u
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The only electro I listen to is post-Depeche, pre-Yaz Vince Clarke. Yall.
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//////////Reply by ur doing it rong
//////////Posted February 5th, 2009 at 9:10 am
@AlfInYoMouf.com, Troll or Assmunch?
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