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“District B13” Starring David Belle

Clip from the Movie District B13 Starring David Belle, 2004

A slightly futuristic film in which the lower class trouble makers are walled in ghettos under heavy guard. Directed by Pierre Morel, this is the first of two movies with David Belle, who started the Parkour enthusiasm among urban runners. Starring David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, and Tony D’Amario.

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Swedish House Mafie, “Don’t You Worry Child”

 

Swedish House Mafie, “Don’t You Worry Child”, featuring John Martin

Swedish House Mafia was a Swedish electronic dance music supergroup consisting of disc jockeys and producers Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso. The group officially formed in late 2008. The supergroup placed at number ten on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll 2011. and have been called “the faces of mainstream progressive house music.” In the DJ Magazine Top 100 Poll 2012 they were ranked at number twelve.

On June 24, 2012, the group announced via their website that they would split up after embarking on “One Last Tour,” which ended at Ultra Miami 2013 on March 24, 2013.

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Shakey Graves, “Word of Mouth”

 

Shakey Graves, “Word of Mouth”, at Audiotree Live

Shakey Graves (born Alejandro Rose-Garcia on June 4 , 1987) is an Americana musician from Austin, Texas, United States.

Shakey Graves was a featured performer at the 2014 Sisters Folk Festival. His music is a cross between blues, country, and rock and roll – he performs at many festivals and concert venues around the United States. Alejandro Rose-Garcia received his iconic stage name at Old Settler’s Music Festival in 2007 after he and his friends jokingly gave each other Indian guide names over a campfire. After an inspired night of playing music, he decided to keep the name.

Shakey Graves became known for his one-man band set up and most of his debut album Roll the Bones is Rose-Garcia playing unaccompanied by other musicians. When he began working on his sophomore album, And the War Came, Rose-Garcia added musicians to his recording set and live set. Three songs from And the War Came are duets with ex-Paper Bird member Esme Patterson. The album was produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Boosahda.

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Irrepressibles, “In This Shirt”

Irrepressibles, “In This Shirt”- presented in the PAG Film “The Lady is Dead”

On the January 11, 2010, The Irrepressibles released their debut studio album, “Mirror Mirror”, a collection of 12 baroque pop songs produced by Dimitri Tikovoi and William Turner Duffin, and written by Jamie McDermott. The album features the single “In This Shirt”.

“Mirror Mirror” received critical acclaim. The Guardian called it “theatrical and very different, a ripe, colourful riposte to all that is Cowell” and The Independent described it as “a dramatic soundscape dripping with echoes of the Weimar Republic and la belle époque.”

“In This Shirt” garnered critical and public acclaim after it was used as the soundtrack for short film, “The Lady Is Dead”, by Israeli production company PAG Films, described by Sundance Channel as “fantastic”.

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15 50 “At Night I Dress Up as a Child”

15 50 “Τις Νύχτες Ντύνομαι Παιδί (At Night I Dress Up as a Child)” – Official Video Clip 2011 – HQ

This Greek band is called 15- 50.

Mηνάς Τσίγκος – Φωνητικά
Ρουσσέτος Δημητρόγλου – Κιθάρες
Γιάννης Κουμέτης – Μπάσο
Τάσος Σταύρακας – Πλήκτρα
Ιωσήφ Μοσχόπουλος – Φωνητικά και Κιθάρα
Γιάννης Ράνης – Τύμπανα

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Concrete Blonde, “Mexican Moon”

Concrete Blonde, “Mexican Moon”, 1993

Mexican Moon is the fifth full-length album produced in 1993 from alternative rock band Concrete Blonde. The music on Mexican Moon takes the gothic rock of their previous albums and adds more of a hard rock edge to it. Johnette Napolitano provided the vocals, bass guitar, samples, and the album artwork, and she was accompanied by drummer Paul Thompson and guitarist James Mankey.“Mexican Moon” finds lead singer Johnette Napolitano singing about a failed romance and fleeing into México.

The video in this clip is Antonio Banderas in the movie “Desperado”.

i had not heard this album in over 10 years until i took it on a road trip. I decided it was one of my all time favorite songs.

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Soft Cell, “Tainted Love”

 

Soft Cell, “Tainted Love”, Long Version Live at Milan in 2002

Marc Almond rose to fame in the early 1980s as one half of the English New Wave duo Soft Cell. Their slowed-down, synthesized version of Gloria Jones’ “Tainted Love” was a No. 1 hit in 17 countries and spent a record-breaking 43 weeks on the US Hot 100 charts. The track once again found itself on the charts, when in 2006, Rihanna sampled it on her No. 1 hit “SOS.”

In 1984 Soft Cell split amicably to focus on solo efforts and Almond went on to release numerous solo albums. In 1999, Almond released his autobiography, Tainted Life, in which he officially came out. Soft Cell reunited in 2002 and performed a string of concerts. 2010 marks Almond’s 30th year in music and he is gearing up for a new album and global tour.

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Darren Hayes, “Darkness”

Darren Hayes, “Darkness”, 2014

UK-based Australian singer-songwriter, Darren Hayes was the lead singer and media front man for pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden was No. 3 in the United States and produced the hits “Truly, Madly, Deeply” and “I Want You.” Savage Garden stayed together for only two albums and released the US No. 1 hit “I Knew I Loved You” before Hayes went out on his own, changing his sound from soft pop-rock to a more electronic darker sound.

Hayes has three solo albums under his belt and another can be expected in 2011, produced by Lady Gaga’s mixer Robert Orton. Including his work with Savage Garden, Hayes has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. Although Hayes was married for six years to his childhood sweetheart, makeup artist Colby Taylor, they divorced in 2000 and he began coming out to his friends and his label in the early 2000’s. In 2006, he married his boyfriend of two years, Richard Cullen, in a civil ceremony in London.

Sigur Ros, “Daudalogn”

Sigur Ros, “Daudalogn” (Calm Death)

Sigur Ros Valtari Film Experiment- A collection of 16 short films made for the “Valtari” album.

Sigur Rós (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪːɣʏr ˈroːus] ) is an Icelandic post-rock band from Reykjavík, which has been active since 1994. Known for its ethereal sound, frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s falsetto vocals, and the use of bowed guitar, the band’s music is also noticeable for its incorporation of classical and minimalist aesthetic elements. The band is named after Jónsi’s sister Sigurrós Elín.

Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós. His boyfriend Alex Somers has done much of the graphic design for Sigur Rós over the years. The two also perform together in the group Jónsi & Alex and released an album: Riceboy Sleeps.

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