I saw Shantel last night as a DJ at Dubrovnik. He had wonderful atmosphere. Very relaxed, people partying, singing along. Rare in Finland.
Here’s his latest video:

I watched the Dennis Hopper movie Out of the Blue recently. The best part is this wonderful opening monologue where Linda Manz talks about punk.

The sequence is sampled in the Primal Scream song Kill All Hippies:

Here’s a song to commemorate world finance:

Here’s disco you can believe in:

This is the Pet Shop Boys video I’m With Stupid. Extra points for the retard prison choreography.

Pet Shop Boys |MTV Music

There’s something weird that appeals to me in the anticharismatic presence and dissonant voice of Gary Numan. Here’s a surprisingly good quality video of him performing Down in the Park. Don’t miss the rotating black pyramids.

Gary Numan |MTV Music

Another YouTube find, this is a video by the Solevian hip hop group Ironic Tronic, of a song called We Don’t Want Laibach.

That sounds like the name of some kind of a pulp politician. But actually its about the song Play, Rew, F Fwd by Plutokazi, featuring Milan Fras of Laibach as the voice of the bear.

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From Emir Kusturica movies I found the fantasy of having your own orchestra provide background music wherever you go, but I’ve always suspected my orchestra would be more like this…

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I’ll indulge in my weakness for Russian girl band music again. Here’s Via Gra’s L.M.L. in English:

Look for the great French language part, as well as the Russian accent pushing through in the chorus.

I spotted the link to this in the irc. It’s described as a “non-official video” for the Zombie Zombie song Driving, directed by Simon Gesler and Xavier Ehretsmann. It manages to combine a whole load of things I love, from French electro and Antarctica to the G.I. Joe toys and the John Carpenter movie the [...]

Shirley Bassey has a fun cover of Pink’s Get This Party Started:

I used to like Army of Lovers a lot when I was younger, but then I lost the CDs I had and haven’t really listened to them for years. I just got a best of -collection, and boy, this is great stuff.
Here’s the video to the song I Am:

It only now occurred to me to see if there were any music videos from Messer Für Frau Muller, and there were…

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