TOP 2014: Music Videos

It's really hard to select best music videos from the tons of seen and published material we got this year. For sure a lot of nice pieces left behind just because we can't cover everything happening in music industry but at least we try it on our Musicollector flow as well as on its Vimeo Channel and Soundcloud blog. For TOP2014 we selected 35 awesome and unique music videos created using processing, animation, cinematography, mapping and all other possible ways of directing.

Moderat – Last Time

Phantogram – Fall in Love

St. Vincent – Digital Witness

Arctic Monkeys – Arabella

Jamie xx – Sleep Sound

Equateur – The Lava

Thomas Azier – Angelene

Ramona Lisa – Dominic

Sia – Chandelier

Disclosure – Grab Her

Bergen Kremer – Groza by Stereotactic (Russia)

Tycho – See

Arctic Monkeys – Snap Out Of It

OK Go – The Writing’s On the Wall

Woodkid – The Golden Age Official Video

Digitalism – Wolves

BANKS – Beggin For Thread

Royksopp & Robyn – Monument

GusGus – Mexico

M83 – Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun

Chet Faker – Gold

Spoon – Inside Out

SPBCh – Nelzya Skazat Koroche (Russia)

Metronomy – Month Of Sundays

Ten Walls – Walking With Elephants

Brunettes Shoot Blondes – Knock Knock (Ukraine)

Interpol – My Desire

Tiga – Bugatti

OK GO – I Won’t Let You Down

Black Atlass – Jewels (directed by Woodkid)

Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat

Röyksopp – Skulls

Panda Bear – Boys Latin

Mujuice – La La Land (Russia)

Clark – Winter Linn

Clark - Winter Linn

'Winter Linn' is a new video from Clark's eponymous seventh album CLARK, directed by Christopher Hewitt

Mujuice - La La Land

The most talented Russian electronic composer and musician Roma Litvinov best known as Mujuice is back with a new acid trippy music video released to support new album Planetarium

This video is made out of bits and pieces of my trips and experiences. There is no specific narrative, — all of it is made from scraps of what I filmed in LA and along the Pacific coast. I like working with scattered materials, putting them together again and again like pieces of the puzzle.

The Acid - Ghost

The electro dream team The Acid returns with a surreal feast for senses

“Originally the inspiration came from a story I heard about Ray Charles being a huge Corvette fan,” says Petecia Le Fawnhawk, co-director of the latest release from transatlantic supergroup, The Acid. “I was overcome with awe as I stood in front of a 1967 Stingray, thinking of how it would be to discover such a magnificent creation through touch and the wonder of being born blind. I shared my idea with Eliot [Lee Hazel] who immediately had an emotional connection as his father was blind.” Set amidst stark Californian Dumont Dunes that evoke the backdrop of Salvador Dalí’s "La Femme Nue Dans Le Desert," the new video conjures up an appropriately surreal universe.

"Ghost" is taken from The Acid's 2014 debut album, Liminal, released on Infectious Music/Mute Records.

Read more on Nowness

Directed by Eliot Lee Hazel and Petecia Le Fawnhawk

Panda Bear - Boys Latin

After one first single, simply titled "Mr. Noah" the panda is back with the trippy ‘Boys Latin’. The video directed by Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch is an anime shows a dude having some kind of pixellated flowers growing on him. Panda Bear‘s first solo album, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper will be out in January 2015

Nils Frahm - Re

Nils Frahm releases animated video (a half year ago, thanks Colossal for spotting it today) inspired by his 'Screws' album, and created by 23-year-old animator Balázs Simon: nilsfrahm.com

Röyksopp - Skulls

"Skulls" was the first track taken from the album "The Inevitable End", a song that comes with an invitation and a stark warning, set amongst squelchy bass lines and filtered synths. Norwegian director and long time collaborator Stian Andersen made the haunting black and white film that accompanies the song.

It follows the ominous journey of Svein and Torbjørn with friends and 83 year-old Adolf into dark woods and dark places.

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Coldplay - Ink : Interactive Music Video

Beautiful interactive video storytelling the new Coldplay's "Ink" piece by following your personal decisions. Follow your heart they say http://www.coldplay.com/ink/
Production Company - Blind with creative director - Matthew Encina

Enjoy it on http://www.coldplay.com/ink/

Trevor Dickson - Powers

Talented photographer and director Romain Laurent directs this video for “Powers” by Trevor Dickson

D-Pulse - Astronomers

D-Pulse is an Saint-Petersburg based live-electronic music trio, coming originally from Izhevsk city, Russia.For the past few years D-Pulse has released their music on such established labels as Island, Tirk, OM, Theomatic and Teardrop.

Influenced by French and Scandinavian electronic music scene, they found their own approach in balancing on the edge of very different music genres, experimenting with combining live recording sessions full of analogue synthesizers, guitars, drum machines with sampling, cutting and processing their own material. From the very beginning D-Pulse is a ragbag of different styles and individual music tastes, but the real effect their music has during their audio-visual live shows.The band is already has the status of most vivid live electronic music act in Russia.

Check their new album Consequenced on iTunes

Video recorded live using VOID installation designed by Russian The Tundra group

tUnE-yArDs – Real Thing

Colourful burst directed by Tom Jobbins for tUnE-yArDs performing "Real Thing" from Nikki Nack album

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COH - BECHA KPACHA

BECHA-KPACHA (pronounced VesnA KrasnA) is an algorithmic music video produced by Jeremy Rotsztain for the electronic musician COH. Riffing on traditional Russian folk patterns the colour-splashed animation is full of Rotsztain’s signature gestural forms and synchronized camera movements. BECHA-KPACHA is an old Russian rhyme. Its title roughly translates as "spring the beautiful" or "spring the red."

BECHA-KPACHA was programmed using openFrameworks. It uses Kyle McDonald’s ofxFFT library for audio analysis and James George’s ofxTimeline for arranging the different visual objects and behaviors. COH provided me with a collection different audio tracks — synthesizer arpeggiators, percussion, bleeps and bass — which were used to trigger and animate various shapes in three dimensional space.

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Marion Cotillard Makes Music With Metronomy Frontman

Marion Cotillard has returned to the recording studio with Metronomy frontman Joseph Mount and Villaine to produce a gorgeous new track, ‘Snapshot in LA’. In collaboration with i-D and Dior. "Enter The Game" sees Marion reclining by the pool decked out in Dior’s autumn/winter 14 collections, her silky vocals accompanied by a soft acoustic guitar melody which gives way to a more atmospheric electronic sound.

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Nadia Kodes - the New Russian Vocal

The rising voice of Russian underground pop music: Saint-Petersburg-based Nadia Kodes gained audience attention when she won Sprite Sound competition and got a free ticket to create a music video with a talented Moscovian studio FIRMA. Today Nadia nearly hit the estimated budget in a crowdfunding campaign for her new album “Metro/The Underground" (Russian/English). Hence the Boomstarter website is available only in Russian but you can check her website for more details about the artist and donation.

Available on iTunes

Nadia Kodes Music

Nadia Kodes Music

The sensible version is that Nadia is a singer/songwriter and pianist from Saint Petersburg in Russia. She is twenty-something years old and speaks English fluently. The real version is that through trying a large number of jobs she has gained a wealth of experience to assist her in her song-writing. These jobs have included performing as a clown at children’s parties and acting, for a short period, as a translator for Russian live nude models on the internet, and have made her the woman she is today.

Nadia Kodes Music

Nadia Kodes Music

Nadia Kodes Music

Nadia Kodes Music

Having hitch-hiked around Europe, including Spain and Italy, she considers herself to be an internationalist. This is emphasised by the facts that she has won singing and song-writing competitions in her native Russia, is signed to a record label in the USA, has recently signed to a management company based in the UK and has performed on the streets and in the clubs of many European cities. Nadia’s songs and vocals have been influenced by the likes of Avril Lavigne and her sound has been compared to Kelly Clarkson and Lady Gaga

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Support Nadia's "Metro" album on Boomstarter

Follow her on Facebook / Soundcloud / Youtube / VK

Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat

Lorde's "Yellow Flicker Beat" is the first single from the Hunger Games: Mockingjay soundtrack (which Lorde also curated). Today is the singer's eighteenth birthday, and to mark the occasion, she's shared the video for the song, directed by Emily Kai Bock. via Pitchfork

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Black Atlass - Jewels directed by Woodkid

Black Atlass 'JEWELS' video Directed by Yoann Lemoine (aka Woodkid who announced his gap year from music but still doing epic direction and photography)Get Black Atlass " YOUNG BLOODS " Ep here!

The Fader Magazine: "Speaking to this idea, director Yoann Lemoine described his creative process for us: "I used a DIY 3D scan system that rebuilds models from multiple still images, and what we call camera mapping, and played with this material in my computer. The reality pictured in this video only exists in the computer I used to create the piece. I loved the idea of humans golden like objects, like pieces of furniture. I treated them with the same precious care we treat Jewels. I wanted to question the limits of incarnation, of organic versus digital, creating a piece that was equally beautiful and intense. Equally organic and digital." citing The Fader

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Birkii - Several

Our favourite French electro-pop singer Birkii released her new single "Several" and give it for free right now

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Arca - Now You Know

Through his work with Kanye West, Bjork and more, South American producer Arca has proved to be a name in demand. 'Now You Know' is all dense electronics and fragmented hip hop influences, a track which continually shifts, changes and evolves within the space of seconds.Jesse Kanda assisted on visuals, which are akin to a fireworks display - November 5th has come a day early. via Clash

OK GO - I Won't Let You Down

When I hear "Ok Go just released new video", I stop doing anything I was doing before and rush to the screen. Bless their cameraman and creators OK GO did it again! "This time the Chicago four-piece are on board motorised Honda unicycles for a routine performed with colourful umbrellas and hundreds of extras. It was captured in one single shot at Japan's Chiba Prefecture using a custom "multi-copter camera". Singer Damian Kulash and Kazuaki Seki directed the video, with creative direction by Morihiro Harano." via DT

GusGus - Airwaves

To support their Russian leg of European tour famous Icelandic electronic band GusGus premiered "Airwaves" music video for Afisha readers. Directed by Reynir Lyngdal