Top 5 of Our Favorite Things: Psychedelic Music Videos
2Pause - Music Videos
Just the other day, we were mulling over the rising prominence of a new type of psychedelia in visual culture. One that is more about tech tool explosions, mash-up creativity and fractal code frenzies than about the mind-altering trippings of yesteryear.
And no sooner had we mulled, than the MU (Eindhoven’s answer to the Centre Pompidou) announced their forthcoming interactive exhibition The New Psychedelica which nails that very concept – a.k.a we’re psychedelic psychics and/or today’s Zeitgeist wants your eyeballs to bleed. Either way, we’re putting together a 60-minute screening of bedazzling, newly psychedelic music videos from our 2Pause curated online collection, to be shown on the BIG screen as part of the MU show on April 21st from 8:30pm. LSD, tranquilizers, and headache pills will be catered for. And to give you enough time for mental readiment.
1. Flying Lotus – MmmHmm
Who needs a time machine when you can step into this grotesquely beautiful reincarnation of what tripping must have been like in the 1960s? Minus the 8-bit of course…Directed by the commercial artisanal dream team at Special Problems, it’s just another of Fly Lo’s visually spectacular and technologically clever music videos. We really love this one too.
Flying Lotus – MmmHmm
2. Blockhead – The Music Scene
A mind-melt of epic proportions, this post-human paradise ruled by television and other beasts was created over FIVE painstaking months in Flash and Flash alone, by our beloved Anthony Schepperd (of Ape School adulation fame). No words. Just watch.
Blockhead – The Music Scene
- Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending
3. Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, this epic audiomotive hieroglyphic through time and space blows our brains off (in a good way). Echoing the psychonautic grandeur of Daft Punk’s glorious Interstella 5555 era, its creator Steve Scott immersed himself in French Sci-Fi, with Métal Hurlant at the helm, by way of inspiration.
Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending
- Major Lazer – Keep It Goin’ Louder
4. Major Lazer – Keep It Goin’ Louder
Everything about this is horribly fantastic! Combining live action shot on location in Brooklyn, with animation by this guy we kinda worship called Ferry Gouw in London, it features Major Lazer himself (a one-armed Jamaican renegade and dancehall night club owner) as two worlds collide. One (live action) is a cheap-ass disco scene while the other (animation) is a debaucherous hell-hole of zombie-munching insanity. We love! And Plan B ain’t bad either :-)
Major Lazer – Keep It Goin’ Louder
5. Ladyscraper – Thou Art Fucking Dead
This one actually comes with a health warning! It can make you froth at the mouth and swallow your tongue (100% true story). Key word: BREAKCORE.
Ladyscraper – Thou Art Fucking Dead
