Music Videos

Interesting look at the history and significance of the Akai MPC, with an emphasis on hip-hop, but it also looks at some experimental stuff.
Current via Crate Kings

At oobject, you can vote for the worst keytar video ever, and see some fun keytar videos in the process:
This list is a warning reminder of what people really look like when they play Rock Band. It features keytars from their earnest debut to parody, to some kind of post-post-modern resolution with self aware but [...]

Glenn Marshall’s video for the Boards of Canada track, Music Is Math.
An animation created with Processing, which is being used by more and more people to create generative animations for music videos.
via Califaudio

This is the video for Twine’s Endormie, from the release Violets.
The track uses an interesting mix of ambient and glitch effects.

littleBits is an open source library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards, designed to make experimenting with electronics easy and fun.
Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets [...]

This new video, by Cut Chemist, is the first music video shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens.
The technological first is cool -but what makes it really cool is the post-Beatles seventies psychedelic visuals.

Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing vs Title Music from A Clockwork Orange by Wendy Carlos…as imagined by Phil RetroSpector.
Almost works for me - but it’d be better without the Marvin Gaye!

Pete Tong’s Fast Trax is a weekly Internet video that offers Tong’s take on the hottest new videos, music and events in dance music.
You can get it:

at the Fast Trax site;
on YouTube
as a video podcast via iTunes.

There’s a whole category on YouTube of Quantum of Solace theme song videos.
Most are truly dreadfull - but Joe Cornish’s take, above, made me smile.