Awesome Music

Lusine’s chill ambient track is complemented perfectly by this minimal video from Michael Reisinger, who used 2300 colorful LED’s to illuminate the face of its subject, as she drifts into another plane listening to her headphones on the bus. From the album Sensorimotor.

British artist Sampha Sisay has been around. Everyone from SBTRKT to Drake have asked him to be on their tracks because of his uniquely smooth yet passionate style of singing. But he’s more than ready to strike on his own with his debut album, Process.

You’ll start to hear vocals about 13 seconds into this clip. But nobody is actually singing. Like the speaking piano, what you’re hearing are a series of very rapidly played piano notes which replicate the sound of a human voice, created by converting MP3 files to MIDI files.

“Your weakness is not your technique. It is doubt, and disbelief.” Eclectic Method chopped up bits of dialogue and sound effects from The Matrix to create this groovy EDM track that gives us another reason to watch some of our favorite movie moments of all time.

Musician YAOG takes a break from making happy songs sad, and does his best to transform the Tears for Fears classic Mad World into an upbeat number. Seriously, this could have been the theme song for an ’80s sitcom about an unlikely pair of roommates.

From the Maurice Binder inspired opening credit sequence to the beautiful women and exotic cars, to the swirling orchestral sounds and sultry vocals, Finland’s Hans on the Bass presents a fantastic tribute to the style and sound of James Bond movies.

Musician Rob Scallon uses a primitive Brazilian instrument called a Berimbau to crank out some hard rock. We figure from the way it sounds, it would be good for making dubstep too – and it turns out that Andrew Huang has already indulged that idea.

They came from nothing to… this. Georgia’s trap-hop trio teamed up with The Tonight Show‘s Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform their signature song with the help of office supplies. Yep, it’s as weird as it sounds.

Every time we hear the Bottle Boys perform a tune, we think it’s the calliope on a New Orleans riverboat. Here, they turn in an impressive cover version of Michael Jackson’s 1982 pop juggernaut, Beat It, performed on a variety of bottles and plastic pipes.

Brit rockers Kasabian talk about an unexpected source of inspiration – rap and hip-hop music – and turn in a dialed down cover of the Cypress Hill classic Insane in the Brain during their recent appearance on Triple J’s Like a Version.

Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios pays tribute to the late Chuck Berry in his own inimitable style, with a hard rock cover of his classic Johnny B. Goode that we like to think is where Marty McFly would have gone if he’d been allowed to finish his performance.

2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel find themselves in a mind-bending haunted house in the 360º music video (that’s inside a 360º music video) for Saturnz Barz, a single from Gorillaz’ upcoming album Humanz, which drops 4/28/17.

Kawehi is a fully self-contained marching band as she walks down the sidewalk and performs her latest song, a rallying cry she wrote when was tired of being put down for being a “silly woman.” It’s an inspiring tune that people of all genders and races can get behind.

Bass player America Paz sat down with fellow musician Eduardo Sitja for a street jam in Santiago, Chile, and turned in a fantastic duel showing off their funky slap bass skills. The only thing better would have been if Flea himself showed up and joined them.

2017 Tiny Desk Contest winner Tank and the Bangas effortlessly combine smooth jazz, spoken word, hip hop, R&B, love and humor. Watch them play one of the best Tiny Desk sets we’ve ever seen. If they don’t blow up globally, there truly is no justice in this world.

Engineers from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology developed a robotic marimba player who “listens” to live music then provides improvised accompaniment via artificial intelligence algorithms. Listen to more smooth robojams here and here.

“If someone should come collecting sooner than we’re all expecting, at least the life you lived was one for you.” Drizzy continues to dip into dancehall and grime in his latest album, though he’s still moping and boasting with other rappers.

NPR Music recently hosted what it dubbed “the best party band in [recent] years.” Brooklyn-based Red Baraat effortlessly combines Bhangra, rock, funk, jazz and more to make people sweat. They mostly played songs from their upcoming album Bhangra Pirates.

“Maybe someday your name will be in lights, saying ‘Johnny B. Goode Tonight.’“ One of the fathers of rock and roll, Charles Edward Anderson Berry has passed away at the ripe old age of 90. Long live rock and roll! Long live Chuck Berry!

Postmodern Jukebox and vocalist Sara Niemietz transform the ’80s pop rock hit I Want You to Want Me into a whole different song by giving it a bluesy ballad treatment. Along the way, the lyrics go from desperate to seductive.

Fans of “Weird Al” Yankovic will be excited to hear snippets of the 23 tracks on the bonus 15th album that comes with Squeeze Box. It’s packed with obscure and previously unreleased tunes from the master of novelty music. That Prodigy parody from ALtv is priceless.

Seth Everman titled this video simply as: “When you try all the sounds and beats on your synth (while only playing coldplay – viva la vida).” His description couldn’t be more accurate. We want to run on the treadmill to the techno version.

The champions of good vibes, World Order are back with another song and video. But this time they’re joined by the ladies of the Japanese idol group SKE48, who show the guys that they can let loose and still do the robot.