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“Monument” by Röyksopp & Robyn
17 Augstretching moments of time into space…
There is this beautiful word in the (not always pretty) german language: Augenblick. It means something similar to proverbial “blink of an eye”. But while “blinking” is the ephemeral moment that interrupts the view, “Blick” is more like “glance”, an ephemeral mode of seeing. Now dear old Mr. Goethe has phrased “Der Augenblick ist Ewigkeit”. This sentence simply asserts that the “Augenblick”, the ephemeral moment is eternity. While this might look like a contradiction at first, it actually describes the most common experience: every single Augenblick passes instantly — and this one thing will never change.
“Solen Stiger Upp” by Dungen
16 Mar
In the world of the Swedish psychedelic group Dungen the musical taste has not really changed since the late sixties/ early seventies. But year after year things have been refined to perfection.
“whorehouse” by ceo
1 Dec
Official or not (the info on youtube claims it is unofficial), these visuals just work so very well with ceo’s just to be released (tomorrow!) single “whorehouse”.
And in case you enjoy solving the puzzles the swedish lable sincerely yours creates for us, here’s another piece: Some very similar visuals for another ceo track (“siren”) from the vimeo account of the lable…
Zhala’s Slippin’ Around remixed by Aerea Negrot
12 AugIf you already did like Zhala’s original track you should check out the remix by Aerea Negrot. Makode Linde’s original video got an edit by Moneymake Pagoda. And that edit adds even more of that heavy psychedelic flavour.
[Again, many thanks to Karo]
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