From the box of “things you never thought existed”, comes this videoclip of Soviet jazz group “Orera“. Attention to detail in those times was clearly focused on what matters (musical quality) and not where it doesn’t (actual video/sound syncing).

[Via Dark Roasted Blend]

[Thanks Seba]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think this is the newest style of dancing to electronic dance music (house, minimal, techno, electro, whatever) and if you watch the videos in my previous post (Old dance new music) you’re going to notice how today’s packed Clubs have influenced the way we are (not) able to move around: Tektonic seldom involves crazy feet and leg moves (especially when compared to how much you move your top half of the body) and all the action takes place in your own little spot in the dancefloor. I’ve been going out at night only in a few holidays for the last 3 years and I danced in a basic and clumsy kind of Tektonic. I can’t wait for my next holidays.

[Via PopMK]

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The Communist Ghetto LOL!

[Via Neatorama]

And 1920’s Charelston to the beat of Around The World:

Categorizar Ć©sto bajo “grandes verdades universales”. No voy a poner la letra de Ć©sta canciĆ³n que hay niƱos despiertos (y niƱas, nunca mejor dicho ).

Porta - Las NiƱas De Hoy En Dia Todas Son Unas….mp3

[Gracias Gabi]

Check out the dozens of creative “movie production company logos” that make the words of the lyrics in an continuous energetic animation. It’s like the movie is never going to start and you’re fine with that.

PS: Para residentes en EspaƱa, sĆ³lo una palabra: “Mooooovie Reecord”

[Via Cuchara Sonica]

I remember watching this great typography animation years ago but I bumped into it again just searching for any video that featured Ratatat’s “Nostrand” to introduce this awesome music to a friend. [so thanks Micro]

Link to everything Ratatat in Youtube

Microsoft, you don’t need Yahoo, BUY THIS FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER!!!

Solar from flight404 on Vimeo.

[Via Neatorama]

Higher res images of the visuals here. More videos after the break: (more…)

Pericote, de Hevia, es una canciĆ³n que me flipa desde hace aƱos, y cada vez mĆ”s. Cante jondo pero del norte y de pueblo, con una letra que ya intuĆ­a yo que era graciosa, pero que acabo de encontrar y me parto y me mondo:

ValamĆ©, valamĆ©, Pericote rompiĆ³ un pie
y despues que lu rompiĆ³ llevolu a Santu MedĆ©
Yo caseme con un vieyu por jartame de riir
puse-y la cama n’un altu y non se podia subir
San Xulian de los Carriles que tas cerca d’ Ardisana
Axuntate al de PorrĆŗa qu’Ć© el que cueye las castaƱas
A bailar el Pericote vino Xicu de la BraƱa
Con madreƱes y escarpino y una faxa colorada

Hevia - Pericote MP3

Y de regalo, otra joya:

Todos los mozos del Valle del Pas
tienen un palu para saltar.
Saltan palanti saltan patrƔs,
con mucha fuerza y agilidad.

[Foto de Ciliembru]

Jose Gonzalez (famous for the original Sony Bravia commercial song “Heartbeats”) has recorded a version of Massive Attacks “Teardrop“:

[Via Desaparezca]

It doesn’t get much more cosmopolitan than an Asturian girl originally from Argentina, who sings “Tonadas” (the traditional songs from Asturias, northern Spain) along country, jazz, blues or even tango tunes.

These videos I found in Youtube aren’t the best examples of the mixture, so go to her website Anabelsantiago.com and get the songs in the download section.

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And violins. I will just quote a Youtube commenter:

la cremme de la cremme
la puta crema
la fucking shit
for real

They are French and they’re called Birdy Nam Nam.

[Thanks TJ]

Halo theme by college teen virtuoso band Corporeal (of 3 guys playing 1 guitar fame) and a few other Halo 3 trailers that make you wish you were had the time to be addicted to videogames.

You can count videogame franchises that have set a decade-lasting standard in their categories with a hand and a half, and while I’m no fan of First Person Shooters, watching the following trailers makes me proudly remember Halo is one of them ā€” I actually played multiplayer Halo 2 for months.

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I’m tempted to start a new category, Technohuman, for innovative devices that augment our senses or skills in order to produce Superhuman results (really, the Hang Drum should be one of them). Monome, a year-old open source interface system with a grid of highly customizable button-LEDs, is one of them, and the most beautiful application is music.

Two more videos, including interview and demos by one of its creators: (more…)

To me developments in the dance music industry are almost as interesting to follow as as climate change or cars. Fedde Le Grande’s latest tune isn’t a breakthrough, but it does sound like a bit of fresh air. The singing girl with the friendly face, some “Ida Corr“.

[Via BBC Radio 1 Chart Blog]

Starting with a really uplifting, almost new-era, indefinitely playable song, it’s stunning that the official video lives up to it and even improves it, mainly thanks to some amazing but simple choreography. Meanwhile, the live version (below, reason for this post)… Ok I was supposed to go to bed 2 hours ago, as my ability to write at the moment shows Just watch at least one, I promise you won’t regret it.

From the upcoming documentary about The Young @ Heat Chorus. “At an age when most people are either dead or living out their last days in retirement homes, these men and women are up on stage singing their hearts out about the big taboos surrounding old age: about love and sex, loss of youth, loneliness and death. In their mouths, familiar lyrics take on whole new meanings.”

[Via The Documentary Blog]

It took me a few moments to come up with the most accurate description for this guy’s work. Visible dreams: or a unique skill to create visuals that seem to belong in places like outer space, the subconscious, the nanoworld, etc.

His latest creation, “Durian“, is also a success at syncronizing music with abstract animations that almost “show” the music:

[Via Neatorama]

You only need to know that this instrument is called Hang Drum and that, in appropriate hands, can deliver entire multimelodic songs by itself.

Check out the guy’s youtube page for more. And another video after the jump: (more…)

For all the people who thought Benny Benassi couldn’t do more than remix Satisfaction, here’s his new bombshell and bombshells. Another breakthrough?

And the uncensored version

From the highly anticipated new album that already has a name (Kala), comes the second single and video “Boyz”, musically styled like Bird Flu but going back to Galang retrofutur90’s visuals, only better. Any girl with that haircut around?

The awesome video that follows is a remix from an original clip from The Conan O’Brien Show. I can’t wait to see this one featured on the next show:

[Via FB Revolution]

A japaneese group called u-min performing the best robotic moves the world has ever seen, along with genius slow motion action in real time. It won a post here at minute 2:15.

[Via Neatorama]

Or the proof that it was an underrated instrument. I wonder if they can also blow into the sound hole for extra ambient tunes.

[Via Neatorama]

Since superhuman.com is already taken and I’ve no time for yet another project, I will be posting here demonstrations of what the human body and mind are actually capable of. It never ceases to amaze me how far they can be pushed when trained exhaustively.

This video essentially shows that, should you die from a nuclear exlposion, it’s not as scary if you’re listening to Ratatat.

[Via Un gaditano en Silicon Valley]

I can’t find it now, but when this Sri Lankan chick hit the UK scene a couple of years ago I posted her Galang video straight away. In addition to her fresh dancing, the whole thing was just huge. For 2007 she’s back with even more undescriptibly crazy beats that make some ears hurt and some others’ explode in joy. And lyrics you will not understand.

Also check out “XR2 Turbo” in her Myspace

The two things that best remind you of your past are smells and music. While the smell of your exgilfriend drives you crazy, the music of your “old good times” can enliven intense feelings.

And you know, any past time was better. What does Modjo’s Lady (timeless hit from years 2000/2001 (download video) make you feel like? I was in Madrid and this song was everywhere. It brought great vibes to any pub or party, everyone could hum the chorus (lady… hear me tonight… cos my feeling… is just so right… I feel love… for the first time…) and most of the whole lyrics. Even the video pictures heaps of “buen rollo”. It’s just so easy to get melancholic with music…

Modjo - Lady MP3

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I never seem to understand all the hype around a new Moby album. The last one Ć¢ā‚¬ā€againĆ¢ā‚¬ā€ is just frigging dull!

The single, Lift Me Up, sounds fairly good. Lively and energetic like some other exceptions in Norman Cook’s discography. But the rest of his latest album Hotel is totally “Lift Me Up Cos’ I’m So Low”. There’s a slight difference between chill out and plain boring, you know. But I hope is just a matter of taste. That he actually makes good music and the problem It’s my intolerance towards a music that feels like elevator or dentist waiting room background tunes… For some reason his hit Porcelain was the corporate soundtrack of the Spanish Public Television channel for more than one year. Damn, his face just screams “FREAK!”.

It’s my website and I cry if I want to, cry if I want to…

The latest videoclip of one of the most beautiful ladies in past years’ MTV galaxy

Besides some impressive choreography, a crazy violin and the fact that she’s wearing key-shaped earrings (hint), what I like most of this video is the ever-charming “I’m so higher than you but I’m kind enough to let you still have me in your dreams” attitude. I dig the song too, by the way.
QuickTime video: Low / High.
RealVideo: Low / High.