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Video: Pins Down - KNIIFE PRRTY

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One of our favourite tracks from KNIIFE PRRTY's eponymous debut album when we reviewed it earlier this year was definitely 'Pins Down'.  The stop-start rhythm and haunting vocals without doubt formed one of the highlights of the album.

The band have now made a video for the song. It is directed by Steve Pahl and, like the music itself, it is a slightly spooky, ghosted mix of technology gone wrong but in a good way. Check it out.

Head over to the band's website for more of the lowdown on KNIIFE PRRTY.

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News: John Hughes dies

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In a bizarre twist of fate BlackPlastic just found this video the other day and was about to share it anyway (despite the fact it has been around for a few months) when the news broke that John Hughes has died.  The writer of all of those great 80s teen movies - the Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink - his greatness cannot be disputed.

In tribute check out this beautiful mashup of scenes from a few of the 80s brat pack movies and Phoenix's 'Lisztomania' - it's lush.  The movies included are The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Footloose and Mannequin, of which the first two are Hughes' work.

If all this leaves you wanting to recapture more of Hughe's spirit through music might BlackPlastic recommend M83's lovely, lovely album Saturdays = Youth.

Video: How to get a blogger's attention 101

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BlackPlastic gets a lot of emails and messages from up & coming artists who want us to check out their music. BlackPlastic always tries to check out said artists but it isn't very often they stand out quite like this:

Loebeat are British pop trio Dicey, Lula and Ramdaq.  You can check out their music on MySpace.  Or alternatively just watch the video above again, ponder what it all means and try and figure out if BlackPlastic just discovered the future of pop music.

No, we don't know either.

Loebeat's MySpace.

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Video: You Saved My Life - Cass McCombs

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BlackPlastic fully admits that it knows jack about Cass McCombs and further admits that we haven't had time to go digging around either.  What we DO know however:

 

  1. This song is pretty Goddamn beautiful, similar in feel if not genre to year's startling fragile Bon Iver.
  2. The video to this song is directed by Eric Fensler, and like the song it is strangely affecting.
  3. 'You Saved My Life' is taken from Cass McCombs' album Catacombs, which is out on Domino on CD, LP (with MP3 code) and MP3 now.

 

Video: Galactic Space Bar - Jamie Jones featuring Egytian Lover

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Big love for this video from Jamie Jones. BlackPlastic carries a squidgy soft spot for Crosstown Rebels as it is - their brand of minimal is just far more interesting than minimal should be, which we like - and this video only makes us more gooey. For what is presumeably a small budget, independent project it's pretty lush.

The track is also hot too - like a 2009 update on the electro bebop of old, it sounds like Afrika Bambaataa's 'Planet Rock' brought bang up to date.

'Galactic Space Bar' is taken from Jamie Jones' forthcoming album 'Don't You Remember The Future' out on Crosstown Rebels on 31st August.