LAZER SWORD is the duo of San Francisco based LOW LIMIT and LANDO KAL.  They like to make music that sounds like your favorite top 40 rap shit chopped up into a tornado filled with razor blades and molasses. They made a mix for my blog so I asked Black-Marmalade Studios to create the artwork. And here you have it…

London based designers Matthieu Bessudo, aka Mcbess,  and Simon Landrein worked on this music video for the band the Dead Pirates. Really like that old timer style in combination with 3D. Avast Ye!

Beautiful portrait of Bristol DJ Derek, a world renowned reggae lover. He fell in love with the music and culture of the West Indian immigrants in the 50’s and has been spinning since then. Some fantastic quotes also in part 2.

Music video for French house/electro act Birdy Nam Nam (produced by Justice). The 70s sci-fi feel it has seems to become a trend. In a way it reminds me of this great South Parc scene and Dan McPharlin’s work (also check his cardboard synths!). Anyway, more nice work by Steve Scott and Will Sweeney.

A few months ago at a Q-Tip show Peanut Butter Wolf (Stones Throw) did a great video mix (DJ-ing with music videos). Now he brings us a free mix through podcast. The theme is green screen, because his favorite videos all seem to use this technique. He goes all out with 80s bangers from Prince to Thick Pigeon. Crazy!

What’s up with all the complaining. Today we enjoy the beauty in the streets of Paris.

If you master the dutch language you should check the blog by Rory a.k.a. Rory Parks called Swurdin.net. Don’t let its Blogspot ugliness put you off (even a wise ass like me got past that). My main reason to keep coming back there are the music related posts (and he’s a fellow torrent junk).

Music video for Bulletproof, the third single by Brittish electro-pop duo La Roux. Personally I dont like the whole 80s retro/futuristic fashion and design trend that much, it’s way too colorful and happy for me, hehe. But the directing and post production was done very well here.

No idea how new this is, but I had five straight minutes of fun with this Flash application by Najle. It let’s you play the catchy vocal samples of Daft Punk’s Work it Harder. A simple idea that works well for this song. In what order did they use the samples in again? Also, don’t forget about the originals.

Saturday me and Mr. Momkai visited the release party of Jiggy Djé’s sophomore album De Ark De Triomf. If examined in a scientifical way, Jiggy would turn out to be a very strong species of rapper, containing exactly the right strings of DNA a MC needs to carry around. Despite his 90’s name, that is. Listen to the #1 MC Holland brought forth at 3voor12.

Nice video for Matt & Kim - Lessons Learned.
You don’t want to miss this one. Directed by Taylor Cohen and Otto Arsenault. Cinematography by Ben Wolf. VFX by Steve Ilous.

What will happen when a cassette tape and an iPod are making babies? They give birth…

A new member of the WARP-label called Harmonic 313 brings fresh dub sounds on their latest album “When machines exceed human intelligence”. If you’re into hiphop mixed with dub and all kinds of electronic sounds, I’m sure you’ll love it. Solve the “word problems” and get one track for free.

Venz got some of his friends together, each of them having a great taste in music and a music genre where they have a special sense to find just the right tracks of this moment. People like Job de Wit, Tom Trago and Waxfiend. Eight genres, twentytwo tracks. Add a ‘random’ function and you have yourself a new online jukebox.

Everybody remembers Mr T. right? Well, I came across this brilliant track of him! Not only is T. a ruff motha, he’s funky as well!

Skateboarding is one of the best looking things filmed in high speed frame rates (besides fat people and things colliding). And who better to shoot it then Spike Jonze, who did some great work here. This is a music video for Unkle’s Heaven. I like how video works with the music, rather then an orgasm of footage, sending the song to the background.

Westside, Eastside and now you’ve got the Airside.

Kutiman presents seven tracks and videos made entirely from YouTube material. A simple but great idea that’s very well excecuted. Make sure you click about to see how he made them. Thank you Thomas J4 (who maintains our server) for the link.

Because they represent great artist like Amadou & Mariam, Justice, Neg’ Marrons, Uffie, DJ Mehdi et plus. Because they’re from France. Because they have a great philosophy. Because they have a great audio channel you can listen to all day.

A short, strange but very intriguing new video of Röyksopp. I like the edit a lot. Directed by Reuben Sutherland.

On his new website by IKSI you can download free mixtapes and those classic the Dirty Dirty Dirty-sets by The Flexican, the dutch dj and producer of mexican origin. Finally finally finally.

Got to plug my good friends of The Rare Groove Orchestra. Their brand-new second album ‘The Man With the Dirty Finger’ is full with sweaty hammond-funk. 

On his last album a heartbroken Kanye West surprised us by letting out all the pain of breaking up. Something you won’t catch many rappers doing. I didn’t like the auto tune heavy music that much, but this video by Nabil captures the vibe well. It looks fresh and raw at the same time with all it’s video effects. Btw, if you havent already, check out Kanye’s blog about music and design.

The new album by The Whitest Boy Alive will be named ‘Rules’ and comes out in March, but yours truly can tell you it’s great. I’m not going to leak it here because this band from Berlin didn’t appeare on Cribs yet, so they still deserve our support. What I can tell you is that they will perform at the great Motel Mozaïque 2009 festival on April 10th in Rotterdam.

I’ve been sleeping on this one. Fresh new sounds from Amsterdam. If you’re into real Hiphop, that is.

What happens when dogs made out of cardboard get a disco fever? Great stop-motion by Geoffroy De Crecy (Yeah, Etienne’s brother) for Rex The Dog.

I’m feeling this Jacksons inspired music video for BUMA In Me Zak by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (Dutch electro/hip hop/sorta group). Credits go to director Maurice Trouwborst, Lemonade and Cake Film and also the TAX Fund, for having some money in their zak.

It’s easy to make a big hit. You only need 4 chords and a good singing voice, and you’re in!

The gentlemen of Boemklatsch have a new track with a fine video directed by Bas Koopmans & Roel Oude Nijhuis that gives new meaning to the term melting pot. Because they’re friendly fellows you can download the track including three remixes for free.

Here’s another proof that you don’t need a Kayne West budget to make a cool music video. In case of this Friendly Fires video, all that was needed was double-sided sticky tape, fans and trillions of bean bag balls. And of course Clemens Habicht as the director.