Auth Dance Music

Posted by carles | February 20, 2015 | 33 Comments

I was listening to the latest Classixx ‘unreleased’ mp3, “Valley Vacation.” It really took me on an auth dance vibe. A vibe that eventually ends up in a post-m83-midnite-city-sax-solo. Maybe the city isn’t my church n e more [via the death of romanticizing].

When tears are in her eyes… That’s love. -Classixx

Classixx seem like 2 chill bros who didn’t ‘scale’ in2 EDM-waves, but still vibe on auth post-deep-house DJ sets.

I miss the days when I’d spend the work week searching 4 danceable MP3s 2 fuel my meaningful weekends. Songs that captured the auth spirit of my carnivale spirit. Nites of authing out, getting ‘hammered’. Maybe I need ‘the sweet release’ now more than evr.

“We’Re Up All NiTe 2 GeT LuCKiE & HaPPiE!” -Daft Punk ft the Pheral

Roosevelt – Montreal

Been vibing to this pretty hard after some1 emailed it in. It seems auth to me, but I could see how some could say it is just post-retail-background-music-wave. Really launches me in2 space on a vibe rocket, though.

Roosevelt’s “Elliot” is pretty auth in a Cut Copy Free Your Mind meets chillwave vibes kind of way.

Did u ‘Free Your Mind’ for an authentic dance experience with the eternally auth Cut Cops?

Did Cut Copy always transcend every popular dance music paradigm?

Does n e 1 know if it is chill to ‘appreciate’ non-EDM dance music? Like, does that make you more auth? If you ‘get’ PC Music, are you more auth? Or is all dance music 2 scalable to be auth [via every1 can relate2 it]?

Should all of these bands just ‘be robots’ and ‘become the next DaftMau5’ so they can ‘win Grammys’ and get mainstream approval?

The title track off Classixx “Hanging Gardens” feels auth.

Check out “Fax From the Beach” (conceptual vibes) and “All You’re Waiting for” (bloghouse dance / post-DFA vibes).

As we continue 2 build auth, I encourage you to embrace, challenge, ‘object’, and accept what is actually auth.
We r defining auth 2gthr.

Auth is yours.
Auth is mine.
Auth is not scalable.

Is auth only ‘guitar based’?
Is auth only ‘post-lofi’?
Is auth ‘more artsy’?
Is auth ‘100% unscalable’?
Is auth just collecting ‘all things that weren’t scaled’ in the past ~2.5 years?
Are some bands ‘only auth’ for like a song?
Is ‘auth’ more like a playlist of mp3s but not artist dependent?
Can lofi-dance make a bloghouse revival?
Or are all of those ‘young producers’ ‘making EDM’ and ‘trying to write the next song abt vibing out [via on a Tuesday] on a Tuesday’?

No but srsly, did u vibe 2 these songs or what?

Please continue to email me more auth music. I have many great things to post. Thank you for continuing to email me positive vibes.

How many comments should I request in order 2 post again? Let us know in the comments!

Previous auth p0sts

Palmbonen II

What is auth?

Are SALES the auth Best Coast?

The Career of Jerry Paper

Related topix: Auth Music, Classixx, Cut Copy, dance music, Roosevelt

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H.D. Broreau

really wish they’d start playing dance music in clubs before i’ve already fallen asleep [via SSRI]
Christopher

At what point does auth become ‘too forced’ and on the other end where does it become ‘unchill bro’ who just does whatever they want because its ‘just who they are’
Sierra

ur trying to rebrand by replacing ‘alt’ for ‘auth’ (it’s the same shit except 1 of them sounds like goth), by introducing new expressions like scalability n etc but carles.buzz is just a HRO 2.0 except less funnie n influential. bring back the lamestreamer or go away. no1 cares n e mores, carles. nothing u do matters. goodbye.
- Bronello_Cucinelli
  
  no, please don’t bring back the lamestreamer
  - Jonathan Kaplan
    
    lamestreamer was one of the chillest bitches i ever shared cubicle space with
- JacquiChan
  
  Who pooed in ur cornflakes bro?
- Sierra
  
  lol dont u see the demagoguery? crls first sells HRO, the blog in which he criticised artists that ‘sell out’, then he goes on to demonise scalable items when HRO was itself a failed attempt at scaling. now he’s sayin he’s so ‘auth’ n shiz bc he refuses to scale, but truth is… he tried to, but couldn’t.
  - A. G. KUSH
    
    Indeed Carles tried to scale HRO by adding the lamestreamer and other features and it failed. (Tho he did make sum bank). Now Carles is moving towards auth. He is living auth. Carles.buzz is not HRO 2.0. Carles.buzz is where people who are interested in CVLTVRE and the netstream can connect, chill, and vibe.
  - Guest
    
    With Carles it has always been parodies within parodies, if you find yourself getting genuinely mad at him, you’re really just not in on the joke.
- Youth Group Bro
  
  With Carles it has always been parodies within parodies. If you find yourself getting genuinely mad at him, you’re really just not in on the joke.
  - Sierra
    
    lol maybe that’s why he became a parody of his old self
https://twitter.com/theericlarson Obscure Cactus

i didn’t vibe 2 these songs bc i thought our email exchange was special
https://carles.buzz Carles is a fraud

carles y do u need comments? no advertisers or stock holders to please. do u have low self esteem bb?
Cashball

hard 2 connect and have a ‘meaningful and auth experience’ to a relevant carles thinkpiece when u cant scroll down the damn page
Youth Group Bro

Idk I like the music you’re posting but I’m not really with you on this auth stuff Carles. You’re really just finding somewhat more obscure corners of indie with bands that don’t appear to be trying to scale as hard and then planting your flag and calling it auth. Like indie, it’s just another form of alternative consumerism no more meaningful than any other via “Nothing Matters”. If indie never existed then neither does auth. Btw I still <3 u Carles bb.
- Tonytwoballs
  
  Auth sounds like goth
  - Paul Handleton
    
    say it out loud
Jonathan Kaplan

one man’s auth is another mans bleep bloop bullshit. 1 day we will all be old farts and everything we love hate miss will be either dead forgotten or
- https://twitter.com/theericlarson Obscure Cactus
  
  grimes, the zz, & purity ring are bleep bloop bullshit.
  - Tonytwoballs
    
    jamie xx is legit af though.
  - Paul Handleton
    
    plz b nice 2 grimes
health auth

it went full circle, when auths were kids making dance music in their bedrooms (not givin a fuk) but now it’s less auth because they are scaling purly on soundcloud circle jerk internet collectives that do nothing except show how much they can scale…

maybe dance auth is calculated based on how many more auths remix ur shit? or are remixes not auth?
Tonytwoballs

You’re on fire carles, can’t even keep up. Thanks to the bro who sent you Roosevelt, definitely diggin on it.

Accessibility shouldn’t deny auth status to kickable jams. 4 on the floor can still create authentic vibes.
dat_bro06

There’s a diff. b/t ‘not scaleable’ and ‘not lucrative’. HRO was by most standards a very lucrative lifestyle business for several years (via $250k/yr + perks) as Carles discusses in the Vice article. That HRO sold for pennies is a function of ‘key man risk.’
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Eugen Thermo-Nuclear Sandow

Man, shush.
infinitee

what’s needed is a Gathering Of The Auths. forbid any netstream coverage of the event. it will be derided and ppl will think we’re riding Juggalo waves appealing to unprofitable demo’s but we will know in our hearts it was special and influential [via no-one-heard-it-but-every1-started a-band theory]
stewart

Keep it going
Authindietive

Does anyone else see the gross irony of Carles lampooning scalable content/advertising platforms while funneling hits to YouTube/Google and SoundCloud?

Are there any auth artists who self-publish/host their creations? Is self-publishing the ultimate ‘DIY’ thing on the internet? Is there a decent audio/video equivalent to WordPress? Is RSS really dead? Has all new media/art been surrendered to Silicon Valley d-bags? Am I a d-bag for posting this on Disqus?

Help me understand, Carles.
unemployed shawtie

Feel like ppl are really coming for Carles in these coms

Wats that point

Support our Lil Bbs dream of an auth un scalable space, ya dig?

thx fr posting I will jam out to these tunes when I have access to my PC again [via staying at parents for the wk end]
Lumpy Space Princess

“Classixxx” gives me staring into a window of an urban outfitters and remembering my youth circa 2k11 but then walking away and seeking a more auth experience vibes
peeeeej

yeah bro classixx r sick af
HollyBroLightly

i believe in auth
i vibed 2 these songs