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Max Cooper: Platonic

Max Cooper: Platonic

Filmmaker Páraic McGloughlin’s latest eye candy comes in the form of a music video for the sounds of Max Cooper. The clip features a simple scene of a highway, transformed into a vibrant work of art by manipulating portions of the image with colors and geometric shapes.

Making Techno with Robots

Making Techno with Robots

Moritz Simon Geist performs electronic music with a tableful of strange and wonderful mechanical contraptions he built by hand. Each one makes a unique analog sound that combines to create a driving beat. Check out the making-of video to see how it all works.

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When I Get Older

When I Get Older

Musician Bill Wurtz is back with another uplifting little ditty, a song about a young man who reaches for the stars with his dreams – if at times overreaching his grasp. Perhaps if he eats his spinach every day…

Thom Yorke: Hands off the Antarctic

Thom Yorke: Hands off the Antarctic

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke teamed up with Greenpeace to release an instrumental piece to help support nature conservation in one of the world’s most precious locations. The track is accompanied by dramatic black and white footage captured by the ship Arctic Sunrise.

Pipes Sample Player

Pipes Sample Player

Synesthesia’s Pipes is a compact and affordable audio sample player. It supports 24-bit, 48kHz audio with 64 stereo voices, and loads even massive sample files with nearly zero lag. It has digital and analog outputs as well as MIDI and USB inputs.

SpotMini Does a Dance

SpotMini Does a Dance

While the guys at Boston Dynamics have the latest in robot tech, they’re not exactly au courant with their musical selection. Still, we’ll forgive them for their out of date tastes because they taught their SpotMini robot some sick dance moves.

Doctor Who Acoustic Cover

Doctor Who Acoustic Cover

The jury is still out on the latest season of Doctor Who, but one thing that’s for sure is that Nathan Mills‘ acoustic guitar cover version of the iconic theme from the BBC sci-fi series is amazingly good.

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John Carpenter: Halloween Triumphant

John Carpenter: Halloween Triumphant

The upcoming Halloween sequel looks scary as hell, and much like the original, music will figure strongly into creating tension. Listen to one of the awesome new tracks composed by John Carpenter, along with his son Cody, and Daniel Davies. The soundtrack drops 10/19/18.

8-Bit Pixies

8-Bit Pixies

With their feet in the air and their head on the ground, 8-Bit Universe pays tribute to Pixies with a wonderful chiptune interpretation of their ubiquitous track Where Is My Mind?, with a nod to its use in David Fincher’s 1999 classic Fight Club.

Mr. Blue Sky on Trombones

Mr. Blue Sky on Trombones

While it’s not as awe-inspiring as 28 people playing Bohemian Rhapsody, musicians Christopher Bill and Seb Skelly’s all-brass cover version of ELO’s 1977 classic Mr. Blue Sky is sonically spot-on, and the perfect pick-me-up for a grey and dreary day.

Gin Blossoms: Face the Dark

Gin Blossoms: Face the Dark

“Time can’t wake your frozen heart… With an ocean in between us, we can only row so far.” Gin Blossoms teamed up with storm chasing photographer Chad Cowan for the visuals to accompany the brilliant poetry of their latest single. From the album Mixed Reality.

How to Make a Girl Smile

How to Make a Girl Smile

The world’s most stoic pianist Lord Vinheteiro tickles the ivories in an attempt to get his equally expression-free friend Laura Kassab to crack a smile. He plays tunes in a wide variety of moods to try and break through, but with little luck. In the end, he made us smile too.

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Don’t Stop Believin’ on Boomwhackers

Don’t Stop Believin’ on Boomwhackers

Prior to watching this clip from percussion ensemble HarvardTHUD, we weren’t aware of an instrument called a “boomwhacker.” Get a listen to its unique sound with this whimsical cover version of Journey’s 1981 hit Don’t Stop Believin.

Nintendo Mashup

Nintendo Mashup

After filling our ears with his wonderful classical and Disney medleys, Grant Woolard is back with an epic composition, which flawlessly blends 46 different melodies from Nintendo games in a single track. See if you can identify them all.

Evolution of Meme Music

Evolution of Meme Music

Pianist Vinheteiro catalogs some of the many memorable bits of music dating all the way back to 1500 through 2018. For the most part he manages to keep his eyes off the keyboard, but ever Lord Vin couldn’t pull off some of the trickier tunes without looking at the keys.

Crazy Floppy Train

Crazy Floppy Train

The Floppotron regales us with yet another tune that suits its sounds perfectly. Crank up the volume, bang your head, and bite off a bat’s noggin while you enjoy this electromechanical cover version of Ozzy Osbourne’s 1980 hit single, Crazy Train.

Chop Suey! Multitrack Cover

Chop Suey! Multitrack Cover

Band, who needs a band? The multitalented PAB_Music manages to turn in a perfect cover version of System of a Down’s 2001 hit Chop Suey!, performing each of its instrumental and vocal parts, then editing them together into a seamless multitrack recording.

Stepasaur x Star Trek

Stepasaur x Star Trek

(PG-13: Language) “Steak. Affirmative rare. From a bear.” Musician and madman Stepasaur performs a kind of bad lip reading of his own, as he raps poetic about what the crew of the Starship Enterprise is having for dinner, and the aftermath of Captain Kirk’s poor choice.

1% Bass Skills 99% Editing Skills

1% Bass Skills 99% Editing Skills

Guitarist Davie504 has certainly proved that he has mad bass skills. But if you can’t keep up with his fingers, he’s here to show you how all you need is some basic video editing skills to perform just about any tune you’d like.

Leonid & Friends: September

Leonid & Friends: September

An amazingly good cover version of Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 classic September from an unlikely source. Hailing from Russia, Leonid and Friends completely nailed the instrumentation of the original, powered along by rock solid vocals. Check out Leonid’s YouTube channel for more.

Famous Mellotron Songs

Famous Mellotron Songs

The Mellotron is an extremely desirable tape-based sampling keyboard that’s been used on numerous rock, pop and other tunes over the years. Keyboard expert Doctor Mix got his hands on one and played us a little medley of four memorable mellotron riffs.

Brilliant Movie Soundtracks

Brilliant Movie Soundtracks

CineFix presents its picks for the best movie soundtracks. There are soundtracks that seem like scores, familiar ones that evoke nostalgia, anachronistic soundtracks, ones that introduce us to new genres or artists, soundtracks that inspired the movie itself, and more.

Beck: Colors

Beck: Colors

The music video for Beck’s track Colors was initially only available for Apple Music subscribers. Now everyone can watch it for free on YouTube. Edgar Wright’s vibrant and perfectly edited clip features choreography by Ryan Heffington, and co-stars Alison Brie.

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