Music Video

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New Video mix: Totally Tropicana by Johnny Clash (Bam Bam Sound)

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“Totally Tropicana” DJ mix by Johnny Clash

Ok, ok, it’s not ‘new’ new but it’s less than a year old and that’s kinda new, right? Last year my good friend and esteemed mucker DJ Johnny Clash asked me to supply a VJ mix for a 30 minute DJ mix he was asked to provide for Uncommon Sense x Deadstream broadcast which was on Twitch on July 23rd 2022. We both waited to wait until that excellent stream had got all the views it would without detracting from it by posting up another version and, well, after 10 months I reckon we’re ok now. ;) Visuals were created in synaesthesia live in which I ran through the set end to end and recorded a few passes (to keep it with a live feel about it) and then edited with some DJ footage I asked JC to provide to give it a human touch. After all, It’s always a delight to see JC’s face :)

Tracklisting

Faizal Mostrixx - Agada Yil Kuwade [East African Records]
Ahadadream - KOYAL [R&S]
Swordman Kitala, K-Lone - Malanga Ja [Blip Discs]
OMAAR - Prince Rorro [More Time]
Sho Madjozi & She's Drunk - Amadoda (Shy One Remix) [Through My Speakers]
Griffit Vigo ft DJ Ree - Club Bang Snare [Apparel Records]
Menchess - Point Blank (gqom tech) [Gqom Oh!]
Phelimuncasi (prod DJ Nhlekzin) - I don't feel my legs [Nyege Nyege Tapes]
SNØW feat Kuenta - Yeke Yeke [More Time]
Al Wootton - Body Healthy [TRULE]

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New Videos: Introducing Live play Daft Punk videos 2017

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In addition to last week's Echaskech video  here's a couple of videos I made for Introducing Live's Daft Punk Performance at Wilderness 2017. A performance so good that even the N.M.E. described it as their  "unexpected highlight of the festival" 

There's a couple of videos out there that already explore the idea that Michel Gondry's iconic video is palindromic so I started with that , but I wanted to also represent the idea of - as Introducing live are a band covering Daft Punk  -  other people covering the video (of which there are quite a few if you spend days on You Tube searching them out) and that is the latter segment (sort of people from around the world doing the dance from "around the world") but when I got the audio from the band (I'd been using the Daft Punk track as guide audio) I realised that they play a little insert from "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger". Not wanting to repeat my earlier HBFS video (which also tries to show the incredible creative fandom that exists around Daft Punk) I explored the idea of improvement and - after working on another video project where I'd worked on (and abandoned) a master-cut of 80s TV shows - my brain pushed the two ideas together and came up with the homage to the bionic man and woman that just works so well with this section.

Daft Punk's Robot Rock is, well... a bit dull and repetitive - quite apt for a robot song about robots - and personally I think Introducing Live's version is much better, primarily because they can add in more dynamic range into the performance. As soon as I knew that this track was in the set list I knew what I wanted to do: a compilation of movie robots! I started to make my own and then wondered if anyone had already done this already and lo (the internet provides) I found three 'history of movie robots' videos which I sliced and diced, retimed and corrected to the audio and added a bit of Electroma foootage at the end, but really most of the exceptional hard work and credit should go to Jonathan Mann's "Every movie robot..." video

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Videos from Introducing Live's Performance of DJ Shadow's Entroducing

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