2013, Reflections and Commentary

2013 is rapidly coming towards its end, and as this has been a very interesting year for me, I thought I'd take a few minutes for reflection. If you don't feel like reading what is by all accounts a blog post and not a music post, just skip the next few paragraphs and go for the flash players.

I really lost touch with electronic music. I can never be sure whose fault it was, really. Did I change? Did the music? Maybe I just got tired of seeing nothing but dubstep, brostep, chillstep, step step step BLOODY-FRIGGIN-STEP on every genre tag I came across. In truth, this is probably the story of two people who both changed and realized it was time to move on for each other's sake. The music I fell in love with was this happy indie-dance, electro-infused scene where rockers and ravers co-existed. 2007. 2008. Digitalism - Idealism. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future. Does it Offend You Yeah - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into. Justice - Cross. Crystal Castles. The Kitsune Maison compilations gave me tastes of everything going on and I loved it.

#5 was really weird

This is where I'm not sure what changed. 2009 was a huge letdown for me. 2010 was a huge letdown. I just couldn't connect with anything going on culturally at any level. 2011, Justice, Digitalism and SebastiAn dropped albums and I thought it was all coming back, but it wasn't. Culture was looking for that kid I had been in 2007 with a shaggy moptop, boundless enthusiasm and a Deviantart full of Daft Punk fan art, and I just wasn't that kid anymore.

Boba, circa 2008

But now it's 2013. I've spent the last year sitting in game shops playing Magic and D&D, helping friends move and move on, listening to the radio because I'm tired of everything on my player, and becoming a comic book junkie. Somewhere in all this, I began to reconnect. A friend of mine from work was moving out, and living down the street and owning a pickup truck, that left me with the boxes and furniture to transport. Searching for some packing tape behind my seat, I found a mix CD titled simply 'Electro', and popped it into the CD player. It was a collection of tracks from the first few months of Ilictronix (for nostalgia's sake, I plan on posting this list sometime later in the holiday season), and the memories just smacked into me hardcore and I began to regain my appreciation for it all. As we were unloading stuff at her storage unit, my friend mentions that she can bring her own music to her other job, and asked me if I could make some CDs of stuff like what I'd had going in the truck. So I began hunting through my music, putting together collections of all my old favorites. I began googling some artists, happily discovering many had come out with new albums or had them in the works. So far I've seen Klaxons, La Roux, Danger and a few others are slated for probable 2014 releases, and I've heard rumors of others...

To make a long story very short, 2013 is the first year that has supplied music I've been excited about in quite awhile. Granted, I'm not quite the underground-exclusive guy I used to be and Imagine Dragons and Capital Cities are mainstays on my playlists, but it's something. It feels like it felt back in 2008 when I first picked up Idealism and listened to Pogo for the first time.

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Since I've drawled on long enough, I'll skip on excessive commentary and just leave you with some of my favorite tracks of 2013.

HEARTSREVOLUTION · Ride Or Die

HEARTSREVOLUTION · Heart vs The Machine

Capital Cities · I Sold My Bed, But Not My Stereo

Until next time, fellows and girls.

Feelin Lucky?

Hey guys Its Nite, here to grant you wishes and a pot o' gold. Nah, but seriously I'm here to give you free tracks and that's almost as good right? (right?) Well moving on, I've been busy as of late (of course) getting ready to finish up high school and prepping for my College Life at GSU, as well as trying to get a fucking job (which, if things work out, I should have one by the end of next week). On to the tracks, before I bore you all to death with my life story.

First up is Moby track, off his new and free EP, Be The One. The track's name is Sevastopol and its quite good. No screw that, its GORGEOUS, especially when the mysterious random vocal pops up at 2:35. That part is just....wow. The only downside to the track is that there is no real buildup or climax . It just goes. Still, its very good.

Moby · Sevastopol

Next up is one of my personal favorite tracks of all time by a certain DJ Gregory. The track's name is Elle and my god....its amazing. Of course there are several different versions of the track, most of which can confuse you just by the names itself. This version is my second fave of all the mixes on here (Next to the EOL Ritual, which I may put up on a later day). The track is very chill and, while a bit repetitive, is definitely nowhere near mind numbing. You'll like it.



Third up is a Blaze track. I know, I know, I've put up a lot of Blaze tracks for the past few posts. But I can't help it, they're that good. Each track I pick of them is definitely top of their line. this one definitely proves it with its very sexy synth and gorgeous beats. To top it off, it has even more beautiful vocals to complement it. It truly is a perfect track. One of the few out there anyway.



And now for a couple more tracks that I like but wont go into detail, simply because I'm too lazy.

PeterBjornJohn · Young Folks (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-animation)

Happy Pi Day and Have a crazy St Patty's day this thursday you crazy Americans.

Nite