VEGA’s No Reasons
Posted by BrokenSilence | Filed under VEGA
I absolutely love VEGA’s track, ‘No Reasons’. This thing is solid, on repeat for the past few days, my song for the upcoming summer. I think it’s just fantastic. I love when you come across that one track that just stands out from all the others, it has that little extra umph from the regular sounds you’re chunneling through your ears. And now I’ve built this track up for disappointment. But don’t let that be so!
Regardless, VEGA is Alan Palomo, as I briefly discussed in my Miami Horror post. He used to be the front man for the ever awesome Ghosthustler (that ended way too soon) and he’s gone solo under the name VEGA. He is also the main man in Neon Indian, a group which is fairly new but the one that has gotten the most attention of all of his projects. I myself am not a huge Neon Indian fan, find it a little too dreamy. Regardless, the work Palomo has done in Ghosthuslter and as VEGA has been some of my favorite. And I can’t get over his voice; the youthful tinged, achey crooning.
VEGA released his debut EP, ‘Well Known Pleasures’, (a reference to Joy Division’s debut album ‘Unknown Pleasures’) last year. The sound is pretty similar to a lot of stuff on this blog, summery, disco infused house with a side of dreamy electro drifts. Palomo just does it better. Fun fact was that Ghosthustler was always Nintendo orientated, seen by their video for ‘Parking Lot Nights’ and some of their marketing material. But VEGA designs his name like Sega as seen on the above album cover. He’s moved on.
Tags: Alan Palomo, Ghosthustler, Joy Division, Neon Indian, Nintendo, Sega, Unknown Pleasures, Well Known Pleasures
Make You Mine
Posted by BrokenSilence | Filed under Miami Horror, VEGA
This is my song of the moment. For the last 365 or so, Miami Horror (actually from Melbourne, not Miami) has been known for his pretty kick ass reworking of other people’s music. His mixes are far and wide; always original, always good. And he’s garnered a strong following on the wide world of the internet. But of recent, Miami Horror, a.k.a. Benjamin Vanguard, has decided to take it upon himself to flesh out some of his own tunes. Pause. Now I will talk about another group and tie the two in.
In early ‘08, a band from Austin, Texas came out that dubbed themselves Ghosthustler. Such a stylish name, or it just looks stylish written out. Either way, they were pretty awesome. Though besides myself, one of my friends was the only other person I knew that had heard of Ghosthustler. Safe to say it made it on her and my playlists, but otherwise Ghosthustler was pretty silent and I often wondered what happened to them, that was until now. They broke up, lead singer Alan Palomo, who now goes by VEGA, started putting out solo work (and now the tie in) features his amazing vocals on Miami Horror’s track ‘Make You Mine’. I’m pretty excited about this because I think Palomo has one of the better male vocals around in this day and age, as well as being extremely unique and identifiable. It’s youthful and fresh, ever so slightly scratched, and always yearning with a quick passion.
‘Make You Mine’ actually runs over like a Ghosthustler track, particularly so since Palomo also penned the lyrics, which are always about unabashed romance. The track is fun, fresh and fast, evoking spacey synths, congo drums, wood winds and flutes, shimmering 80s italo house beats for a truly amazing dance floor track.
Tags: Alan Palomo, Benjamin Vanguard, Ghosthustler, Miami Horror, VEGA
