My dear Josie sent me a message with a youtube link last week, writing “I just found something and I know you’ll love it!”

I sense a vibe of The Great Gatsby and a bunch of other movies in there. The entire atmosphere, the photography, the costumes, the roles of the different animals and all the little messages are great. Such a wonderfully beautiful and well made video! Thank you, daahlin’!

Capital Cities – Kangaroo Court
In A Tidal Wave of Mystery (2013)

Pharrell Williams – Happy
Despicable Me 2 Soundtrack (2013)

Have you seen the world’s first 24 hour music video, based on this track? It’s a fun time killer to play around with, automatically adjusts to the time in your computer (super cool) and it’s good for background music.. at least for a while: http://24hoursofhappy.com

Pharrell Williams, the 40-year-old (yes!) genius, formed The Neptunes with his equally talented friend Chad Hugo in the early 90’s, and they were later discovered and signed by the great father of New Jack Swing, Teddy Riley. Then came N.E.R.D and blew our minds with cool and distinctive beats, the guys continued producing music with a bunch of other artists, and today the man with a kid called Rocket, a half-pipe in his home and maybe the world’s most beautiful jawbones just keeps on creating innovative beats and art, making the rest of us happy. (Apart from that sexist Thicke collab. Boo!)

Bob Dylan just released a very interesting interactive piece to be the first official video for his 50-year-old classic “Like a Rolling Stone”. I’m not going to tell you what happens, so that you can enjoy it best yourselves – one thing you might want to know is that you can see original Bob Dylan footage on one of the 16 channels. If this is the future of music videos, I can’t wait to see what other artists will come up with. (No need to tell me about that Kanye video)

Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (1965)
Video – November 2013

The release of the video coincides with the release of Dylan’s 47-CD box set entitled The Complete Album Collection Volume 1 from Columbia/Legacy Recordings. The makers behind this piece of interactive awesomeness is the digital agency Interlude, and the CEO Yoni Bloch said that more channels eventually will be added to the video, adding that “you’ll always miss something because you can’t watch everything at the same time.”

Ouch. So good!

This weekend the Berlin club Ritter Butzke is having a three day release festival for You and Alex (Im Rausch mit Freunden). Dance like nobody’s watching.

Syd the Kyd from The Internet sings along to Chad Hugo (The Neptunes) produced beats, creating a casually perfect, minimalistic and incredibly groovy masterpiece, rocking it in her socks only. This is a production where the actual music really is given its proper space – Syd the Kyd’s soft voice and funky attitude along with the beautiful and unconventional takes and close-ups, soft contrasts and gray tones in the Lacey Duke directed video let you truly focus on how it all sounds – connect with the bassline – and take in all the soul. And there’s so much of it!

The Internet – Dontcha
Feel Good (2013)

I had to pick up the entire album – released two months ago – after hearing this, and I love how The Internet manage to sound so much like those timeless neo soul masters – I’m talking Lucy Pearl, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Raheem DeVaughn kind of quality.
You know, when mesmerizing and rich vocals are accompanied by live instruments that in any moment can break into sounding like a live jam session. Soul, funk, lounge, jazz.. Love!

Actually, this is The Internet’s sophomore album, which apparently sounds far better than the first one so I’m not going to risk this enchantment by digging into their past. So to break it down, The Internet is actually a duo consisting of Syd the Kyd and Matt Martian, both part of the LA based 14 member hip hop collective OFWGKTA – which stands for “Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All” – and has another five sub-bands – confused? Most people just refer to the collective as “Odd Future”. And if that name at least rings a bell, like it did for me – it’s a record label – and Frank Ocean is part of the whole deal. Aaahh.. can you hear the sound of planets and talent aligning?

Anyway, in its full splendour, I give you Feel Good, by The Internet. Odd Future Records. September 2014. So much soul. Please vibe along.

Feel Good
(September 2013)