Animated Music Videos Tribute

Two arts combined. Two arts we love. Music and animation. After the soundtracks radio show, it was time we posted a mix of music and moving pictures. Some of the best music videos have used the power of animation and a wide selection is presented in this post. Below you will find two playlists. (Sorry about the multiple windows, but dailymotion is your friend when it comes to copyrighted material...)
The majority of the videos feature favorite songs. And some are included mainly because of their nice artistic ideas... As always, some obsessions are there in more than one video. (Radiohead, Bjork, Tool..)
Here are the links of the playlists in the original hosting sites for better quality. (But don't browse away......)
Playlist 1 (YouTube)
Playlist 2 (Dailymotion)

I must admit we are on fire lately. 5 posts in one week... Summer wounds... Suppressed energy...

Γ. Αγγελάκας & οι Επισκέπτες - 14.07.09, Μύλος, Θεσσαλονίκη / G. Aggelakas & oi Episkeptes - 14.07.2009, Mylos, Thessaloniki

Our days in the sunny side of the world were not that many, but thankfully we got to see one of our favorite greek artists live on stage. Summer breeze, some alcohol, good friends and great songs were the elements that added one more highlight in that great summer we had... We will probably come back with a detailed tribute to the artist himself, his current projects, as well as the legendary band "Trypes". Until then, YouTube is your friend. Below you will find a playlist with our videos from the concert. Only the first song is taken from another live-set, but the awesomeness of the song made it necessary to put on screen the whole 2009 live version... Visit our YouTube channel for better quality and for the High Definition Videos!

Special thanks goes to Marina and her incredible new HD Camera! (We must get ourselves one of those...)

"Βάλε φωτιά σε ό,τι σε καίει, σε ό,τι σου τρώει την ψυχή
Έξω οι δρόμοι αναπνέουν διψασμένοι, ανοιχτοί
Είναι η αγάπη ένα ταξίδι από γιορτή σε γιορτή
Ζήσε μαζί μου στον αέρα, στη φωτιά στη βροχή
Μας περιμένουν άδειες μέρες ραγισμένοι ουρανοί
Είναι η αγάπη ένα ταξίδι από πληγή σε πληγή..."

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned

Thought I'd get you back a bit as an audience after losing you for so long. The fact that the city is burning (or feels like it) made me realize that people need more fuzz. Minds are often boggled when the heat is up...

San Francisco’s Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound is a soundtrack for strange days and futures bright and bleak. But there is also a crooked thread that runs backward through every Assemble Head record—the celestial trajectories of The Notorious Byrd Brothers and circa ‘70 Floyd; the dusty canyon stomps of Crazy Horse, slashing action pop of the savage young Who, Italian bastardizations of Lalo Schifrin cop movie scores, and the scuzz-bomb shrapnel of latter-day garage mongers like Mudhoney and Monoshock.

The band’s third LP, When Sweet Sleep Returned, is propelled to some extent by that same glorious distillate. But it also finds the group speaking their own twisted tongue more assuredly than ever — marrying hazy Saturday moods,Cuervo shots, interstellar sonics and wrecking-ball swing to song and harmony in poems for California, lovers, ghosts, the stars, ourselves and a world gone stark raving mad.

Think of it as the opposition to my last offering to you. Yin and Yang.

hint: Track 2(Two Birds) - heavenly sonic delusion on strings

Ossein - Sativa

This is more of a dark, evil, psychotic (yet melodic in its own right) soundscape than an album. I know, I know..you have been treated to a summer mood for quite some time now. And you thought it would go on forever now, did you? Oh, well... fools.
I guess words about the music are not exactly capable of capturing what's going on here, so I will quote a legend to give you an idea.

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture."
-John Cage

"Two Riders Were Approaching"

"The task was to fill exactly one CD (that is 80mins max) with a melange of tunes new and old, weird and commercial, uplifting, loud, crazy, unexpected, beloved, typical and whatever else they might be.
As long as they form a collection that we'd like to listen to this summer.
The task was to make a group of songs that make us want to dance, drive faster, drink a mojito more, feel alive and embrace the nostalgic moments a summer has to offer.
Did we fulfill our tasks? I strongly doubt so..too ambitious, too little time.
Nevertheless, the results of our quest will be played this evening in a special AboutTheSunCast and we will offer our CD's as a download for you to burn and spin through the summer."

The post above, our blog duties in general and our worries were left behind for the last 3 weeks, since your favorite bloggers rested (or so we keep telling ourselves) on the golden beaches of the three legged-paradise... As far as we're concerned, the tasks were fulfilled. We drove listening to our CDs, we went to a concert, we drank a mojito or a "submarine" more, we danced (a bit), we fought over my need to read a newspaper and we finally met Sr. Cartmanez's mentor's brother!
But since the summer is not over for many of you, our three compilation CDs are available for you to download and enjoy with the sun hitting your face.
"The Sun Smells Too Loud". Summer 2010 awaits us... Better, stronger and drunker...
Two Riders Were Approaching, Vol. 1, Vodka Gimlet, Sr. Cartmanez
Two Riders Were Approaching, Vol. 2, Joker's Tea, Dr. Mephesto
Two Riders Were Approaching, Vol. 3, Whiskey, Double, Sr. Cartmanez

Twit-Twit-Twit...

As you are all well aware by now, we are always searching for methods to push the bar further and incorporate fancy new technology and trends into our tireless (uhm...yeah) efforts to reach you guys with our musical tastes.

So we just had to include Twitter into this endeavour. thus you could expect the occasional tweet from one of us to appear on both twitter and on the right on the top right of this blog saying that we are bored with the Boredoms, drinking coffee to Blur, eating icecream with some Slayer, driving our cars (dude...where is my car?) to some Pelican while watching the waves or anything of the sort.
Yes, we want to share those cute little moments that we so often describe and it will help us harness the occasional spontaneous moment to communicate with you guys.
You might also want to drop in to leave us a comment if you liked a certain idea or notion, so as usual, it is meant to be VERY interactive.

We do all of this for you, people...

Dr.M/Sr.C

"There is no spoon..."

Another successful Radio Show has come to pass. Once again, a big thank you to our listeners. The recording from the Soundtracks tribute is now available for you to download. Sorry about the delay, but we had to put all our audio engineering skills in motion to fix some problems. The result is of high quality for you to enjoy properly. In other news, all podcasts have been updated, with better ID3 tags and some artwork. We are perfectionists...(when we want!)
Also, all the links from the "Music" section have been updated, since most of them were inactive. So, those of you who listen to us only from the web-radio, have a look at the albums, it's really worth it. Again, the promise for more music posts, stays...
Before the end of June, another special tribute will be presented, so we can send you away in groovy, psychedelic and pretty fucked up fashion for the summer! Stay tuned...