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El derecho a la pereza

by Casi todos los males

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Lafargue argues in in his essay "The Right to be Lazy" that progress is more about people being lazy in interesting ways than about jobs. Many past cultures valued laziness and the enjoyment that comes with it way more than work, yet so-called modern life keeps making jobs themselves the center of every person's existence. Engineer first, person second. The essay is usually described as "utopian", but I'm still not sure what's so utopian about it, really.

El derecho a la pereza ("The Right to be Lazy"), my first album, was made almost 6 years ago in about 10 days with a budget of $0. All 11 tracks were made while unemployed, a few months after quitting a job that didn't exactly help me health-wise, and right after graduating from university. I had never actually released any music. I didn't own a MIDI controller, or a synth, or an audio interface. I didn't know what a compressor was or how to correctly use filters. Naturally, I didn't know how to mix the thing, and I probably still don't. I didn't even use a mainstream DAW: all of it was made using an old version of Renoise. The only reason I made the album was that I had the privilege of having the right to be lazy, at least for 10 days.

The old version of El derecho a la pereza is still available on my own Bandcamp, but this new version is hopefully closer to the version I would have liked to release back then, and it also includes a few short outtakes. It has a clearer mix and a lot of rerecorded drums but it's still the same naive abum I released back in 2013.

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released July 21, 2019

Casi todos los males
casitodoslosmales.bandcamp.com

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