I was reading the popular tastemaking MP3 blog, GuerillasVsPandaBears, and heard this song that is conceptual by a band called HIGH LIFE. It apparently has members from Gang Gang Dance and members of Ariel Pink’s backing band. I think that this means that they are conceptual, modern pop composers, and utilize elements of some of my favourite modern bands.
I am considering ‘getting very excited’ about this ‘pleasant lil conceptual ditty.’ I remember when HERE WE GO MAGIC first emerged and were just ’some relatively unknown blog buzz band.’ Now they are opening for the Grizzly Bears.
I feel like this song mixes ‘tons of modern indie-ish’ techniques from bands that I <3 and h8. Still not sure how to feel about it. Might get excited after hearing 2.3 more mp3s by this band. Just want to listen 2 more conceptual-core pop.
[MP3]
HIGHLIFE F KENYA RIP
Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/highlifehighlife
read more ‘actual information’ about the band+song///mp3 highjack via
http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2009/06/highlife.html
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24 Comments
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the back up vocals sound like AnCo kind of and the song is repetitive. w/e. it’s ok.
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ah great more white people having an ethnic moment this is refreshing i am refreshed
AmAppyAfrika neva 4get
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//////////Reply by Faisal
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
@paste, explainn
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I liked them better when they were called Os Mutantes
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//////////Reply by El Buki
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@Fingerbangz, i agree.
just more of the same. rehashing old tunes for the young and dumb.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 2:39 am
@El Buki, well youre old and stupid, or young and dumb. either way, youre stupid.
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//////////Reply by spad
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
@anon,
nah brah, one way ur dumb
this is gay.
white people have always been stealing since the beginning of mankind.
kill whitey
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likes it.
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btw:
will enjoy listen to this song outdoors for the rest of the summer. thanks carles.
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btw:
will enjoy listening to this song outdoors for the rest of the summer. thanks carles.
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//////////Reply by cobones
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
@a., yeh
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pastels are ok again.
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great track, man. big in 2k9.5.
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wtf i thought teengirl fantasy was the next AnCo buzzband?
feel outdated yall
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is it me or the new-post-pop = 50s/60s altmusic?
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whens Carles gonna leak the tracks he’s been working on?!!!?
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I’m sorry but how is Passion Pit not on this list?
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//////////Reply by a.
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
@Colby,
fuck you.
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//////////Reply by Colby
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
@a.
Well thanks for that incredible insight you just bestowed upon me.
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//////////Reply by a.
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
@Colby,
you’re welcome, you fucking retard.
//////////Reply by $wrth
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 10:45 am
@Colby, double fuck you.
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//////////Reply by $wrth
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 10:46 am
@$wrth, [via cyber bullying]
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//////////Reply by Colby
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
@$wrth, Alright, i get it. I missed the band in the title. Instead of being a complete tool, maybe just point that out instead of screaming “fuck you” across the board. Talk about the blatant display of low internet intelligence. Please, keep taking this blog SOOPER SRSLY LOLZ.
OH MY LAWD!
This white thief has gone to my homeland Ghana and stolen our ancestor’s rythyms and beats, and is trying to pass it off as something NEW! ah! TAFYAKWA!!
White man ALWAYS stealing from Africa
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//////////Reply by dunnit
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
@ghana gurl, how do you know they are trying to pass it off as something new? I bet they love the highlife music of Ghana. I don’t understand why it’s stealing? The rhythm and music have that ghanian influence, but it has it’s own thing too. it seems a shame that you feel that this is the same ritual of the ‘white man ALWAYS stealing from Africa’…
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//////////Reply by bro
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
@dunnit,
Why are you seriously replying to this? Are you 10? Did you just learn about ‘the Internet’?
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just ok
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People need to chill about this.
Nothing is sacred, but stealing in music seems much more acceptable than any other form of culture stealing.
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//////////Reply by dunnit
//////////Posted June 9th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@bro, who’s 10?
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hello yall, my opinion might not be ‘worth much’, because i’m only 10, but i thought this track was kind of average.
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 11:53 am
@cp,
know what isnt average?
ur dick size
cause ur only 10
and u havent hit puberty yet
having said that
fucking brilliant response in the response and counter response wars with ‘bro’ and other such HROalts.
+1 golf clap
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Peaches roxxx!!!
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everyone knows all these buzz-bands are just keeping 2k9 warm for the return of the strokebros. mindlessly keeping us entertained until “rock” can be “saved” again
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sounds alot like vampire weekend to me
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this is some crap version of REAL african highlife music.
this imitation shit is a total mood killer.
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//////////Reply by ghanian hipster
//////////Posted June 10th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
@bianca, seriously mann
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gag me with a spoon omg this shit is so ghetto what happened to elektro
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You forgot to ask if they were the next WAVVES.
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