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Check out the latest song and video by San Francisco corporate-casual pop icon Myles Cooper, entitled “Lord Love Music”! The video, directed by DIS contributors Party Effects, takes office politics to an urban spelunking performance space, the creepiest possible echo chamber for the song’s titular refrain. Watch it now, exclusively on DIS:
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Cremaster Fanatic discovered a fresh faced model to add to your Fall/Winter roster, a time-warped all-American unknown by the name of Matthew Barney. Known for his magnetic stare and chiseled jaw, Barney exudes energy for the camera in a slew of high street catalog pictorials and energetic sportswear campaigns for J. Crew, Barney’s, Le Coq Sportif, and more! Find young Matthew at the Click agency, circa 1986.
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The Congo (formerly Zaire), 2008 (?)
Today’s entry is about the arranged marriage of disparate styles and the intense randomness that springs forth from such unimagined couplings.
Koffi Olomide’s songs are a cheesy Congolese staple. In fact, you don’t need to see more than 60 seconds of this video to know that nothing about him stands out, except for his genius styling choices: think of early-’90s TLC videos, all of the shitty fur and leather stores on Orchard above Delancy, Morpheus from The Matrix trilogy, and see what else springs to mind.
Random enough for you? This triple-combo was clearly overlooked and needed to become synchronized via some thoroughly post-modern choreography. Throw in a giant hall brimming with chandeliers and you have yourself a major breakthrough in styling and art direction. Koffi has even added the words “Coco Chanel” in the very beginning of the song in order to take us there. I could write an essay on this video but I’ll stop right here.
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Trisha Donnelly, 1982 -
Come join us at the opening of SSION’s BOY at THE HOLE, 104 Greene Street, 6PM-9PM!
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+AFTERPARTY!
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Show Cave presents the Aboveground Animation festival this Thursday, August 26. Featuring work by DIS favorite Kathleen Daniels!
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Global .Wav contributor Fatima Al Qadiri is presently on a global tour of leisure, but she didn’t forget to send us a dispatch straight from her WiFi at Lake Como this week. We can’t wait to see what she’s found for us when she returns! – Editors
In 1995 the seminal film Hackers was unleashed onto the general public. In Germany that same year, the über-cheesy techno ensemble, Das Modul, launched their exceptionally titled track “1100101.”
That’s pronounced ” eins, eins, nul, nul, eins, nul, eins,” in case you were wondering.
I’m so impressed. Only Germans can get away with such blatant disregard for words in their song titles. Something of this caliber would never work in America. Although Das Modul’s music is pretty 5H1T, their videos follow the same blissful early internet theme as Iain Softley’s groundbreaking film: PC windows multiplying into a chat room vortex of sexy, dancing avatars.
Check out DIS.DUMP.FM for a similar vibology.
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