Music of 2017

Björk feat ARCA - Arisen My Sense

Presented by Wetransfer

Björk’s newest music video, Arisen My Senses, features giant, slug-type-creatures writhing around. Weirdly for Björk – and collaborator Jesse Kanda – this doesn’t seem that weird. Liv Siddall looks at the musician’s creative legacy and meets the man you call when you need a giant rubber slug suit...

Valdemar - Kind

Watch a woman dreaming about slicing up a contemporary dancer, who she kidnapped, in a music video directed by BABYBABY (Josefin Malmén and David Strindberg) for Stockholm-based electronic composer Valdemar

MGMT - When You Die

Directors Mike Burakoff & Hallie Cooper-Novack released the music video for MGMT apparently using Deep Dream AI technologies. Join the psychedelics trip below

Three Stones - Kalakmul

THREE STONES — a film about a wanderer who's perspective is constantly shifting through various phases of lucid dreaming. As the film progresses from the calmness of lush greenery in the Japanese countryside to the electrifying night scenes of Tokyo, the wanderer’s extraordinary yet graceful movement synchronises with the airy atmospheric track and its textures and ethnic rhythms.

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‘Three Stones’ is a self-funded production driven by the passion and creativity of a unique group of people. The female aerialist featured in the film is Maika Isogawa, who up until recently was on tour with Totem for Cirque du Soleil. The video is produced by Strategy Set, an award-winning international production and creative agency based in Australia and Japan. The art director, Marek Okon, is a Tokyo-based independent creative who previously worked for Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo on brands such as Nike, Spotify, and Sony. The music was produced by Kalakmul, a psychedelic dub DJ and music producer based in rural Chiba, Japan. The film was colour graded by Toshiki Kamei, currently a colourist at Cutters Tokyo.

Production by Strategy Set
Director of Photography: Brandon Strack
Producer: Adrian Grey
Editor: Tom Slemmons
Assistant Editor: Alexis Wuillaume
Production Coordinator: Tatsuya Yamada

Art Direction by Marek Okon

Performance by Maika Isogawa

Music by Kalakmul

Color Grading by Toshiki Kamei

Public Relations by Saya Oshima

Joji -Demons

Directed by Jared Hogan

Performance by Diego Ballesteros

björk - utopia

The official video for utopia, taken from björk's new studio album. Directed by  Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

Husky - Krot 17

Music video for Russian underground rap singer Хаски (eng. Khaski). This song "Крот 17" (eng. Mole) came out in 2015. An updated version of the track got new visuals by artist Dima Maseykin.
Production "Bakehouse"

Mujuice - Sorry Eyes (Грустные Глаза)

One of the few Russian electronic music composers we admire - Roma Litvinov aka Mujuice released new single and music video "Грустные Глаза" (rus: Sorry Eyes) shot by photographer Julia Mayorova.

OK Go — Obsession: 568 Printers in 1 Take

Known for their tireless endeavor to come up with new techniques and ideas, OK GO never ceases to surprise and excite fans with insurmountable creativity put into their music videos, which have won the world's most prestigious awards from Cannes Lions to the Grammys. For “Obsession for Smoothness,” OK GO ventures beyond their comfort zone once again and partners with a team of world-class professionals to create, not just an exciting new video, but something that would become a phenomenon.

Let's start with SIX Inc., the creative agency – Japan's award-winning advertising agency with several international awards under their belt, led by much coveted creative director Jin Saito. Next up is Daito Manabe, founder and technical director of Rhizomatiks Research – one of the most renowned digital artists in the world, who pushes the boundaries of digital creativity into the unexplored territories. Manabe has been awarded several Cannes Lions, two times the Award of Distinction in the Ars Electronica, and three times the Excellence Prize in the Japan Media Arts Festival. This time, Manabe acts as media artist who develops the program that makes World’s First Paper Mapping music video possible.

The biggest challenge of this project lies not just in developing a program to control all 567 printers used during the shooting. This large-scale production involves designing graphic patterns to be printed on each piece of Double A paper – design made by Karan Singh. Project also recruits the talent of MIKIKO, the choreographer behind many memorable music videos including ones of BABYMETAL, Perfume, Salyu and Sakura Gakuin. MIKIKO will design movements of all 4 members of OK GO and make sure they are coordinated with the Paper Mapping background.

Shot in one take, every single element from rhythm, music, the flow of paper, movement blocking to choreography needs to be precise – you can't miss even by a millimeter. Professionalism aside, the success lies as much in the degree of “Obsession” put into the project by all involved – an obsession to create this phenomenon of world-class smoothness.

IBEYI - I Wanna Be Like You

Directed by Remi Besse - "I wanna be like you" is the latest music video of IBEYI second album "Ash". Produced by Standard films - Iconoclast

DUST

Directed by Murat Saygıner muratsayginer.com with music and sound design by Audionerve / Jochen Mader

Cup Of Smoke by King Deluxe

Our friends and partners of Digital Decade 5, VR Masters - King Deluxe invited mysterious Densuke28, this time joined by Ryusei Eto to interpret the Alphabets Heaven remix of Your Gay Thoughts’ song “Cup Of Smoke“ - one moment frozen in time ...

Your Gay Thoughts
kingdeluxe.ca/ygt

Alphabets Heaven
kingdeluxe.ca/alphabets-heaven

Densuke28
vimeo.com/user19777918

Ryusei Eto
c-g-c-g.tumblr.com

Benjamin Clementine - Jupiter

"Wishing Americana happy .. Wishing Americana free"

Watch new music video for Jupiter song from Benjamin Clementine new album "I Tell A Fly"

Directed by: Lola Montes Schnabel
Director of Photography: Max Basch
Movie Operator : Zach Sky
Edit by: Max Basch
Color by: Sofie Borup at Company 3
Produced by: Zach Sky and Max Basch
Production Company: Seward Park Film

Sugai Ken - Wochikaeri to Uzume

Sound artist Sugai Ken wants to submerge you in his explorations of water and darkness

Nightmares on Wax - Citizen Kane

"The hugely influential electro-composer Nightmares on Wax (aka George Evelyn) returns with his long-anticipated new album, Shape the Future. Rooted in the journeys Evelyn has taken over the past half a decade, Citizen Kane is a shamanistic exploration into the Deep South."

Spoon - Do I Have to Talk You Into It

Spoon’s music video made entirely in Photoshop goes out to its graphic designer fanbase

"Photoshop is used on the regular for music videos but for Spoon’s latest video, Do I Have to Talk You Into It, director Brook Linder has brought the trusty Adobe programme to centre stage."

The director has previously created music videos for Beck, Nine Inch Nails and The Lemon Twigs. According to Spoon’s statement in Pitchfork, this film honours a large proportion of the band’s fans. “We did the research, and it turns out 80% of our fanbase is composed of graphic designers,” says Britt. “This one’s for y’all."

Cut Copy - Standing in the Middle of the Field

Taken from the new album Haiku from Zero the new video for "Standing in the Middle of the Field" is a tribute to one couple daily routine directed by Vincenzi