Documentary : Flying Lotus - Fly First

Pitchfork.tv documentary follows Flying Lotus from the Forecastle Festival to Pitchfork Music Festival.

Sunday Beats : Major Lazer, Flying Lotus, Face+Heel, The XX, Sekat, Taken by Trees, Cid Rim, Black Marble, Dailon, Alt-J, CYMBALS

Listen | Major Lazer - Get Free (Andy C Remix)
Listen | Flying Lotus - Between Friends
Listen | Face+Heel - Wounded Melody Edit (Love from the Shadows)
Listen | The XX - Fiction (∆AIMON REMIX)
Listen | Sekat - Gloria's Trap
Watch | Taken by Trees - Dreams (Dub Remix)
Listen | Black Marble - Pretender(The Kolour Kult Beach At Dusk Remix)
Listen | Dailon - City Dreams
Listen | Alt-J - Fitzpleasure (The Internet Of Odd Future Remix)
Listen | CYMBALS - Like An Animal
Listen | Cid Rim - Draw (Dorian Concept Remix)

Sunday Beats : Strange Powers, Tinashe, Blood Diamonds feat Grimes, Blanck Mass, Holly Miranda, Black Strobe, Bow Church, Black Marble, Flying Lotus, Wool and Cerebral Vortex

After "Bijous Bijous" birthday party it was so sunny in the morning that we decided to have a after party in the Westerpark in Amsterdam, few beers later this dude appears out of nowhere and starts taking his clothes off and screaming into the sun "Im so depressed", after a while the dude disappeared. On our way back home we heard a lady screaming for help, guess what the same dude wanted to kill himself but probably changed his mind and he was hanging on the canal bridge all naked, we help him out and told him to go home and sleep. picture by Vicent Teen

Listen | Strange Powers - The Metro
Listen | Tinashe - Let You Love Me ( xxyyxx Remix)
Listen | Blood Diamonds feat Grimes - Phone Sex (Jensen Sportag Remix)
Listen | Blanck Mass - White Math
Listen | Holly Miranda - Slow Burn Treason (Jamie XX Edit)
Listen | Black Strobe - White Gospel Blues (Museum Remix)
Listen | Bow Church - Incantation
Listen | Black Marble - Pretender (The Kolour Kult Beach At Dusk Remix)
Listen | Flying Lotus - Between Friends
Listen | Wool & Cerebral Vortex - Erotic Dancer (B-Ju Remix)

VTech Premiere: Bilal’s Levels Directed by Flying Lotus

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The Sounds of VTech / Bilal Levels   

"VTech and Plug Research bring you the premiere of Bilal’s newest video “Levels,” directed by producer Flying Lotus aka Steve Ellison. FlyLo makes his directorial debut with this visually stunning video for Bilal that features him alongside Erykah Badu, Thundercat, and Shafiq Husayn (who produced the track).

When FlyLo recently discussed the concept of the video he said, “I originally wanted to keep visual themes with another video from my last LP called ‘mmhmm’ off of my last album. It featured Thundercat as an intergalactic bass player in a super strange world created by ‘Special Problems’. Since Thundercat was part of this song, I thought it could be fun to continue the visual style and feel of this space opera. In the end you have this crazy video made of so much mixed media, geek dreams and lots of love.” This is the third video off of Bilal’s latest album Airtight’s Revenge, which also features the Grammy nominated track “Little One.”

Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit animated video

" Adult Swim and Flying Lotus have been BFFs for a long time. We've always loved the track "Zodiac Sh*t" from his album "Cosmogramma," so one day we decided to throw some money at our friend Lilfuchs and see what he could come up with for this song. Clearly, he decided he could do a lot. We hope you enjoy it "

Watch | Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit

Flying Lotus,Peter Kruder,From Toy to King,Black Strobe,Waste Land,Lou Rhodes, Trimpin, Beach House,Jonas Löfgren,Coalition of the Willing

Flying Lotus and Warped records have announced the release of a new album
in May , Is work is acclaimed and a unanimous sign of irreverence and a poetical rawness.
" Cosmogramma " will have contributions from Thom Yorke ,Laura Darlington and Ravi Coltrane.

“Flying Lotus, for me, is like the Hendrix of his generation” Mary Anne Hobbs

Mp3 | Flying Lotus Freebies



1 Half of the Austrian downtempo duo Kruder & Dorfmeister , Peter Kruder has remixed in brilliant way a track by German International DeeJay Gigalos Dj Hell in collaboration with legendary Roxy Music's frontman Brian Ferry.

Mp3 | DJ Hell feat. Bryan Ferry - U Can Dance [ Peter Kruder Edit ]



“If you want to get into graffiti, you should pay attention to this!”

From upcoming communication designer Sebastian Thieme comes this remarkable and exciting animated short movie.
This exhilarating animation gives you a brief introduction into the fascinating urban subculture ›graffiti‹, and explains you in an incredibly simple way
how to become a professional writer yourself in no time.

Watch | From Toy to King



Mega favorites Black Strobe are also back on business , even though one half (ivan smagghe) has departed some time ago , Black Strobe are still a respected force and are not be played or underestimated.
The new video has a clear message , We are back and its going to be bloody

Watch | Black Strobe - Back From Beyond
Mp3 | Acid Washed - General Motors, Detroit, America [ Black Strobe mix ]



Documentarian Lucy Walker’s Waste Land follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he travels to Rio de Janeiro’s notorious Jardim Gramacho dump to photograph the people who make their living scavenging through the refuse. With such great material on hand, Walker has opted for a simplistically inspirational story, however, and Waste Land merely skims the surface rather than digging deeper.

Watch | Waste Land



One Lamb half , Lou Rhodes releases her third album, 'One Good Thing' through Motion Audio on the 14th March 2010.

Manchester's most cherished and acclaimed female soul returns with her most brutally raw record to date.

'One Good Thing' disarmingly documents the last two years of Lou's life. With exquisite attention to detail, it was recorded over an intensive two-week period. This third album, which follows 2006's Mercury Prize nominated, 'Beloved One', and 2007's frank follow-up, 'Bloom', was recorded solely in live takes with minimal editing and overdubs to reflect the brutal rawness of its subject matter.

"Most of the music I'm inspired by was either recorded years ago or uses similar old-school analogue techniques. If I had a reference point for the recording of this record it'd be stuff like Nick Drake's 'Five Leaves Left' or Nico's 'Chelsea Girl'." - Lou Rhodes

Mp3 | Lou Rhodes - There For The Taking



Teaser trailer for TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION, a new documentary feature now touring film festivals in the US, South America, and Europe!

The film focuses on a wildly creative composer/inventor/engineer/artist, and features his collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, his construction of a 60-foot tower of electric guitars, and his experiments designing a 'perpetual motion' machine in a glass foundry.

Watch | Trimpin - the sound of invention



We think that Beach House is defraying quite a lot in its introduction, with Victoria Legrand suggesting that she's welcoming all to the "magic that is Daytrotter." It gives us an idea though. It's never seemed more appropriate than right now to borrow her thought of magic and reverse it, throwing it back at the absolutely MAGICAL group from Baltimore, led by Legrand and Alex Scally. These two, and their traveling group of musicians, have quickly become one of the most unbelievable acts of the saints or else just something holy and unexplainable.

excerpt from Beach House @ Daytrotter , get free mp3 from this session and read the full story Here



Drawings by Swedish Illustrator Jonas Löfgren



Coalition of The Willing is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social revolution, ‘Coalition of the Willing’ makes a compelling case for the new online activism and explains how to bring the fight against global warming to the people. As the film tackles the subject of online activism, we decided that the logical home for ‘Coalition of The Willing’ is here online.

The film will be released on this site in 6 staggered ‘waves’ approximately 2 weeks apart, with 4-5 film sections uploaded in each wave.

Flying Lotus , My Brightest Diamond , Sankt Otten, Diego Maclean, Will Murai , Michael Fakesch, Chad Pugh, United Visual Artists, V-Scratch,

On June 10, Flying Lotus will release Los Angeles, his second album and highly anticipated debut for Warp Records.

"Los Angeles is a special place to me for obvious reasons, but for the majority of my life, I hated living here," he says in a press release. "I only realized that by leaving and being able to check out new places, new vibes, and to chill with different folks." Flying Lotus doesn't feature many guests on Los Angeles -- the best known vocalist, relatively speaking, is Daedelus' longtime collaborator and wife Laura Darlington. "With my projects, I try to have a visual narrative happening. I like the idea of my albums being movies," he says.

Album Sampler
Listen Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish
Listen Flying Lotus - Roberta Flack



My Brightest Diamond announces the birthdate of the new album, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, June 17th on Asthmatic Kitty Records!

Originally meant to be a more classical, string quartet affair, A Thousand Shark’s Teeth slowly evolved and refined itself over a period of six years. The record, which was mixed by Husky Höskulds (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), was recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles and New York City, and features twenty different players all contributing little bits of musical magic. Influenced by artists such as Tricky, French composer Maurice Ravel and Tom Waits, in addition to the star exploration themes of Anslem Kiefer's paintings, the imaginary landscapes of photographer Robert ParkeHarrison, films by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Alice in Wonderland, A Thousand Shark’s Teeth is a musical snowglobe that sparkles each time you touch it. The songs, whose themes broach intimacy, kisses by moonlight, laundry, lost friendship and more, marry vast instrumentation – marimbas, harps, clarinets, French horns, rabid guitars, vibraphones to name a few – to create an unequaled amalgamation of style and color. In simple terms: it’s beautiful, and there’s nothing else quite like it.

Mp3 | My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy



Sankt Otten
From the opening track of ‘Wunden gibt es immer wieder’ Sankt Otten make their intentions known. Stephan Otten`s echoing rhodes piano falls over golden drones as Oliver Klemm drapes his elegant trademark guitar through the track like a neon waterfall.
The album represents a marked progression from the bands earlier output. It draws upon the heart of their previous forays into dark melancholic trip hop yet discards the form. In doing so the band have managed to present a musical vision that is even more epic, cinematic and noirish and distinctly their own.

" Wunden gibt es immer wieder " - Hidden Shoal - 2007

Mp3 | Sankt Otten - Mit Guter Laune Ins Elysium



The Blackbird video is a collaborative music visualization project by Katjas Chweiker and Thomas Frenzel. Both are working with an experimental approach on intermedia projects, striving for content generated designs.

This artwork was done for Michael Fakesch audio-visual project called VIDOS—a collection of music visualizations based on Michaels latest album DOS. The video‘s design is based on visual samples that quote Michaels auditory style and mixes analog with digital elements—metaphors of the real and the immaterial. It‘s about trying and failure—trying to leave behind, trying to live in a forward-turned way, trying not to resign or surrender, trying to get aware

Watch | Thomas Frenzel - Blackbird


Old Punk Will Murai



If you are on the prowl for some fine inspiration today look no further then Diego Maclean. Diego’s work is refreshingly different and experimental. He has somehow managed to create a reel that doesn’t look like all the countless others out there. Currently residing in Vancouver finishing up his last year at Emily Carr University where he is (obviously) studying animation. If this is any indication of the work going on at Emily Carr then we already in the industry may have to step up our game! Motionographer

Watch | Diego Maclean



This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours and I'd add an equal amount of time for concept time and readying the print. A screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full 18 minute video. I'll upload that for posterity later. Chad Pugh

Watch | Chad Pugh - Science Machine



United Visual Artists have created a new site specific work for the Oyane Plaza, in the Roppongi Hills district of Tokyo, to mark the opening of UK-Japan 2008. Contact is a responsive floor based installation which allows visitors to use their kinetic energy to generate audiovisual forms that will interact with the user, and communicate with each other. Contact marries advanced computer vision techniques, physics simulation and a unique display surface to create an experience that aims to highlight the results of peoples interactions with each other, and their environment.

Watch | Video of the installation in situ.



My name's Valerio Spoletini.
I'm a graduating student at the University of Art & Design Lausanne in Media & Interaction unit. V-scratch is my diploma project. As i've been into scratching and vjing for several years, I had the opportunity to combine these interests in one : V-scratch

Watch | Valerio Spoletini V-Scratch