17 posts tagged “muzak”
So...almost 2 months ago now I posted about the awesomeness that is my current favorite summer jam, "Sushi" by Kyle Andrews. Well Kyle Andrews is slowly creeping up on my awesome radar a bit more with his RAD fuckin' video for Sushi...using YouTube videos as a mosaic. It's sort of hard to explain so I'll steal the description from the video:
The video's official release date was April 21, 2009. It took our team over 1 month to privately annotate the videos before publishing it publicly!The YouTube Mosaic Music Video is a digital piece of art that was made from 1.4 million tiles, and thousands of unique YouTube video stills. It is an original, interactive video of it's kind, and maxs out YouTube's annotation editor.
This shit is my JAM & I'm not even ashamed anymore I'm going to just own it.
"Clementine" - Washington.
I'm the music director for a fashion show in NYC called Fusion. (www.fusionfashionshow.com)
I realize that when really trippy songs sung by totally drugged out artists are repeated at the creeptastic pinnacle, the result is a physical reaction to the listener. So much so that it causes thoughts of inducing physical harm to one's self.
Don't do drugs, kids. And don't be that guy. NOBODY likes that guy.
Instead I will leave you, fairly wordless, with the follwing (it is real):
Thank you, Sanjaya. Purrrrrfection.
The new Moby song is pretty dec (pronounced: deese/read: decent). I can see this being in a slo-mo scene of the following:
a.) teen/dance party scene on a tv show
b.) placed just-so in a risque Grey's Anatomy scene, or
c.) at every single house party in Greenpoint/Williamsburg in Brooklyn on Friday.
c-c-c-c-check it out, below: it is so good.
Literally one of my favorite songs, EVER. IT IS THE HAPPIEST SONG EVER CREATED in the history of TIME. Seriously. I literally turn into Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and just gotta DANCE, DANCE, DANCE whenever I hear it. I have to stop EVERYTHING and just groove. Yeah, I said it; fuckin' groove, man. And bounce and bop and shimmy and whatnot. I do it all. This song makes me smile just thinking about it. I am contemplating torturing my office co-workers with a little impromptu dance sesh to this song right now, in fact.
Enjoy the sugary-sweet musical stylings of Alphabeat & their song "Fascination" below! The cutest group to come out of Copenhagen...ever!
Just a little something to keep you boppin' around & in a good mood for your Thursday. Who DOESN'T love this song?
Unfortunately I couldn't embed the official video because my friendz over at UMG said it's not allowed. Wah wah...so enjoy...some time-lapsed clouds instead? Whatevs just LISTEN TO THE JAM AND ROCK OUT.
When I was a small child, roughin' it in the suburbs of Connecticut, I had two true loves: cats and Ace of Base. While I lost my "cat in a Jack-o-Lantern" earrings somewhere after the 6th grade (as well as my love of cats after my own Misty's fatal garage door emergency pull-cord incident - long story), I secretly always held a place in my heart for AoB. My next-door-neighbor and I used to literally rock the fuck out (as much as 9 year olds could, well, rock out) when not playing "school bus" on our bikes, to Ace of Base. We even planned having a concert that involved dancing, side-ponytails, glitter, and probably belly-shirts. Definitely belly-shirts. I was definitely one of those kids (surprised?) that when I heard an Ace of Base jam on the radio, I immediately screeched for a hault of the changing-of-the-channel, and prompty wailed my heart out. I also had that shit on TAPE, motherfuckers. (Take that, children of the nineties!)
So you have no idea what sort of weird-inner-glee slash nervous-energy I have about this news item I heard about: ACE OF BASE IS REUNITING AND GOING ON A WORLD TOUR.
I'm fairly certain that there is nothing that the Swedes can't do, don't get me wrong. But I am terrified that this is the start of a downward spiral of BAD 80s/90s groups attempting comebacks, desperate for the spotlight. Venga Boys? Whigfield? Anyone? (And yes, I'm looking at you, too, Los Del Rio!) I mean, I could really go on and on, perhaps venturing into most of the artists featured on the Best of Dance Hits Super Mix Volume One...but I'm fairly certain that the title itself explains my point. Also, a pause for the following review:
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---Great Dance CD - a real keeper, July 2, 2000
By Dance music lover (Bird Rock, Basseterre Saint Kitts and Nevis) - See all my reviews
My co-workers are so fed up of me and my dance cds, because my desk drawer is filled with them. Now they ahve more reason to be peeved with me because I literally play this thing for the full 8 hours I'm at work. People will ask me if I'm not tired of listening to the same thing over and over but never have I had a collection of dance tracks like this one that have me clicking repeat on my cd player. This CD is so awesome. The songs blend perfectly into one another and the choices for the cd wer phenomenal...I couldn't have picked them better myself...BUY IT, BUY IT BUY IT. I wasn't disappointed and you won't be either
I CLEARLY want to work with THIS GUY (girl? but really, this person is clearly THAT GUY.)
In any event, the idea of an Ace of Base reunion is awesome in a novelty sense, though I'm not sure if I can really fully evoke my 9-year-old self without embarrassing myself and several family members--so, I might just be one of those fools that says "AWESOME" from afar.
In Memoriam:
Yes, it is indeed a beautiful life--thanks to you and your electro-sugar-pop dance beats and your exquisite use of:
a.) the green screen
b.) football images (YAY EUROPEAN THINGS!)
c.) follical diversity
d.) fans for that really classic "windswept" look
e.) trampolines in front of said green screen
f.) cityscapes
...this is a video that even The Hoff would be jealous of.
(and because I can't resist):
