#tropical chancer

[doom-dreaming]

beach house playlist. if u even care (YouTube version)

Anywhere With You - Maggie Rogers

Hello Seattle (Remix) - Owl City

Early Birdie - Owl City

Steal My Sunshine - Portugal. The Man

Day at the Beach - Joe Satriani (thank you zita)

Bucket - Carly Rae Jepsen

Kelly's Song - Jake Shimabukuro

The Yacht Club - Owl City

Brighter Than The Sun - Colbie Caillat

No Better - Lorde

Music To Watch Boys To - Lana Del Rey

Beach House - Carly Rae Jepsen

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves

The Tide Is High - Blondie

Kamikaze - Carly Rae Jepsen

Tropical Chancer - La Roux

Meet Me At The Dance - September 87

Shy Boy - Carly Rae Jepsen

C'mon - Kesha

Summer Love - Carly Rae Jepsen

Blue - bl00dwave, Riverwave

Take A Picture - Carly Rae Jepsen

Sunburn - Owl City

The Louvre - Lorde

Fake Mona Lisa - Carly Rae Jepsen

Silencio Drive - Iden Kai

Buzzcut Season - Lorde

The Next Best American Record - Lana Del Rey

Seven Safe Places - Urban Heat

Run Away With Me - Carly Rae Jepsen

Umbrella Beach - Owl City

Doin' Time - Lana Del Rey

Sober - Lorde

West Coast - Imagine Dragons

Sober II (Melodrama) - Lorde

Heroin - Lana Del Rey

Fucked Up Paradise - Johnny Dynamite and the Bloodsuckers

Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey

Colors pt. II - Halsey

Cruel Summer - I Am Boleyn

High By The Beach - Lana Del Rey

Cold Summer - Le Matos, Computer Magic

Summer's Revenge - The Call From Upstairs

[sexotheqe]

"i meet him through a dancer" words by elly jackson a.k.a la roux.

[memoriadedinossauro]

O Duo de Synthpop La Roux, formado pela cantora Elly Jackson e pelo músico, tecladista, programador e produtor Ben Langmaid, lançaram o primeiro trabalho homônimo em 2009, o álbum rendeu boa aceitação do público e dos críticos, venceu o "Grammy Awards" no ano de 2011 como "Melhor Álbum de Dance/Eletrônica". Cinco anos após o lançamento do primeiro trabalho, lançaram em 2014 "Troubles In Paradise" considerado um dos melhores álbuns do estilo naquele ano, conseguindo um 6° lugar na "UK Albums Chart", 20ª colocação na "Billboard 200" e 1° lugar na "Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums". Em "Troubles In Paradise" há influências do Synthpop dos Anos 80, da Italo-Disco e também da música eletrônica contemporânea, inspirações múltiplas que ajudaram a compor este álbum. As faixa em destaque foram os singles "Uptight Downtown", "Kiss And Not Tell", "Tropical Chancer" - que usa sample da música "My Jamaican Guy"  escrita e interpretada pela cantora e atriz Grace Jones em 1983, e "Let Me Down Gently". Outras canções em destaque foram "Paradise Is You", "Silent Partner" e "The Feeling".

(DJV).

La Roux "Troubles In Paradise" 2014 - Polydor Records/Universal Music Group.

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TROPICAL CHANCER

[pamrou]

[gingerquifflove-blog]

Pretty Shots of Elly Jackson (La Roux) in “Let Me Down Gently”

This music video always reminded me of that sci-fi movie The Man Who Fell To Earth starring David Bowie

[zozammer]

Thought #018 : Then Don't

If you don't like working, don't.

If you don't like babies, then don't have any.

If you don't like relationships, then don't be in one.

If you don't like teaching, then don't.

If you don't like micromanaging, then FFS - don't.

Your attitude can do more harm than good. So just don't do shit you don't like doing.

No one is asking you to be an average version of yourself.

Your flame shine not-so-brightly in a never ending cosmos.

[areax]

tagged by @blacksails2017 to put my playlist on shuffle and post the first 10 songs

a child’s guide to good and evil — the west coast pop art experimental band

vienna — billy joel

make them gold — chvrches

me & my dog — julien baker, phoebe bridgers, lucy dacus

the chauffeur — duran duran

dreamland — glass animals

puppet loosely strung — the correspondents

tropical chancer — la roux

nowhere to run — stegosaurus rex

past love — kimbra

tagging: You

[ccohanlon]

notes on being a life artist

It comes down to drift. Direction, velocity, the forces that impose both.

Just a few decades ago, a sea-going navigator could not plot an accurate course and distance ‘over the ground’ without understanding the effect of a local tidal stream or current and estimating its speed and direction in a given period. Then there was leeway, a mutable angle of downwind drift caused by the press of wind, and sometimes a heavy sea, on sails, rigging, superstructure, and hull. Set and drift, old mariner’s terminology. They could carry you miles from your intended track.

Drift was insidious even in apparent stillness. There are old names applied to vast windless tracts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: just five degrees of latitude north and south of the equator are the Doldrums; thirty degrees north and south are the Horse Latitudes. Above the Tropic of Cancer, in the north-west Atlantic, the Sargasso Sea is the eye of a gyre formed by four circulating ocean currents. It, too, is often windless.

Windless, but still fluid. In these places, sailing ships were often becalmed, at the mercy of almost imperceptible local eddies and random squalls. They might drift for weeks, first in one direction, then another, before finding a steady breeze to carry them away.

Drift is tedium, but rarely stasis.

I am in Berlin. It is a long way from any ocean, and if there is a rhumb line pencilled on some existential chart of my life, this city is nowhere along it. I have almost forgotten how I got here –the observations I made, the bearings I took, all obscured by cryptic notations and repeated erasures. By tradition, a voyage is never described as being ‘to’ a destination, only ‘towards’ it, as if anything more definite might tempt fate. I have never pretended the voyage I am on had any direction at all.

I have made an art out of the indefinite. When I was young, if you asked me what I did for a living, I might try to discourage your curiosity by telling you I was a a deckhand on a fishing boat or a small-time criminal, a standover man or a fence. And I might actually have been, then. Nowadays, I am retired. No-one is interested in what old people do.

I am not really retired. I can’t afford to be. There are few days in which I am idle. But little of what I do fits into the hold-all of a single occupation and none of it is shaped by conventional ambition. I might more easily tell you what I am not than what I am. But even then, probably, I’d be contradicted by my own history.

The Germans have an angular, multi-syllabic word for people like me. Lebenskünstler, life artist. The meaning is more nuanced and negotiable than its literal translation. While it usually describes an urban dilettante who adopts a creative (in the broadest sense) lifestyle without the burden of output – the lebenskünstler was a Berlin archetype even in the earliest years of Weimar culture – it has also been claimed by those of us whose accomplishments lack a narrative structure, what others might call a career arc. In a city of cultural shape-shifters, indisciplined polymaths and dodgy chancers – and I am all of these – government agencies list ‘lebenskünstler’ as a vocational category.

Die kunst, the art part, is careless and improvisatory. Intrinsic to it is a willingness to set aside the rational and surrender to drift. Dead reckoning – another navigational term, the diligent record of everything affecting a course steered from a specific point of departure – has no place in this.

Drift can be an amnesiac state, at once a process and a symptom of forgetting. I have led many different lives, in many different places, but there is rarely a confluence of them, no commonality of acquaintances. I keep few records or keepsakes. I stay off the grid. My gaze is fixed on the horizon– always alert to the stray tendrils of a current to take me somewhere else. Once I’m gone, I tend not to stay in touch.

In the old days, several weeks of oily calm in the Horse Latitudes or the Doldrums were sometimes enough to drive sailors mad. The drift is not for everyone. Uncertainty is pervasive. If you need to know where you are and what you’re doing there, you are probably in the wrong place. And yet it isn’t about self-negation but rather an imaginative form of self-reliance, an embrace of the uncharted and the relentless unexpected.

First published in Minor Literature[s], UK, 2107.

[punk-chicken-radio]

la roux - tropical chancer

-ax and TOS

[alberttrilogyinc]

From Elly’s Instagram today...’Trouble In Paradise’ turns six! I must be honest I didn’t think of it’s anniversary today either...(odd that I didn’t say anything last year for it’s fifth anniversary). Anyway, these match books would have been an amazing inclusion in the deluxe edition release of the album. They are a perfect idea and go along perfectly with the aesthetic of the album. I especially love the “Paradise Is You” and “Sexotheque” matchboxes. How interesting that the “Paradise Is You” design has three Palms on it... (”Tropical Chancer” does too. Looks like the same trees but mirrored.)

‘There seems to be a lot of anniversary’s recently but it’s Trouble In Paradise’s turn today. I didn’t actually know it was it’s anniversary until someone told me today.... which is strange because I went back to the studio it was made in (completely randomly and unplanned) for the first time in six years this week and I met up with @alexanderbrown1 who creatively directed the project with me - also for the first time in six years. I asked him for anything unique we never posted or got to finish on the project and he sent me these match books and I had to share. This was what was supposed to go inside the deluxe box set but label/budget/blah wasn’t possible which I’m actually really happy about because I get to show you now. Each song was meant to be like a hotel or a bar and these the matchbooks from them. Another fantasy land we really enjoyed creating. This record was a hard one... less gone into the better and titled for a reason but it all turned out ok in the end. It took me ages to be proud of it without pointing out things that weren’t right but I can now relax and enjoy it when I hear songs like sexotheque and tropical chancer. I’m done with looking back now though, eyes forward, in every sense 👁🌴☯️’

[farmerthespian]

tagged by @translightyagami !!! thank youuu!! I havent done one of these in ages

Fav color: yellow yellow yellowww

Last song: Tropical Chancer by La Roux (nostalgia trip baybee)

Last movie: The first half hour of that DreamWorks movie Robots dnxhsyshhs

Last TV show: The Dick Van Dyke Show

Spicy, sweet, or savory: spicy spicy spicyyy gochujang sauce is my lover

Bubbly water, tea, or coffee: coffee until the end of time, bubbly water makes me want to fucking die that shit is nasty

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhffggghh I tag @isabelalugosi @davidfoley @callmecryptid

[youneverreallysawme]

La Roux - Trouble in Paradise

Revisited this album. I haven’t listened to the full thing in many years. I forgot how good it was. The nostalgia this holds is amazing. My highlights would be as follows:

Tropical Chancer

Kiss and Not Tell

Uptight Downtown

Definitely looking forward to giving La Roux’s most recent album a spin at some point in the near future. 

5/5

[pamrou]

[sad-sad-detective]

I was bored so I picked up this activity where you spell out your username with song titles. Geez, my username is too long!

s: See The Light - Ghost a: Arsonist's Lullabye - Hozier d: Dirty Sticky Floors - Dave Gahan s: Strict Machine - Goldfrapp a: Alejandro - Lady Gaga d: Devil's Plaything - Danzig d: Dance Macabre - Ghost e: Evidence - Faith No More t: Tokyo Drifting - Glass Animals, Denzel Curry e: Evil Ways - Blues Saraceno c: Cinnamon Girl - Type O Negative (originally Neil Young) t: Tropical Chancer - La Roux i: It's No Good - Depeche Mode v: Voodoo Child - Brick + Mortar (originally Jimmy Hendrix) e: Everything You’ve Come To Expect - The Last Shadow Puppets