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Podcast January 2012

Machtdose Podcast January 2012

For the cover I used a photo by SuperFantastic [CC BY-SA 2.0]

Happy new year, we’re late this month, but here you go. We have – among other things – jazzy tunes, Advanced Pop, but surprisingly this time not the obvious dance tracks. Have fun.

  1. Ginferno – Telescopic Eye
  2. Anitek – Circles [Dusted Wax Kingdom 114]
  3. Blossom – Noon’s bourg [Export Label]
  4. dFAD3R – Crab Style [Dusted Wax Kingdom 113]
  5. Abigail Press – Drifting Dawn [Melodica 019]
  6. Lisbonne – So Long [Beko 96]
  7. Karibean – Gregorian Spring [EardrumsPop 19]
  8. Anika’s Basement Show – This Is What I Hear
  9. he died while hunting – thin mountain air [totokoko 25]
  10. Toni Higgins – When I Dive It Just Feels Normal [Bump Foot foot194]
  11. Pleq – Someone Like Comes Into Your Life (feat. Fraqusea) [Leaves 001]
  12. Veell – Ifyou (feat. E-few)
  13. Possimiste – The Flight of Lulu
  14. Keinzweiter – Hexatic Blossoms (Supralist Remix) [Spontanmusik 021]
  15. Eufoteoria – Paradox 27 [Música Vermella 020]
  16. Liquid – Beauté [Expert Recordings 006 / Bomboncitos Compilation by phlow.es]
  17. mix-toor – Moving Forward (Secret DNA) [dystopiaq 028]
  18. Trois – Banana Saturees [Midinette records 26]
  19. Sebastian Love – I, the Shadows (feat. Is) [Starquake Records 006]
  20. T Bird – Living This Life To Death [23 Seconds 068]

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Top Music Videos 2011 – No. 10-6

10. Spoek Mathambo – »Control« directed by Pieter Hugo. Great video, every sequence and every frame is brought to the point. With a lot of wows and ohhhs. »Control« is a cover of the Joy Division classic »She’s Lost Control« of the 24 year-old South African producer and musician Spoek Mathambo. The video was shot in Langa (Cape Town) with the help of the local dance troupe, Happy Feet. The song itself is only medium.

9. Fucked Up – »Queen of Hearts« directed by Scott Cudmore. A slightly confused teacher leads her class through a rendition of Fucked Up’s »Queen Of Hearts«. An epic battle of boys vs. girls, which ends with an ominous blurring of »reality« and artifice.

8. St. Vincent – »Cruel« directed by directed by Terri Timely. »Cruel« is a comedy of horrors in which St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) is kidnapped by a mom-starved family, who proceed to torment the singer before sending her to an early grave. Literally. »Cruel« has got something disturbing and a great creepiness.

7. Woodkids – »Iron« directed by Yoann Lemoine. Great shots, the stage-setting is clean and artificial, the atmosphere dramatic and the use of a super slow motion reveals even more detail of motion. Yoann Lemoine tends to exaggerate easily. The clip to Woodkids song »Iron« is highly confusing and leaves you speechless for a while. The only drawback is that the song itself is not so good.

6. Skrillex – First Of the Year (Equinox) directed by HK Corp. By now everyone must realise that 2011 was the year of the children. Remember Manchester Orchestras »Simple Math« (Winner Video of the Year 2011 UK Music Video Awards), Is Tropicals »The Greeks« or Modeselektors »Shipwreck«. Wherever you look: children play a key role, often in violent actions or, as in the case of Skrillex, in a very creepy story. This video did a million views in its first week of release (now more than 20 million) – not that bad for a dubstep artist.

Top Music Videos 2011 – No. 15-11

In all respects, 2011 was another very successful year for music video directors who go against the current. Like 2010, an abundance of good ideas found their way to the public, particularly on YouTube, Vimeo and other social networks and video platforms. The revolution of the way we watch TV is still in full swing and definitely unstoppable. The slavery of the past few decades often based exclusively on the interests of big record companys and TV channels. That influence is still strong, but decreasing and it does not cause any harm if the balance of forces continuously changes. On a positive note, people with a special taste find more often the style they want. So enjoy the places 15 to 11, my personal impressions and highlights of the past year. The others will follow.

15. DJ Shadow – »Scale It Back« directed by Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond. Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond managed to put together an incredible video with a really low budget. The clip is about a memory sequence created by Ben Pridmore. Pridmore is the 2009 World Memory Champion, a title he also won in 2004 and 2008. Very unique concept.

14. Camo & Krooked – »Breezeblock« directed by Jack Pirie and Alex Hylands-White. Jack Pirie and Alex Hylands-White directed a somewhat loony music video for Camo & Krooked. The story is about an 80s game show presented with an extremely exaggerated dance battle. Machtdose video of the month july!

13½. Radiohead – »Lotus Flower« directed by Garth Jennings. How the hell did he do that? The year’s best dance moves part one comes from funky chicken Yorke boogieing, jigging and swaying to the song »Lotus Flower« like no other. Get yourself on the dance floor for some smooth swinging.

13¼. The Black Keys – »Lonely Boy« directed by Jesse Dylan. The year’s best dance moves part two. This single-shot video features the hot-stepping and lip-sycning of a man who is decidedly not the Black Keys. Nevertheless, this guy is pretty cool.

12. M83 – »Midnight City« directed by Fleur & Manu. One of the most popoular songs of 2011 was visually lifted with this freaky and fantastic short film about some telekinesis kids who escape from a boarding school and freely use their powers in an abandoned warehouse.

11. Beastie Boys – »Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win« directed by Spike Jonze. In case that anyone has missed Beastie Boys’ official full length, ultra HD and explicit director’s cut action-figure music video »Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win«. 2011 was not necessarily the successful musical revival of the Beastie Boys, but indeed a revival of excellent filmmaking (not forgetting »Fight For Your Right Revisited«).

Kapitalismus braucht keine Demokratie

»[Zitat enfternt wg. LSR – Edit roland]« Kapitalismus braucht keine Demokratie – Thesen gegen die Ausplünderung der Gesellschaft von Ingo Schulze, Schriftsteller (Quelle: Süddeutsche – Link entfernt wg LSR – Edit Roland).

Das digitale Urheberrecht steht am Abgrund

Der Rechtswissenschaftler Karl-Nikolaus Peifer über die Überforderung des Rechts, das Unwesen von Abmahnungen und die kleine Münze.

Die Menschen sehen prinzipiell ein, dass der Künstler, dessen Werke sie herunterladen, von irgendetwas leben muss. Die Menschen sehen aber andererseits nicht, dass das Geld tatsächlich den Künstlern zugute kommt. Ich verstehe die Rechteinhaber, aber sie pokern zu hoch. Sie hoffen, dass die Abschreckungswirkung so stark ist, dass die Nutzer Angst bekommen und deswegen wieder in die Legalität kommen. Aber auch ängstliche Nutzer, die nur deswegen legal handeln, weil sie Angst vor Strafe haben, sind eigentlich nicht das, was wir mit einem verträglichen Rechtssystem erzeugen wollen.

Und weiter…

Für wie wahrscheinlich halten Sie alternative Vergütungsmodelle?

Sie sind noch nicht durchsetzbar. Obwohl sie politisch sicher erwünscht sind, weil sie den Druck, der momentan im Kessel ist, mit einem Male entweichen ließen. Aus rechtswissenschaftlicher Sicht sind sie noch dringender erforderlich. Die Juristen sehen, dass die Verfolgung der Nutzer digitaler Inhalte nichts bringt, und sie sehen, dass sich alternative Vergütungsmodelle nicht durchsetzen lassen. Damit steht das digitale Urheberrecht zum ersten Mal ernsthaft am Abgrund.

Hit-Garantie

Was einst von The KLF auf Verdacht niedergeschrieben wurde (»Das Handbuch: Der schnelle Weg zum Nr. 1 Hit«), wurde nun von der Wissenschaft belegt: Hits sind planbar! Hit-Garantie: Programm sagt Songerfolg voraus. [Link entfernt wg LSR – Edit roland] Toll also die Vorstellung, die Charts seien vom ersten bis zum letzten Platz das Ergebnis eines Algorithmus.

[Zitat entfernt wg. LSR – Edit roland]