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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)