Here’s a totally dope new video for an oldish song by the “Teenagers in Tokyo” entitled black bones by totally crazy Australian director/filmmaker/creative genius Rhett Dashwood, who some of you might remember as the guy that made the Google earth A to Z back earlier this year. This video is kinda morbid and kinda sad, but totally worth the watch all shot on a “Phantom” camera at 510 fps. i love it.

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Una de mis técnicas de video favoritas es slow-motion. Combinar esta técnica con la música adecuada puede tener resultados espectaculares. Es el caso de este video en el que podemos escuchar “Black Bones”, a cargo de Teenagersintokyo mientras observamos una interesante (mini) historia.

Algunos detalles que el director proporciona sobre el video:

• Utiliza una cámara Phantom.
• La mayoría de las tomas son a 510 fps.
• La primera escena fue ralentizada un 50% más en postproducción.
• A los que dudan, asegura que el fuego es real.

Cuando tengan lista la versión HD, actualizo el post. Los créditos a continuación:

Director / Productor: Rhett Dashwood
Director de fotografía: Ari Wegner
Editor: The Butchery
Postproducción: Digital Pictures

Video: Black Bones en Vimeo.

You remember The Strokes, right? Released one of the albums of the decade? Those Guys?

Impossibly attractive and equally surly Strokes main man Julian Casablancas today announced his solo European Tour with a Dublin date included.

Julian plays the Dublin Academy on December 14th with tickets on sale this Friday.

In other news, Deadmau5 has continued the trend of every big name in the world of dance music(this may be a slight exaggeration) playing the Ulster Hall by announcing he will hit the venue on the 29th December. If you don’t think he’s a wee bit over-rated(cough) then tickets go on sale November 2nd priced at 25 of your english pounds.

And last but by no means least, next month’s Two Step has been announced with the rather awesome Panda  Kopanda to take headlining duties with the equally awesome Teenagers in Tokyo and Nakatomi Towers also on the bill. As always it’s the Limelight and all for the cheap as chips price of 5 pounds.

With Teenagers in Tokyo.

25th October 2009

Tracklisting:

Julian Casablancas — 11th Dimension
Public Enemy — She Watched Channel Zero
Vince Taylor & The Playboys — Brand New Cadillac
David Sylvian — Riverman
James Brown — Funk Bomb
James Gang — Funk #49
The Clash — Overpowered By Funk
Jarvis Cocker — Further Complications
Barry White — I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
Jimi Hendrix — Are You Experienced?
Shilpa Rao — Beating St Louis
Johnny Cash — One Piece At A Time
T. Rex — Monolith
Wall of Voodoo — Mexican Radio
Vampire Weekend — Horchata
Ike & Tina Turner — I’m Gonna Do All I Can To Do Right By My Man
Interview With Teenagers In Tokyo
Teenagers In Tokyo — Peter Pan
Eric Donaldson — Cherry Oh Baby
Curtis Mayfield — Gimme Your Love

Ah..yeahhhh… This is the first part of the best of september iMix series and this one promises that sexy music to get your nude animated character fetish. I aint judgin! Do you, homeslice!

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TRACKLISTING
Satellite - 2020 Soundsystem
Belong - Washed Out
Puzzles - The Mary Onettes
Isabella - Teenagers In Tokyo
DJ - Amanda Blank
Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole
Empire State Of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys) - Jay-Z
Work All Day - Portugal. The Man
Doubt/Hope - Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Lil Rabbit - French Miami
We Will Rob You – Ft Slick Rick Masta Killa GZA Raekwon
Thank You For Nothing - Kleer UP
Hide Me - The Golden Filter
Animal - Miike Snow
Days Of Our Lives (Light In Mix) - Restless People
You Were Young - Yes Giantess
Parallelogram - Deastro
I Start To Run – White Denim
I’m Not Alone – Calvin Harris
DirtyMutha (dj-mehdi-remix) - Steed Lord
I Am Not A Whore - Lmfao
Its Boring/You Can Live Anywhere You Want – Yacht

Right now we’re all pretty amped about the Olympics. The opening ceremony was pretty spectacular (those drummers? Holy shit!), we’ve got swimming and cycling and fencing and all those fantastic sports that right now we’re going apeshit over.

Come Thursday when you’re about to neck yourself from Olympic saturation, Teenagers In Tokyo are starting their tour. There’s no sport, no gold medals, no human rights violations, and no Bruce McAveney.

Sam from the band was super awesome and spoke to LNaP ahead of their tour…

LNaP: You guys got picked up for a carefree ad. Have you heard your song all over TV yet? What’s it like hearing it?
Sam: I’ve only heard it a couple of times cause I don’t really have a TV at home. But one day we were sitting around before rehearsal and it came on and we all did one of those double takes you see in old school cartoons. It’s the most surreal thing to hear the song in that context!

LNaP: How was touring with !!!? I’d imagine that would have been totally awesome fun.
Sam: It was so much fun! We’re really big fans of theirs so to go on tour with them was just as exciting to see them play every night. They have a really great vibe that translates onstage and off. After the first show in Brisbane we were all backstage singing an impromptu version of Careless Whisper with Alan (their saxophonist) nailing the sax parts and the rest of us belting it out at the top of our lungs.

LNaP: How was euro tour? Any interesting stories? Selling out Camden Barfly must have been rad.
Sam: We had no concrete expectations for the tour considering the fact that the northern hemisphere seems so far away. So when we finally got there it was so bizarre to see our name in publications like NME or meet people on the street that recognised us! One of the most fun places had to be playing at Sous le Pont which is a club under the Alexandre III bridge in Paris. It’s THE most luscious venue I’ve ever stepped into. Another highlight was Berlin, playing in this abandon building space turned hole-in-the-wall club. There wasn’t really a stage, PA system or anything for that matter. Just a bar in the corner, some rooms upstairs with DJs and packed with people. It was just so Berlin, yah. Selling out the Barfly was so mad cause it’s one of those institutions that you always read about. To have that ticked off our list already is pretty amazing.

LNaP: How was euro tour for rudi? Does he have trouble putting up with four girls, or do 4 girls have trouble putting up with him?
Sam: Ha! I think it’s a delicate balance of both actually. We all had to put up with each other, which was an interesting experiment with unexpected results. I think it was the longest time that we’ve all spent day in, day out with each other.

LNaP: Obviously have Linda working at Triple J so much must affect the band. Is it difficult getting her to rehearsals and tours? Do you ever feel like slipping in some of your songs, maybe 7 times in every shift?
Sam: We all work full time so it can get pretty difficult trying to find time between all five of us, but we’re all really dedicated to the band so we always find ways around to do what we want. I don’t think Linda has ever felt the need to drop one of our tracks into her show. That would be a little weird no?

LNaP: How’s the writing coming along? What sort of sound can we expect on your new tunes?
Sam: It’s a really interesting process as we’re trying all these new methods to see what eventuates. I find it difficult to describe our “new sound”…it’s pretty much like nothing you’ve ever heard before. In fact it’s not even music, it’s just a whole new concept altogether! In all seriousness though, come down to see us play live if you want a better indication than that last sentence!

LNaP: Being from Canberra, a lot of people complain about the lack of shows, yet you guys keep coming back and will be here in about a week, despite it only being a four date tour. What brings you back to Canberra?
Sam: We had a great ole time in Canberra when we last visited, so we thought we’d come back. We met some really nice people who came to the show last time and it’s always a pleasure to stop by. Plus it’s the “Nation’s Capital”, so I’m pretty sure it’s like passing GO in Monopoly.

LNaP: What colour is Sophie’s hair at the moment?
Sam: At the moment it’s a lovely shade of caramel. Any suggestions for what should be next? I’m taking bets.

LNaP: What’s the plan for the next year?
Sam: We’re not that good at planning; we kind of take stuff as it comes. After these shows we’re going to focus on writing our debut album and getting some pre-production done. After that I assume we’ll record the album at some stage, in some place, whether it be this year or next. Some live shows will likely follow, maybe even some more overseas jaunts. Hopefully at some point we’ll be able to squeeze in a holiday as well!

There you have it children. Enjoy the Olympics whilst you still have that patriotism in you, but when the weekend comes and you can’t stand cross promotion any longer, go out and see Teenagers In Tokyo.

Tão descarados quanto o pessoal do CSS, sendo que made in Australia. Tá, Teenagers in Tokyo não é tão divertido, mas vamos ser menos caretas, neah?

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Nach der desaströsen MODE Party sind wir letzten Samstag in einen neuen Club namens Scala in der Friedrichsstraße in Mitte gegangen. Munk, DJ Kaos und Fuck Hugo waren an den Decks und die Teenagers in Tokyo hatten einen Live Gig. Wir waren überaus angetan vom hippen jungen Publikum und der angenehm freundlichen Atmosphäre. Der Club ist in einem verwahrlosten Gebäude, was ihm den für Berlin sehr typischen rauen Charakter verleiht, von dem wir uns so angezogen fühlen. Lest weiter, um ein paar mehr Impressionen des Abends zu bekommen.

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