Gus Bonito
@gusbonito
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Producer @KeroKeroBonito
Bromley, UK
Joined August 2013
the guy on the bbc olympic women's triathlon commentary just said "and here they come past the statue of gandum, the unicorn robot".
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Time 'n' Place, Bonito Generation, "Flamingo", Intro Bonito and Western Beats were all made on the same laptop.
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new kkb ep featuring a song thats kinda like future carpenters and a 7 minute freak acid house situation.
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We released the full-length version of our song for Bugsnax:
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word up.
EVEN IF YOU'RE FALLING. THAT'S OK. THERE'S A TRAMPOLINE WAITING FOR YOU. IT'S SO EASY. YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE.
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cannot believe i'm still living the same timeline as this, for so many reasons
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I believe pop music's true potential hasn't yet been fulfilled, and that it's capable of much more than we're used to experiencing.
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I present the Magic Pop Manifesto, a mission statement for music creation that I've been thinking about for a while:
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love the new @underscoresplus album. clever writing, really cool futuristic guitar music production and it amazingly communicates the atmosphere of ordinary united states life imo
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apparently if you wait outside s.s. anne and leave your game boy on for 23 years this song starts playing.
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the aim was to make the most exciting 85 bpm song we possibly could.
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Out with the old, in with the new!.
Be prepared for our next song. Those who do will receive a special gift:
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one of our proudest moments yet
We released a new single today, "The Princess and the Clock". Pre-order our forthcoming EP Civilisation II now: Video Directed by @DanWJacobs
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There's a new @ceephax album out today. At the risk of getting adulatory, I want to explain why that's a bit special. (Here's a picture of me aged 15, playing a rave (as Steve) with Ceephax in Brussels. @guycalledgerald also played; it was a big night for me.) (1/8)
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not sure if this is weird to say atm but pop is more exciting than it has been for ages. crazy music works on tik tok, unlike spotify. nuts bangers by @rinasawayama and @100gecs have blown up and new artists like @plnt99, @MagdalenaBay, @gupimusic & @fraxiommusic are smashing it.
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I'm going on tour with myself. (Doing a special Gus Bonito vs. Kane West show as part of the @boenyeah + @kikuo_sound variety show across the USA in January.)
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ngl i involuntarily shed a tear seeing these lyrics on the nintendo website
Bugsnax is out now on Nintendo Switch, which means that "It's Bugsnax!" is officially on a Nintendo console game soundtrack:
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when my friend, musical co-conspirator and fellow bromleian @boenyeah asked if i wanted to join him in america to celebrate 10 years of his debut album, i was only ever going to say yes. a special rare show āwithā @djkanewest, tickets on sale this friday.
>>event <<. >>10 year anniversary show<<. 01.21.24 LOS ANGELES - LODGE ROOM. š bo en.š kikuo.š gus bonito vs. kane west . šļø tickets go live on friday 19th oct
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sometimes im sad and sometimes i remember bonito generation peaked at #9 on the billboard world albums chart.
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proud to be representing the roland jv-1010 in a major console announcement in 2020.
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I did one of the official remixes of the Urusei Yatsura theme as performed by its original composer @MimiKobayashi1. I turned it into a 100 bpm Balearic house record because England is a cold, dark place:
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that m&ms advert of the guy coming home to find his wife sleeping with the red m&m has been on air since 2015 for some reason.
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2020 was one of the best years for music I've ever experienced. Here's a playlist of 40 songs from last year I really enjoyed and a thread of my thoughts on all of them (no ranking): (1/43 lol).
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No-One Understands How To Make Escape Room Quite Like We Do.
We Have Mastered The Sound Of Escape Room.
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made a donda acid techno bootleg.
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playing swimming at heaven the other day with the crowd singing along was the loudest ive ever heard the word "detritus".
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There's enough pop music that shows how powerful it can be, and more that suggests where it could go. That's what I'm excited about when I write songs.
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i and @boenyeah remade our 2014 single money won't pay for his upcoming album pale machine 2:.
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to all you vinyl lovers out there. i just looped a drum break sampled from a record and manually edited out all the vinyl crackle, and guess what. it sounds amazing now.
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getting through this by pretending we're in earthbound now and im one of the humorous housebound npcs.
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Clearing out and I found the sheet of paper we wrote the chorus for Flamingo on
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so nuts to me that bach could've played the chord sequence from "pacific" by 808 state on his well-tempered clavier. maybe he did but he was like "wtf is this".
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2006ish i was playing super mario 64 ds in a doctor's waiting room and this old guy starts saying to me "you kids and your gadgets. still i love new music, like that klf and tammy wynette, great song".
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The latest development in the Bugsnax song story: I was asked to write a piece for the PlayStation website about how we made it
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Before I was in Kero Kero Bonito, before I was K*** W*** [REDACTED], I was STEVE. I'm playing the first @stevenosurname show for nearly 5 years tonight at @PoppodiumEKKO in Utrecht
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ive seen a few people say that well rested has made them want to listen to more house/techno. well boy do i have the playlist for you
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this was a lot of fun and prompted the realisation that i could talk about cool music forever.
Gus and Jamie talked to @boilerroomtv about six curios from their music collections that inspired them
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wrote about Svetlana Boym's theory of the off-modern, Jon Hassell and various other things that inspired the Civilisation EPs for @Dazed
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late but that andre 3000 verse is extraordinary. about as powerful as pop music gets.
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you know a singer/band is serious when their wikipedia ends with "the new york times listed them among the hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 universal fire".
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i love the insanity of the olympics. e.g. "racewalking" after three hours of strenuous sexy waggling a man collapses to the ground choking on his own vomit + crying and the commentator says something like "it's not looking good for the japanese athlete".
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damn. if you've ever listened to Bonito Generation/Time 'n' Place/Civ I (and many others) then you've heard the synth design genius of this man at work via my trusty Bass Station II
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@gupimusic and @fraxiommusic - Thos Moser. This is my favourite post-PC/Gecs track, a DIY stream-of-consciousness blizzard of EDM VST damage and insanely specific jokes executed with real virtuosity. This kind of music changes 13-year olds' lives forever:.
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So here's something new - I wrote an essay for renowned food website @vittleslondon about my tour-honed theory that retail baking is one of the great vectors of British regional culture:
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Historic show listing from 2009 feat. me (as Steve No Surname), @charli_xcx and @BullionNess at the Barfly in Camden. I refused to play in protest of the venue not letting any of my underage mates in (regretted it later).
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sometimes pioneering artistry is just about being the first person to be brave enough to admit to some weird cultural impulse, like "i think choruses suck" or "i'm really feeling chillout music these days" etc.
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2015: barack obama was in office. the uk was a member state of the eu. charli xcx's "vroom vroom" hadn't been released yet.
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@jnnfrwltn fucking smashed it. (the kick sound in the princess and the clock is a sound made on ds-10 layered with a sound from korg's other nintendo ds software, m01).
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love that week in august when all the insects turn green and violent.
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this is one of the most beautiful things ive ever seen. a team are working on identifying sound module patches and samples used in video game soundtracks throughout history and compiling their findings in a database
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The Super Mario World Restored stuff is interesting. I love delving into the origins but don't forget the achievement of pre-'00s VGM composers - the optimisation of contemporary technology and the creation of new musical forms in that process. Plus it involves so much guesswork.
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pleased with how this turned out. almost landed in the future indie-rock/club pop world of recent @jamesivy, @porterrobinson etc.
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the tracks in here comprise my musical education and laid the foundation of all my productions, kkb included.
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an indie-pop singer-songwriter emailed us. his music was great but i cant find the email. 1 song had a video of family watching tv flicking between shows featuring the artist (eg presenting news). he edits his videos and i think is AsAm & based in LA. can anyone help me find it??.
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this is genuinely my attitude to being british.
If you look past all the nonsense you've got some good vibes in this country. Even before electronics Like even going back to Stonehenge. Absolutely buzzing thinking about it wicked vibe., it's what we need more of just mental shit.
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imagine the moveset. b down incubate egg, "noot noot" taunt, final smash is the opposition falling asleep, dreaming of and being eaten by the giant seal from "pingu's dream"
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I made a playlist off the top of my head of music that shows how brilliant pop music at the frontier of our capabilities and expectations can be, and a few more recent things that might signpost territory we barely know yet:
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6 years of chocophilia and counting. what does this say about our society?.
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i say a bit in this.
1. An Oral History Of PC MusicĀ . 10 tracks recounted by the artists involved from the last 10 years, text by @selbulut.
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Someone said something I liked - that pop music can never max out its "potential" because society and cultural expectations never settle. I think that's true, and it means there's no ceiling, which is exciting. There's certainly a lot of uncharted sky above us though.
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an ACTUAL PARTY in LONDON this FRIDAY. midi house, plastic garage and ultrahyperpop.
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my set 100% new trax tune in.
We're playing this online show in about 2.5 hours, but you should definitely join now to catch our friends including @boenyeah, @MeishiSmile and many more.
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