Artist: Rudely Interrupted
Track: Close My Eyes
Director: Tov Belling
In this video director Tov Belling produces a well shot performance video that gradually reveals how remarkable Melbourne band Rudely Interrupted truly are.
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See you next week for another great music video.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
WMVP062 - Dinner For One by Amity In Fame
Artist: Amity In Fame
Track: Dinner For One
Director: Michael Bichler
If you notice a drop in video quality for my introduction in this weeks episode I apologise. My webcam decided to start playing up, so I had to use my laptop's internal webcam.
In this week's video Austrian band Amity In Fame directed by their lead singer Michael Bichler create what on the surface is a pretty frivolous video, but it does have an interesting subtext.
The song deals with the human race's obsession with consumption and to illustrate this point the band dress up as furry animals and play the party game cutting chocolate. Their prize is not a bar of chocolate though, it's a human girl.
This is a great video that works on multiple levels.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Track: Dinner For One
Director: Michael Bichler
If you notice a drop in video quality for my introduction in this weeks episode I apologise. My webcam decided to start playing up, so I had to use my laptop's internal webcam.
In this week's video Austrian band Amity In Fame directed by their lead singer Michael Bichler create what on the surface is a pretty frivolous video, but it does have an interesting subtext.
The song deals with the human race's obsession with consumption and to illustrate this point the band dress up as furry animals and play the party game cutting chocolate. Their prize is not a bar of chocolate though, it's a human girl.
This is a great video that works on multiple levels.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
WMVP061 - Burn It Down by AWOLNATION
Artist: AWOLNATION
Track: Burn It Down
Director: Jeffrey Reed
Some videos get selected for this podcast because they are beautifully shot or show impressive imagination. The primary reason this one made the cut is it's enormous fun. It helps it also fits rather well with the artist's style.
AWOLNATION is a Los Angeles based project that fuses rock, electronica and hip-hop into a wonderful sound. Director Jeffrey Reed has taken the frenetic style of the band and created a mad visual experience. We find AWOLNATION front man Aaron Bruno in a court room where the judge (played by DJ Samantha Ronson who has remixed AWOLNATION) accuses him of having a 'guilty filthy soul'. When asked if he has anything to say he proceeds to sing the song and shoots lightning out of his hands that changes the people around him into different things. Soon he is surrounded by mermaids, astronauts, ninjas, cheerleaders and US TV presenter Willa Ford.
It's a truly bizarre, fun experience that fits the song perfectly.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Track: Burn It Down
Director: Jeffrey Reed
Some videos get selected for this podcast because they are beautifully shot or show impressive imagination. The primary reason this one made the cut is it's enormous fun. It helps it also fits rather well with the artist's style.
AWOLNATION is a Los Angeles based project that fuses rock, electronica and hip-hop into a wonderful sound. Director Jeffrey Reed has taken the frenetic style of the band and created a mad visual experience. We find AWOLNATION front man Aaron Bruno in a court room where the judge (played by DJ Samantha Ronson who has remixed AWOLNATION) accuses him of having a 'guilty filthy soul'. When asked if he has anything to say he proceeds to sing the song and shoots lightning out of his hands that changes the people around him into different things. Soon he is surrounded by mermaids, astronauts, ninjas, cheerleaders and US TV presenter Willa Ford.
It's a truly bizarre, fun experience that fits the song perfectly.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
WMVP/Ourobouros Podcast Best Videos of 2010 Shownotes
Another year, another run down of my top 10 independent music videos. As ever there is a wide variety of styles and countries represented to demonstrate the invention and creativity that can be found in the promo medium world wide.
These videos are not in any 1-10 order, they were played in the order that they featured on the Ourobouros Podcast.
'Fix' by Jean-Paul De Roover
From: Thunder Bay, Canada
Director: Shannon Lepere
Appears On: Ourobouros #129 & WMVP #49
What do you get if you have 600 band-aids and a girlfriend who's a photographer? If you're Canadian singer Jean-Paul De Roover you get an awesome video. They took 2022 still photographs of Jean-Paul being 'attacked' by band-aids and then edited them together to make a great stop-motion animated video. Stop-motion is time intensive, but a great, cheap way to make an effective video.
'T-T-Time' by The Paper Scissors
From: Sydney, Australia
Directors: Jamie Gerlach & The Band
Appears On: Ourobouros #129 & WMVP #51
This video is at the same time a lot of fun and surprisingly morbid. The premise is that The Paper Scissors are dead and auditions are held to replace them. The band got their friends to be the auditioners and each of them are monumentally inappropriate in various ways. It's one of those videos that looks like it was a lot of fun to make and takes a strange idea to a fun conclusion.
'Dinner For One' by Amity In Fame
From: Linz, Austria
Director: Michael Bichler
Appears On: Ourobouros #130
One for the furries here... On one level this is a very frivolous video, but dig deeper and it starts to make a serious point. The song talks about how the human race is so concerned with consumption that we are destroying the earth. The metaphor that director and band member Michael Bichler uses to illustrate this point is the band members dressing up as furry animals and playing an Austrian party game called Cutting Chocolate. However instead of winning chocolate to eat, the animals attempt to eat a human girl. The fact that they are unsuccessful makes the videos point for it.
'Jolie Coquine' by Caravan Palace
From: Paris, France
Director: Victor Haegelin
Appears On: Ourobouros #133 & WMVP #57
This video perfectly sums up the ethos of the band. Caravan Palace are a band that aims to update the swing-jazz music of '20s Paris, so the video for this track is an animation that takes posters from that period and melds them with cardboard representations of the band. It's a lot of fun and fits perfectly.
'Satisfied' by The Smoking Mirrors
From: Pacific Grove, California
Director: Michael Yanoska
Appears On: Ourobouros #143 & WMVP #50
A micro budget video that is all the more impressive when you know that Michael Yanoska was 18 when he performed and directed the video. Incredibly simple concept of arranging 10 TVs in a big circle and recording footage that moves seamlessly between them. The planning needed to make this video work is incredibly impressive, and while this video probably has the lowest production values of any on this list, it's still very visually impressive and entertaining.
'Unus' by Thisorder
From: Ischia, Italy
Director: Marco Bizzarro
Appears On: Ourobouros #149 & WMVP #53
This video takes the famous concept of The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up' video directed by Jonas Akerlund and takes it to the max. Director Marco Bizzarro takes us on a POV journey for an Italian pimp as he goes about his nightly business. This is a violent, despicable video that uses cartoons to slightly undercut the nastiness.
'From Heroes To Angels' by Never A Hero
From: Sudbury, England
Director: Blaise Johal
Appears On: Ourobouros #154 & WMVP #59
Here we have a combination of exciting live performance and challenging story. A tormented girl finds the strength to fight back through the music and performance of Never A Hero. It's hard to pull off a good performance video and it's also hard to pull off a story based video. Here we have one that manages both.
'I Don't Believe You' by The Thermals
From: Portland, Oregon
Director: Whitey McConnaughy
Appears On: Ourobouros #161 & WMVP #60
As an apparently innocent woman, played by Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, wakes up and tries to turn off her alarm radio, the music keeps playing. So begins an examination of persecution and paranoia as she finds speakers hidden all over her house playing this track by The Thermals. It's a slightly cruel, but very interesting concept that makes for a cool video.
'Burn It Down' by AWOLNATION
From: Los Angeles, California
Director: Jeffrey Reed
Appears On: Ourobouros #161
A manic, exuberant video that nicely sums up the bizarre clash of styles that AWOLNATION has in it's music. We start in a court room where a judge, played by celebrity DJ and AWOLNATION remixer Samantha Ronson, asks AWOLNATION if he has anything to say. And so begins an insane video involving astronauts, mermaids, ninjas, cheerleaders and US TV presenter Willa Ford. Some videos are on this list for clever film making or original ideas. This video is on the list because it's an enormous amount of fun.
'Americanarama' by Hollerado
From: Manotick, Canada
Director: Greg Jardin
Appears On: Ourobouros #165
Another intricately planned one shot video that brings up images of old 8-Bit videos. Take 24 volunteers in a series of scaffolding boxes, give them a series of cards and let them become like an LCD screen. This video was shot in one take and supposedly they got it right on the 12th attempt. A brilliant video that highlights perfectly the ethos that you don't need a great deal of money to create a fantastic video.
As ever it was very difficult to whittle the list down to a final 10. Honourable mentions go to:
Girl In The Red Dress by Epyllion Directed by Eric St-Cyr
Not Sitting by Karoshi Directed by Nick Light
Tongue by MaJiKer Directed by Raphael Neal
All You by Oh No Not Stereo Directed by Matt Yang & Iain Harris
Stigmata by Omega Lithium Directed by Ivan Colic
These videos are not in any 1-10 order, they were played in the order that they featured on the Ourobouros Podcast.
'Fix' by Jean-Paul De Roover
From: Thunder Bay, Canada
Director: Shannon Lepere
Appears On: Ourobouros #129 & WMVP #49
What do you get if you have 600 band-aids and a girlfriend who's a photographer? If you're Canadian singer Jean-Paul De Roover you get an awesome video. They took 2022 still photographs of Jean-Paul being 'attacked' by band-aids and then edited them together to make a great stop-motion animated video. Stop-motion is time intensive, but a great, cheap way to make an effective video.
'T-T-Time' by The Paper Scissors
From: Sydney, Australia
Directors: Jamie Gerlach & The Band
Appears On: Ourobouros #129 & WMVP #51
This video is at the same time a lot of fun and surprisingly morbid. The premise is that The Paper Scissors are dead and auditions are held to replace them. The band got their friends to be the auditioners and each of them are monumentally inappropriate in various ways. It's one of those videos that looks like it was a lot of fun to make and takes a strange idea to a fun conclusion.
'Dinner For One' by Amity In Fame
From: Linz, Austria
Director: Michael Bichler
Appears On: Ourobouros #130
One for the furries here... On one level this is a very frivolous video, but dig deeper and it starts to make a serious point. The song talks about how the human race is so concerned with consumption that we are destroying the earth. The metaphor that director and band member Michael Bichler uses to illustrate this point is the band members dressing up as furry animals and playing an Austrian party game called Cutting Chocolate. However instead of winning chocolate to eat, the animals attempt to eat a human girl. The fact that they are unsuccessful makes the videos point for it.
'Jolie Coquine' by Caravan Palace
From: Paris, France
Director: Victor Haegelin
Appears On: Ourobouros #133 & WMVP #57
This video perfectly sums up the ethos of the band. Caravan Palace are a band that aims to update the swing-jazz music of '20s Paris, so the video for this track is an animation that takes posters from that period and melds them with cardboard representations of the band. It's a lot of fun and fits perfectly.
'Satisfied' by The Smoking Mirrors
From: Pacific Grove, California
Director: Michael Yanoska
Appears On: Ourobouros #143 & WMVP #50
A micro budget video that is all the more impressive when you know that Michael Yanoska was 18 when he performed and directed the video. Incredibly simple concept of arranging 10 TVs in a big circle and recording footage that moves seamlessly between them. The planning needed to make this video work is incredibly impressive, and while this video probably has the lowest production values of any on this list, it's still very visually impressive and entertaining.
'Unus' by Thisorder
From: Ischia, Italy
Director: Marco Bizzarro
Appears On: Ourobouros #149 & WMVP #53
This video takes the famous concept of The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up' video directed by Jonas Akerlund and takes it to the max. Director Marco Bizzarro takes us on a POV journey for an Italian pimp as he goes about his nightly business. This is a violent, despicable video that uses cartoons to slightly undercut the nastiness.
'From Heroes To Angels' by Never A Hero
From: Sudbury, England
Director: Blaise Johal
Appears On: Ourobouros #154 & WMVP #59
Here we have a combination of exciting live performance and challenging story. A tormented girl finds the strength to fight back through the music and performance of Never A Hero. It's hard to pull off a good performance video and it's also hard to pull off a story based video. Here we have one that manages both.
'I Don't Believe You' by The Thermals
From: Portland, Oregon
Director: Whitey McConnaughy
Appears On: Ourobouros #161 & WMVP #60
As an apparently innocent woman, played by Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, wakes up and tries to turn off her alarm radio, the music keeps playing. So begins an examination of persecution and paranoia as she finds speakers hidden all over her house playing this track by The Thermals. It's a slightly cruel, but very interesting concept that makes for a cool video.
'Burn It Down' by AWOLNATION
From: Los Angeles, California
Director: Jeffrey Reed
Appears On: Ourobouros #161
A manic, exuberant video that nicely sums up the bizarre clash of styles that AWOLNATION has in it's music. We start in a court room where a judge, played by celebrity DJ and AWOLNATION remixer Samantha Ronson, asks AWOLNATION if he has anything to say. And so begins an insane video involving astronauts, mermaids, ninjas, cheerleaders and US TV presenter Willa Ford. Some videos are on this list for clever film making or original ideas. This video is on the list because it's an enormous amount of fun.
'Americanarama' by Hollerado
From: Manotick, Canada
Director: Greg Jardin
Appears On: Ourobouros #165
Another intricately planned one shot video that brings up images of old 8-Bit videos. Take 24 volunteers in a series of scaffolding boxes, give them a series of cards and let them become like an LCD screen. This video was shot in one take and supposedly they got it right on the 12th attempt. A brilliant video that highlights perfectly the ethos that you don't need a great deal of money to create a fantastic video.
As ever it was very difficult to whittle the list down to a final 10. Honourable mentions go to:
Girl In The Red Dress by Epyllion Directed by Eric St-Cyr
Not Sitting by Karoshi Directed by Nick Light
Tongue by MaJiKer Directed by Raphael Neal
All You by Oh No Not Stereo Directed by Matt Yang & Iain Harris
Stigmata by Omega Lithium Directed by Ivan Colic
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WMVP/Ourobouros Podcast Best Videos of 2010
The 10 best videos for tracks that have been played on the Ourobouros Podcast in 2010.
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