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Music Video Shot Entirely on Chatroulette

2010-03-05T12:39:00.000-08:00

Great idea:

I AM UN CHIEN !! - HOLOGRAM (Feat JRF)

Yes, it's SFW.

(from boingboing)

Giorgio Moroder

2010-02-27T13:24:00.000-08:00

This is great, Giorgio really is my hero:

(from boingboing)

Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait (1986)

2010-02-26T13:42:00.000-08:00

More good songs from bad ads:

Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait (1986)

The xx - Intro

2010-02-25T13:52:00.000-08:00

If you've been watching the Olympics, you've heard this 120013 times:

Great little song. I love the tension it builds even though the parts it is built from are so stripped down and simple. It's a damned shame this is only a 2 minute intro track to their eponymous album.

NSFW: Pink Mania

2010-02-24T13:58:00.000-08:00

Seriously Not Safe For Work, and pretty much awesome:

Pink Mania from miikka lommi on Vimeo.

Music: Ancestors Of Putin, Pestilent baby, Vaginals, Alis Pelleschi, Twila.too, Hard Place, BFGF, Kitbuilders, Sirkus, Kississings, Vivan Alive, Mc Gaff E, Dental Work

(from jwz)

Lumitectura

2010-02-23T20:40:00.001-08:00

What a great idea:

Lumitectura from barno on Vimeo.

Musicvideo about the relation of light, music and architetcture.

Music by Saltillo
"The Opening" from the album Ganglion.
Go get it on itunes and amazon!

The clip is defined by 3 elements.

-One videofile, shot between 2 and 6 pm.
-The speed of playback of this file, which is synchronised manually to the music.
-About 50 different masks, wich define where the underlayed movie is going to appear on the screen. This makes it possible to have multiple light situations in the same moment.

So basicly, the sunlight caught from the building is the "natural" palette for the entire colors of the clip.

(from (andrew sullivan)

Comfort Fit - Bit by Bit (Polyshufflez LP)

2010-02-16T15:43:00.000-08:00

This is one of those simple, beautiful concept videos that I just kick myself for not thinking of first:

Chime

2010-02-03T18:28:00.000-08:00

Here at Playtherecords we like video games. And music. And when you mix the two together just right, we usually love that.

Chime - Place blocks, build quads, get coverage, make music

It is a bit like Lumines, but with an all star soundtrack composed by big names like Moby and Paul Hartnoll from Orbital.

An exclusive Zoë Mode production for OneBigGame, the videogames industry-wide charity initiative, Chime pits gamers against the melody in this all-new puzzle experience: Players place blocks against the clock, remix famous artists’ music tracks and contribute to children’s charities around the world. More than 60 percent of the purchase price of Chime will be donated to charities around the world, helping those who need it the most.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Addictive block puzzler: Rotate and place shapes to form quads of 3×3 or more to fill your grid before the time runs out
Music tracks from world-renowned musicians: Featuring music by Moby, Paul Hartnoll (Orbital) and more
Remix music tracks: Fill the grid to alter the track loop, place pieces to play notes, and create quads to trigger a range of song samples
Unlimited replay value: Keep reaching 100% and resetting the grid to continue playing and beat your high score
Five unique levels: Each level is made up of its own music, grid, and shape-sets
Time mode: Choose between three different levels of difficulty, based on time limit
Free-play mode: Play for the sake of making music with no time pressure
Charitable donation: All Zoë Mode’s services are provided at no cost to OneBigGame, and all Zoë Modes royalties (a minimum of 60 percent of the purchase price) are donated to the OneBigGame charity initiative. OneBigGame always aims to donate a minimum of 80% of all donations to its charity partners Save the Children and Starlight Children’s foundation.

Check it out:

Chime

Die Antwoord

2010-02-01T22:42:00.000-08:00

Afrikaans Rap:

(from boingboing)

Write an Album in a Month. This February.

2010-01-28T14:22:00.001-08:00

Get your studios geared up, blow the dust out of your keyboards, tune your guitars and oil your mic stands... the RPM Challenge is about to start full force:

This is The Challenge - Record an album in 28 days, just because you can.

That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead… put it to tape.

It’s a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) where writers challenge each other to write 1,700 words a day for 30 days, or the great folks over at February Album Writing Month (fawm.org), who encourage artists to write 14 new songs in February. Maybe they don’t have “Grapes of Wrath” or “Abbey Road” at the end of the month, or maybe they do—but that’s not the point. The point is they get busy and stop waiting around for the muse to appear. Get the gears moving. Do something. You can’t write 1,700 words a day and not get better.

Don't wait for inspiration - taking action puts you in a position to get inspired. You'll stumble across ideas you would have never come up with otherwise, and maybe only because you were trying to meet a day’s quota of (song)writing. Show up and get something done, and invest in yourself and each other.

Anyone can come up with an excuse to say “no,” so don’t. Many of you are thinking “But, I can’t do that! I don’t have any songs/recording gear/money/blah blah blah...” But this doesn’t have to be the album, it’s just an album. Remember, this is an artistic exercise. Just do your best using what you have in order to get it done. If you have a four-track, become a four-track badass! A mini disc, a pro-tools rig, a Walkman, an 80’s tape recorder – use it. Do your best. Use the limitations of time and gear as an opportunity to explore things you might not try otherwise. If you can afford studio time in a “real” studio, fine, but let’s be completely free of any lingering idea that “good” records can only be made in a studio. If that were so, then all the old scratchy blues records or Alan Lomax field recordings that have changed our culture – the world’s culture – wouldn’t still resonate with us today as they do. Springsteen’s haunting classic “Nebraska” was a demo he did at home on a crappy machine. That album is fricking awesome. What label would put those recordings out now? (See: who cares) There are a million examples of this kind of stuff, but the fact will always be: Well written, honest music is compelling and undeniable no matter what it was recorded on. So put it to tape.

February will come and go whether you’ve joined in or not, but do you really want to be left out?

Who's in? Sign up!

M.I.A. - Space Odyssey

2010-01-24T11:34:00.000-08:00

M.I.A. leaked a pre-release version of a song form her new album to twitter, along with a lofi but strangely hypnotizing video:

(from slate)

Techno Made With Cars

2010-01-23T14:10:00.000-08:00

(from autoblog)

NIN: "Cars" with Gary Numan, London 7.15.09 [HD]

2010-01-19T15:26:00.000-08:00

What is interesting about this is how much its a straight up version of the original:

I suppose they thought the best way to pay tribute to someone who was obviously a huge influence was to play the song as originally envisioned with the man himself. I still mark the original video as one of my all time favorites.

(thanks robert)

Rick Astley vs Nirvava - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up

2010-01-18T12:42:00.000-08:00

This works way better than it should:

(thanks chantal)

Iceberg movements create eerie songs

2010-01-17T12:24:00.001-08:00

Ableton, Meet Serato. Serato, Meet Ableton.

2010-01-14T11:43:00.000-08:00

Ableton and Serato present The Bridge—the first result of the partnership announced in October 2008.

The Bridge spans the gap between music production and DJing, creating a natural link between Ableton Live and Serato Scratch Live or ITCH. The Bridge provides a powerful fusion of DJ and production tools, opening a world of opportunities for DJing, remixing and live performance.

You can cross the Bridge in either direction:

Free Album: Music for Our Future

2010-01-11T12:00:00.000-08:00

XLR8R magazine have put out a nice, free album that is a musical tribute to the world of Battlestar Galactica spin off Caprica:

Music for Our Future

Featuring tracks by some great electronic music producers, including Lusine and Richard Devine.

(thanks lee)

Old Man on a Super Drum Kit ATV saves the people of a weird Norwegian RV Village from a potbellied, berry-eating Overlord using the power of drums!

2010-01-03T22:12:00.000-08:00

Otherwise known as "This Must Be It" from Röyksopp:

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

2010-01-03T12:30:00.000-08:00

I love it when people aren't afraid to use a little nudity in their videos:

The Scratch Perverts Dj with Severed Heads

2009-12-20T11:34:00.000-08:00

Scratch Perverts - Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

What English Sounds Like to Foreigners

2009-12-18T11:31:00.000-08:00

Love that dance:

See more funny videos and Music Videos at Today's Big Thing.

(thanks turtle)

Tesla Coils Play Legend of Zelda

2009-12-17T10:54:00.000-08:00

Tesla Coils Play Legend of Zelda

Amazing how similar the tone of a tesla coil is to the original 8bit generation sound hardware.

Raymond Scott as Buttrock

2009-12-10T15:37:00.001-08:00

Terrific:

Terrible:

Metroid Theme as Buttrock

2009-11-23T17:55:00.000-08:00

The Original:

The Buttrock:

Which do you prefer?

Laser Engraver Plays the Video Game Classics

2009-11-22T22:01:00.001-08:00

If you had access to a $30,000 precision laser prototyping machine would you: A) cut things with it, or B) program the stepper motors in it to make it play video game soundtracks? Like I even need to ask.

Laser engraver plays Super Mario theme from Jedediah Smith on Vimeo.

another classic tune on the hacklaser from Jedediah Smith on Vimeo.

(thanks turtle)