The Industrial World!

Hi!

For star this post I need say that I love the music, especially the original and particularly bet, in this moment I love especially the industrial movement, my favorite groups in this style are Nine inch Nails, Von Throntahl, Rammstein, Coil, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Rome, and others.




Well, the Industrial music movement begins in the decade of 1970, in England with the foundation of “Industrial Records”, in particularly with Throbbing Gristle. The influence of the experimental rock and post-punk are very important for this genre, and the sounds of the industries. In the nineties the industrial movement had a big change to use of synthesizers and electronic drum bases, is add the use of samplers (extracts of other song or dialogues of movies, etc.) and lyrical voices. The lyrics and proposals are very varied topics like war, history (especially of Second World War), love, politics, and feelings; the musical influences are varied to, some groups are close to the heavy metal and others of neoclassical, we can find a lot of subgenres of industrial like as: neofolk, EBM, tanz metal, neoclassical, noise, martial, experimental or avant-garde. My favorite labels of industrial are “Cold Meat Industry” (http://www.coldmeat.se/), “Tulsa” and “Project Records” (http://www.projekt.com/).



My sub-style of industrial is the neofolk; this is a sub-genre who mix industrial music and apocalyptic folk, the most import influence in this style are Current 93 and subsequently be Death In June and Sol Invictus, both groups formed for ex-members of the English punk group Crisis formed in 1979 for Tony Wakeford and Douglas P.







For conclude, I hope that you like this short count of the industrial music world.

Persa Bio-Bio: Vintage World

Well, Classmates!

After the Bicentenary Festivities, we need to return to reality and Santiago is an interesting city with so many activities and things to do. I love the flea markets and antiquities, specially “Persa Bio-Bio” and the most famous place that sells “vintage clothes” is Bandera Street. The reason that I love those places full of old things is because old things are very special and unique. And another reason is because is so fashionable wearing vintage clothes and re-discovering objects and customized them. I love specially “el Persa Bio-Bio” because I can find old books, accessories, things for the home and other eccentric uses, furniture, and so many things very lovely and specials.




The Persa Bio-Bio is located in the sector of “Barrio Franklin” (in the subway station of the same name) is so big and the things that you can find a lot of things at a special price (very cheap), there are sheds specialized for example in computers (technical service), clothes, antiquities, books, furniture, and etcetera. In the streets you can find also so much stuff, people who sell many products such as pets, eccentric things, clothes (new and second- hand – today in the “hipsters” and “fashionist” circles are called “vintage”), accessories, and other cool stuff! The last time I went to Persa Bio-Bio was in June when I needed to fix my computer, in that occasion I also bought a briefcase, nice and unique.



To conclude, you can find so many things and are so funny passing by the streets and watching little treasures, but you must be careful because some things that are sold in that place are stolen. Another warning is that you must be careful with your personal things or you can be robed.

National Holydays!

The next week the country will go crazy… Chile will be madness; the “Fiestas Patrias” in this year have a special taste is the bicentennial of our nation. I don’t feel special for this, but is national atmosphere and I can’t do anything about it (well, I hate the nationalism and manifestations like “Military Parade”, the cuecas and chicha, and other bother things).

In this holydays I hope go to my home with my family in the region of Coquimbo, my family lives in Vicuña. Well, in this region of the country is special, the people celebrate for 4 days (17, 18, 19 y 20 of September) in a place called Pampilla the most famous is the Coquimbo, in this a lot of people (around of 20.000 people for day).

Is so common that in this date the people spend a lot of money in drinks (alcohol particularly), meat and so much food, I don’t consider necessary buy a lot of things the important is join in family, share and have fun. The only thing that I love of this holydays is that this be holydays and nothing more.

Well, I hope that we enjoy this holydays and have a good time with our family and friends.

Greetings
B.