[MP3]
Holy Ghost! Wait And See
Sometimes I wonder about the state of 'electro' in the modern indie world. I am not sure if people are 'still into it' or if it was 'just a fad' when indie music needed a little bit more diversification/a wider sample size, so every1 decided to 'honor' early indielectro bands like Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, and Cut Copy. Now Daft Punk is lamestream, LCD Soundsystem retired and never really captivated any1 as much as critics would tell u, and Cut Copy made an album that was probably 'too ambitious' and had more 'misses' than hits and ppl will probably still listen to their oldest songs when they want 2 'have a dance party.'
I have been 'impressed' by the latest Holy Ghost! album, but I am still trying to figure out how blogosphere citizens even consume 'authentic electro pop / modern disco.' Do we assess it by the same standards by which we would rate a new Animal Collective album, or do we just 'cherry pick' 'dance music' for singles that 'make us want 2 partie'?
[MP3]
Holy Ghost! Say My Name
Anyways, I have enjoyed most of the songs on the latest Holy Ghost! album more than I have enjoyed most of the tracks on this year's Cut Copy album, and anything that LCD Soundsystem has done in __ years. I sort of wonder how their music would be received if it was created by a legacy electro buzzband. Can music that is 'too electro pop' be taken seriously by critics if there isn't a female lead singer [via the Robyn theory] ? Was chillwave created to provide a 'conceptual buffer' to make it blogworthier for critics who are 'searching 4 something new' 2 buzz about? Is this type of music 'easy to make' or 'easier to dismiss' because it wasn't created 25-40 years ago?
Is Holy Ghost! authentic?
Is 'electro music' 4 gheys?
Are dubstep and chillwave 'authentic'?
What is the future of 'electro'?
Will Justice 'save' indielectro?
Is 'electro' being replaced with rap music and 'crappy hipster R & B'?
What is 'kewl' music any more?
What is the ceiling for a band like Holy Ghost! now, as opposed to 3-10 years ago?
Can any new genres be created?
Who is the #1 'electro band' in modern indie? / if u had to hire a band to execute a 'killer remix', who would u hire?
WTF is 'electro'?
Alex Frankel & Nick Millhiser are the popular buzzband Holy Ghost!
Yall. I think the days of electro/bangers might be dying. Think that the events in this post my be some
sort of sign that 'the end is near.' It involves some of the key figures in the Electro World, and takes place on Electro Holy Ground.
Apparently at Busy P's birthday party, there was some sort of 'fight' between the Cinespace bouncers and the Ed Banger crew.
[Photos by Ronys Photo Booth]
From what I have heard, there were 'members of the Ed Banger crew who weren't let into the VIP area.' Then a bouncer 'pushed' notable nitelife DJ Kavinsky and they started 2 fight.
SoMe looks 'like an angry French man' in this picture.
Sources 'in the know' told me that the 'bouncers were overwhelmed with entry levelers' who were 'mad hyped to see the Daft Punk bro, Thomas Bangalter 'play a set' live. Feel sad knowing that he is the bro on the left.
(actually thought that Daft Punk were robots)
Not sure how to feel after seeing French people 'angry' and 'fighting.'
We all just want 2 be V.I.P.s, I guess. Wish more bands would 'get in fights' so that the musicblogsphere would 'have more interesting stuff 2 write about.' Trying to do more to 'write about what is happening in local scenes.' Might have to hire 'interns' in every city in America or something.
Is electro dying?
Is Ed Banger going 2 survive the recession?
Are 'bangers' still alive?
Do I need to blog more about ______ instead of _________?
I feel like Ed Banger collective has evolved into the 'type of band that u feel alright hearing ABOUT but not actually hearing.' Think that is a result of the modern music memesphere structure.
More fight pix 'after the jump'
Feel like u've proven that ur a meme worth blogging about if some1 makes an 8bit video game about you, possibly for their final exam grade at the community technical college that they are attending. In the game, u r a Daft Punk robot who has 2 steal back samples/records from Justice. Feel like if I were a blogger from the year 2k7 (the golden era of electro/bloghouse), my head would have 'exploded' from this meme. Think that this game is more fun/worth ur time than Electroma.
Here is my feedback/'constructive criticism' for the game:
After u play the game, feel free 2 leave ur suggestions.
Damn. Sort of would be 'pissed' if some1 stole all my samples.
Kinda hope this game 'gets green lit' for a Wii/Playstation/Xbox version so that I can sue them [via usage of the original HRO term 'electro war']
Play game at website.
WHAT DO YALL THINK OF THIS GAME?
THINK IT WILL BE BIGGER THAN GUITAR HERO/GTA/NBA JAM/ THE SIMPSONS ARCADE GAME?
In the future, will all bands have video games instead of 'albums'/'EPs'/'myspace pages'?
do u think 1 day a band will make music from 8bit video game chips?
For the past 100 blog years, I have been searching for the most authentic tatty that represents who I am. A tattoo will be on me forever, and I plan on living 4ever, so my tattoo will live forever.
Should I get a tattoo that tells the world I am human after all?
Did Electroma prove that we're all robot after all? (h8 that m0vie)
When we are captured by the opposing army during the electrowar, will they tattoo electro bloghouse catchphrases+lyrics on us to identify who we are? Hope I can be "I fucked my American Cunt" or "Lights and Music r on my mind" or "Ready to Uff." What do yall want 2 b?
Just wanna showcase who I am, yall.
[Photo via Whp Ths]
//just//want//some//altbro(fggt)//2//get//an//HRO//tattoo//soon//(help)
XX BONUS FUTURE OF AZN XX
In the future, will all AZNs have fade mullets? (unisex AZN theory)
[foto via Azn Dan]
Yall. I was watching PitchforkTelevision/CurrentTV/VBS/yewtewb, and I saw this ad that was encouraging alternative males to give their lives' for the electro War. Are yall gonna enlist?
"I Thank God I'm a Soldier"
I'm not sure if I agree with the way that this advertisement glorifies WAR. The ElectroWar is not going to be fun, games, and tecktonic dancing. People are gonna die. When it's all said and done, most of the world will be iPodless.
I wish people could see that ElectroWar soldiers are often unfortunate upper middle class males who will not be able to fulfill their parents expectations. After brief stints at art colleges, most electroWar soldiers are just searching for meaning by staring at death in the eye. They are victims of class, yall. Kinda like how poor minorities have 2 go 2 Iraq/Afghanny since they dropped out of HS but still want to learn technical computer skills and be in bad ass commercials with jets and cool stuff like weapons.
I was watching 'the game' at my local pub/bar/bar & grill/grill & bar/wingery/Chili's, and I made a huge mess all over myself. I got a variety of different wing sauces/dipping sauces in an attempt 2 express myself. Kinda sucked when it dripped all over my Palestinian scarf, AmAppy hoodie, and my prepubescent chest hairs [via my Am Appy v-neck].
In the future, I'll bring a custom rib bib to where ever I eat. Each bib will always match my outfit. Just glad to know that it's alright 2 eat again. I want to find some classy rib bibs that might be convertible into Electro War armor. I h8 it when people try to stab me through the heart with electro Lightning bolts.
SRSLY tho...should I buy a rib bib/buy an AZN?
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'hey yall. Just posin'! Don't mind me!'
It's important for both sides of the impending Electro War between France and Australia to remember that there will be serious repercussions if either side decides to use nuclear weapons. I'm really worried about the electroFallOut if things go wrong. I know that some alts have gold skin, and fake eyes as accessories, but if we become contaminated, it might change our personal brands forever.
If I had 3 eyes, would my shutter shades/wayfarers/FGGT goggles stop working? If I had g0ld skin, would girls/gheys still want 2 tug me? h8 thinking about change. I am only now starting 2 'feel comfortable with who i am, and what my personal brand has evolved into since age 12', so if I had to overcome any sort of 'deformity', it would be rlly tuff. Kinda like when ugly people 'try to fit in' with mainstream crowds, then they don't, then they try to fit in with alt crews, but then they realize they are ugg and can't fit in any where, and end up listening to krappy music.
Right now, this bro is a 'freak', but what if we lived in a future where every1 'was a freak.' Then 'normal' would be redefined, and we'd have to redefine 'alternative' too. Just a lot of busy work that I'm not sure I'd have time 2 complete.
s00 w0rried about nucular fallout. g0nna suck. Every1 needs to realize that wars are SRSLY serious. Wish I could talk to Barry Obama in one of those debate thingies to let him know what our real problems are. h8 politix...kinda wish the government was 'a blog' and we could just vote on things using polls, and if u had a complaint, u could just leave a scathing cmmnt.
XX BONUS ART INSPIRED BY HISTORICAL EVENTS XX
miss u
I never thought it would happen to me. I never thought I would become a prisoner of war in one of the first battles of the ElectroWar--the Battle of the Grey Goose River. We were part of an American contingent that allied with the European Electro Coalition (who had rallied around the French after a group of Australis assassinated the Daft Punks).
My name is Stephen. Not my birthname, but my Americanized stage name. This is my story.
Life in the electroPrisonCamp was difficult. We were given one meal a day, which consisted of a SXSWSTRN eggroll and an 8 oz mini can of Bud Light. We were tortured every day. They forced us to give up secrets, particularly about the technology we used to make bangers, and what popular beat matching software existed in our part of the world. They also demanded to know how we 'learned how to make filters that sounded eggzackly like Daft Punk's.'
We quickly learned that the Australian ElectroJihaadists were planning a terrorist attack on a weekly party in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was no way of letting them know that the worst was yet to come [via hiptop/sent from my iPhone/sent from my AT&T wireless device]. They confiscated our mobile devices and laptops, which were sent to labs to extract data from.
I'll never forget the my best friends in Prison. There was a set of masked DJs and an electroDiva who was prone to nipslips. We did our best to make it from day to day, being held in underwater cages. We were even forced to play Russian roulette against one another. One time one of them died. Was kinda sad, but was kinda happy that it wasn't me.
N e ways, years after the War ended, we were released from the Prison Camp. The people who ran the prison camp were actually not affiliated with the Australian ElectroForces, and just kept their prison camp alive to maintain some form of 'control' over their lives' and others. Kinda sad, but what any trivial ElectroProducer would probably do.
Now we are left 2 find out who we are in a p0st-electroWar world. I am a veteran now. I question the whole direction of my life, and wonder how the horrors of war have changed my outlook on life. I will make a movie about adjusting to post-ElectroWar Life starring Tom Cruise as me.
(I am also in a wheel chair and will grow a CrazyDisgruntledVeteranBeard and become an anti-Electro Music Activist).
[Prison photo by The Prison Photo Snake]
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Here is how the photo will look after it is run through an aging filter to make it look more authentic/'representative of pain & suffering that is associated with old photos from War.'
[Photo by Easy Fashion]
Is n e 1 else excited about where u can take ur personal brand during the winter? Sophisticated-looking coats give u a chance to look more authentic than ever. As opposed to being a 'dressed down altBro who only rlly wears loud-yet-generic tshirts' for most of the year, the winter will give you an opportunity to look like 'more than just another altBro in a non-solid AmAppy shirt.'
Are pea coats the most authentic type of coats for the 2k8k9 Winter season? I'm just looking for something that keeps me warm, reduces internal wind chill factor, and 'makes me look like I am an important member of the alternative community.' Purchasing a nice coat can also separate you from your community's altBags, since their coffee shop wages only allow them to spend money on thriftStore wages. The price of a coat that's worthy of your personal brand should probably cost about as much as an AltBag pays for 1 month of rent.
What type of coat should I buy? MembsOnly is probably too thin, ryte?
Or should I make my personal brand a little bit more 'glam' in the winter?
[Photo via facehunty]
I <3 personal bomb shelters that will help u survive an electroNuclearHolocaust.
[Photo by Laperolog]
yall...I am really scared of this arms race between the feuding parties in the upcoming electro wars. Every1 is trying to get the biggest, baddest weapons, even if they are tattooing them on their bodies. It's kind of like the Vietnam War--every one is your enemy whether they are a man, a woman, or a child. It's just like an American suburban neighborhood--u can't trust n e 1.
I feel like this image of bazooka boob broad is going to be transformed into a wartime propaganda poster that encourages women to join the fight.
Remember "Girl Power"? Is that still around? Did it die when the Spice Girls were in a fatal bus accident while traveling in the sub-Atlantic tunnel?
XX BONUS FULL-BODY PROTECTIVE SHIELD WITH A MAGICAL UMBRELLA SHIELD XX
Does n e 1 know where I can buy some body armor and/or a magical electro umbrella?
[Photo by TheFriendAttack]
Clearly 'being an electro soldier' is a popular look in 2k8.6. While we are used to the obvious choice of the colonial military coat, I enjoy this soldier from what appears to be some sort of Special Forces unit. I think he has the uniform of some European captain who is sent to colonize/commit genocide in Africa or in miscellaneous European countries filled with Jews, gypsies, and non-blondes.
If you want to be a high ranking soldier who commands respect from his troops during the ELECTRO WARS, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to wipe out innocent villagers/people affiliated with a religion/people who live in a region/people with a certain colour skin. Kind of like that one mean character in Saving Private Ryan/Platoon/Full Metal Jacket/Blackhawk Down/Schindler's List/Jarhead/The Pianist/Donnie Darko.
Hopefully some1 dresses like a Desert Storm era Soldier soon. 
They already made the perfect 'kicks' for them.
I'll never forget my first battle in the France Vs. Australia Electro War of 2k8. I was s0 nervous--felt kind of like my first high school dance b4 I got backed into a long-term relationship. I threw up the fruity drink I had ordered at Chili's to calm my nerves.
We were led by General Alton Livestrong (We just called him General Alt). He was a courageous man who had actually fought in the 'Operation Kill-the-Brownies Crusades' of 2002.
N e ways, I always thought he was kind of fruity since he had a big mop of hair was kind of curly, but he always made sure to have a 'dreamy, swoopy part' going over one of his eyes. He led us out to battle, kind of like they do in the film Braveheart, and he said he had been meaning to tell us something, and that he felt comfortable telling us because he knew we would love him no matter what--even if he participated in alternative lifestyle.
Anyways, he basically told us that he was a FGGT, but we already kind of knew because he listened to a lot of straightforward-entrylevel-faggy + obvious faggy electro that was popular 8 months ago. Also, we were all wearing our NEON FOOTSOLDIER gear, and he decided to dress like Coldplay/SigurRos/other FGGTs in bands. I guess he just wanted to make sure every1 knew he was 'an individual' or something. SRSLY though, who still wears colonial army uniforms?
Note: This is the camouflage featured on our uniforms (designed by Marc [via Marc Jacobs])
General Alt also painted his nails and wore fuzzy Livestrong bracelets.
N e ways, we lost the battle, and like s00 many people died on both sides. It was kind of sad, because when I killed a man, I realized that we had both illegally downloaded the new Ratatat album from the same zShare file.
I guess maybe we all are the same. I guess we should have put down our electro-lighting bolt daggers, and learned how to bond while listening to a remix of a Ladyhawke song, or something else that is meaningful, uplifting, and urgent.
[Photo by The Facehunter]
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Seen n e kute Human Mashups lately?
This Human Mashup combines Internet Banner Ad Artist Andy Warhol with Icelandic Weirdo Bjork.
