2012 Music Video Mashup from Renier Mouthaan on Vimeo.
I want my music television.
Someone spiked my egg nog, and I had the craziest dream. I dreamt all the major music videos of 2012 somehow ran end to end in a blur. And what a year it was – Korean pop and Elijah Wood’s arm going to pieces and beautiful special effects and spandex bodysuits with monkey faces. (Seriously. Something must have been in that Christmas cocktail apart from dairy. Those visions can’t be normal.)
There are actually some gems in here, and a sense – watching the totality of the list – of just how varied music videos can be. Who needs a TV network for the stuff, with the Internet?
The mash-up comes to us again from Renier Mouthaan, whose effort last year instead was a one-hour megamix. In compressed view, here, the effect is I think more effective.
The full list:
Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
Frank Ocean – Pyramids
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris
Benga – I Will Never Change
Flying Lotus – Tiny Tortures
Gorillaz – Do Ya Thing
Le People De l’Herbe – Parler Le Fracas
Noisia – Tommy’s Theme
Plan B – Ill Manors
Jay-Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild
C2C – Arcades
C2C – The Beat
Psy – Gangnam Style
Modeselektor – Evil Twin
Vitalic – Stamina
Justice – New Lands
M83 – Reunion
Mikhael Paskalev – I Spy
Django Django – Default
Alt-J – Something Good
Walk Off The Earth – Somebody That I Used To Know
The Key Of Awesome – Somebody That I Used To Know
Gotye – Easy Way Out
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi – Two Against One
The Shins – Simple Song
St. Vincent – Cheerleader
M.I.A. – Bad Girls
Björk – Mutual Core
Björk Mit Funkstorung – All Is Full of Love (Soundtrack to STEADYo)
Broken Note – Meltdown
Bonobo – Eyesdown (Machinedrum remix)
XXYYXX – About You
A Winged Victory For A Sullen – Requiem For The Static King Part One
Antony & The Johnsons – Cut The World
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – By This River
Ah, how quickly twelve months past. Back in the day, in the yesteryear that was 2011:
2011 in Music Videos, in One-Hour Megamix