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peligrosapop · 3 months

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One my local California friends and one favorite musicians, Matthew Urango aka Cola Boyy, has passed. He was so amazingly talented, a great person, a community activist who always fought for disabled and working class people. A great lose for our community. I am shocked and sad. He will be missed. Stream his music in his honor. Never forget.

Disabled disco innovator. Forever. Rest in power

#cola boyy #indie disco #indie music #matthew urango #SoundCloud

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jacobwren · 3 months

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Cola Boyy - Beige 70

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thegradientwave · 1 year

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Track of the Day | February 26, 2023: We Go On by The Avalanches ft. Cola Boyy, Mick Jones. Definitely a great and fun song to move around to. Enjoy!

#the avalanches #cola boyy #mick jones #we will always love you #electronic music #disco #hip hop #dance

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adsmusiconstellations · 2 years

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Cola Boyy - Black Boogie Neon (2018)

https://www.recordmakers.com/artist/cola-boyy-29

#cola boyy #black boogie neon #2018 #2010s #usa #funk #disco #pop #soul #record makers #matthew urango #benjamin joubert #nic hessler #adrian pillado #Corentin Kerdraon #john kirby

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tapedecking · 2 years

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MIXTAPE #1 (25/07/22)

The Universal - Blur

Album: The Great Escape

Year: 1995

Track: Single (Post-Release: 1995)

The song everyone in the UK probably only associates with the British Gas adverts. The Great Escape was one of two albums I listened to on the 24 hour flight to Australia - I would have listened to more, but without something to look at besides the darkened inside of a cabin, I think I would have descended into madness. It seemed like a natural going-on-holiday album, and like most Blur albums, it’s consistently pleasant and harmless, but this track stands head and shoulders above the rest of the album to me - it’s so carefree and positive and to me, it is a perfect holiday track.

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We Go On - The Avalanches

Album: The Great Escape

Year: 2020

Track: Single (Post-Release: 2021)

We Will Always Love You was the second album I listened to en route to Australia, because hey! It’s The Avalanches, one of the most notable Australian musical acts outside of Men at Work! It was a great album, and very fun thanks to its eclectic range of guest stars. For example, this track - the track that was most stuck in my head after the flight - features California disco artist Cola Boyy, as well as Mick Jones, guitarist for The Clash. After arriving in Australia, I also managed to come across a limited edition electric blue coloured vinyl release in the clearance section of a JB Hi-Fi - I would have picked it up, but I didn’t believe it would survive the journey home.

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Nightclubbing - Iggy Pop

Album: The Idiot

Year: 1977

Track: Album Track

Jet-lagged and not yet adjusted to Australian time zones, I listened to this album whilst doing a 1000-piece jigsaw at 5am when I couldn’t sleep one night. Seeing as I had already listened to the other 1977 album released by Iggy Pop and produced by David Bowie - Lust For Life, I figured I’d complete the set. This track was the standout, but I had heard it before, in the Westworld episode “Genre”. In the episode, Aaron Paul’s character, Caleb, takes the titular genre drug and begins seeing life through the lense of various - get this - film genres. One such film lens features Nightclubbing as a soundtrack, in reference to the film Trainspotting. Like much of Westworld, the genre drug was a fascinating idea that was completely half-arsed and pissed away by the consistently disappointing series.

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Strange Overtones - David Byrne & Brian Eno

Album: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Year: 2008

Track: Single (Pre-Release: 2008)

I love finding works - albums, singles, compilation contributions, whatever - from popular artists I like, that are a bit lesser known. When it comes to David Byrne, everyone knows Talking Heads, especially ‘77 and Remain In Light, but less people know about this 2008 collaboration with Brian Eno. After finding the album flicking through Spotify (and being drawn in by its simple yet striking cover featuring an isometric red house), I listened to this album whilst isolating with my girlfriend in her basement. We had both tested positive for covid a few days prior, and so she was forced to work via zoom, which in turn meant that I was forced to sit quietly in the corner until she was done! This track was the stand out of the album, and I feel proves my music taste to be based, to anyone out there still unsure.

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Perfect Day - Harry Nilsson

Album: Knnillssonn

Year: 1977

Track: B-Side to “Who Done It?” (Release Unsure: 1977)

[BETTER CALL SAUL SEASON SIX SPOILERS AHEAD]

I didn’t watch Breaking Bad as it aired, the unrelenting hype and worship ruined the idea for me. I caught up with the show years later, in 2020, before following by watching through Better Call Saul - the fifth season had just concluded airing. Despite the acclaim, both shows to me were good, not great. Interesting and watchable, but nothing extraordinary. So when I realised that the sixth season had began airing (three episodes in), I figured I’d watch along. I caught up on the episodes I had missed, and after Nacho’s death, I was hooked. Something had finally clicked with me - the pacing was better, the stakes were real, and for once I was actually uncertain and interested to find out as to where the show would go next. The wait between episodes, even when only a week, feels like decades, and I spend the time inbetween so unbelievably excited for the next installment, and when I can finally watch it, it feels like an event - the lights have to be off, everything else has to be quiet, all my focus goes into the show. It’s silly, I know it is, but it’s nice to have something I can enjoy so much. The most recent episode as of writing, “Fun and Games”, began with such a compelling, heartbreaking and haunting sequence: Jimmy and Kim going through their day, pretending like everything that had happened the night before - Howard’s tragic death, everything with Lalo and Mike - had never happened. And it was all set to a cover of this song - this beautiful, unashamedly sweet song.

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Suzy - Caravan Palace

Album: Caravan Palace

Year: 2008

Track: Single (Post-Release: 2009)

After an early wake-up and an hour-long bus ride, my girlfriend and I managed to make it to Luna Park, an amusement park she was eager to show me around, and I was eager to be shown around. Before that, however, we had to wait in line to get our wristbands, alongside a million snot-nosed rugrats. Luckily for us, arguably, Luna Park had entertainers at the ready to keep the brats occupied, and deployed what could only be described as a troupe of homosexual slendermen. Dressed in colourful morph suits and clashing waistcoats, the faceless freaks began dancing and waving and soliciting high-fives, all set to this fittingly kooky but undeniably fun electro swing number. As an aside, I think this track would make a great backdrop for a fight scene in a superhero show.

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The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song [Extended Version] - The Flaming Lips

Album: At War With The Mystics

Year: 2006

Track: Bonus Track

Back in November, my girlfriend and I went rummaging through a secondhand record and CD shop in Greenwich, and I managed to pick up, for 25p, the special edition of this album, featuring a bonus disk with dozens of bonus tracks, radio sessions and music videos. Unfortunately, this bonus disk was in a DVD-audio format, and I have yet to find anything in my house that will play it… But interestingly (if you're a nerd like myself), the first disk, the CD containing the actual album, features this extended mix of the song in place of the original version, and the extended mix was merely an iTunes-exclusive bonus track. This track recently reentered my thoughts when my girlfriend added it to our picnic playlist. We had put one together as something to do whilst isolating, as going for walks to the park together was one of the few things we could do.

#music #playlist #spotify #blur #the avalanches #cola boyy #mick jones #the clash #iggy pop #david bowie #david byrne #brian eno #harry nilsson #caravan palace #the flaming lips #australia #westworld #better call saul #luna park

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plattenabendonline · 2 months

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Cola Boyy - Penny girl (2019)

DJane Luzie

#cola boyy

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tremolocreative · 3 months

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#inspiration #cola boyy #oxnard #805 #rip

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pleasegetadiary · 3 months

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#cola boyy #another angel

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betaot4 · 1 year

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Melt ep by magic potion was a cultural reset for me i need to know how a band from stockholm sweden understood so well what it was like to be a seventh grader in california in 2015

#also i just realized their song cola boyys is so dave and john they are the cola boys

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bzedan · 2 months

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[ID: An digital illustration evocative of the singing flowers in Disney's Alice In Wonderland, with airbrush shaded backgrounds but coloured line cell-shading for the main figure. The flower is a California Poppy with the face of Garfield. In pink tilted letters in the upper left corner is "March" over a turquoise hand-drawn looking font with "2024." End ID.]

Finally got an over-three-hour playlist, bits of spring means ups and downs and sad wet cat feelings along with the manic joy of the days getting longer. I've mentioned this before but every time I hear All Saints' "Love Lasts Forever" part of me thinks it is the theme song to *Highlander*. Bless my brain where there's some pop girl version of *Highlander*. Can you imagine?!

Related media to some of the songs:

The very awesome Cola Boyy died this month at 34, which is not enough years but I'm glad we were given what we did. His disco pop is a joy and his cover of 'To Be Rich Should Be a Crime' is the version that lives in my head. Here's a mini-doc over on Vimeo that came out with that single.

I stumbled across Tele Novella this month and they hit a lot of sound boxes for me. "Eggs in one Basket" has an appropriately weird video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTB-uwAd0v8)

I'd heard "Pump Up the Volume," of which Colorbox was part (primary part, for this song) before because I'm a person living in the world the years I have, but somehow hadn't encountered "The Moon Is Blue"?! One of those bands for whom things went right then fell apart. Wolfgang Tillmans did an exhibition collecting their work in a "playback room" exhibition.

I remain fond of younger folks reinterpreting the imagery and sound from my high school years and Lauran Hibberd hits that. See 2nd prettiest girl as an example.

Anyway here's a link to March's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below the cut.

And embedded if you dig that:

'Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You' - Wilson Pickett

'King's Crossing' - Elliott Smith

'Hearts and Flowers' - Jennifer Lopez

'Cloudy Day' - Tones And I

'99 Luftballons' - Stereoact

'Waters of March' - Art Garfunkel

'Pop Goes The World' - Men Without Hats

'Mother Nature' - MGMT

'The Moon Is Blue' - Colourbox

'Ask The Community' - Timber Timbre

'Good Times' - Eric Burdon & the Animals

'So Much (For) Stardust' - Fall Out Boy

'Masquerade - Re-Recorded' - Berlin

'Era Primavera' - Chicano Batman

'wavering grass' - demon gummies

'All Night Long (All Night)' - Lionel Richie

'Love Lasts Forever' - All Saints

'Rhythm Of The Night' - DeBarge

'Only You Can' - Fox

'Can't Get Enough' - Jennifer Lopez

'That Time' - Regina Spektor

'Daniel' - Bat For Lashes

'Calling All Kids' - Arthur Russell

'Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)' - Connie Converse

'Psychic Vampire' - Tristen

'And When I Die' - Peter, Paul and Mary

'Dancing with Tears in My Eyes' - Ultravox

'Alien Boy' - Oliver Tree

'Baby Blue Sedan' - Modest Mouse

'Bulletproof' - La Roux

'Help I'm Alive' - Metric

'Eggs in one Basket' - Tele Novella

'Perfect (Exceeder)' - David Guetta

'Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Remastered 2012' - The Smashing Pumpkins

'Right Time of Night' - Urban Heat

'Paper Crown' - Tele Novella

'Balloon Man' - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

'The Rubberband Man' - The Spinners

'It Won't Be Long' - Tele Novella

'Hurdy Gurdy Man' - Donovan

'Aladdin' - Future Islands

'Beautiful People' - The Books

'Don't Touch My Bikini' - The Halo Benders

'Toy Boy' - MIKA

'Keep It Rolling' - Bloc Party

'Don't You Evah' - Spoon

'Paper Thin Walls' - Modest Mouse

'Peach Sky' - Bat For Lashes

'Heathens' - AURORA

'Dancing Barefoot' - Patti Smith

'To Be Rich Should Be a Crime' - Cola Boyy

'Bugs' - O'Death

'pretty good for a bad day' - Lauran Hibberd

'Synthetica' - Metric

'Hermit the Frog' - MARINA

#meche makes playlists #playlists #syndicated from subscription sites #Spotify

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hi! heheh u got a Fun song

To Be Rich Should be a Crime - Cover by Cola Boyy

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Where did you get your money sir/How did you get your money girl/Who did you exploit tell me/Who did you steal it from

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jacobwren · 3 months

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Cola Boyy - All Power to the People

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adsmusiconstellations · 2 years

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Cola Boyy - Black Boogie Neon (2018) - Teaser

Teaser by Robert Beatty

https://www.recordmakers.com/artist/cola-boyy-29

https://www.robertbeattyart.com

#cola boyy #black boogie neon #2018 #2010s music #teaser #robert beatty #record makers #pop #funk #usa #disco #animation #design #video

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peligrosapop · 1 year

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What is it like living in Cali? I feel like it is everyone's dream to live there. Have you ever met anyone famous?

Hiii. It’s an amazingly beautiful place, the nature part of it is insane, the beaches are decent (I’m from the Caribbean, so to compare them is a crime but beaches here nice too, water is too cold my taste). California is expensive af, not enough public transportation or efficient enough, the housing/renting is ridiculous, too expensive but regardless, especially the coastal part of it, California is a dream. Melting pot of culture, loads of interesting industries here like film, tv, music, tech, farming and one of the most progressive part of the US (there are still conservative pockets here and there). Food here is amazing in general, you can find almost any ethnicity food or something adjacent within a 1-2 hour car drive. And if you wanna make it in any of those industries, this is the place to be.

I have both seen and meet famous, and semi famous people from different industries. I’ve met loads of indie-music artist like Idles, White Lies, Cola Boyy (local CA musician who now Im friends with), The Japanese House, The Vaccines, the bassist from the Beths. I talked to Blondie’s drummer, super nice guy. Said hello to AFI’s singer David Havok. Said hello to Jonah Hill at a party I was invited by a mutual acquantance, saw Bryan Craston (Mr. white in Breaking Bad) in beach town called Carpinteria. Seen random actor from different series in different cities including Don Johnson (Miami Vice guy, actually talked to him) in Santa Barbara. Saw Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the office) at a movie theater in Camarillo. Saw a bunch and met some skaters in a big contest bc a guy I knew from a band Interviewed for radio once was co-hosting a skate contest at a Vans event. They were all amazing to see in person. I saw and meet Nyjah Houston (big time skater) when he was grinding down a 20 step staircase in downtown and was in the background in one his skateclips and my mom too lol Saw Stacey Peralta (old school skaterboarder and movie director in front of a skate shop) Met Wee Man from Jackass too, took a pic with him. My boyfriend swears he saw Lana del Rey in Santa Barbara, which would be pretty normal bc a lot of LA people come to SB.and definitely saw Sam Elliot ( a star in born/ the big lebowski ) in a Mexican restaurant, etc. Plus Ive meet people who have worked in films in the behind the scenes, like music video directors and cinematographers. If you live in coastal So-Cal this is more likely to happen and if you live in LA, super normal to see them around.

One cool little fact: a friend from back from actually made it out here after years in the industry, and he is the director the DC Comics film Blue Beetle, that comes out this year I think. So, go see my homeboy’s film . First real Latino comic book film (altho we claim Spiderman/Miles Morales too bc he is half PRican). Anyway, that’s it. Beautiful place, but you gotta hustle and network to make it in the big industries but you can also be a normal person and hike or roadtrip and have lots of fun.