James Blake, Burial, and mixtapes galore!

Ty turned me onto this and it's brilliant. I wish I could pretend like I knew about him since before he ever started writing music but alas no... not that cool... but the song is!


Sort of reminds me of this feel yeah?


Tyler has been turning me onto these mixtapes, as well, which he says are genius so I thought I'd share with you! These came from Alteredstates.com. I also wanted to mention I read on that site that the lead singer of Broadcast died... so in honor I post my fav Broadcast song too!
oOoOO: "Favorite Discoveries of 2010" by alteredzones

How To Dress Well: "GOING IN: 2K!!" by alteredzones

Once my ex-girlfriend's parents went to their lake house for the weekend... so we threw a rager. I mean a real rager. Like a house full of kids, and research chemicals, and a hot tub time machine and stuff lol. Eventually everyone cleared out, and just as I'm getting my bearings in the morning I hear the garage door go up. I had to hide in my girl's closet until her parents weren't looking........ and I'll always remember I was listening to Broadcast's "The Noise Made By People" the whole time I was in that closet. Here's a track from it:


Anyway, be back soon. Enjoy!

Flash Back Video Track

Random post of songs I'm relaxing to... nothing new... but who fucking cares?

I feel a real closeness to this song. A lot of people think it's negative? I don't! They're just really honest lyrics. "I might not be the right one, it might not be the right time" does NOT mean "I don't love you"... in fact in means the opposite in this clip... "I need you more than anyone in my life"...


Apparently there is no real video for this... this is someone's home video... but the song is what we were looking for. Also check out Diplo's 2010 remix...






And then I'm not usually into live shit... but I met Tricky on this tour and his performance was amazing. Did you know he wanted Aaliyah to sing this song? And that the song is roughly about Biggie and 2pac? Oh yeah, and he's a nice bloke Tricky... you always hear he's a paranoid prick but he hung out with me for like 10 minutes smoking in an alley... for a 16 year old that's a big deal lol. I just happened to have EVERY album of his on me. He signed em all, I kept one, gave one to my best friend, the boy he wanted to sleep with, and eventually my ex-girlfriend. Anyway, I digress...

Lights, Lights, and more Lights...

I've been on a non-stop Kanye West kick. Whenever I say that people are like "He's an arrogant asshole" and I'm like "Yeah he should be, he's like a super genius! Fuck Einstein should have acted like Kanye, in fact he probably did!"...

If you haven't seen his epic, albeit slightly flawed (just the editing really before the end) Runaway movie you need to peep that before we go forward...


So anyway... the Kanye "Lights" songs... I think they're my favourites. No huge surprise right? I mean the blog is called "Neon Lights" right? It's even a topic that I end up having these weird long conversations about with artists (most notably Kenna; some high school students out there have a copy of that interview which I really wish I had). I just think lights change everything about atmosphere, and how you feel... go look at a nightclub during the day when there are no lights and then come back at night... or take a look at Tokyo at day and at night you know? Lights can be full of emotion or icy cold nothingness. So, anyway, this is why these Kanye songs really do it for me..........

The first was the soul baring "Flashing Lights" about him cheating on his girl, getting caught, begging for her back, and realizing he's lost everything (but still hasn't given up his ego).


Here was the non-violent version:


Then we have "Street Lights"... Kanye's accepting where he's at in an album that is full of loss and turmoil (coming to terms with his ego)...


And lastly there's the brilliant new "All Of the Lights" which has like 20 people singing on it... and is the most recent in his series of songs dedicated to the symbolism of lights. He gets a little more specific in this one...

No official video yet but it's pretty obvious this will be a single:


Anyway I think he's done a great job at creating a thematic thread through his last few albums that explain, or expose, his artistic and personal positions. Plus they're all badass songs you want to listen to over and over. Or at least I do.

I want to point out that it's hilarious, one of the only posts on this blog in the last few years was also about Kanye West... but why do I care?!? I run this bitch! Anyway this was just a ramble... I'm trying to get used to writing and I'd rather do it over here at this relatively "virgin" blog than my "baby" ISoA.

I do hope for this blog to get a make over and a team of badass people working on this... and we're getting close! So keep your eyes and ears fixed on this spot and hopefully the next post won't be able Kanye West... again lol...

Happy New Year... time to switch things up!

So kiddies... this blog has been on ice for quite some time. I wasn't quite sure what to do with it as I was focusing mainly on the British stuff...

...but since then there has been loads of non-Brit stuff that I haven't really had a place to post... until now!

Neon Lights is going to have some new authors, a new "coat of paint" on the layout, and perhaps a move to a proper domain. IN FACT if you've ever wanted to write for a blog and you think you have what it takes wellllllllllllll... now might be the time to join up!

Now this is British but I thought it fit well over here. My mate Hostage did a very wicked dubstep remix of the Requiem For A Dream theme ("Lux Aetera" written by Clint Mansell and performed by the Kronos Quartet), called "Requiem", which is just a dancefloor KILLER! Here it is to shatter your speakers...
Hostage - Requiem by HOSTAGE

You can check out more at his Soundcloud page.

I've been recruiting a lot of people so hopefully we'll be getting a lot of posts on here soon... so keep checking back and thanks for stopping by!