don't know if this guy fits in here but he's friends with john maus on myspace?
― no fear, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 07:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
like the john maus it's like joy division meets neu 86
― no fear, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 07:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
john maus has been mentioned by so many people whose taste i find terrible that i am flabbergasted it is not completely awful, that song above is quite good indeed
― oh shit a behringer (electricsound), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
this band vondelpark i've been loving them like a lot. I feel like i want to start a thread about them but they've just released a couple of things. they live just up the road from me in peckham apparently but they have this shrouded in tumblr internet-absence thing going on so I dont actually know what they look like or anything. this song reminds me of staying up to watch movies on tv at my parents house during the summer holidays. like when the house is quiet and dark but everything feels close and humid. it feels bleary eyed and yearning. Its feeding into the feelings i'm having about this summer a lot and in a way i don't think i can articulate right now.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Thursday, 4 August 2011 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
i thought it was just one guy?
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 4 August 2011 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
mars waters - where the sun sets
i guess 'surf rock' is kinda a big thing now but its p subtle here, just a steady and wistful thud, feel like this spots the comfort and wonder in being 'totally generic'
borden, ferraro, godin, nalo & lopatin - twilight pacific
space and time are two different things ooooh space and time are two very different things...
pedro magina - kickflip
have i posted this before? this tape is one my fave things so far this year, squelchy and mournful synth jamz layer on layer
― funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this (Lamp), Friday, 5 August 2011 01:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pedro Magina tape is on Spotify (shockingly):
http://open.spotify.com/album/11FCwSzCHKQ2ZNOYGS4Hxx
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 5 August 2011 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why do Ford & Lopatin get tagged as chillwave? I seriously dont' understand that at all.
― Clarke B., Friday, 5 August 2011 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
this probably is more of tumblr post but its origins are in ilx so:
i've been thinking a fair bit about the discussion/argument that i had w/ whiney on i guess another thread about the value of 'chillwave' & particularly about the way 'nostalgia' functions as an important emotional and aesthetic throughline w/in the 'genre'. upthread i ref'd lovecraft saying 'the past is real. it's all there is' & i think this is vital to understanding in large part whats attractive/'relevant' about chillwave/the larger cultural moment. like i was reading robertson davies today and he was saying something about how 'history is the way we make sense of the present' but how do we make sense of a present that is largely indistinguishable from the past?
this evening i was djing a party where they wanted '90s classics' and it was both disconcerting and unremarkable to see ppl barely out of their teens dancing along to mid-90s house classix; there was little to no divide btw the people who might be old enough to remember the songs i was playing fondly & the people for whom these songs should have little personal/historical meaning... isnt one of the consequences of technology to help divorce cultural artifacts from history? or put another way: if i still have access to the cultural products and ephemera of my childhood via youtube, torrents, ebay &c &c isnt my affection/consumption of them essentially present-tense?
i mean plax has been smarter/more eloquent about this but i think the more retro-steeped parts of 'chillwave' are partly about confronting a past that constantly surrounds us and dealing w/ the difference in emotional states btw 'then' and 'now'. or more clearly in talking about how the past never leaves us both emotionally (we still have access to those memory/feelings) or culturally (i still hear/see those songs/vidz) it makes explicit how pervasive our personal histories are, and how lonely that feels. taking the new washed out record for example i think you can hear this lack of delineation btw modern/historical - the music doesnt really seem to speak formally of any specific moment in time while also sounding vaguely 'dated'. but also taking the lazier, more direct signifier type of thing e.g 'i named my band MIRCO MACHINES remember MICRO MACHINES' this is also a kind of confirmation, of course i remember micro machines, i could buy them on ebay if wanted, theres no mystery or distance but a basic affirmation. i think whiney would probably scoff at this but when our shared culture is so fragmented that kind of confirmation, that we exist at the same time, is kinda valuable/meaningful?
i quoted proust too itt but this isnt about creating madelines but about erecting signposts in a time when memory and experience are almost interchangeable. & this all comes back to my posts about anxiety, in this equation the future stands resolutely outside our xp but the past is perfectly ours, knowable and controlled. so it becomes a refuge.
― Lamp, Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk thats pretty convincing but im not sure "the past is perfectly ours" i think the fraught knowability/unknowability of the past is central to how i grasp this whole thing. like the pieces are there but you can never put them back together again.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i think your right i was p drunk when i wrote this, not that i dont stand behind the central idea but its not totally coherent... there are tensions i guess btw the past as lost eden and the past as slave to the present, thats part of whats driving the music really
― Lamp, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
man vondelpark is p great - really into 'california analog dream' its kinda like a mid 00s indie rock song stretched taut and irradiated
― Lamp, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 06:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dont where else to post about this but ken seeno's tape on nna 'invisible surfer on an invisible wave' is so fucking great just these incredible expanses of synth and space but firmly rooted in the 'natural'. i guess it probably belongs on the knew age thread but i like this thread better and knew agers are just chillwavers in the morning anyway
― ç(° ·· °)ↄ CRUEL HAND OF FATE O YEAH █▬▬ (Lamp), Thursday, 18 August 2011 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
wet wings - feeeel it
first track off a superlimited tape on atelier ciseaux this kinda feels like a skeleton take on pastoral moanwave but then the drums come in halfway through and it starts to hit harder and the girls voice sounds like wind in the grass
melted toys - lost connection
probably not the best song on their ep but i like how much of a pastiche this particular song is the heaviness of the affections make it seem kinda rootless a bristol board collage of montone dreampop and euro influences
― god hates fats (Lamp), Friday, 26 August 2011 05:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
this evening i was djing a party where they wanted '90s classics' and it was both disconcerting and unremarkable to see ppl barely out of their teens dancing along to mid-90s house classix; there was little to no divide btw the people who might be old enough to remember the songs i was playing fondly & the people for whom these songs should have little personal/historical meaning... isnt one of the consequences of technology to help divorce cultural artifacts from history?
That's it right there. Good music is good music. Young people aren't supposed to be able to recognize and enjoy good music? The whole cult of the new, and the obsession with timeliness is imo, a strange type of insanity promoted by journalists who are taught to think only about the news.
― the wheelie king (wk), Friday, 26 August 2011 06:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/indigobunting
^^ recommended
― some derp (Lamp), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 03:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
in honor of both plax AND gr8080 posting on ilx again today:
blackbird blackbird - letting go
darius - maliblue
summer camp - why don't you stay
quilt - penobska oakwalk
― 808 Police State (Lamp), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 04:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
also for any interested parties reading this i wanna rep hard for the s/t quilt lp on mexican summer. its p squarely post-anco but its so winsome and shimmery u cant really hate.
― 808 Police State (Lamp), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 04:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
sounds like incredible string band!
― lloyd banksfein (flopson), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 06:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol! it kinda does...
some utbues ive been listening to:
― im an aerosmith tchotchke (Lamp), Saturday, 14 January 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
has anyone unarchived the sandbox thread?
that cough cool is great
― flopson, Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
cough cool suffer from putting out too much stuff - their best tracks are really good, but they've released quite a bit of junk too. tbf most of the junk was free.
― bro-one (electricsound), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think there should be a new thread
― judith, Monday, 23 January 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
a new era of chill
― judith, Monday, 23 January 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
rolling off to the forest 2012
― i was a preteen blogger (Lamp), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 02:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is where we post triphop now right?
― dsb, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.walmart.com/ip/My-Sunshine-45-x-20-Inflatable-Chillwave-Pool-Lounge/23569858
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink