This video for Star Slinger’s song Mornin’ has a warm 70’s-psychedelia look and sound to it. I wish every morning looked like this.
Tag Archives: 2010’s psychedelia
This video for “On the Platform” by The Bewitched Hands is a visual revelry, telling the story of dimensional conquest driven by love. Perhaps an archetypal allegory for all evolutionary leaps.
Star Slinger – Mornin’
24 FebChrysalide by The Luck of Eden Hall
20 FebThe Luck of Eden Hall is a contemporary psychedelic band with a great sound and style. What I liked especially about their clip is the way it mixes 60’s psychedelia visual style with more contemporary visuals. Enjoy.
“Skeletons Having Sex on a Tin Roof” by Orphic Oxtra
19 FebDid you see that cat around 1:20? There was a white cat, alright…
(Thanks to Jochen for the link!)
Psychedelic Beyonce – Countdown
13 FebAfter we’ve had a psychedelic Lady Gaga, a psychedelic Rihanna, and a psychedelic Keisha, last October Beyonce came out with a new video clip full of exubertantly flashy colors and a very psychedelically evocative style.
The Sparkling Darkness of “Vessel” by Zola Jesus
5 FebIt is not always easy to tell the difference between psychedelic and surreal. Both aesthetics are obsessed with dreams and surfaces and the dissolving ego, both are very playful. Usually – not always – you will find a lot more light and color in psychedelic art. On the other hand it tends to get closer to the surreal as soon as darker tones are struck.
This is what makes this clip interesting. It is genuinely dark and psychedelic. Until the moth in the final seconds it avoids symbolism and sticks to the sparkling manifold of the surface. I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw more of this merging of psychedelic and gothic aesthetics in the future.
“Growing Clarity” by Rambutan
29 JanTape Drift Records founder Eric Hardiman is teaching us some heavy mind kung fu.
Enjoy!
Omodaka
13 Jan
Omodaka (also known as Far East Recording) is a Japanese collective of visual artists and musicians. Their multimedia projects fuse traditional Japanese music, electronic elements, animation, motion graphics, and visual art pieces. Their video Asadoya Yunta (above) juxtaposes calligraphy with computer animation, contrasting various dimensions: 2d versus 3d, curvilinear versus rectilinear, organic versus synthetic. The video below, for Hietsuki Bushi, is a psychedelic animation that is as vibrant as the music that accompanies it. I have no clue what it’s about though.
Jonti “Firework Spraying Moon”
30 Dec
Strawberry skies and multi-hued dyes make for a trippy video (and song) from South African/Australian musician Jonti.
Police Academy 6 – RUN
22 DecCrazy ass video made me laugh and wish I was high.
(Link: Anna Fitzgerald)
Sur le Quai
16 DecThis video for “On the Platform” by The Bewitched Hands is a visual revelry, telling the story of dimensional conquest driven by love. Perhaps an archetypal allegory for all evolutionary leaps.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 