This remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project comes courtesy of Sydney musician Bhikkhu. Check out his reimagining of Sometimes.
Listen: ‘Sometimes’ (Bhikkhu Remix)
Listen: ‘Babylon’ (Speaking In Tongues Remix)
This remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project sees Berlin-based musician & producer TJ Eckleberg give Babylon his magic touch.
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Listen: ‘Hold Onto Me’ (KaiTo Remix)
It’s summer in Berlin (finally) – and native Berliner KaiTo has given Hold Onto Me some cocktails-in-the-park dance flavour for this latest remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project.
Listen: ‘Sometimes’ (Schuftronic’s Sugar Ray Mix)
This remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project comes via Schuftronic, whose mix pits Sketches track Sometimes amidst a sea of elements including Walter Benjamin, Anthony Kiedis, Fiona Apple, and just, y’know, the philosophy of history.
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Listen: ‘Soapbox’ (SWING-O a.k.a. 45 Remix)
For this latest remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project comes courtesy of Japan’s own soul super-producer SWING-O a.k.a. 45. Check out the Origami Productions flavour he’s given Soapbox.
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Listen: ‘Sometimes’ (karoshi Remix)
The latest remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project comes courtesy of karoshi (a.k.a. Berlin-based Sydney brothers Beres and Dave Jackson). Check out their reworking of Sometimes.
Listen: ‘BabyLoan’ (Deepchild + AUTO64 Remix)
The first remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project comes courtesy of Berlin-based Aussie expats (and superstar techno DJ and VJ respecitvely) deepchild and AUTO64. Check out their take on Babylon.
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‘Skratches’: The ‘Sketches’ Remix Project
You helped make the album – now you can pull it apart. We call this The Skratches Project – and we want YOU to Show Us Yr Remix…
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Blog 1301: Things We Learned At The Berlin Music Video Awards
Last week, the inaugural Berlin Music Video Awards were held in, funnily enough, Berlin. The Ray Mann Three’s music video ‘Sometimes’ was nominated in the Best Stop Motion / Animation category, and screened alongside the other finalists (among them: Justice, Alt-J, Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke, Sigur Rós, Michael Nyman and Sébastien Tellier). While our video didn’t win, we did get to hang out and watch a lot of other people’s music videos, over hours and hours. Here are some of our mental notes…
Things We Learned At The Berlin Music Video Awards
Story is everything:
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Effects are often best when they’re easy to miss:
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An amazing animation elevated ‘Whatsapper’ from clever to genius:
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Split-screen can still look cool:
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Title cards with live action backgrounds look cool:
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Stock images of landscapes turned duotone and upside-down look cool:
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And finally: there are a lot of talented people making amazing things you will never see:
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Congrats to all the winners – and thank YOU for voting x
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2 clicks, 2 seconds: How to vote for us in the Berlin Music Video Awards
OUR music video (which YOU and I made together as part of The Sketches Project) is nominated in the Berlin Music Video Awards. ‘Sometimes’ is nominated in the Best Animation category – and YOU can vote for it, right now… Continue reading “2 clicks, 2 seconds: How to vote for us in the Berlin Music Video Awards”