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Bibio – “Excuses” {Ridiculous Video!}

Gar — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:38:07 +0000

eYe’m not scared to say that Bibio’s – “Excuses” video/song is F’n genius w3rk. Easily one the most imaginitive music videos that eYe’ve seen in many yEARs.

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“John Stanier” – Most Technical + Prolific Rock Drummers Of The Past 20 Years?

Gar — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:30:57 +0000

Is, John Stanier one of the Most Technical + Prolific Rock Drummers Of The Past 20 Years?.. here’s a few of my favorite clips featuring the percussive malfeasance of Mr. Stanier in past & present projeKts.

John Stanier :: Battles :: The Studio

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Battles – “Futura” (Live on Jimmy Fallon)

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Battles – “Atlas”:

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Battles – “Atlas” (Live On Jools Holland):

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Battles – “Tonto”:

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Tomahawk – “God Hates a Coward” (Live)

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Helmet – “Unsung”

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Video: Prince Rama – “Om Namo Shivaya”

Gar — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:00:01 +0000

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Prince Rama, sometimes known as “Prince Rama Of Ayodhya”, are a 3 member psychoactive, musical project who currently hail from Brooklyn, NY. They have previously spent time in Boston going to art school, and then England working with n’ learning from the likes of the modern day uber duper astronautical explorer n’ master painter: Paul Laffoley. And oddly enough for me, some or all of the P-Rama outfit originally hail from somewhere in, none other than the psychedelic training grounds that eYe grew up in & is commonly refered to as: “Florida”. -Land of the magical cow pattie. (See folks, the F-L does produce transcendent philosophical explorers n’ brilliant artists. It sadly just doesn’t nurture them much while they’re here.)

Anywayz, There’s plenty more to learn about Prince Rama and their mandala makin’ mentor: Mr. Paul Laffoley by following the links above and diggin’ around on the interwebs. I believe the track in the video, which is titled: “Om Namo Shivaya” is off of their 4th studio album “Shadow Temple”, and IMO they’ve still got a lil wayz to go as band, atleast on the production and percussion tips, but with videos and tracks like this coalescing into one insanely gorgeous bit of existential, psychedelic transcendence.. the sky’s not even the limit.

That 4th studio album was good enough to grab the attention of the CEO’s of the current aRt rawk movement, Animal Collective, who’ve released it on their uber important indie imprint: “Paw Tracks”. Not too shabby Prince Rama. I’m def feelin’ it, and you’ve definitely got a fan in me.

“Prince Rama” | From left: Taraka Larson, Michael Collins, and Nimai Larson

Flying Lotus – “MmmHmm” [ft. Thundercat]

Gar — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:16:31 +0000

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This song and video ain’t no accident either “Fly-Lo” has been tweaking and morphing different musical genre’s for quite a few years now in this new millennial era, and the 2 people behind this video: Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali – over at: www.specialproblems.com. Appear to be some of the more talented short form and music video artists w3rking today. Peep their site to see a pretty diverse collection of their video w3rkz’.

Flying Lotus!

Transcendent Video: The Books – “Take Time”

Gar — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:32:40 +0000

“Take Time. Take Time. Take Time. Take Time. -A Time and a Time and a Time and a Time.. -A Time and a Time and a Time and a Time.”

Official Video:

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Unofficial Fan Video:

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The full-length video for “Take Time” by The Books, at the top, and twelve other full-length music videos are included on The Books – “Playall” DVD, which you can nab at: www.thebooksmusic.com. They’ve also got a stellar new album out, their 4th LP eye believe, called “the way out”.

When it comes to combining sound collage, video art, musicality, w3rds, and existentialism.. I don’t know too many modern day artists who do it better.

Long live The Books!!!

PS – For those wanting more.. There’s also all kinds of other videos by: “The Books” over on LastFM. Official and fan made clips. -> http://www.last.fm/music/The+Books/+videos

Video: Pogo – “Garden”

A_Scissors — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:53:22 +0000

This an amazing piece of A/V exploration & reconfiguration at it’s finest. Where a special young artist called: “Pogo” turns his Mother, her “Garden”, House, and her voice into spectacularly potent contemporary art.

Pogo – “Garden”

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Pogo is an emerging, young electronic music artist from Perth, Western Australia. Equal Parts Programmer, Producer, ReMixer, Mash-Up king, VJ, and Visionary. He is known for his work recording small sounds from a single film or scene and sequencing them to form new pieces of music altogether, many of which have accompanying videos which correlate with the sounds/samples. Creating wonderfully concise and colourful reflections of contemporary technological world culture.

While also, engaging the viewer/listener to think about intellectual “property”, and what/who determines the “tools” that modern day artists are permitted to use in creation of contemporary aRtw3rks. Much in the same way pioneers of similar artforms, such as: Negativland, The Avalanches, Girl Talk, and a few others have done in years past. And at a mere 21 years of age, Pogo is an incredible mature and aware artist who appears to have a very bright future ahead of him. Good for him and good for the w3rld!

See more of his audio/video w3rk here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

WEBSITE:
http://www.pogomix.net

TWITTER
http://twitter.com/PogoMix

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*Uber Props to my boy: Brian Scissors for the tip.

Documentary – The Artist Formerly Known as: “Captain Beefheart”

Gar — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:45:00 +0000

Who is/was “Captain Beefheart” and why was he one of the most original and important avant garde musicians of the 20th Century? The Documentary below has answers to those questions. Get Learned.

Part 1 of 3 | (15 minutes 53 seconds)

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Part 2 of 3 | (15 minutes 26 seconds)

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Part 3 of 3 | (15 minutes 30 seconds)

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Video: Hot Sugar – “Ice Queen”

Gar — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:29:25 +0000

Normal people are weird, and I love this video.. Love – gaR

PS – Thanx “Hot Sugar” and Pitchfork TV. You katz rawk.

Video: A_Scissors – “Fourteen Cups Of Tea”

Gar — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:54:38 +0000

Muzak and Video Editing by none other than: A_Scissors

Dig this?… Well, he’s got a ton of free music for you and yers ears over at Hairy Sloth Records. Look for his new full length LP entitled “Approaching Sunlight” to appear on the web pages of Tha SLoTH in the very near future as well. It will include the track above and be just as immaculate and then some. Count on it.

Videos: Animal Collective – “Brother Sport” + “In the Flowers”

Gar — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:23:15 +0000

In my humble opinion.. AC are hands down some of the most creative, exploratory, influential experimental auditory artisans of the past 10 years, and their accompanying music videos and the directors they w3rk with to create these visual accompaniments to their futuristic soundZ have only fostered and expanded upon their already incredible visionary and immaculate artistic talents.

Animal Collective – “Brother Sport”

Animal Collective – “In the Flowers”

You can also read and an interview with A.C. and view their 2009 underground cross-over smash hit video for “My Girls” by clicking This Link to a past Gar Lives blog post.