Listen: ‘Sometimes’ (Bhikkhu Remix)
This remix in Skratches: The Sketches Remix Project comes courtesy of Sydney musician Bhikkhu. Check out his reimagining of Sometimes.
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: ‘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.
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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News: ‘Sketches’ Nominated in Berlin Music Video Awards
The music video for ‘Sometimes’, from The Ray Mann Three’s new album Sketches, has been nominated in the inaugural Berlin Music Video Awards.
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Sketches: new stems for free download. Show Us Yr Remix.
Just added to The Ray Mixx Free: Ray’s parts from new songs ‘Soapbox’ and ‘Sometimes’, available for free download.
In The Sketches Project, a new song+video is created from scratch every month, with audience input along the way. After each Sketch is completed, stems are posted right here – so you can Sketch With Us via remix.
So what you waiting for? Show us your remix.
Sketches: ‘Sometimes’ 3.0 [Video]
Q. ‘What’s one thing you could hit somebody with?’
Thanks to everyone who hit me for this month’s Sketches music video – your responses were great, I had plenty to work with. I’m a little afraid to perform this one live now…
You can also check out the process on the ‘Sometimes’ song page.
Next Sketch begins next month – hope you’ll Sketch With Us.
‘Sometimes’ song page | Sketches archive | What is Sketches?
Sketches: ‘Sometimes’ 2.0 [Video]
Q. ‘What’s one thing you could hit somebody with?’
Folks’ responses are helping to shape this month’s Sketches music video. The final video is in the making as you read this – join in the process by posting your response in the ‘Sometimes’ song page Comments.
‘Sometimes’ song page | Sketches archive
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Sketches: #7 ‘Sometimes’ 1.0 [Video]
Q. ‘What’s something you could hit somebody with?’
This month, The Sketches Project gets bloody. Suggest what you might hit somebody with in the ‘Sometimes’ Song Page Comments and we’ll throw it at Ray in this month’s song+video.
Sketch #7: ‘Sometimes’
Version: 1.0 (demo)
Date: 05.04.2012
‘Sometimes’ song page | Sketches archive | What is Sketches?