He is a hilarious, creative and musically gifted performer combining stand up comedy with live music created only using his voice, samplers and effects. The same energy doesn’t quite come across through recorded music and video, but I hope you can still enjoy his latest.
The winter still reigns supreme. Just to get you in that summer mode let me highlight this years Robeco Summer concerts in Het Concertgebouw. Especially the Jazz editions with artist like Eric Vloeimans, Wouter Hamel and Benjamin Herman. The latter in a great collabo with Pete Philly and Remco Campert. Get your tickets pronto.
French record label Record Makers celebrates its 10th aniversary with this video for Sebastian Tellier song ‘Look’. It was made by Mrzyk & Moriceau who also designed the accompanying iPhone app, which lets you create random art and has sound effects by Mr Oizo.
Yet another quality music video: You probably remember OK Go from the threadmill video, which gave them instant fame. For their latest effort they teamed up with director James Frost and Syyn Labs to create the impossible.
The new Gorillaz single sports a slow electronic groove, Mos Def and legendary soul singer Bobby Womack. The Jamie Hewlett directed video features fancy camera work, fast cars and Bruce Willis firing rounds at the Gorillaz characters, animated by Passion Pictures. Nice! Plastic Beach, the upcoming album, can be pre-ordered from all the big resellers.
Here’s the new stop motion videoclip from Nobody Beats The Drum. Make sure you also watch the hilarious making of. It’s directed by Rogier van der Zwaag.
New videoclip for Dutch drum ‘n bass producers trio Noisa. Director Henk Loorbach (superelectric): “It’s an abstract telling of mankind and it’s self destructiveness, loosely based on the tale of Frankenstein’s monster.”
Another awesome animated black and white video for Massive Attack. Director Edouard Salier used geometric mountains, a city falling apart and great reflections and finnishing to make something very special.
(Sorry for all the posts today, February seems to be starting of with some great work.)
One of everybody’s favorite directors Michael Gondry doesn’t make a lot of music videos. When he does it is always something special, proven again with this Mia Doi Todd video. Extra bonus points go to Alyra Lennox for the choreography and music journalist Job de Wit for blogging the video first.
Installation where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. Bonus points for use of the Wii mote.
interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback.
Fresh from the twittah! A new track from the new Daft Punk album (the Tron Legacy Soundtrack?) Love it!
Check out this Swedish band doing their thing at a childrenprogram on televison.
I was pleased to find out that mister “The Bottle” Gil Scott-Heron is dropping a new album called “I’m New Here” on the 9th of February. Since I’m a sucker for grimy styled stuff, I’m loving the video that’s made for the “Me and the Devil” track. (via cpluv)
If you like beats like this, you should also like the blog dutch (or belgian?) dj Mono Mau started last november. Besides posting new and old tracks by the likes of J Rocc, Rednose Distrikt, Flying Lotus, MF Doom and Ras G he has a monthly mix with flavors from his record shelves.
Not that new, but I just stumbled upon this very nice music video on Facebook. It’s from Brandt Brauer Frick, a group of three young musicians that make acoustic techno music. Great track.
C-Mon & Kypski need a little help from you and your webcam to finish off the music video for their new single ‘More is Less’. Be part of it.
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Not exactly sure why but I love this Hasmore Coyne directed video for Johnny Popcorn track ‘Next Episode’. Johnny Popcorn is Philly based dou Hezikiah and Tone Whitfield, making positive and goofy sounding soul.
If you’re familiar with the track Kinda Like A Big Deal by the Clipse you kinda know producer Khalil from Los Angeles. Mr. Venz took some time to create a nice tracks overview online at Lijn5.com where you can check out the brilliant beats Khalil made the past sixteen years.
DJ’s 2tall, Clockwork and Kper spent about a year making this 80 minute mix of over 200 tracks. Expect 10 years worth of beats, beats and beats, from hip hop into electronica, glitch, dubstep, etc. Why? “.. to highlight the lineage of hip-hop production and beat making from the turn of the millennium to the present day.”
This English chap Mr. B has made a mixture of some of the known hip-hop songs. Sounds very sweet and funny at the same time.
The first single of Ramona Falls‘ debut album Intuit has a killer video. Directed and animated by fellow Portlander Stefan Nadelman. The black and white images set up in a 3D environment with lights, depth of field and camera movement work like a charm.
Massive Attack has been releasing quality music since 1988 and their new single United Snakes does not end this tradition. The video was directed and produced by UnitedVisualArtists. Everything is done in (shades of) black and white and it gets more depth, complexity and detail as time goes by. For another great B/W animated music video go here.
This is Arjan from ArjanM.com with a brand new video. Also check the making of on Vimeo.
“Musicvision Phoenix is twenty tracks that changed our lives” according to the members of the French band Phoenix. Very cool way of making a documentary.
This talented collective from Groningen proves they’re a real strong & versatile production team. In my opinion they get way to little (dutch) press. I just heard they did the music for the new Gran Turismo PSP intro. You can also hear them in WipeOut Pulse and WipeOut HD Fury. You can even try to imitate them in DJ Hero!
I was checking a movie on Vimeo and loved the audio the dude was using. I found out it was a project of Danger mouse, Sparklehorse and strangely enough David Lynch. The album is to feature a hand-numbered 100+ page book of photos taken by David Lynch, said to be a visual narrative for the music. Read further…
The Provinsje Fryslân gets a whole lot more interesting with the rebuilding of the Bolwerk stage in Sneek. Grand opening in October with Moke, Drive Like Maria, A Brand, Aux Raus, The Madd, Hot Stewards and The Upsessions. Shame I can’t find the credits anywhere for the fine promo illustration on the left.
Check out this fun collection of crappie album covers. It’s the top 25 of worst album covers of all time, according to Designer Daily.
Back in 1989 the record label Warp was founded by three guys in Sheffield. Their influence in the world of electronic music over these 20 years is self explanatory, with artists like Aphex Twin, LFO and Autechre. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Warp will release a deluxe music and art Warp20 box. Preorder it at Bleep.