many of you who know me know that i have a wide array of taste in music. i grew up on 70s folk music and then graduated to classical music through most of my young adult life. i turned to pop music in college and completely overdosed on it (now i can't stand it at all). then came techno or electronic, or whatever you want to call it. i met some great friends working my first web design job in detroit and they were into the club/rave scene, and especially detroit techno. we're talking about derek may and the like. really brilliant stuff. i was smitten from the beginning and still am! in fact, though my newer favorites have been the magnetic fields, the shins, and thievery corporation, i still listen to techno/electronic music on a daily basis. the real front runners in my ipod playlist are aphex twin, bill laswell, boards of canada, luke slater, etc. hhmmmm, i believe it was a minidisc of luke slater that i really got KP to think that i was the coolest girl ever.

one of the first techno discs i ever owned was EBN (emergency broadcast network.) most of you are probably shaking your heads, not knowing who i'm talking about. after all, my audience is mainly knitters. but if you know who i'm talking about, then you know what's coming! EBN were the bomb (i'm not sure if they're still around) because they took all of these old video clips and mixed them to music. it's the perfect match of video and beats. if you're a media nut like i am, then you'll find their offerings to be mind-blowing. every time i see them, i want to pop a VHS in my recorder, tape infomercials all night long, and make mash ups with them. of course, i don't have that kind of time because i knit too much, but if i did have the time, that's what i would do with it.

so in honor of halloween (the one holiday i can't stand but can't wait for the peanut to be born so that i can dress her up.. oops, i forgot to tell you that it's a GIRL! see how i slipped that in?) i present these videos found on youtube. why today? well, some of them are so good, they're creepy. watch, you won't be disappointed.

(click through to the extended entry to see them. i know that they won't make it to my RSS feed because of the embedding.)

hello

i love the 4-way split screen on this one and especially the pigeon pecking at the tiny piano. there's so much going on here!

get down

hahaha, harrison ford and that finger of his. i especially love all of the clips of politicians in this one.

378 aka conga!

i hear the main drumbeat in this one ALL THE FREAKING TIME in other techno nowadays. i think that it's sampled more than anything that moby ever sampled. this one is the best but only the first 4 minutes are worth watching, after that it's just an acid trip of colors and lights.

comply

this is one i had never seen before today. i love the anchorwoman's hair-do. it's pretty scary in and of itself!

have a happy halloween everyone!

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