I’ve wanted to post this video for a while now, but I never really know what to say about it. It features some great cinematography of ecosystem dioramas and objects hitting each other in slow motion I guess, and the song is very pretty synth pop, but otherwise I’ve got nothing for this one. Might as well post the video before I forget about it for good though…
Purity Ring’s NyQuil-drenched drugged-out beats seem oddly at home with this footage from the classic Swedish 70’s exploitation film, ‘Thriller: A Cruel Picture’, AKA ‘They Call Her One Eye’, easily one of the craziest revenge movies you’ll ever see. The video does a pretty good job of spelling out the plot of the film, and the music seems to do better justice to the film’s crazy slow slo-mo action sequences that seem to last years than the actual film does. Yet another gem of editing and song selection from David Dean Burkhart.
Yet more proof that if you want to make a good fan video, just take an awesome song and put it to footage from a French New Wave film. In this case we have We Have Band’s “WHB” set to trippy footage from Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1964 film, L’Enfer. I just love the beginning of this video, with the shot of the creepy guy under the bridge intercut with the slow-motion water-skiing. Fan videos don’t get much better than this.
[There’s a little nudity towards the end of the video, so it’s probably NSFW.]
You’d think after watching this fantastic video about a girl who fantasizes about becoming a cardboard robot that it was officially licensed by Cut Copy, but you’d be wrong. Director Ryan Patrick made this spot on fan video to Cut Copy’s “Take Me Over” that wouldn’t seem even slightly out of place when put side by side with any of Cut Copy’s other quirky videos. This one’s definitely worth checking out:
It’s rare that a video posted online can really capture that feeling you get when you see a great band perform live, but I think this performance by Groove Armada at Glastonbury in 2010 does the job pretty darn well. Bonus points for an electronic outfit putting a full band onstage (including brass section!) to rock out.
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POP ETC recently changed their band name from The Morning Benders, mainly because in the UK ‘bender’ is slang for a homosexual and has a completely different meaning than in the States, but also because they wanted to take their music in a new direction and go pure pop with their sound. “Live It Up” is an outstanding pop song that reminds me a lot of some of the better Tahiti 80 stuff.
For Little Boots’ newest single she seems to be embodying Saint Etienne’s Sarah Cracknell while doing her best “Vogue”-era Madonna impression. “Every Night I Say A Prayer” is a pretty killer pop song from Little Boots, epic and catchy in all the ways a good pop song should be. Let’s hope her next album is more like this and isn’t the massive disappointment that her last one was.
Looking for a light and breezy song to close out the rest of your Sunday afternoon? Superhumanoids are here to help. This footage from the 1969 film “Slogan,” starring real-life couple Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, really fits well with the fun and flirty vibe of the song. My only complaint? That this song is only two minutes twenty seconds long.
Singer-songwriter Kwes sounds a lot like Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, so much so that I almost thought it was Kele in this video. Kwes is brand new to the London music scene though, and it seems like his music career is already off to a great start. His smooth, soulful voice just glides over the catchy chorus like honey on toast. This is some perfect music for a Sunday afternoon.
The wait is over everyone.
It’s been a long eight months since my last mixtape hit the webbernet and you’ve been waiting oh so patiently for me to complete a new one, but you need wait no more…the newest C’est non un Blog mixtape has arrived! As the great and wise Herman Cain might say, “Awwwwww Shucky Ducky now! We gonna have some fun!”
The Don’t Believe The DJ mixtape awaits you right here.
Now before we get into the details of the mixtape itself, I thought I might answer a burning question some of you might have, which is “What’s the deal with that picture of the pipe that represents your blog now?”
As some of you might know or have already figured out, the name of my blog derives from one of my favorite paintings, René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images, 1928–29, sometimes translated as The Treason of Images). The painting is of a pipe with the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” written underneath it (translation: This is not a pipe), the idea being that while that image of a pipe looks just like a real pipe it is actually only a visual representation of a pipe that you are looking at. You can’t actually put tobacco in that pipe and smoke it, therefore that’s not really a pipe that you are looking at in the picture.
I decided to play off of that and jokingly call my blog “This is not a blog”, but I went and fucked up the translation. As someone later pointed out to me, “C’est un blog” might have been proper french for “This is a blog”, but french is one of those fucked up languages where the negative of that same sentence would actually be “Ceci n’est pas un blog”, not “C’est non un blog” like how I made it. At that point I debated changing the name of my blog, but ultimately I decided that it would be funnier if not only was this not a blog, but also the name of said blog wasn’t even written in proper french.
That brings us to the picture of the pipe that I added recently to my blog, which is NOT of the painting I mentioned earlier. I’m not sure you can even read what it says in that little thumbnail on the page, but if you can’t what it actually says is “Don’t Believe The Pipe”. This image is a modern interpretation of the classic painting that I found while surfing the internet one day. I thought it would be the perfect picture for my blog, mainly because I hated looking at my own mug every time I copied a post onto my Facebook page, but also because it became a little in-joke for me about the blog that only I would probably ever get. Well, I guess you’re all in on the joke now.
I decided to use that “Don’t believe the pipe” image as the inspiration for this mixtape, the idea being that so many of the songs on here sound like one thing but are actually something much different. The mix stars off with Beat Culture’s “Shoreline”, which uses a sample of the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around”, which gives you a feeling of nostalgia and familiarity while at the same time sounding like something completely new and different. That segways into the Leo Zero remix of Friends’ “Friend Crush”, the original version a song I’ve posted on this blog before. Whereas the original sounds like a love letter to 90’s grrl alt-rock, Leo Zero’s remix is pure 70’s disco.
High Contrast teamed up with Tiësto and Underworld to create “The First Note Is Silent”, a song filled to the brim with energy and chaos, euphoria spiked with massive amounts of adrenaline, a feeling I think the video captures pretty faithfully. I also get a similar vibe from Basement Jaxx’s “The Ends”, which is actually a song they recorded for the film “Attack The Block”, a pretty badass film in its own right.
Not everything on the mixtape is so full of explosive energy. Here’s a fan-vid for Balam Acab’s “Apart”. Balam Acab remind me a lot of Clams Casino, who provide the beat for Lushlife’s “Motivation”. Also included on the mixtape is Balam Acab’s stunningly gorgeous remix to Charli XCX’s “Nuclear Seasons” that somehow manages to make the already classic original version of the song sound even better.
The mixtape is filled fun songs like Spank Rock’s “Car Song” featuring Santigold. Santigold’s vocals sound amazing in this and I dare you not to have fun singing along to that chorus. Also keep an eye out for one of my favorite tracks on the mixtape, Jamie xx’s remix of Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” with a surprise guest verse by Childish Gambino.
Well I hope you enjoy my latest mixtape. Listen to it, share some fresh tunes with your friends, and if you haven’t already done so Like C’est Non Un Blog’s Facebook page to get up to the minute notifications of all the latest posts with a few added bonuses to boot.
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