the elite gymnastics thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbHNg_11-sA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNQW10Zagnc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3N8CHum3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8vRJgnDAw

i assume no one else likes this besides lamp and plax? and maybe cutty and grady? these guys rule tho fuiud

I like them a lot.

awesome, this is the thread for you then

i have never heard these guys before but i'm digging it.

cool, you can stay too

haha i went to youtube to get that cfcf remix!!! one friday i cut out of work early and went to the park and drank tallboys and listened to this song on my phone while i waited for my friends to show up and watched the sun sit in the treetops and was glad summer was coming

that cfcf remix is my favorite thing that either he or EG has done, i think

these guys are doing a really good job of scratching my air france itch

The first thing I heard from them was ALL WE FUCKING CARE ABOUT IS KPOP WHITEHOUSE AND OUR CATS which is basically a K-pop mixtape. I really like their democratic approach to influences. I guess its kind of a played out aesthetic ("post-internet" or whatever)but they bring a personal touch that I really like.

i like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGY5pqANpZs

like them also ~ the neu! '92 ep from last yr is dope in addition to the newer stuff

The first thing I heard from them was ALL WE FUCKING CARE ABOUT IS KPOP WHITEHOUSE AND OUR CATS

haha me too i think i listened to it because it was p much the best mixtape title ever. i dont think the aesthetic is that played out tho and i think theyre p grounded in the 90s revival mindset idk

i like this song too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-V1MF211WY

i dig this too

http://soundcloud.com/acephale/korallreven-sa-sa-samoa-elite

tony masud 2 months ago
big up yourself of making such a nice throwback jungle tune, but it's a bit overcompressed.

sick burn tony masud

i bet he used to post to ilm...

the video for that remix is p hilarious and part of what i mean re: 90s revival scene

this stuff is cool! i like how ravey it is

theyre from mpls bro

you're shitting me

i'm so out of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFydzz8XZOU

ha

http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/2010/07/elite-gymnastics-the-band/

Glad this thread exists, these guys are great.

The GAGA/WAKA thing is nice, especially the Paparazzi remix, like Irresistible Force, Lady Gaga, a John Hughes film, blissed out: here

this video needs to be here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyhvXPH_M28

these guys are fun live, too

I'm a fan! Kinda bummed that I missed their previous shows in mpls, although I remember reading an interview or something with one of the guys in EG where he claimed lots of people hated them live, so maybe they've changed/improved their live show recently? I hope they do more shows here before they inevitably move to NYC as all bands that "make it" apparently must do

originally they were gonna do this funny elite gymnastics karaoke thing (complete with squaresoft style title screen) but the guy tripped over the cable so they just had a bunch of strobes and they gave out flowers, i dug it

i still need to investigate these guy more, and like dan i'm finding out about them after they've done a spate of local shows.

i have zero idea what scene these guys are connected to here. there is a small waved-out + frankendance scene here, and i'm pretty sure i recognize one of the dudes from knocking into me on the floor at one of those events

Pitchfork: What's the music scene like in Minneapolis?

JB: There isn't a scene. I feel like we wouldn't really fit in wherever we lived. We're just really weird people interested in really weird things. We have cats and girlfriends and sometimes we like to go to this torta place because they make really good tortas. As far as we're concerned, our musical home is the internet-- our points of view, lyrical style, and writing style all come from there.

on saturday they introduced a song "this song is about andrea dworkin the most important person who has ever lived"

they have a mix called "I Want a 38-Minute Truce During Which There Is No Rape mix" after the dworkin speech

another song they said "that song was about the male gaze. this next song is about how people who smoke cigarettes are fucking retarded."

wow these guys seem really cool

hahaha i thought they seemed pretty cool. they handed out flowers. the big one was wearing a hospital gown

love these guys but here in heaven 3 (cover by how to dress well) is one of the worst songs ive ever heard

digging these guys

also dig max music threads bc I usually find digworthy goods that I wouldn't hear o/w, keep up the good work

I read the title of this thread as having something to with quiddities and agonies of the ruling class.

gymnastics is an exurban pursuit surely

The first thing I heard from them was ALL WE FUCKING CARE ABOUT IS KPOP WHITEHOUSE AND OUR CATS which is basically a K-pop mixtape. I really like their democratic approach to influences. I guess its kind of a played out aesthetic ("post-internet" or whatever)but they bring a personal touch that I really like.

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:54 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

I thought this was a really bad mixtape fwiw but maybe I will listen to some of these youtubes so that I can have an opinion about this hot new internet badn

i dig what ive heard
they make me wish i had made an honest effort to make music

these dudes remind me a lot of the music ILX's lynsky used to make ca. 2005

http://elitegymnastics.tumblr.com/post/29469325388/kinda-bummed-josh-isnt-in-the-band-anymore-i-kinda

Aw, sad.

Fuck real life.

Their visual aesthetic was one of the best things about them, and I guess the guy that left was responsible mostly for the visuals and very little for the music. That seems like something I've heard of other bands doing (having a visual artist who does all the album covers and other visual stuff and who is considered a full member of the band), but I can't think of any other examples right now. It would probably be insulting to compare it to Bez, but maybe kind of like a Terry Gilliam in Monty Python thing?

Errr.. drawing analogies to Terry Gilliam might be stretching. As much as I hate to admit it, they definitely have struck me as a Tumblr band, if that's how you're reading the visual aesthetic.

He wasn't comparing their styles...

Well, neither was I.

new track (about andrea dworkin)

http://www.adultswim.com/promos/201206_singles/index.html

also, James interviewing 2ne1 may as well go here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPG_FK3jFCU

It is not valid inasmuch as it directly contradicts the criticism being leveled at the artist

say more?

remove bookmark until conversation is about cool lil songs

I’m so tired of people jumping on every possible controversy they can conjure because they need web traffic.

Grimes tumblr otm

https://twitter.com/elite_gz/status/363402960954339328

link to the site he's talking about?

good point. here you go: http://www.spin.com/articles/dead-girlfriends-on-fraternity-controversy-grimes-fugazi/

That's a good discussion, they're not just all dumping on him. controversy's good for yr career, James!

if i was a woman i would think chillwave hates me

― Does the RS Tsarnaev Cover Offend You, Yeah? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 29, 2013 11:00 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

thanking u

Wait was that tweet actually the petulant bs it reads like? Jesus Christ dude you are so lucky* to have their thoughtful attention.

*privileged

women, man. can't they just listen to a guy who's trying to help

haha yeah I love how this guy follows up his weak garbled male appropriation of women's experiences by asking "why do I have no voice in this discussion?" to a group of women who have actual insightful things to say

maybe we should send him a link to our "death of the author" discussion so he gets that interpretation doesn't mean the lyricist telling you exactly what the lyrics are supposed to mean

obviously cant speak for the guy (of whose music i am a big fan so, idk, im biased i guess!) but the post he made immediately after the first 'wave' of controversy more or less seemed to imply that the song was about his own experience of (being) sexual(ly) assault(ed). he didnt come out and say that, so if youre really cynical maybe you assume hes just trying to imply that, or hes trying to weasel out or whatever. but id be wary at least for now of saying hes appropriating womens experiences.

other than that, idk, i have nothing to say really besides, huh.

I liked the noisy bit

http://defaultgenders.tumblr.com/post/57247050954/name-change

In two weeks: PostHuman

Two weeks after that: "Surprise! I was Hugo Schwyzer all along!"

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121031153246/community-sitcom/images/1/1a/Human_Being.jpeg

I'm glad he changed the name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAocvKHUidg

http://www.spin.com/articles/default-genders-james-brooks-on-fraternity-controversy-response/

this guy and grimes are frustrating because they're on point a lot of the time and obviously have a lot of shit to say, much of which is really important and timely, but when i read their tumblr posts they're so rambling and ill-thought-through (or overthought) and when i listen to their music i just want to turn it off because it str8-up sucks so much (elite gymnastics even more than grimes b/c i hear nothing of note going on there at all)

^ otm

they're too tumblr-y for me.

irl kmt @

There's lot of stuff that maybe when I'm 60 and I don't give a shit, I'll write the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts and completely out everybody

the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts

That would just be a self-reblogged selfie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling_%28gymnastics%29

haha he seems so sure that Tumblr will still be everywhere in the 2040s or w/e

I'll send you a telegraph

guess dude was too young for geocities

seems like people aren't really trying to give this guy any benefit of the doubt because stuff like this i think comes off pretty well:

And so, "On Fraternity" — it's called "On Fraternity." I don't want women to hear it and not be able to relate to it. I don't want to tell any of the women who are listening to it that your reaction to it, positive or negative, is not valid. But the purpose of "On Fraternity," in the context of the EP especially, is to call out my male peers for creating a situation where other people are victimized. I totally failed to do that. I guess if there was any reaction I was expecting, it was that the people, especially in the music industry, who are doing this stuff that's upsetting me would have a problem with it.

How else could it be framed?
Even just singing about the rape experience, that's another weird thing that's hard to talk about. Obviously women are much more vulnerable, and it's perpetrated against them much more than other demographics, but the rape experience doesn't belong to women. It's my place as a survivor of sexual assault to sing about that if I want to. I don't want to make that a big issue, because the point of "On Fraternity," like I said before, was to call out other men for creating a situation where victimization is enabled, and the silence that allows victimizers to run around and act with impunity is also something that my peers in the music industry perpetuate. So I don't want to make it about me, like, "Oh, it's about my rape experience." But it's not like I wrote those lines from a place of complete ignorance. The fact that so many people assumed that, based on my race and my gender or whatever minimal biographic information people know about me? That was the roughest part of it.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b77f4dab70a2db5a61a486363c0cd0c5/tumblr_mprff1dVGa1r67k03o1_500.jpg

I didn't like his last few singles, but the new Default Genders album is okay imo: http://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/magical-pessimism-2014

Last year he posted about making a conscious decision to place his vocals higher in the mix and not process them as much, but I think that was a mistake cause his voice sounds like fucking Owl City to me lol

'on fraternity' is probably the only good indie rock song in years

i actually blieve that

wasn't sure if I should bump this one or start a new thread, but the new Default Genders is really doing it for me. Springsteen + breakbeats is something I never knew I needed. I also want way more music that uses Air France/Sincerely Yours stuff as a jumping off point and ends up somewhere else entirely.

https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/main-pop-girl-2019

^yeah that's so good. early aoty contender for me tbh.

I'm bad at articulating my thoughts on music (and I mostly lurk here as a result), but I feel like this is really special.

It is actually an amazing album. It reminds me of The Russian Futurists except with the best lyrics I've ever heard

whew, reading through this thread was a wild ride

Thank you for the great record, James <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVMdGL0kno

congrats on the new video, james

it is i who should be thanking y'all for being willing to listen to new stuff from me in the first place

now i'm going to go and dip my head into molten lava until i burn out the memory of ever having hit play on the video whiney posted

:P

<333333333333333333 JB

james you made an amazing album thank you

absolutely love this, it's a little world I keep wanting to revisit. heart emoji xo and vietato calpestare i prati probably my favs atm

new album, a kind of reimagining of the previous one https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/pain-mop-girl-2020

Jaime Brooks just surprise-dropped "the first album by elite gymnastics"!
https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/snow-flakes-2022

So far sounds like more primo breakbeat pop à la main pop/pain mop girl. Gonna have to pay close attention to these lyrics as usual...