8-bit creatures in a music video by Anne Lucht

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Anne Lucht's visual music clip takes you for a trip round the town of Düsseldorf, Germany - the place where electronic music made some huge leaps 30-40 years ago with bands like Can, Neu! and Kraftwerk. A low-res alien gang bopping their heads to Lorenz Rhode's krautrocky tune TELEPHONE HELICOPTER APPLAUSE GUNSHOT.

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jlargentaye

Reminds me of attack of the Space Invaders in the Röyksopp music video for Happy Up Here
michaelismichael

That was super. I love pixels.
BarBarSeven

Love the concept, but after about 45 seconds the music made me want to poke my eardrums.
Donald Petersen

Man, I don’t like 8-bit sprites and never have, but I kinda loved that video. And the music grew on me, too. And here I thought “krautrocky” could only refer to the likes of the Scorpions and Accept.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sebastian-Spinczyk/100001312688624 Sebastian Spinczyk

As a fellow resident of Düsseldorf, let me just say:
This is fucking awesome!
pimlottc

Nice tracking!
mdot

Charming. Patrick Jean’s work is as well. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_creation?start=26#from=embed
3William56

Brilliant.

Donald must be the child of another age, because the simple primary colours, blocky shapes, sounds and motion of sprites can’t but make me smile.

Still waiting for Pixels the Motion Picture. Someone give Patrick Jean a couple of million $$ and stand back, like they did for District 9, Monsters and 9.
- Donald Petersen
  
  Donald must be the child of another age
  
  Oh, I was a child of the 8-bit age. Born in 1969, and certainly played my share of Space Invaders and Asteroids and Berzerk. But I couldn’t wait for the graphics to improve, and never looked back.
  
  I kind of have the same issues with retro-80s stuff like Izod shirts and corduroy pants. Hated wearing that stuff then (thanks, Mom), can’t imagine people wanting to wear it now.
thatbob

I really liked most of these toons – the blue breakers! the Charlie Brown chomper! Bloopers! and Slimey! – but the giant rolling eyeball was an ungodly horror that has fractured the sanity of my mind.
James Siddle

Loved the video but was annoyed by the unsteady cam … gave me a headache.
kqih

good ! …but the bougé of the camera is insupportable…
bjacques

Shame they can’t do this in Boston!

Somebody had to say it. ..

[ETA]

I’ve always liked author Kodwo Eshun’s description of Düsseldorf as the Mississippi Delta of electronica.
http://twitter.com/dagooh Dago

This is more like 4-bit graphics.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RF6KIZL33HXKRAHHJPTKXMFHNU russ

Last four sounds in the bog-standard MIDI voice set. Ref. Yamaha DX7
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Heike Sperling

Great, one of the best works at our Visual Music class this year at
Institute For Music And Media Düsseldorf (www.musikundmedien.net)!