The first great Irish music video of the year? You betcha. Souljacker’s Wicklow mountains-set video for The Ambience Affair is made up of 15,000 still images with NO video cameras used in the process.
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How to be a real man
The funniest ad we’ve seen in an age and it’s for men’s deodorant. “What’s in your hand? Back at me. I have it. It’s an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love!”.
Die Antwoord: South Africa’s rap-rave comedy crossover
Move over Flight of the Conchords, there’s a new comedy musical troupe in town. Where Brett and Jemaine used their New Zealand accents as a basis for misheard interpretation gags, South African trio Die Antwoord go the whole indecipherable hog and make impenetrable African hip-hop filled with colloquial slang that manages to be funny and confusing at the same time. If Ali G was from Cape Town, he’d be in their gang.
Die Antwoord are made up of “zef rap-rave monster” Ninja (zef meaning common or white trash), shrill-voiced “fresh futuristik rich bitch” Yo-landa Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek. They first came to attention a few weeks ago when their odd music videos popped up on various pop culture websites. When we say odd we mean like Enter The Ninja which mixes the boom-bap of hip-hop with euphoric Euro synths with a screeching chorus from Yo-Landa or the ’90s rave-rap of ‘Beat Boy’.
Despite their comedy stylings and dubious origins, just like Ali G they actually managed to fool plenty of people into thinking they were the real-deal white-trash rap pack of Cape Town. Their impressive website will no doubt be where the trio attempt to capitalise on their viral meme status when they release a free downloadable album soon.
Read about I’m From Barcelona & Dion Dublin’s music instrument >>
Linkage:The five best music mashups, More Trapped in the Closet on the way
The five best music mashups
A top five of genuinely superbly crafted music mashups. Behold how suited Iron Maiden’s The Trooper and The Monkees’ I’m A Believer fit together and tell me it’s not a mash made in heaven.
Read at Blender
From Justice to Jay-Z
Jay-Z’s recent single On To The Next One is built on a sample taken from Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. Hear how it was done.
Watch at Nialler9
R Kelly has more Trapped in the Closet
R Kelly claims to have 15 more chapters of his seminal hip-hopera ready to go. He just wants to know if you want it. Yes, R. Yes, we do.
Read at The Daily Swarm
Band of Blogs: No Monster Club, Donal Dineen, Quadron & more
No Monster Club free album
Not content with channeling his energies into his other band Dublin Duck Dispensary, young Dubliner Bobby Aherne has started another lo-fi pop project with two volumes of Tropical Decibels releases on the way. Check out the surf-pop of ‘Wish Me Well’.
http://www.myspace.com/nomonsterclub
Donal Dineen First Fifteen Mix
The Small Hours Today FM DJ has a 15-track compilation of recent delights available on Soundcloud with tracks from Joy Orbision, Patrick Kelleher, Floating Points, Invisible Conga People and Soap & Skin.
Listen at Soundcloud
Denmark’s newest export
Quadron are Denmark’s hottest new silky soul-pop export and after you hear songs like Slippin, Average Fruit and Pressure you’ll know exactly why.
Listen at Nialler9
Hear Florence Welch & David Byrne’s collaboration
Taken from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s concept album about Imelda Marcos, Here Lies Love is a sweeping big band number with a ’70s disco interlude turn featuring Florence of Florence & The Machine on vocals.
Sites of the Week: Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
Iceland Wants To Be Your Friend
It’s a little country in the middle of the ocean. And it’s full of mountains and glaciers and hot water and things. And sheep. And nice Icelandic people, who like to make music, and who are sometimes cold. And it would really like to be your friend.
http://www.icelandwantstobeyourfriend.com
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
The only thing linking Tom Selleck, waterfalls and sandwiches together is this fun little Tumblr photo blog. Don’t ask why, just go with the flow.
http://selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com
Texts from Last Night
Now in book form, this site collates funny text messages from submissions sent in. Somewhere amongst these 160-character capacity thoughts is the meaning of life. Or not.
http://textsfromlastnight.com
If Wes Anderson directed Spiderman
An on-point trailer parody of what famed Spiderman directed by indie filmmaker Wes Anderson would be like. The guy playing Owen Wilson could make some serious money from how good his impersonation is.
Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
Director Edouard Salier uses this gloomy synth number from the band’s new album Heligoland to soundtrack the last few seconds of a chrome, crystal-filled world’s apocalypse, but not before revealing the monstrous cause.
