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Johnny's a good guy

i want to believe this, but several pdxers i've spoken with say... otherwise

So far so good : )

still rocking your tropical computer system cdr on a regular basis, so awesome. just sayin' :)

Thanks!I'm glad it's still got some life left! Most recent releases on other labels have been less synthpop/Italo flavored. I'll be starting a Bandcamp in a few months that will remedy that. I'll keep you posted!

awesome
pegaso was my fave track on that comp.

Here's a link that's still active (c. 2009) with free downloads, including the full version of "Pegaso". Have at it since the other label that released that hasn't payed me for it since 2009 as well !

http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/10/07/exclusive_new_download_jorge_velez_perfume_across_the_spree_pegaso "> http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/10/07/exclusive_new_download_jorge_velez_perfume_across_the_spree_pegaso

Sorry about that. One of those two links works.

From After Dark 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jBWfQ6C1qY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCeQDNoQIkc

I migh be the only person around here who gives a shit anymore, but J. Jewel put up a mix of unreleased stuff from the Kill For Love sessions: http://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/running-from-the-sun

I give a shit.

both of those tracks are pretty solid, not breaking any new ground but i'm not sure i want that anyway

Chromatics playing for a fashion show and a video with a bunch of models seems really appropriate. Really like the Desire track.

I'm grossed out that they would want to have anything to do with Karl Lagerfeld, but that's a nice track.

where's after dark 2?!

New Chromatics song, from After Dark 2 I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQ2jGUNSck&list=HL1353865608&feature=mh_lolz

very seasonal

http://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/black-and-white-autumn-mix

I know it's not really winter, but since the weather outside is still autumnal...

blissed out "Ceremony" is insane...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9N17f3ERt0

hahahah just came here to post the above two posts, fuck it IM GOING FOR IT

http://soundcloud.com/culturcide/chromatics-ceremony-new-order

Loving "Cherry," really not moved by the "Ceremony" cover.

I know it's not really winter, but since the weather outside is still autumnal...

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it's not winter, eh?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8482/8250123709_d5028597bd.jpg

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After Dark 2 this Friday

maybe

https://soundcloud.com/johnnyjewel/mirage-lets-kiss

up on itunes apparently

it's there

After all these years.

How is it?

just me, or do bits of it sound very RAM?

ok really only camera by chromatics

AHHHHHHHHH IT'S HERE

Not on Spotify yet(?)...stoked though.

just bought it... sounds awesome

kind of 2004/2005 vibe about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Akjt-RuNc6U#!

apparently it's from 2 years old, but also on this compilation?

it's been in the works for quite some time

Do we know if this is getting a physical release at all?

CD in June, vinyl in July, he says

This might spoil it for everybody, but the intro for "Warm in the Winter" is just a synthpop homage to "Where the Streets Have No Name".

Y U BRAKE HERAT JF ;_;

Really looking forward to this btw, not heard it yet

Cherry is such a great pop song, in a just world it'd be a massive hit

Got the promo in my inbox today, about to give it a spin. Praying for something as perfectly sad as 'Lady Operator' was on the first one.

What are Glass Candy and Chromatics like live?

Glass Candy are a little more of a fun time party band live than Chromatics, who are a little more too cool for school chill. Glass Candy are keyboard and vocals and a lot of dancing, onsesys and c'mon's and Chromatics are more I'm smoking cigarettes and playing guitar and you can't fuck with this.

That said, they're all ridiculously approachable. Now that they are bigger this may have changed, but last time I saw Glass Candy, afterwards Johnny and Mike Simonetti sat on the stage afterward selling merch and chatting with all comers and last time I saw Chromatics, it was rained out and they traded cigarettes and jokes with the crowd, Johnny quipped that he was afraid of being 'electro-cuted'.

Music is always on point too. I suppose if you've had a song demo'd since 2005 and only released it last year, you've probably thought about it a bit. But, I don't know. Like, you know how nobody buys music anymore and bands relentless tour and have polished this completely fine but somewhat sterile 45 minute set that they know works and play over and over again? Whereas it used to be a little less important to be on message every night when nobody used to go to live shows and bands live used to be a little looser and they'd play a cover if they felt like it, or something they were working on? Chromatics and Glass Candy feel a little more like that.

OK, great. I got my tickets for the show in a couple of weeks.

Am definitely interested in how they work the crowd and perform, IDIB style is so sedate and a bit calculated.

'Cherry' is so gorgeous, not sure if that awooeeooawooaee bit is ripping something off or if it's just an instant classic hook.

And then that swirling synth/drum fill bit right at the end of it just seals the deal

"Cherry" in parts reminds me of ... a couple've tracks off the Magnetic Fields' The Wayward Bus? "Candy" & something else.