JOTW

For whatever reason, I've been on a big electronica kick lately. Its peppy and upbeat enough to keep me (relatively) motivated at work, but I'm also pretty jazzed on the genre because it's really helping me rediscover the joy of music videos.

The golden-age of music videos (at least as we knew it) really was in the 80s through the mid-90s. From Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer to California Love to Jamiroquai, the spectrum was varied but, for the most part, awesome.

Then the came slow withering of the record industry, the rise of MTV's non-video formatting, and the cancellation of Pop Up Videos, and the artform sort of stagnating. That's when I stopped paying attention. Sure there was the occasional diamond in the rough, like Blur's Coffee and TV...



...but they were few and far between.

Well, thanks to folks like Daedelus,



PNAU,



and an awesome Money for Nothin' tribute from Chromeo,



things seem to be turning around.