M83 Meets The Great Dictator

M83 Meets The Great Dictator

M83's beautiful sounds seem to inspire quite a bit of film work, and this is a great case in point. I've never seen The Great Dictator before but I recognize the quotes. This is great use of music and film in concert:

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Electro Re-Birth

Electro Re-Birth

Last year it seemed like music was having its soul sapped by boring and winy emo. Now there's a whole lot more electro coming out, and it seems somewhat appropriate that the new school band M83 is becoming big on Mute Records, the same record label that Depeche Mode has been on for the past two decades.

If M83 and DM are too gloomy and depressing for you, there's always the absurdly upbeat disco-rock of Passion Pit to keep you upbeat:

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M83 - We Own The Sky

M83 - We Own The Sky

Several videos were filmed in a contest for M83's song "We Own the Sky." Provided by their record label Mute Records (which happens to be the same label as nu-wave heavyweights Depeche Mode, appropriately), here is the winning video, directed by Alex Takacs and Joe Nankin of Young Replicant:

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M83 "We Own the Sky"

M83 "We Own the Sky"

M83 - We Own the Sky from David Altobelli on Vimeo.
This song will make you easily forget whatever it was you were doing and slip into a lovely trance. At least that's what it did for me. The video has that similar hypnotic effect of taking you into another world if only for 5 minutes. Enjoy!

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