http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0rWkgfe18E
It would have been better if they’d been choreographed. And moved their feet more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgR3AEwM9K4
I’ll give you one guess as to where all of these videos were made.
TIME’S UP!
If you said anything but “Germany”, I have one question for you: how does it feel to be so utterly wrong?
I kind of feel like cybergoths are Europe’s juggalos: I will never truly understand either subculture, but the members are devoted as all hell to looking like complete idiots. And, man, are cybergoths serious about what they do. Look at all these dance parties! All outside during the…day? In parks? And underpasses? And town squares?
Wait a second.
First, what is “cyber” about dancing in a park? And second, what is “goth” about the daytime? Shouldn’t all you Karls and Dieters and Manjas and Gretels and shit be dancing at night in some warehouse surrounded by technology? To me, the word “cybergoth” conjures images of your traditional goth type in some sort of William Gibson cyberpunk realm, dark and brooding and integrated into technology. Kind of like how Priss looks in Blade Runner once she’s done her make-up before Deckard smokes her. But these rainbow-dreaded, zipper-saturated, glowstick Krauts dancing badly on the lawn are not at all what I have in mind.
At what point do you think to yourself, “Man, you know what would look great and definitely get me laid like nonstop? Neon green fake dreads and a black respirator. I am going to be drowning in pussy, bro.” Not that a cybergoth has ever used the word “bro” but I thought it would add a little something to the statement.
Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe I lack imagination. Maybe I am a stupid, terrible prick, but I don’t get it. I don’t understand what would drive you to this sort of thing. I understand gangs and gang violence. I understand hipsters. I understand all sorts of people. But I do not understand cybergoths. Hell, I feel like I’ve got a better grip on juggalos than I’ve got on cybergoths. Does anyone want to explain these four-on-the-floor, Hot-Topic-pants-wearing, schnitzel-eating goobers to me? I need help from you, the internet. Someone tell me why I shouldn’t spend the rest of my life laughing at these clowns. Wikipedia’s not helping at all.
And don’t even get me started on the dance moves. Holy shit. It makes me want to go to one of these clubs and bust a fucking move where I don’t just spin my arms around.
What a bunch of g-d assholes.
ARE YOU LISTENING TO THIS?! WHY AREN’T YOU LISTENING TO THIS?! GO LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW!!
Fuck the Facts Die Miserable stream.
Holy shit, I am so excited about this album. I preordered the LP yesterday before even listening to the stream. Let me tell you, I was right to do it. This album is amazing. Ridiculously amazing. I regret having missed them play the last time they were here in NYC.
God damn, Mel Mongeon’s vocals on this shit are so brutal. She out-metals nearly every male vocalist I can think of except for maybe Erik Rutan. MAYBE.
If you’re a fan of grind and you’ve never heard Fuck The Facts, prepare to have your face blown off, your wallet lightened, and all your stress blasted out of you by Montréal’s finest.
I don’t know why I’ve never posted an Underworld video here before. It’s a little bit like last Spring when I asked why I’d never posted a Pulp video here before. It doesn’t make any sense. I love Underworld. They are easily one of my favorite electronic music acts. There are few other groups that I can listen to as often and repetitiously as I listen to Underworld.
And then you have “Push Upstairs” which is my favorite track from Beaucoup Fish which is my favorite Underworld album. It is the album that I picked up way back in the late 90s that shifter my interest in electronic music from mere curiosity to full on love. I love this album and I love this song. I cannot tell you the number of times I drove home from high school with this pumping in my car as I sped up 280 or back from Tara’s house in the middle of the night or on my way anywhere. And it really holds up still. To me it does not sound dated though laced heavily with nostalgia. Compare it to other late 90s electronic music from the same era—The Prodigy or Crystal Method to name a couple—and where you’d immediately know other bands were old, Underworld has a timelessness about their music. I could and do listen to this all the time and never ever get bored.
Man, I fucking love Cut Copy. As I’ve said before here, I think they’re a band that has matured so nicely over the course of their career, a band from whom I hope we continue to receive great music that makes me want to dance whether at work developing my post-production tan, at home cleaning the filth from my apartment, or anywhere the hell else it’s good to listen to music.
The premise for the video goes like this: what IF instead of nuclear mutants living underground in Beneath the Planet of the Apes they were the apes themselves and instead of worshipping a nuclear bomb they worship the little bits of Cut Copy they needed to assemble the band for the performance of a single song? And, what if instead of destroying the world with nuclear fire, they burned the instruments in fits of simian rage after unleashing the power of Cut Copy’s music? That’s pretty much what we’ve got here. And it’s pretty damned cool.
I know you’re all anxiously awaiting my thoughts on my Spain trip—and you’ll get them—but until I have a moment to sit and write it all up with photos, you’ll have to wait.
Until then, here’s the new Com Truise video for his track “Brokendate”. Inspired by equal parts Blade Runner and Tron, the video does an excellent job of converting Com Truise’s particular brand of dark, synthy music into appropriate visuals. Besides the awesome video, the track deserves to be listened to on decent speakers so do yourself a favor and don’t listen through your shitty laptop speakers.