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Archive for September, 2010
Hip Hop Medley – 8 Bit
Sep 22nd
This one for all the geeks out there. If Jay-Z only had a Gameboy to create his beats this is what you’d get. Created by Tugboat, this is a medley of hip hop tracks that you should recognise. All played in 8 bit format.
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Broken Bells – October
Sep 16th
Dangermouse and James Mercer make up Broken Bells
Since the Grey Album, Dangermouse seems to be able to do no wrong. He’s produced albums for the Gorillaz and Beck, been half of Gnarls Barkley and now he’s plying his trade with James Mercer from the Shins.
Brian Burton aka Dangermouse and James Mercer now make up Broken Bells. Their debut album released this year was a success in the US charts but this post is more about their newest single and online video for “October”. Staying on the interactive video theme from my last post, I thought it was worth mentioning the Broken Bells site. Whilst it doesn’t have the personal touch which Arcade Fire had, it does still have a mesmerising effect. Despite looking like an old school winamp visualisation you just can help but play about with the page whilst being submerged in the hypnotic music being played.
Have a listen and a play here.
CS
B.O.B Featuring Rivers Cuomo
Sep 8th
I’m mentioned Rivers Cuomo a couple times on this blog before and his foray into hip hop. With songs with Lil Wayne and Jermaine Dupri it was only natural for him to hook up with B.o.B a.k.a Bobby Ray. Now, I knew about this song a good while ago but I’ve only just seen a tweet from Rivers saying that the video is now live on YouTube. The song itself is quite catchy but I just couldn’t wait to see whether Rivers made a cameo in the video and see the results of it. It’s pretty much everything I could have wished for. Bobby Ray and Rivers on a stage singing, Bobby Ray doing his thing and Rivers jumping about like an uncle at a wedding. Love it!
CS
The Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait (The Wilderness Downtown)
Sep 6th
Its been a while since my last post. Mainly due to lack of time and lack of inspiration. After a bit of time out of the game I wanted to come back with a post worth mentioning and this is it. Not only due to it being a new song from the Arcade Fire but also due to the great piece of work put together behind this personalised video.
The video uses Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait’ to narrate a story of someone running back home. The song itself doesn’t have a clear meaning and can be interpreted in many different ways. Personally I see it as being a way to seize opportunities as we get older. Chris Milk, the director has interpreted it as a story of learning from our regrets that we had as a child and going back to our childhood to give advice and words of wisdom to the next batch of youngsters or even your younger self. To do this Milk has created a HTML5 site which uses his own interpretation and allows the user to personalise it to his or her hometown. As a interactive music video I think it’s great. Its new, innovative, personal and has an awesome soundtrack. The beat does almost follow the rhythm of footsteps and using Google maps to take you through the journey of running back through your own home town and streets is great way to showcase how technology can be used for music videos.
Have a play around with it here at The Wilderness Downtown. You’ll need a HTML5 capable browser, Google Chrome definitely supports it but give any browser a try.