i think this is a really great and worthwhile release for a lot of reasons – but it’s nice out today, and besides, i’m not in a proselytic mood

this exists; now you know

-p

crucial skill #1, as far as i can tell, for music blogging: coming up with a punchy, marginally descriptive, and effusive sentence or two to attach to a lazy repost from another blog. let it be known, dear reader, that i will more often than not fail to so deliver the obligatory accompanying objective critical commentary, but -

here is an awesome mix from comeme‘s rebolledo (sometime collaborator and subject matter of transcontinental dreamboat eccentric matias aguayo, self-proclaimed super vato, superpitcher’s bandmate and label partner, and overall certified freak techno badass), courtesy of playground. as for sentence two: fuck your retarded concept of What Cool Weird Dance Music Is In 2012 if it includes any consideration of certain insufferable, forced “classic house revival” poseurs (acting like they’ve discovered a new world, bearing audio smallpox blankets disguised as criminally dull 12″ records – well, at least it’s not infectious) and misses actual one-of-a-kind, here-and-now, and totally sincere dance music personalities; la lucha sigue and don’t you forget it

via playground (yesterday: rebolledo’s 10 favorite peppers with boots to match)

xoxo gossip girl

by phillip

new 2012 revelations from our favorite sexy bearded miracle worker, initials J.C.

SHAMS on soundcloud

BRA DAY BEAUTIES MIX by TOP8

here’s a new mix from our internet crushes TOP8 for ✿★♪ CYBeR-PReTTY ♪★✿ サイバーかわいい tonight. they can’t be with us IRL, but sent this over from montreal (9 hours ago via web)

rez & i will be playing the hits 2nite at the morgan with LF Wind (@teengirlfantasy), Sasha Desree (#DESREESLOUNGE), @Shock_Diamond, & Emilie Friedlander (@alteredzones); @ryder_ripps (dump.fm/@okfocus) & @amycakesDD will be providing virtual and analog makeovers, respectively - but if you’re not in nyc, you can always call (/text/skype/myspace/second life IM) a friend and get pretty at home to this mix

“it’s six months, six months, six months. it’s not something you do for a great future.”
-karl lagerfeld, on music blogging

another trend in popular culture, another end-of-history treatment in a major art/culture publication: cory arcangel writes on the emerging euro-trance influence on chart pop in artforum. from a functional standpoint, i love the emerging euro-trance influence on chart pop, because all you have to do is speed it up to 170-175 bpm to make “happy softcore” on the fly:

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“Why? More important, why now?” asks arcangel. one possible answer is the cyclicality of novelty expressed in the substance of the universe itself, the referentiality intrinsic to physical existence, as manifested over the airwaves and through the noosphere at large:

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a second explanation, equally plausible, and potentially more readily adopted among the linear historical narratives often favored by the critical establishment, is a broad cultural regression to the mean, the constant correction by which society’s concept of expression on the whole grows to more closely resemble the artistic vision of t.A.T.u.:

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the present exercise, charting dj tracks at a particular moment in time for others to see, or more specifically, picking relatively recent youtube clips to put on a blog, or more generally, participating in the sisyphean pop hype death drive at large (a.k.a. “keeping up with music,” or “talking critically about art created for popular consumption”), typically entails lazy or shortsighted static analysis at best, and cynical, self-aware swing trading at worst. that’s just the inevitable effect of blogging with the specific intent to introduce new music, or reading blogs with the specific intent to discover new music – a functionally consumerist hunger for novelty masquerading as pursuing the next major artistic development, testing an artificial frontier in a world of incredible historical surplus of product:

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