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#1 - La Femme - Françoise /directed by Irwin Barbé

#2 - Small Black - Despicable Dogs /directed by Yoonha Park

#3 - The Happy Hollows - Big Bad Wolf /directed by Ryan Reichenfeld 

#4 - MGMT - Flash Delirium /directed by Andreas Nilsson

#5 - Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La /directed by Christin Turner

#6 - Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work /directed by 1In3

#7 - Dub King - Welcome To Paradise /directed by Mark Henninger 

#8 - The Temper Trap - Love Lost /directed by Dougal Wilson

#9 - The Dead Weather – Die By The Drop /directed by Floria Sigismondi

#10 - These New Puritans - Attack Music /directed by Matthew Stone

London based producer and solo artist Gaudi is about 2 drop his new album No Prisoners - via Six Degrees Records. It’s a phat mixture of dub elements, electronica and world music - inna mostly down-tempo nature. Listen 2 Gaudi’s style, while watching this hilarious animation video here. (via)

Le Le = Parra (inspiring illustration artist) + Serge Fabergé (from hip-hopgroep DJVT) + Rimer Veeman (from elctrorockers Comtron). Their new album, Le Classics will be available through Gomma next month. Check out the new video by Parra & KesselsKramer’s Ewoudt Boonstra: here. (via)

This is the 2nd video out of Hot Chip’s fantastic One Night Life Stand album via EMI. Directed by Liverpool-born comedian Peter Serafinowicz (Look Around You, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, and Paul McCartney in the upcoming remake of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine), the video features dancing chips boys and a laser spitting baldy. Watch it here. (via)

Such a tight beat: here’s the new video 4 Rusko’s debut single Woo Boost on Diplo’s Mad Decent imprint. Rusko = Chris Mercer and originally from Leeds, gonna drop his debut album O.M.G. this May. Until then watch the Pomp & Clout-directed extravaganza here. (via)

Congratulations, Nina! Truly authentic artists are few and far in between, but Nina Hagen -  who turns 55 today - is one of the few artists who is authentic and truly talented. In the 1970’s she started with the Nina Hagen Band. Her colleagues then turned into Spliff, while Nina worked solo and stayed errorless. Watch the epic video for her 1979 release African Reggae here.

Italy’s latest disco queen, Hard Ton has just released his debut EP, Selfish - via Bavarias Gigolo Records. Nice 2 meet the Acid House again. I just love these Chicago tunes! Neo-Divine hits the scene, watch it here. (via)

Here’s the new work of the earlier featured duet Mrzyk & Moriceau - for the latest Sebastien Tellier-video. Released 2008 through Rekord Makers, Look is part of Tellier’s Sexuality album. Check other clips here and here. Alors, watch the cool butt illustrations and girl-layouts here. (via)

In 2009 the best hair in rock was back with Swords, Morrissey’s latest b-sides collection. Tracks were mainly leftovers from his last three album sessions and I’ll give some kudos 2 Morrissey, for having an open mind in the possibility that promotional video can be art. Watch the video here. (via)

Well here’s the promo video for the next Goldfrapp track called Rocket, which not only features a desert-driving rocket truck, but incredibly strange music. Best of all, it’s almost three and a half minutes long, which makes the rocket thing more appealing than ever before. Please enjoy with my compliments at my friends of msn or vimeo. (via)

Jacques Palminger = Heinrich Ebber = Hans Fuchs, earlier drummer at Dackelblut punkers and founding member of epic german comedy ensemble Studio Braun, wants you to join in the fun! The fun song, released through Staatsakt, is his latest masterstroke. Watch the video, which continues in the same unique vein, here. (via)

Nightmare pop! Brighton trio Esben and the Witch have unveiled the video for their debut single, Lucia, at the Precipice. Released via the Too Pure Singles Club. The video, shot by GDI’s Lydia C-S, features nothing but a solitary dancer in a shadowy room. Great! Watch the wonderful atmospheric video here. (via)

Salt ‘N Pepa, anyone? Margreezy + Bishara + fashion designer Swanzy = RC$K from North London. With a sound they designate as a mix of ”old skool garage, grime, hip-hop” with a ”splash of indie, rock, pop, trance, funk”. U can easily compare them with the north-american Hipster movement, but obviously this is pure fun and awesomeness! Watch their video here. (via)

Unbelievable. Tons of sprayed wooden blocks, stop-framed for an abstract kiff. Nobody Beats The Drum’s VJ / visual artist Rogier van der Zwaag’s last six months has been spent making nothing but this video. But thanks, it’s amazing. An absolute joy. Check out The Making here and watch the mania over here. (via)

This track is off C&S’s ST/Elephant 1234-EP, released via Domino Records. The Count & Sinden are very hit or miss for me, but this 1 is a true burner. Gotta love this breakbeat-sytle! Nice video was shot by Martin Zähringer, watch it here. (via)

Whatta nice collaboration between british up-and-comers We Have Band and the inspiring french directing-duo Jul & Mat. WHB plan to release their self-titled debut album in April via Naive Records. Darren spoke about the album: “We like a lot of darker music. Joy Division, early OMD, and Talking Heads are some of the things that inspire us.” Sounds promising. Watch the Making-of here, 4 the video: click here. (via)

Awesome. Nocando + Busdriver = teh isht! Out of the L.A. underground rap-scene, Nocando’s debut full length opus, Jimmy the Lock - which tooks 3 years in the making - drops now via Alpha Pup Records. Tune in, watch the Kyle Gray-directed video, 4 the single Two Track Mind feat. the mighty Busdriver: here. (via)

Nice little Facebook-Girl video, made by Late of the Pier’s Sam Potter and Brighton’s Steve Glashier. LOTP’s inspiring debut album Fantasy Black Channel was released 2008 on Parlophone and produced by Erol Alkan. The awaited re-up is called Best In The Class - test it here. (via)

What a brilliant and refreshing track. And what a moody video, made by the scandinavian artist duo Frode & Marcus. These hypnotic sounds are the result of Peder Mannerfelt and Malcolm Pardon’s shrinking experiments. Earlier Peter co-produced the unbelieveable advanced Fever Ray LP. Now he’s Roll The Dice: watch the video here. (via)

Here comes Booba (”Je suis pas dans l’bling bling”) inna very technoid remix by Yuksek. The original sounds like this. The video = reminds me of this and this, but it’s cool executed + nicely edited by Lionel Hirlé and Grégory Ohrel. Je le kiffe trop. Watch it here. (via)

These are the fantabulous Not Squares: synth-wizzards Michael Kinloch + Ricki O’Rawe and Keith Winter on drums. Somewhere between DFA & Battles. Their anticipated debut album is due May 2010 via Dublin-based Richter Collective. The new video? Put simply, it’s pure joy: watch it here. (via)

NSFW. New video out of Xiu Xiu’s new album Dear God, I Hate Myself. Watch Angela Seo self-induced vomiting & eat this personal Jamie Stewart-quote: “The title came from a night a literally being on my knees and speaking these words in a prayer to God. It is about the tension between feeling hopeless but also feeling as if spiritual love is possible and there for you if you want it. ...” Watch the video here. (via)

This is a german blog, somehow asscociated 2 a music magazine germany’s opinion-leading pop culture magazine Spex, but it’s pretty impossible to watch (comissioned) german music videos here. Pourqoi? And, does it matter? Me thinks: yes. Up next there are some recent german videos. This showcase gives u an idea, how intoxicated the german major landscpae is. Or, is it the music? Or, the directors? You name it. Of course, there are some cool german videos out of the DIY-Empire, but our music video (televison) standart looks like this:

Silbermond - Ich bereue nichts

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Radiopilot - Immer wenn wir träumen

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Ich + Ich - Pflaster

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Jeanette - Material Boy (Don’t Look Back)

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Eisblume- Louise

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Stefanie Heinzmann - Unbreakable

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Rosenstolz - Gib mir Sonne

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Tokio Hotel - Don’t jump

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Cassandra Steen - Stadt

Dark. This is some amazing stuff here: avantgarde alt-pop music by Cape Town’s Die Antwoord. “I made it i’m in the intah-net” - weirdest and most mind-bashing music video since long. “I’m like all these different things, all these different people… fucked into one person”. Check the rad, Gummo-esque hiep-hop video here. (via)

Never heard of L.A.s Mia Doi Todd, before I discoverd this new Michel Gondry video today. Thank god, he leaves the sucking advertising world from time 2 time, for shooting a music video. This nicely choregraphed video for Mia Doi Todds’s Open Your Heart, is just another Gondry-classical. Watch it here. (via)

The L.A./S.F. rap duo Meanest Man Contest consists of Eric Steuer (= MC Ericsolo + former Wired music-editor) + Noah Blumberg (= Producer + Quarterbar). The John Irwin-directed video 4 Partially Smart was shot in Los Angeles and deals with the web series called TXT M3 B1TCH. Anyway, the new video is here. (via)

No, I am not stalking for videos made by Jacqueline Castel! But this new hell of a music video, gonna be the 3rd-Castel-video in here. Check her earlier videos for Gary War or Rainbow Arabia + dont’t miss her latest: 4 the hazy, anti-pop track Red Ford Radio taken from the new U.S. Girls album, via Siltbreeze. Watch the video here. UPDATE: J just told me: gotta wait ’til Monday’s offcial Fader video premiere now. (via)

If you are bored of John Maus, Feist or Lykke Li, this might be your next source of inspiration. Cant remember having ever blogged a live video here, but this is just: wow! This is Carla Morrison arranging a great version of Manu Chao’s classical La Despedida. Watch the video here. (via)

This is the next dosis of nicely tranced dream-pop, by Copenhagen natives Efterklang. Their Magic Chairs LP, wrapped in a zeitgeist artwork by Danish designers Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal, is out soon via Rumraket 4AD. Watch the new Modern Drift video, made by Kristian Leth, here. (via)

Le Lisboa-Luanda connection seems to be in good conditions: This is Batida, a bunch of guys from LiLu with great tunes +  their very own radio show in Portugal, supporting Kwaito + Kuduro + Brazilian Funk + Dancehall + Pretoria House. Now, their debut music video popped up. Watch it here. (via)

I love Beach House (RR!!) since this amazering video was released earlier in 08. Now, their new Teen Park album is out via Carpark Records Subpop and according to GvB, there will be a additional DVD feat. 10 videos for the album’s 10 tracks! Sadly, it looks like u have to watch the video at the GvB-page, which fuckin’ sucks monkey nuts, here. (via)

This is the smart, post-DIY msc-vd for Montreal’s incredible Merril Garbus. Real Live Flash, the progressive/lo-fi/R&B track, is off her upcoming Youth EP - via 4AD. Watch out for the concert next Sunday, February 24th @West-Germany and watch the refreshing, self-made clip: here. (via)

Since David Lynch somehow expressed his passion for the most adorable all-female Brooklyn trio, Au Revoir Simone are on their run. Taken from last years classy album Still Night, Still Light - via Moshi Moshi Records, this is the flashing video 4 their dreamy track Another Likely Story. Watch it here. (via)

After watching this video a while ago and listening 2 this stunning debut album last year, I felt that Led Er Est have something special. And now there’s some progress: a Brendan Harman-directed clip 4 the track Laredo via Wierd Records, photographed by Jacques del Conte. Watch it here. (via)

Hackney-based Les Fauves released their amazing Liquid Modernity album via Urtovox last year. The Berlin-inspired track called Berolina Party Suite now has a new, hand-made video: realized by the band’s singer Roberto Papavero, who obviously spent weeks with drawing, scanning and fixing these animations 2gether. You can check the result here. (via)

This is Little Dragon’s video for Never Never, from their must-listen Machine Dreams LP - released last year through Peacefrog. In the video you will see Swedish-Japanese front woman Yukimi Nagano, in a rather played out kaleidoscope format: watch the Ulla Tomtom-made video here. (via)

I mentioned the Acid Girls and their cool TNS video earlier, now there’s a video for the b-side of that lovely 12” via IheartComix. The video is 4 those who can handle food-freakouts. Directed by Steven Ilous, watch it here. (via)

First there was Jack House and in 2010 there are Tokyo’s Dexpistols, presenting their 1st release called New Jack House. Their boysnoized version kicks arse and the acclaimed debut LP is out soon via Ed Banger Roc Trax. Until then, there is this video here. (via)

17-year-old Raven Allen is giving us an idea of the future of tech hop with some seroiusly advanced sci-fi beats - from the Mississippi River. Her debut album is expected later this year and now watch the cool lo-fi video, directed by Partyharders, here. (via)

see you next year!

After bringing these selected promos 2 cinemas in Hamburg/Berlin during the highly recommended Unerhört Filmfest some days ago, now the time has come to unwrap my list here. Thanks again to all Directors, Musicians, Production Companies and Labels who nicley helped to leagalize and Martin Hossbach of Spex for the communication. Below the videos that I found to be the most visually mind-bending and inspiring this year. In alphabetical order:

Artist: The Presets
Title: If I know You
Director: Eva Husson  
ProdCo: El Nino
Label: Modular
Thanks: Benoit Choquet
WATCH

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Artist: Sour
Title: Hibi No Neiro
Director: M. Kawamura, H. Kirkland, M. Nakamura & M. Nakamura
ProdCo: -
Label: Neutral Nine Records
Thanks: Hal Kirkland
WATCH

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Artist: Sebastien Tellier
Title: Roche
Director: Fleur & Manu  
ProdCo: Les Telecreateurs
Label: Record Makers
Thanks: Audrey Bouc
WATCH

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Artist: Lenny Kravitz/Justice
Title: Let Love Rule
Director: Keith Schofield
ProdCo: El Nino
Label: EMI
Thanks: Benoit Choquet
WATCH

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Artist: Major Lazer
Title: Hold The Line
Director: Ferry Gouw 
ProdCo: -
Label:  Downtown Music
Thanks: Amy Morgan
WATCH

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Artist: Bot’Ox
Title: Blue Steel
Director: Körner Union 
ProdCo: Körner Union
Label: I am a Cliché
Thanks: Guy Meldem
WATCH

Lost Angeles-based favorite We Are The World are going 2 release their debut album soon via Manimal Vinyl. The new Video for Clay Stones was created by the band + irresistible directrice Alma Har’el. Plus, and this is serious: Don’t miss their amazing, art-damaged live-shows! The new video: here. (via)

BBs’ Christmas Vendetta…Spares Of Romborama EP via Dim Mak includes a video! According 2 myspace, it is the fruit of 1 day of shooting and 2 and a half months of scratching, torment, solitude, anxiety and inspiration…. Done by director Bennet Pimpinella and photographed with Kodak 35mm by Simone D’Arcangelo. Watch it here. (via)

Just another day is off NNB’s 1st album Wallace on cinq7, produced by Clive Martin and Klaxons/SMD mixer Nick Terry. Wallce is a rare pop/rap/swing/reggae-mix and the fun video 4 JAD was directed by the inspiring Toben Seymour. Watch it here. (via)

Again: 8-bit. This is Japan’s TV-Apocalyptica - brilliantly animated in a style-mashing video by director Sugimoto Kousuke for Takayuki Manabe. Check his work here or head over 2 Studio 4°C, Japan’s cutting-edge animation house - after watching the new incredible video: here. (via)

It’s time to meet the snap dragon! This is nothing but classy 8-bit electro-rock by Paris’ WAET, inna Double Dragon Remix - out on On The Fruits Records. Watch the video game Emilien Sitnikow-directed video for Snap Dragon here. (via)

2 years ago britains TNPS hit the scene with an inspring 1º album: Beat Pyramid. Pretty soon their next album Hidden is out via Domino. The Over-under-water, super slow-motion video 4 their upcoming release WWW was made by Daniel Askill of @Radical Media. Watch it here. (via)

Hell + Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry, what a mix! The accompanying stylish b/w-clip, made by director Jo Apps out of the Partizan empire and + styled by Nova Dando of Lady Gaga/La Roux/The Gossip fame. Track is out in 01/2010 via International Deejay Gigolo Records. Until then, watch the video: here. (via)

New house music out of Lithuania, made by producer Mario Basanov, DJ Vidis and singer and songwriter Jazzu, who became a national phenomena. The minimal Rimantas Lukavicius-directed video, is a less-is-more classical 1. Watch it here. (via)

French-boyz Hermentaire and Olivier Gondry - elder brother of Michel who started out as a visual effects guy and now is a well-known promo/commercial director - are dropping this cool stop-motion video. Won the Prix de l’Animation at the 5th Protoclip music video festival yesterday. Have a look: here. (via)