much love for the javiera mena and the pau y amigos stuff i've heard i have LOVED. what's some more contemporary music w/ this vibe? what are some antecedents? can not get enough of 'fuego al juego'.
― balls, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I spent the last summer in Mexico and all the girls I met were super-super into this shit:
agony.
― (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like Belanova, but think they're a little more pop than hipster:
― naus, Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
When did Cholas become hipsters? Are Cholas the next level of hipsters? Are pencil eyebrows the new horn rimmed glasses?
― Those 2011 Glasses Don't Look Right (MintIce), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
So funny, I spent countless hours listen to that song in random dude's cars hitchin. im so bohemian, just look at my transtition to little capitalization and feelings of apathy for that spelling error i just made. apathy bro.
― (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris) (kelpolaris), Thursday, 30 December 2010 05:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah ive been listening to this song heeeeaps
― just sayin, Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is going to be a dope thread, thx
― ok (Tape Store), Thursday, 30 December 2010 09:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
El Remolon and Lido Pimienta - "Basta Ya"
― ok (Tape Store), Thursday, 30 December 2010 10:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
You read Club Fonograma, right?
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
No, but thanks. Good thread
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
So Chilean-popper Javier Mena is a game-changer. http://themusictrail.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/hello-my-name-is-javiera-mena/
While I've been checking out working-class Mexican (and Mexican-American) duranguese sounds (and ocassionally keeping up on Afro-Peruvian ones) I've missed out on this.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, she rules.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
have a lot of love for her
― just sayin, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
I have no idea if this is hipster or not, but a friend introduced me to this song a few weeks ago and it's pretty good. Not sure where she's from, but doesn't sound Mexican or Central American at all. Could be Spanish or Argentine?
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Super poppy though
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html
Ok, I know some of these.
This year's Julieta Venegas cd (she's Mexican) was disappointing to me. Poppy but she's stuck in a rut, and the hooks weren't as distinctive.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
And I have seen that site before.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
what are some antecedents?
CSS hahahaha lol
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
also Cibelle and maybe also Ceu are obviously pretty big touchstones/crossover for Javiera.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Right. Brazilians have been meshing their sounds with North of the equator Anglo ones for quite awhile.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
looking forward to checkin out all this other stuff but for posterity
javiera mena
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sometimes this stuff is just stereotypical indie/Pitchfork music in Spanish.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've noticed that.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
north america is so 2009
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
this song is pretty great -- 1977, ana tijoux (chile) i also like the use of trad latin horns -- makes it different than pfork en español
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
also it is not indie rock, so
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well Pitchfork folks like some rap too. But yep, there are lots of different scenes and genres and defining who's in which one gets difficult (and deciding that one is more important than another or a blog doing this gets kinda silly). She's mentioned on another ilx thread--
spanish language hip-hop
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey i guess hip hop is hipster shit too, right? i like her a lot. she's got nerve.
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
important things i learned from this thread: hipsters probably don't like hip hop, only like stereotypical pitchfork indie.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sometimes
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know if this counts as Latin American hipster shit or not, but the general style is my favorite recent Latin American discovery:
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
i really like that. but, yeah, hipsters probably wouldn't. whoever the hell they are.
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm really into Belanova, have been since their first album. Also like almost everything that comes out on Nacional Records in the US.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
x-pssst
I don't know. How would you describe this demographic, other than probably very horny young Mexicans:
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
(I know I'm guilty of linking to the same shit in multiple ILM threads.)
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I thought there were going to be more girls here."
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
huh not quite as much dancing as i would expect there
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like the sound of it though
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's what I was saying on another thread: the crowd looks like it's not sure it knows what to do with it. I think maybe Puerto Ricans need to steal tribal guarachero and claim it as their own and piss everyone off. At least there will be more dancing.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
(I should give credit to fauxmarc for turning me onto this stuff.)
i was watching live footage of lenny dee spinning hardcore for drunk kids around the globe for HOURS the other night. lenny in scotland! lenny in croatia! i don't know what was wrong with me. well, i was stoned, but still...
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
has nothing to do with this thread though so just disregard.
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 December 2010 17:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Singles Jukebox review roundups of songs by:
Rita Indiana & Los Misterios
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2938
Javiera Mena
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2825
Natalia Lafourcade
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=879
Calle 13 (assuming they're hipster enough to qualify for this thread)
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=860
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=41
Fwiw, I was really into Latin alternative stuff in the early/mid '90s (when people still called it "rock en español"), for a while there almost to the exclusion of everything else. Even went to Mexico a couple times to interview bands like Caifanes and Fobia. But none of this newer stuff has done much for me, and a lot of it just makes me shrug my shoulders. Probably I just haven't heard the right records. I did kind of like the Garotas Suecas album on American Dust, Escaldante Banda, this year, though.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
zmog, why did you link to that... is that a parody site?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
there's a lot of dancing in that rincon - i mean since tribal's "new" in musical years it's not like there's an official traditional partner dance for it - most of that bouncing seen isn't too different from what you see end up with when cumbia or pasito durango is on and people are dancing by themselves. with some self-consciousness added as i think that's mostly highschoolers.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
but re: original thread latin american hipster shit is just as "precious" and tired as non-latin american hipster shit but with more ska as someone mentioned in another thread
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lol, I was not expecting partner dancing.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
unfortunately the potential partner dancing is all i can see in my head now.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wasn't really expecting partner dancing either, just a little more energy? oh well. what's this about not knowing how to dance to cumbia -- i always thought of cumbia as super trad (ie not at all hipster)?
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
nah wasn't saying cumbia isn't traditional, just comparing the solo-bouncing you can find at cumbia parties with what's in the rincon vid, but i hear what's said re: energy
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 30 December 2010 18:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Plastilina Mosh.
― naus, Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
dear balls,
saw that you gave javiera mena some p+j love. are you currently writing for anyone? would read if so.
― Pink Friday XIII (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
i love the shoutout to old school cumbia song "pollera colora" here
they qualify as hipster because they're playing the empty bottle in chicago and also only hipsters shave half of their headsif you like the tougher side of shakira but wish she weren't so groany, this is for you
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2011 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess should mention for searching purposes that the above post is "fuego" bomba estéreo -- which i realize is a couple of years old, but they're touring now and i bet this will be their big summer
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Friday, 6 May 2011 14:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
no one cares, but i am going to see this band ^^ on saturday and it's going to be a bombazo
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well have enjoy it and just ignore ILM's obliviousness (mine included).
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
― noleander, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
pedantic point: el guincho is from the canary islands which are in europe
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maria Daniela y su sonido lasser - miedo
Telefunka - Brillantina
Plastilina Mosh - Pervert pop song
Plastilina Mosh - Millionaire
Miranda - don
Ultrasonicas - que grosero
Rebolledo - Guerrero
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Moderatto are also pretty hipster. They make "ironic" hair metal covers from well-known latin pop hits.
Also: Titan - corazon
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
And while they're not hipster musicians per se latin hipsters love terrible cumbia artists like Tigresa del Oriente ironically.
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
― CarlosDP, Sunday, 23 October 2011 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Moka, Thursday, 22 March 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
This was pretty massive a year or two back: http://soundcloud.com/losmacuanos/pueblo-muerto-feat-scout-klas
― Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Thursday, 22 March 2012 02:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
man, i was a cunt a year ago
all said, i go back to mexico continually and lcd soundsystem has a surprisingly huge presence there. i gave some girls from guadalajara a ride and they played a cd and i remember them being blasted on the stereo when i was at a kinda hippie-dippie beach hovel in sayulita. def would never have expected this.
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 22 March 2012 06:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
for the last year the biggest search engine hit on my blog by several orders of magnitude has been "mexican hipster boots"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2012 07:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Been playing "Cómo puedes vivir contigo mismo?" a lot recently:
Particularly recommended to anyone mourning the lack of a new Kelley Polar album (though I guess it's a bit dancier than most KP). First read about it on the Singles Jukebox but don't know if it has crossed over to ILM at all.
The rest of the Alex Anwandter album is solid too, if not quite as massive as "Cómo puedes..."
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 23:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
does gepe fall under hipster shit? a lot of his stuff is kinda twee but i like this:
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 23:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
loving gepe and a lot of indie pop + hip-hop chilenos for years, glad to see his been getting around stateside, we just had him in dc this past weekend
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
that alex anwandter is great.
this isnt really what this thread is for but i figured a nerdy genre-specific compilation of obscurities at least partially qualifies as hipstery:
http://www.soundwayrecords.com/catalogue/the-original-sound-of-cumbia.htmlhttp://soundcloud.com/soundway-records/the-original-sound-of-cumbia
cant stop listening to this comp
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 12 July 2012 23:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
come on, we've been talking about that for > 6 mo on the soundway threadget with the program gr8080!!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 02:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 9 September 2012 17:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 9 September 2012 17:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
For real this time:
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
That's Selma Oxor.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Friday, 9 November 2012 16:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
The Sexy Fi album is some decent Brazilian art rock hipster shit that I haven't seen many people pick up on:
http://soundcloud.com/sexyfi/pequeno-dicion-rio-das-ruas
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Friday, 23 November 2012 02:48 (6 months ago) Permalink
wouldn't call this hipster but it's latin, bose is good as usual and the lady looks stunning.
v chic
― wolves lacan, Saturday, 15 December 2012 07:14 (6 months ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/44256/los-master-plus-at-tropicalia-friday-may-3/
cumbiatronica but also influenced by 1950s singer/actor El Piporro, 1960s bolero-rock combo Los Angeles Negros,
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://quebajo.com/cinco-de-gallo-2013/
In Nueva York Saturday night
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
Los Master Plus were noveltyish but still fun live Friday night. They'ge got a Los Angeles gig coming up I think, and then back to Mexico
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:14 (1 month ago) Permalink