Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal (Glastonbury 2015)

I didn't make it to Glastonbury this year, and to be honest the Pyramid and other main stages don't really appeal to me any longer; Lionel Richie looked like a load of fun but the heart of the festival and the diversity of acts lives well outside the Pyramid Stage now. In saying that The Park Stage is one of the main stages but often hosts many of the more interesting bigger electronic and rock acts over the years, And this guy here, Jon Hopkins, has built on his incredible album live over the last year demonstrated with this inspiring performance of 'Open Eye Signal'.

Palmbomen II - Cindy Savalas

Beats In Space keep bringing those mysterious cosmic sounds and this video trilogy from the
Palmbomen II LP veers all over the dark VHS heart of the late 80s. I'd like to know where he sourced all these clips from and also makes me wonder where my VHS collection got to, particularly all the B-movie titles we loved.



Palmbomen II - Carina Sayles

Palmbomen II - Leo Danzinger

Moon Gangs - I

I've been looking for great videos to add and have been coming up very short of late. So to refresh your palate I found this clip from last year via SEXBEATLONDON. This weird and wonderful video is from a three-song E.P released May of last year.

Check out more from Sex Beat as they run various live nights and a label which I returned to recently seeking out a band called 'Clawmarks' who supported Wytches at a Field Day warm-up show last week.

Blanck Mass - Dead Format

Benjamin John Power is one half of Fuck Buttons, and he also records more noisy, jarring electronic music on his own as Blanck Mass. His second album is out on Sacred Bones and covers nine songs of electrified, industrial, techno and noise. It's melodic entropy linking to the grotesque and suggestive album cover of 'Dumb Flesh', stating in the press release as, “a comment on the flaws of the human form in its current evolutionary state.”
The music video makes even less sense but it's an enthralling accompaniment to the music video.

Ghost Culture - Giudecca

I discovered Ghost Culture from his work with Daniel Avery, whom you may know from the superb 2013 album - Drone Logic. Ghost Culture is Londoner James Greenwood and his self-titled debut is an earworm  journey through techno and pop music & most notably here stopping off for a Poppy tea with Depeche Mode along the way. Check out his self-titled album and he's on tour with a band bringing these sounds to the stage in quite a different way. Apparently he was sick of seeing people lent over a laptop when playing 'live', something I wholeheartedly agree with after seeing Nathan Fake at the Land Of Kings festival in London over the weekend.

Samaris - Brennur Stjarna

Taken from 19th century Icelandic poetry this video otherworldly video seems to draw on themes of love, sex, relationships, paternity and ritual sacrifice. Samaris are (Þórður Kári Steinþórsson), clarinet (Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir) and Jófríður Ákadóttir’s singing and this is taken from their latest album 'Silkidrangar'.

They are performing the Airwaves Festival in Iceland this year, November 5th - 9th.
http://icelandairwaves.is/artists/samaris/

Misled Convoy - Critical Mass

This is more a waveform representation than a music video but it's still marvellous. This is Mike Hodgson of NZ electronic duo Pitch Black out on his own. If you like Pitch Black, this is more of the same excellent ambient electronic dub business.

Moon Wiring Club - Velveteen World

This is a soundtrack to a Velveteen World and I hope Wendy James will be there. A scattered beat and propulsive bass drives this beautifully strange song with a haunting female vocal floating in and out earshot. Add this wonderfully lysergic video and surely you want to find out more about 'Moon Wiring Club'? Don't you?

May this quote tell you more:
‘For those amongst us who favour entertainment of a more ‘experimental’ nature, the Moon Wiring Club is as infamous and inevitable as cod-liver oil. One might say that no gentleman whose adventurous instincts have not been warmed and purged by what is on offer here, can hope for much future in the English-speaking world.’ Dame Priapus Fripps, 1936.

http://www.blankworkshop.co.uk/page9.htm

)

65DAYSOFSTATIC - Prisms

Digital  sculptures distort and evolve as the song builds into a soaring crescendo. Find this on their latest album, "Wild Light".

DARKSIDE - Paper Trails

RA Sessions deliver a cracker here with Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington working out 'Paper Trails' live, a track from their superb debut "Psychic". Fans of Nicholas Jaar will not be disappointed, if fact I don't think anyone could be with this magical musical creation.

Forest Swords - Thor's Stone

One of the standouts from Forest Sword's new album "Engravings" is 'Thor's Stone'. Here Director Dave Ma sends dancer Guzman Rosado through various contortions and body morphing on a quest for Thor's Stone. I'm not a fan of contemporary dance in music videos at all, particularly when predictably teamed with electronic music, but this video goes somewhere else entirely. I can only draw parallels with the animatronic figures in Adam Jones' directed Tool videos. Bold, unsettling and compelling, just like Forest Swords.

Nosaj Thing - Eclipse/Blue

This is an incredibly shot & performed video by Daito Manabe, takcom, Satoru Higa and MIKIKO with support from The Creators Project, beautifully realizing the dream-like 'Eclipse/Blue' featuring vocals from the sublime Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead.

Nosaj Thing's forthcoming album, "Home" is out January 22nd, 2013.