This is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in a while. It’s called Moments and it was directed by Will Hoffman.
It’s four minutes full of random moments that make up life. It’s a good flick all on its own but it’s even better in the context of RadioLab’s After Life series, which begins with an hour long show filled with stories dealing with the space and time beyond the point of no return and is followed up by a handful of equally excellent shorts (12,13,14,15,16,after birth) to close it up. This is the second-to-last short in the set.
Pretty eerie stuff coming from RadioLab but not that surprising.
This is a song that was supposed to be part of The Roots’ last album, Rising Down. If I remember correctly, the story is that it was not included because they failed to clear a sample that was used in the track. Also, considering that this was one of The Roots’ grittier sounding albums, something has to be said about it not fitting within its continuity. (Although it was included in the European release.)
In an effort to fill the void in between spurts of ideas for our tuk-tuk’s paint job, I came up on this video oldie but goodie. It’s the video for Mayday’s Quicksand, their first and I believe, what got them signed to Southbeat Records, where they would eventually produce Groundhog Day and blow up all over the innertubes. Before Plex got all ZZ Top with his beard. Back when it was just him & Bernbiz.
Shot in all over Miami and still one of my favorite Mayday! joints.
This one is even better than the last one. Mayday! performing ‘Last Resort’ at their Technology EP (available online, for free) release party at Transit Lounge:
I wanted to post the full video for the song Breathe by Telepopmusik (featuring Angela McCluskey). There’s actually two versions of it, the one that plays in the Mitsubishi commercial (which is the one I’m posting) and the original version, found on Telepopmusik’s 2001 album “Genetic World.” The video for the version of that song is pretty rad itself and you can check that out HERE.
There was some sort of fullness to the voice in that song in the woman parts trimmer commercial that I couldn’t get outta my head, so I went on a pre-easter egg hunt on the internets. It turns out that the voice belongs to Scottish singer Angela McCluskey.
After listening to her for a bit, I’d say she’s somewhere right between Nikka Costa and Macy Gray as far as vocal stylings are concerned. A sultrier version of Nikka and a crisper Macy Gray and right along the same neigborhood, musically speaking – the place where rock, soul and r&b meet.
She dropped her first solo “The Things We Do” back in 2004 and from the snippets it strikes me as a soulish rock album. She definitely has a rocky edge about her but I see her more as a soul/r&b singer set to downtempo beats, something along the lines of the track in the commercial, which btw, it seems like something for which it was exclusively created.
She is also much better known for her collaborations with the French group Telepopmusik. So much so, that chances are that you’ve heard her voice before.
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