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).
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.
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, sólo una palabra: “Mooooovie Reecord”
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]
Pericote, de Hevia, es una canción 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:
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.
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.
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“.
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.”
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:
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?
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.
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.
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.
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…
I never seem to understand all the hype around a new Moby album. The last one Ć¢ā¬āagainĆ¢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.