The album De Vuelta al Barrio by Chichi Peralta. It's this great Dominican merengue-jazz-pop stuff. It's also very outside my usual frames of reference, since I don't listen to much Latin music except some norteño/mariachi stuff I grew up with.
I have noticed that I have something of a pattern when it comes to Synth-Pop and/or electropop * that goes like this:
- Find electropop pop song
- Enjoy electropop pop song
- Decide I wish to hear more songs like this song
- Either hop to Pandora or borrow an album made by the same artist (usually with the song on question on it)
- OH GOD, KILL IT WITH FIRE!
- Swear off of artist, if not electropop in general
- Forget lesson and repeat sequence in its entirety
As a result, I actually have a fair number of synth/electropop songs that I enjoy, but can't say I enjoy the genre like I do prog rock or new wave.
^I believe synthpop is the overall genre, and electropop is the subgenre consisting of early synthpop artists like Kraftwerk and newer artists like Joy Electric who emulate early synthpop artists by specifically using vintage synths.
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The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.I'm pretty apathetic towards rap in general, but I do like Duane And Brando and Baba Brinkman.
"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."I'm not much of a techno or rave person but my friends really got me into Skrillex and Dubstep
That awkward moment where Kyoro is one of Satan's Generals.To be fair, I think people are too rough on Dubstep, but it's ubiquity is rather annoying.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.I don't usually like pop music with a lot of synthesizer, but I find myself attracted somehow to this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Al9blQOhNw
Maybe it's because the synth part is just so damn catchy.
edited 30th Jun '11 4:53:56 PM by EmilyG

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