Tag: Downtime
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The Secret OV Kleptones
I’ve been featuring bits off the first three Kleptones albums in this quad-trilogy on the podcast for the last few years (just realised there were four of them, I somehow missed ‘AD”!) – OV, ER, and LO. They are being released on YouTube over the next four weeks, every Wednesday at 4pm UK time. The…
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Have I got a little story for you: Correspondence – The Kleptones, new Instamatic videotones
Warning: contains flashing/strobe effects.“Son, she said, have I got a little story for you” The latest installment of the Videotones started back in July with the idea of a psychedelic spiritual desert journey – the twanging guitars and Neil Young’s trippy plaintive vocal of Correspondence obviously recalling Paris, Texas and such acid westerns as El…
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Videotones unholy trinity: 3 more Kleptones videos
The Videotones project is coming on leaps and bounds, 13 videos so far – here’s three (count ’em!) more Videotones videos, 2 more from the Downtime and one from Uptime. Firstly here’s Brad Mackey with his take on Interlude, the introductory track on Downtime. How much like God is a man? (from Britannia Hospital, also…
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A Spaghetti Mash…Kleptones – Exit by Reborn Identity (Videotones)
Howdy pardner! Here’s the latest Videotones mash, ‘Exit’ from the Kleptones Downtime album. Reborn Identity has given the mash given a spaghetti feel (hmm isn’t that actually gnocchi? ;-)) Be prepared for a brooding, tense and downbeat Western epic facing down the barrel of a gun with Beck, John Mayall, Aesop Rock, Henry Fonda, Clint…
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Is this just desire or the truth? Reborn Identity joins The Videotones
I have to share this – Reborn Identity always does amazing mashup videos, but I have to stop myself wheeling out the usual cliches of ‘taken it to another level’ and ‘blows me away’ and ‘something else’ but he has excelled himself for The Videotones project, this time taking The Kleptones ‘Untired’ from the Downtime…
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Videotones mash #3 Kleptones – Stay (Instamatic video mashup)
My second video for The Videotones project takes a more ambient, slower turn with a widescreen video (I really recommend watching it at Vimeo or YouTube or fullscreen for full effect) for The Kleptones ‘Stay’ off the Downtime album, which includes the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s ‘Maps’ to great effect. The thinking behind this video (yes…