Going to Heavenly during Superbowl weekend was probably the best idea I’ve gone through with all winter. I was planning on canceling the weekend trip, but since Mich has just come back from Sweden, she really wanted to go snowboarding so we went Saturday & Sunday. I won’t type much else. Essentially it was the best snow I’ve ever boarded in my life: about 3-6 inches of unpacked powder on trails and 2 inches of powder on all runs. It was snowing all day Saturday and, as the pictures tell, it was gorgeous. The season pass is now officially money well spent.

Oh, and I guess the Saints won.

Millionyoung is Mike Diaz, an upcoming electronic / chillwave producer named from Florida. He recently released a new EP on cassette & digital download because, uh, I guess cassette is the new vinyl with these chillwavebros. I could understand why one would release onto cassette with the purported reasoning that cassettes cutoff frequencies that help achieve a decidedly lo-fi sound, but when also offering a digital release that has no imperfections I can’t help but question “wtf… why?”

Anyhow,  the EP itself is pretty good… not amazing but there are a few gems. Check ‘em out below… and no, I’m not buying a cassette player to play this ridiculous thing.

I headed up to Heavenly this past weekend with Allen & Euge for a full day of boarding. Tahoe had just been dumped on about 4 feet in the past week so there was much awesome snow to be had; The trails especially had great coverage, which made for some sick runs down the mountain instead of having to take the gondola back to the base. I recently got a Yakima rack for my A3 and it is shaping to be one of the most rewarding investments I’ve ever made, aside from simply looking legit on the car. Mich and I are planning on heading up to Tahoe again this coming weekend now that she’s back from Scandinavia. I’m banking on the Superbowl driving crowds away from the mountain.

It would seem that a new Danger EP is dropping soon… hell yes. He released this cool original trailer that looks like the intro of an SNES game. Freaking awesome. I now get what sort of image he’s been trying to project all this time.

Edit: OK the EP dropped today. hahahaha.

So after what would seem like a drought of good electro, I come across new Neo Tokyo, Edwin van Cleef, and now Mille (Sweden). His sound is pretty smoothed over and not as aggressive compared to what is normally accepted in electro (circa Justice, Boys Noize, etc). Mille’s debut single, Crysteena, instead has intense arpeggios that make for pretty epic build-ups.

It’s great that the genre still has new artists emerging that aren’t just putting out noise.