Midnight Generation

One Liner: Disco-fied Daft Punk electronic pop from Mexico
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but this is disco-pop-funk-retro-electronics
Home: Chihuahua, Mexico

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 16
Day: Sunday.  
Both Weekends.

4:30 pm on the Tito's Stage. 

Thoughts: Man, I already used my Butterfly Effect discussion about what would have happened if Daft Punk had continued to make disco-tinged dance pop.  These guys missed the boat.  I don't know what that vocoder-ass thing is that Daft Punk used to such pleasure back in the day, but here we go again.

There was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist, named Kamla Bhasin, who "called herself 'The Midnight Generation', a reference to the generation of Indians born around the time of independence, 'at the stroke of the midnight hour...'"  Which, okay.  If you make up your own nickname, it had better be cooler than that, man.  Anyway, nothing else on Wikipedia for this band name.  But interestingly enough, these dudes are from Chihuahua, Mexico.  I would not have guessed that a retro-pop-disco-funk-electronic band, with very clear English lyrics, would hail from just on the other side of the border from Big Bend.  While their sound is overall pretty dorky and outside of my spot, I can see their live shows being a pretty damn good time.

Their first EP from 2015 looks like it is full of covers - "Hey Ya!" and "Gimme Some Lovin'" as two of the titles - but they are disco-tinged pop originals.  Four albums - 2020's Odyssey, 2023's Afterlife, 2025's Teacher, and 2025's Tender Love.  Strangely, but maybe it shouldn't be so strange in this era of weird streaming rules, the two 2025 albums share songs.  The albums don't appear to have the top songs, those are mostly singles in between the albums.  Which also seems odd, but the world is a different things now.  "Young Girl" wins the streaming with 12.2 million, which was on a 2016 EP called Funk Your Bones (Side B).

That little synth/whistle line in there feels like something that has popped up in TikTok.  It is fine, sort of sounds like a joke song that Lonely Planet would have made or something.  I think that girl is sitting in poison ivy.  Her bootie gonna be so sad.  Let's do a new one as well, this is "Don't Wait Up" from the two new 2025 albums.  3.9 million streams.

There's that robot lover crooning that I know you needed to hear.  Again, not sure that the song is all that great, but I think it would be a hell of a lot of fun to funk around to in a big dusty field with a lot of friends.

But, sadly for them, there is absolutely no way they get any attention.  At least not with anyone who likes anything I like - they are up against both Wet Leg and Rainbow Kitten Surprise.  Brutal spot for an up-and-comer.