Video | "Seeds" by Candlestickmaker is one of my favorite IDM-albums of the past. His new follow-up called "A Life in a Day" isn't that much melodic, lollypop and colourful and I don't know yet, if I like it. Please taste it yourself on Upitup.

But... The video for the song "Take Me Elsewhere" is just one thing: Incredible!

I can't get the impression out of my head, that Candlestickmaker cooperated here with some one from the demoscene - to be precise icecream-xtruder. If you are a collector as I am, be fast and download the original mpg-file coming along with the album (have a look into the txt-file).

Video | More and more netlabels experiment with video clips and make their own productions more visible. A new netlabel joining the video club is Peppermill Records. For the album "You Must Hide Your Love Forever" by Bakers at Dawn they offer now "a simple but nice" clip for the song called:

Bakers at Dawn - "Mesmophone" (MP3)

The video is a blurry, super-8-inspired beautiful clip and also available in high definition. Enjoy it in our Phlow Vimeo Channel and give it a hug via click on the heart! As usual the whole album "You Must Hide Your Love Forever" by Bakers at Dawn is available as a free download released under creative commons licence.

Netlabel: www.peppermillrecords.com

Every song of the album is accompanied by a fullscreen video in blazing 8-bit aesthetics.  Abstract patterns mix with scences inspired by 80's videogames, pixelpower in 52 colors, psychedlic mayhem! Check this high energy VJ set by Paris Graphics and the ingenious David Mauro. Great fun, especially if you let the music run at high volume.

http://dawnmetropolis.com

"Dawn Metropolis" by Anamanaguchi, out on Normative records (MP3/ CD/ LP)

"Power Supply" free EP on 8bitpeoples.com

Beautiful handdrawn animated music video | This poetic video clip comes along with the netlabel compilation "Intelligent Toys 5" by Sutemos. It took three months to draw everything by hand for no_joy, the artist behind this beautiful piece of art.  The style of the video reminds me of old animated movies I saw in my youth coming from eastern europe. Fascinating about the clip is its richness of details. You can discover lots of hand-drawn characters flying, crawling and wandering through a vector-based world.

The music and the video clip are shared under a creative commons licence.

Creative Commons Video | Video-Clips are still rare on netlabels. That's why Marco Medkour from rec72 tries to get in touch with VJs to connect for a wonderful audio-visual performance. Marco realized to use videos not only as a promotional tool, no, better, he loves them - like we all do - as a beautiful form of art. Through cooperation with Bristiol based VJ Ultra rec72 proudly presents its very first video: "DeefUltra".

The IDM-song comes from Deef's colourful album "Lebensbegleitende Musik" (ZIP) we still have to review. Get released and enjoy some warm and stimulating visual therapy. Both Music and Visuals are licenced under Creative Commons (by-nc-nd).

Videoclip-Download: www.rec72.net/media/vid/deefultra.mov

While doing some research for the Random-review, I stumbled upon the expanded video accompany of the bygone Blip Festivals. The festival is hosted and organized by New York City's finest 8bit Peoples Netlabel and gets together the world elite of chip sound since 2006 (not sure about that). Now, for the 2008s edition of Blip, the infamous 2Player Productions made up an extremely professional and dedicated documentation of the whole 8bit scene, listed for the SXSW Film Festival: "Reformat the Planet". A good moment to introduce some key players.

First of all, check the trailer:

Wow! This is exactly the tool, a brewing subculture needs to gain attention from the mainstream. At least a greater audience in case you deny the term "mainstream". Awesomely well produced, funny, cool and informative. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the whole thing... Nevertheless, fingers crossed for the SXSW from the whole Phlow Mag crew!

While the 8bit Peoples provide the world with free music, 2Player Productions stream music- and live-videos of the protagonists via vimeo.com (
- you already know the mash-up clip for Anamanaguchi. I choose a couple of videos to give you an idea of the 2PP style, starting with 8bit Peoples mastermind Joshua Davis aka Bit Shifter. Chip Cruise Ahoy!

I have mentioned Random in the introduction, here's a cool video of this young Swedish 8bit raver:

Most chip heads are solo artist, rocking the stage solely with Gameboy, C64 or MacBook. The Depreciation Guild is a Rock band rather than the typical Electronica stage act. Some kind of NYC 8bit poster boys, actually. Skinny guys with rampage guitars and NES-keyboards, how does this work? Assure yourself right here.

Another special thing in the chip scene is being female. Here, Korea-born Haeyoung Kim aka Bubblyfish is one of my favorite 8bit musicians. Her style is a bit more academic, less hedonistic than the average chip party outlet. Make sure to check her album at Burkhard Kerlin's Retinascan-label!

To make you book the tickets to New York City and fall in love with the chips finally, enjoy this powerful live performance of Jeremiah Johnson aka Nullsleep. Another important 8bit Peoples-head, Johnson is the dark messiah of chip music. Striking stage presence combined with belief, Nullsleep might be the one to read about in your favorite music magazines at first. The 2PP spring for the moving pictures:

At www.2playerproductions.com there are a lot more cool video to watch. What clips are your favorites? What important artists haven't been mentioned and deserve our attention? Please post!

The whole tour was filmed by mysterious Mike, "a regular dude who likes to film shows", as he writes on eartapes.com. On his website, Mikes provides high-quality videos by his favourite bands and musicians. When Mike heard about Panda Bear's small US tour for his recent album "Person Pitch", he got in contact with Noah, offering his idea to accompany him for three shows. The Panda Bear agreed and Mike shoulderd his digicam. He shot the shows, backstage material, sound checks and filmed an interview. Back home, Mike cut everything to reasonable length, fixed sound track and subtitles and out the whole thing on his website.

It seems like Mike does not want to earn money with his passion because everything is for free: "I am a firm believer that the greatest things in life aught to be free, music being one of those things. Because of this and my respect, appreciation, and gratitude for Panda Bear, there is no necessary charge for this DVD. It will be free." Thank you, mysterious Mike.

DVD Video Download

Release-Site: Panda Bear Live DVD
Website: www.eattapes.com
Artist-Link: Panda Bear