Animated Covers app from Radio Soulwax

Link: Radio Soulwax

My good friend Gary Ryan tipped me off about this just as seemingly everyone else seized upon the latest project from Radio Soulwax AKA 2 Many DJs AKA the Dewaele brothers.

Reiterating what's been said elsewhere, it's an ambitious undertaking where Radio Soulwax have followed their acclaimed genre-crossing mash-ups with a series available as apps. The most interesting aspect of this copyright flaunting set - for me, at least - is that they've also animated the artwork from the original releases. The work for 'INTROVERSY' can currently be viewed via the link above.

Dubfire visuals by Human Studio

Link: Human Studio

Following the success of Deadmau5, some clubbers probably expect more of a visual experience. Former Deep Dish fella Dubfire delivered this via the project that he commissioned from Nick Bax's Human Studio.

Already having proved popular in 'big room' establishments like The Warehouse Project and Ministry of Sound [plus the SCI+TEC event at Miami's Winter Music Conference], it is additionally available to view via the following link: Dubfire video.

Work by Shynola

A few years ago, a work project meant that I had to nip down to London to visit the studio of Shynola. The four-strong team had been doing animation work for the likes of Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Lambchop and Unkle [subsequent commissions have included work for Orange, Nike, Playstation, Natwest and Honda].

Anyway, that name-dropping preamble was really to allow me to say that I've always admired the way that they consistently create an unexpected visual representation for a piece of music and, visiting them, it was obvious that music was a major influence. Before we went to a local pub to chat more informally about their output, that work space was being soundtracked by a succession of material: a lot of it then appeared to be stuff from the Domino roster. But it might have just been on that particular day.

The first featured Blur video in this post - while one of Shynola's - additionally features the unmistakable illustrations of David Shrigley. It's a real contrast to the style employed for the second: a video for Lambchop's 'Is A Woman'. Both are great and beautifully paced.