Director Jonathan Chong of Dropbear recommissions 240 audio cassettes, 1700m of video tape, 108 floppy discs and an old Walkman in a stop motion video for Australian DJ Opiuo’s Quack Fat (from the album Meraki).
Proper old school.
Making-of featurette here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UPGRwMgJ3k
Cookie Monster covers Busta Rhymes’ ‘Gimme Some More’ thanks to some nifty editing by visual artist Benjamin ‘Animal Robot’ Roberts.
Now try Big Bird singing Big Pun’s ‘Still Not A Player’.
If you Want Me To Stay (Sly And The Family Stone cover) – CC Brez
CC Brez writes:
Hey here’s my band running ‘if you want me to stay’ by Sly Stone live at the Bello Bar Dublin. If you enjoy it and wanna hear more we are playing Whelans on Thursday, June 18 for our EP launch.
Previously: Scandalous
Ronin Murphy writes:
With the leaving cert starting next week I thought it might be interesting to put W. B. Yeats’ September 1913 to some original music (with a west coast hip hop vibe).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz_24nxMM98
Of this trailer for a longer feature, John Fleming writes:
legendary Irish rocker Eamonn Dowd, based in Sweden, performs frequently around Europe with his bands the Racketeers and the Last Souls. Dublin gigs usually see him in the Leeson Lounge. Dowd was the front man with The Swinging Swine oh years ago. The full video is being entered into some short film festivals etc. Hence the trailer.
The Pox Men – Bog Surfer
Twisted bog surfer.
Donegal’s finest
Bill Hazzard writes:
Here’s a Summery wee tune for the dirty oul’ damp Summer’s day that’s in it, fresh from the bog and covered in muck…
Previously : Paddy The Saint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhT_gVh_73w
Just when you though that video couldn’t get any better, Plasmatic Research Laboratory sez:
49 students were each given 52 frames of Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake it Off’ video, resulting in 2,767 frames of lovingly hand-drawn rotoscoped footage.
Loz Nanigans of the Australian musical duo Shonky Brothers recorded one of his farts and declared it to be a major seventh arpeggio in the key of B flat.
He then set about composing a ‘seven tone fart symphony’.
It’s disgusting, but you’ll all be humming it later.
Humming.
Ah forget it.
A note perfect guitar cover of Metallica’s Master of Puppets by 16 year old French guitar virtuoso Tina S.
Last year, she gave an even more impressive rendition of the solo from Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb.
The guitar is a custom Vigier Excalibur. But you knew that.
Do you like the Palestinian Oud music?
You do?
Orla Smith writes:
Le Trio Joubran is a Palestinian oud trio formed of three brothers – Samir, Wissam and Adnan – originally from Nazareth and now touring and performing worldwide, along with master percussionist Youssef Hbeisch.. Hearing is believing. Quite simply, Le Trio Joubran is one of the most exciting instrumental groups in the world.
Tuesday 9th June, 8pm.
Tickets available from the National Concert Hall
Previously: Do You Like The Malian Music?
