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BUG 19: Young Loves’ Rotten Fruit by Chris LaGarce
It starts with a home video shot of a sunset on the back of a windblown pickup, heading for the woods. Then things get a lot more weird, in Chris LaGarce’s utterly gripping video for the unsigned...
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Better late than never on Promo… Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau’s hypno-erotic video for Sébastian Tellier, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his label Record Makers, for a song from his...
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Benga’s Baltimore Kiss by Kristofer Ström
Kristofer Ström, hailed lots of moons ago for his virtuoso, highly influential work for Minilogue’s Hitchhikers Choice, returns with this beautifully designed and directed animation for dubstep...
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BUG 19: Pixels by Patrick Jean
It’s unlikely, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s Patrick Jean’s brilliant 8-bit destruction of New York. So much more enjoyable than 2012. And since Pixels came out (and several million views...
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Broken Bells’ The Ghost Inside by Jacob Gentry
Christina Hendricks – the formidable Joan Holloway in Mad Men – trades the 1960s for some distant future in Jacob Gentry’s FX-heavy new video for Danger Mouse and Shins’ James Mercer’s project Broken...
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Katy Perry’s California Gurls featuring Snoop Dogg by Mathew Cullen
Katy Perry returns with a blockbuster production of VFX directed by Mathew Cullen that takes her all-American girl-next-door candy-coloured aesthetic to a whole new level. In fact, to a logical...
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The Maccabees’ Young Lions by Peter Szewczyk
In Peter Szewczyk’s delightful video for the Maccabees’ Young Lions, a boy finds solace from a tough world with the help of a beautiful pet moth. When his cruel father intervenes both boy and insect...
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MGMT’s Its Working by So-Me
MGMT buy a big box – which leads to all sorts of surrealism. It’s a delightful, witty flight of imagination by designer-director So-Me – quite different from his signature graphic style (colours are...
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Diagram Of The Heart’s Dead Famous by The Holograms@UFO
Featuring vice pole-dancing champion Manuela Carneiro, the video for new Sony signings Diagram Of The Heart by The Holograms – that’s FX Pourre and Vince Viriot – is, not surprisingly, sexy. But it’s...
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Pancho Ballard & The Banditos’ Cut Throat Of Old Mexico by Adam Comiskey
Taken from their Five Songs For Oscar EP, the spaghetti rock of Pancho Ballard & The Banditos’ Cut Throat Of Old Mexico enjoys this lovely animated treatment by Adam Comiskey, complete with...
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Gorillaz’ On Melancholy Hill by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland
The second video from Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach is reliably stylish, intriguing and great-looking, beautifully produced work by Jamie Hewlett and his animation director Pete Candeland, who continue to...
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Great Lake Swimmers’ River’s Edge by Nir Ben Jacob
Nir Ben Jacob, who directed the beautiful animation for The Walkmen’s On The Water last year, has now created a wonderful video for Toronto band Great Lake Swimmers that was inspired by the discovery...
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Hey Champ’s Neverest by Matthew Lessner
Now that’s what you call a boob job. Remarkable (and very wrong) dolphin-breast VFX by Paranoid Design Studio in a video by Matthew Lessner that is even more wacked-out than all the other wacked-out...
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Faithless’ Tweak Your Nipple by MIE
Following their successful collaboration on Not Going Home, Faithless team up with animation collective Moving Image Exchange (MIE) again for Tweak Your Nipple – the next single to be lifted from their...
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BUG 20: The Cinematic Orchestra’s Lilac Wine by Vanessa Marzaroli
To celebrate their 50th anniversary, Dr Martens asked 10 artists to record their version of a cult classic track that represents the spirit of the people who’ve worn DM’s over the past 50 years. One of...
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Massive Attack’s Atlas Air by Edouard Salier
Edouard Salier’s video for Massive Attack’s Splitting The Atom, from the band’s latest album Heligoland, is one of the most remarkable achievements of the past year – an almost inconceivably detailed...
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Flying Lotus’s Kill Your Co-Workers by Beeple
Beeple’s beautifully realised, cheerfully super-violent American nightmare for Flying Lotus’s Kill Your Co-Workers, from his new beeptastic EP Pattern + Grid World. This is what happens when you give...
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Syd Matters’ Hi-Life by Jérémie Périn
The man who brought us the very naughty, very brilliant Truckers’ Delight for Flairs has returned with something that, on the face of it, is a lot more serene. But Jérémie Périn’s video for...
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Everything Everything’s Photoshop Handsome by Jon Everything
Everything Everything’s second video for Photoshop Handsome is finally out, and in keeping with their name, the band have essentially crammed a complete manual of desktop animation and VFX to...
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George Michael’s December Song (3D version) by MIE
MIE have re-worked George Michael’s Christmas single of last year, December Song, with the characters in 3D – now taking on a richer, fuller and more pronounced effect. Comparison’s can be made...
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Daft Punk’s Derezzed by Warren Fu
So you are making a video for the new Daft Punk soundtrack to Tron Legacy, knowing that there are about a thousand videos already made that were ‘inspired by’ the original movie. What do you do?...
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Fly Trapped In A Jar: An Alien Musical by The Saline Project
It’s been beset by problems and misfortune, and had its release delayed for over two years. But it’s now finally out there: Fly Trapped In A Jar: An Alien Musical by the Saline Project is a dazzling...
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The Who’s Tattoo by Chris Boyle
It’s not every day that a new video for a classic track from one of the iconic British rock bands comes along – but here’s one. Chris Boyle – who won an UK MVA for Best Music Ad last October – gets to...
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Mishkin’s A Good Day To Die by Ben Daure and Tom Box
In the video for Mishkin’s A Good Day To Die, the Grim Reaper goes about his business on the orders of the grumpy Butter God – and then loses it completely and decides to get rid of anyone he doesn’t...
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Faithless’ Sun To Me by MIE
Faithless continue their relationship with animation collective Moving Image Exchange (MIE) for the next single to be taken from the album The Dance. Sun To Me is the second half of the story started...
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Everything Everything’s Final Form by Jon Everything
After his utterly completely bonkers video for Photoshop Handsome, Everything Everything frontman Jon Everything takes the directing reins again for Final Form, with Phil Tidy again producing to create...
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George Michael’s True Faith by MIE
Following a starring role in James Corden’s brilliant Comic Relief sketch last week, George Michael teams up with directing collective MIE for his somewhat maverick version of the New Order favourite...
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Flashman’s The Proposition by Jack Cunningham
This is the first track from To The Victor – The Spoils! – the debut album by Flashman, a new jazzy-style combo created by Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin and Robin Jones of Beta Band and their mates. And as...
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Etienne De Crecy’s No Brain by Fleur & Manu
Here comes a corker. Etienne De Crecy’s No Brain is a massive unapologetic slab of thumping retro-electro, and Fleur & Manu’s video is awesome exercise in appropriately head-frying psychedelic CGI...
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Ghostpoet’s Survive It by UNKNOWN
This video for Coventry and London-based hiphop artist Ghostpoet’s Survive It is the first promo to come out of Passion Pictures newly-formed live action venture Passion RAW – and also the directing...
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BBC Radio 6’s Building 6Music by Dom Bridges
The new promo for digital station BBC 6 Music directed by Dom Bridges entertainingly features Jarvis, Lauren, Huey, Lamacq, Cerys and new recruits Radcliffe and Maconie who are ‘building 6Music’ from...
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DJ Captain Wang’s Judgement Day by Jono Candlish-Wilson
Top notch CGI animation for dubstep artist DJ Captain Wang’s Judgement Day – modeled, animated and directed by Manchester-based first–timer Jono Candlish-Wilson. Jono combines Terminators and...
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Owl City’s Alligator Sky (feat. Shawn Chrystopher) by Steve Hoover
Endeavor directing/producing duo Steve Hoover and Danny Yourd have delivered their fourth promo for Owl City (aka singer/songwriter Adam Young) – this time working closely with the team at the Animal...
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Countdown by Céline Desrumaux (music: Apparat)
Céline Desrumaux, one half of animation/direction team Céline & Yann, creators of The Giants animation series and signed to Passion – has now completed this personal project, a gorgeous short...
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Noisia ‘Could This Be’ by Alexander Lehmann
Fasten your seat belts…Dutch dance outfit Noisia’s Could This Be is subject to this exciting and hypnotic promo from German director/animator Alexander Lehmann – following the path of an aircraft, and...
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Om UNIT ‘Ulysses’ by BISON
Following their mesmerising work for Jon Hopkins with Swarm and Vessel, and their recent Samsung ad Love Note, Dave Bullivant and Owen Silverwood of BISON have now scratched a nagging itch to dabble in...
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Tamara Schlesinger ‘Again’ by Lee Bamsey
Lee Bamsey, director and VFX artist at Loco, does a cracking job with the video for Tamara Schlesinger’s Again, telling the charming and really quite gripping story of a paper cutout figure who falls...
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Reso ‘Axion’ by Tim Fox
Director Tim Fox simply describes this video as “based around a lonely schizophrenic worm who loses his mind to the track and has an all-night rave.” A pretty apt description that captures what’s...
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Sun Industries ‘Shiver’ by TinyDog
Signed to the Noel Gallagher-affiliated Ignition imprint, the mysterious space-loving electronic combo Sun Industries hire TinyDog to take their inter-galactic obsessions to new heights via the promo...
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Blind Digital Citizen ‘War’ by Chris Dias
The mysteries of the universe, in glorious black and white, for French band Blind Digital Citizen’s War, by CG animation whizz Chris Dias. Chris also worked on the artwork for the band’s first EP, and...
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The School ‘Why Do You Have To Break My Heart Again?’ by Lucy Dawkins & Tom...
Combining live action with animation and CG effects, directors Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy mould this hugely watchable promo for Cardiff band The School. Showcasing their illustration, animation and...
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Tahiti Boy and the Palmtree Family ‘The Park’ by Arnaud Delord and Vincent...
A series of windows invite the viewer into the private lives of city dwellers in the atmospheric video for Tahiti Boy and the Palmtree Family’s The Park, co-directed by filmmaker Arnaud Delord and...
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Monarchy & Dita Von Teese ‘Disintegration’ by Roy Raz
Roy Raz offers up a curious and compelling slice of erotic futurism in his promo for Monarchy’s Disintegration – with an enigmatic, subtly pulsating performance from one Dita Von Teese, who also...
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Secret Friend ‘Without My Pr0n’ by Adam Comiskey
Steven Fox aka Secret Friend found the Pew36, the South Coast-based animation studio, via Radar to make a video for his resonant tale of long-term porn addiction – with a humourously naughty...
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The Staves ‘Winter Trees’ by Karni and Saul
Karni and Saul return to music videos with this delightful animation for The Staves’ Winter Trees, which demonstrates how far they have come from their stop-frame animating roots. It’s a forest scene...
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Xilent ‘Boss Wave’ by Kristofer Ström
Up to now, Kristofer Ström has restricted his highly imaginative, darkly humourous, supremely violent music videos for hardcore dubstep tracks to drawn animation – like 16-bit’s Dinosaurs and Delta...
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Chad Valley ‘I Owe You This’ feat Twin Shadow by White Rabbit
Jon Park and Grant White – aka White Rabbit – explore the joy of youthful mischief with Chad Valley and his guest, Twin Shadow. Here, a bunch of bashful teenagers break into a bowling alley late at...
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The Satellite Year ‘A Campus, A Heart, A Star’ by Thorsten Hary
Eighteen months after his remarkable video for The Satellite Year’s implausibly titled Jelly, Jelly, How To Survive Such A Trip?, director and VFX whizz Thorsten Hary has been at it again for the...
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Is Tropical ‘Dancing Anymore’ by Megaforce (NSFW)
A word of warning: if you’re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don’t watch this video. Or if you’re in a workplace with other people that aren’t necessarily as broadminded...
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Discodeine ‘Aydin’ by Pleix
French directing team Pleix – responsible for some outstanding videos in the mid-Noughties – have not made one in ages. Only now they have. In fact, a beautiful exercise in motion visuals for Aydin –...
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