Among the several activities organized by
Looking at Music —the exhibition set up at the MoMA until January 5 that looks at the prosperous creativity of musicians from the 60’s and 70’s, —
the screening of the early music videos by David Bowie stands out. Hosted by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), the event celebrates the gift from the David Bowie Archive of music videos to the Museum.
Last Friday, during his show on the BBC Radio 1, Pete Tong presented the world premiere "Mind Dimension," the first track from Tiga's new material. The track will be included in his next album, on which people is speculating titles, such as Mindimension/The Future. Check out the track of which, a couple of days before, there only were four copies: Tiga's, Tong's, Soulwax's and Erol Alkan's.
To show how people live the stroke of midnight in different cities of the world, the Chemical Brothers
joined Google Earth to make "Midnight Madness" video. They invited fans to submit videos of their nocturnal activities tagged with the Google Earth location in which it was recorded. Almost two months after the invitation, the video is finally ready.
Check it out!
Not long ago, it seemed music videos have been expelled from the artistic paradise. Cool bands hated making them, MTV had stopped showing them, and innovative directors from Spike Jonze to Michel Gondry had long since moved on. Then, somewhere between OK Go's success on YouTube (more than 37 million views) and Feist choreography lesson turned into an iPod ad, music videos made a comeback. Meet this new generation of directors and their greatest hits.
After
Graduation, the album that contains the greatest number of hits, Kanye West has already finished his next album. It is rumored that the name will be
Good Ass Job and that
the release date is set in December. The most sensitive rapper, that will be touring across Latin America in October,
has started to present some tracks in his live performances. Check them out!
Between the 80's and the early 90's, the music video industry enjoyed its glory age. At least, that is the conclusion we draw when reading the first positions of this selection of the 50 sexiest videos of all times published by Nerve magazine. So, many years before the YouTube era, you have to stay up late to watch, without being noticed, Madonna, George Michael and Billy Idol's videos.
Of course there are more contemporary videos, but the person who does not remember these ones should not be watching any one ;)
To celebrate the freedom enjoyed by dance culture during the acid house revolution by the end of the 80's, clubbers didn't pick the best tracks of the genre: they preferred to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a series of flash mobs in different cities around the world. Organized via Facebook and MySpace, the first one was held on August 22 in London.
A restless producer and media artist, Oliverio is, since last year, a member of Soundexile together with Baunder, with whom
he has already composed several tracks that are played by the most important DJs in the world, such as Sasha and Hernán Cattáneo. With his partner, they perform as a group, like in the latest edition of
Moonpark Buenos Aires, where they did the warm-up before the performance of James Zabiela and SOS. And now, exclusively for Flowmi, Oliverio reveals the classics he cannot avoid playing each time he is in the DJ booth.
Every minute, 8 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. A lot of them are
videoclips. Labels also promote their artist by means of this audiovisual genre that continues its transformation. Eclectic, danceable and original, among the hundreds of videos that are lauched every week,
Flowmi picked only five to watch from beginning to end, and share. Check them out and give us your opinion.