5 Video Clips from South Africa Vol. 2

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We still remember very well, when South African house DJ Aero Manyelo visited Norient in Berne, Switzerland in 2013. When we watch his video list below about some South African clips below, we immediately remember how he made us all dancing to his beats. This list is really shaped by the South African house, called kwaito, which is currently ruling the townships. See also «5 Video Clips from South Africa Vol. 1», compiled by Xander Ferreira and five video clips from other countries in our ongoing videclip series here.

Artist: Aero Manyelo & Qhizzo
Track: Bum Jive

Being part of the producers on this song made me feel like I was also born in the 60's, I really like the Kwaito flow and the chorus is just super amazing.

Artist: Mash O
Track: The Village

Young talent will always be available in South African dance scene, but only few of them will be unique and always try something new, that's Mash O for you.

Artist: CrazyWhite Boy
Track: What You Do 2 Me

One of my all time mentors. They really know how to touch my heart when they start composing music. I've been following them since 2008.

Artist: Spoek Mathambo
Track: Awufuni

When we talk about South African best song writer, producer, etc., we are talking about Spoek Mathambo. I was so surprised when I heard this song, Spoek can really surprise you in different ways.

Artist: Aero Manyelo
Track: Rabo Dlegha

Last but not least, this video shows you how I live my life somedays after coming back from a gig at around 6 am, where sleeping will be just wasting your time. This video was shot when I came back from a gig. I came back around 6:30 am and our director PJ was already waiting at my house. He told me, that there's no time to sleep on earth.

Biography

Eric Manyelo aka Aero Manyelo was born in Zebediela, Limpopo in 1987. At age five his family moved to Ivory Park where he grew up. He developed a strong love for music due to his father, who introduced him into jazz. He later studied at Johannesburg Central College where he completed his Matric. His career as a producer / DJ started when he got his first PC and started making demos. Those demos’s soon made it to the doors of Soul Candi, who invited him to study Sound Engineering, and later BlackwHole Entertainment, who released his first EP called «Herbal Island». Follow him on SoundCloud.

Published on December 08, 2014

Last updated on February 02, 2023

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by Jean Poole

For the first time we are heading to the Australian continent for our videoclip series. Melbourne based video producer Jean Poole compiled a selection from Down Under between basketball court and sci-fi animation. See five video clips from other countries in our ongoing videclip series here.

Artist: Magic Hands
Track: Limousine
Director: Alex Badham

Gorgeously shot – maybe the best creepy basketball court video you’ll watch today.

Artist: Violent Soho
Track: Saramona Said
Director: Dan Graetz

A very clever one shot video – made with Mad Max car-cutting ingenuity and high end motion controllers (Check out the behind the scenes video).

Artist: Club Feet
Track: Everything You Wanted
Director: Josh Thomas (Oh Yeah Wow)

Cute, mesmerising effect – later copied by no less than One Direction (see here).

Artist: Audego
Track: Sleepy
Director: Paul Rhoes (Negative Films)

Lovely Melbourne duo – given a wonderful sci-fi animation treatment.

Artist: Oscar Key Sung
Track: All I Could Do
Director: Tristan Jallah

Three dimensional compositing fun!

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Jean Poole is a video producer based in Melbourne, Australia. Key interests: compositing animation + video together, real-time audiovisual performance, video in theatre. He has projected video onto 100 million year old dinosaur skeletons, car wrecks in the Australian desert, onto Turkey’s Cappadocia cliffs, and performed at the Sydney Opera House.

Published on December 17, 2014

Last updated on February 02, 2023

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by Syndicate

We ask the Singapore-based audio-visual collective Syndicate to give us a short insight to some video clips from their country. What they sent us, is a highly varied journey through beautiful and well produced pictures and some lo-fi aesthetics. We even stop by the Taoist Disneyland of Haw Par Villa.

Artist: Vandetta
Track: Fly

Directed by celebrity photographer Kevin Ou, starring dancer Aye Hasagawa, Singapore's songstress Vandetta took a year off to record her music in Los Angeles. While she was there, she took the opportunity to head out to the Salton Sea to shoot the video for her first single on the Syndicate label entitled «Fly». The director's vision of the video echoes the escapism theme that runs through all of Vandetta’s music.

Artist: Tiramisu
Track: Snug

«Snug» was shot on an analog Lomography LomoKino 35mm Movie Camera with 7 rolls of 35mm film, and made for Lomography Society International's Blue Hour Sessions which brings together bands and graphic artists in a creative collaboration. The music and the video brings you back to the days of just being kids. We love the costumes and creatures!

Artist: O$P$
Track: Ghost Vision

Perhaps the best video that could possibly be made by the weird cross-cultural lenses of gonzo expatriate animators in what could be the most storied location in Singapore. The Taoist Disneyland of Haw Par Villa is the backdrop for the glitchy, post-internet interpretations of celestial deities getting down to some serious crunk.

Artist: Afiq Omar
Track: Ferreum

One of the first of a series of exquisitely edited experimental shots by Afiq Omar. It combines exotic ferrofluid along with found objects craft various footage that uses the properties of ferromagnetism to it's potential, creating otherworldly macro environments that draws you into it's movements.

Artist: Kiat (Video: Marie Schuller)
Track: Dice Kayek A/W 2014

Fashion Film? Music Video? The line does not exist in Kiat's world as he contribute his dark beats towards UK based Marie Schuller's artistic and brilliant fashion film for Dice Kayek. We think there's a lot of exciting possibilities in this area, combining artistry from different fields for a piece of beautiful AV experience.

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Artist: Monstercat (Video: Brandon Tay)
Track: Take Me To Love

A fuzzy love song to splatterpunk film 4Chan, «the weird side of youtube», and cats. This video is a sprawling, incoherent journey through corrupted movie torrents of strange films, idiot-savant usages of 3d CGI, and a taking the internet's preoccupation with LOLcats to a ridiculous tangent.

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Syndicate, against a sanitized backdrop of fast food music, was conceived over rounds of beers to reduce the growing impact of harmful beats and caveman frequencies in the accelerated world today. Along the way, it transmogrified into a serious idea to create a space for sonic expression and visual experience in post-efficient Singapore. Each Syndicate A/V show is an engineered journey to shift your perception of electronica dance music topped with a set of original visuals. The collective set out to deconstruct and reassemble sound concepts, visual ideas with live A/V performances and installations set in various spaces and contexts.

Published on November 26, 2014

Last updated on February 02, 2023

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