I’ve posted about them before (their excellent and funny Canary Wharf video I think as part of their ‘Everything is OK’ series) but I love how Charlie and co. deal with the Fake Bacon (aka Hobby Bobbies, aka PCSOs). They really do seem to be a menace, as they pop up a lot in Section 44 mistakes. Love the comment about the Louis 14th beard, and it seems that even at the end the PCSO is smiling…

And here as posted on Boing Boing and other places how they deal with a Section 44 stop and search – politely, firmly, funnily and also with love…but also with all their rights intact. Shame the police haven’t been so respectful in recent shocking cases of art-school students being arrested,  forcefully detained and fined for taking pictures of buildings for their work, journalists being stopped for taking pictures of the Gherkin, filmmakers getting detained for filming their partner’s questioning on a mobile and a man getting arrested for filming Christmas.

More about The Love Police, and the disturbing State of the Nation in Britain which is getting more and more like V for Vendetta and 1984 for my liking. Sadly the ending cuts out but you get the drift.

Chasing Shadows from Charles Veitch on Vimeo.

And remember: don’t be afraid, humour is the best Weapon of Mass Destruction And resist. Nicely.

*well blog post, like the BBC we’re cutting back.

After the ‘wonder’ of Shine, now we have another ‘musical’ selection courtesy of Robert Popper’s wonderful and funny blog.

As I said in my post about Shine – just singing/playing badly doesn’t cut it anymore in this era of Guitarband and autotune and kids messing around on YouTube and people intentionally playing badly. No you have to try hard and be almost certifiably deluded in your own ability, and have a video that is not badly shot, it’s attempting something else and failing utterly.

As a fan of ‘bad music’ or ‘outsider music’ it’s harder and harder to come by as the post-modernists and internet holds up a mirror to people – but nice to see some soldier on unwittingly and unknowingly, like X-Factor auditionists.

Talking of X-Factor (or American Idol in this case) exhibitauditionistas producing high-quality car crash entertainment:

In this JEdward World, he’ll probably *snap* go a long way…

Next up – Crystal Swing, the mother/daughter/son team that not only have a magical invisible drummer and guitarist, play the wrong notes on the keyboard and talk dirty in Spanish to EACH OTHER. WRONG. This is what they apparently get up to in Cork…so famous it inspired a drag queen takeoff

‘Pardon me’? I don’t think even the Pope could get you out of that shit. Has become a meme, so the legendary Maxine Swaby has been re:re:re:re:re:re:’d to death and shown up by 6 year old Esme who can sing better. And now – with rabbits! AAARGH THE RECURSION!

Lori Watts ‘Chill in my Veins’ does this, and provides a chill (sort of a blackboard back of neck thing) in every way. Is she looking for track marks? Also check out the literalism – that’s a common thing in these videos

Suzi Cramp lingers. On your finger. I’d call the police if I were you…

And this is a class music video – one of those miming ones, with of course the same ‘throw them all in’ approach to video effects. But is it me or is a 50 year old miming about the 16 year old angel next door say more ‘Police scene do not cross’ rather than ’sweet’?

Finally the YouTube classic – the appallingly bad cam video. Tend to avoid these as we all do stupid shit on the internet right? But sometimes it’s so bad it goes beyond just embarassing.

This guy really can beatbox, Honestly.

Oh and more bad rap nonsense…worst rap duo ever? Best bit him trying to do the robot. And yes that was a little weak…talking about throwing your thumbs didn’t improve it either *facepalm*

SUPER…DOOOOOD. If super suddenly means retarded, yes.

EDIT! 18 videos in under 7 minutes from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Ian Fondue’s legendary mashup gets a video from Instamatic (ie, me!) 18 videos in 7 minutes, in a tribute to those 80’s edit videos, Max Headroom and the like…it’s got blipverts and internal references/in jokes in it, a la Alan Moore. Blink and you’ll miss them!

Tried also to show that most videos are essentially the same, and what may seem random is in fact rather ordered.

Big thanks goes to Ian Fondue for such a great mashup – a staple of my sets, my Mashup of the Year (2008?) and long-deserving a decent video. I hope y’all enjoy.

Features:

Bodyrox ft Luciana – Yeah Yeah
Obie Trice – Got Some Teeth
Dr Dre – Forgot About Dre
No Doubt – Hella Good
Justin Timberlake – Sexy Back
D12 – Purple Pills
Lady Sovereign – Love Me or Hate Me
Missy Eliott – Work It
Black Eye Peas – My Humps
Dizzee Rascal – Stand up Tall
KRS1 – Sound of the Police
Reel2Reel – I like to Move It
Kylie – Slow
Kelis – Milkshake
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five -  The Message
Madison Avenue – Don’t Call me Baby
Diana Ross – Upside Down
J-kwon – Tipsy

And a few other stealth bits

Now also at other good outlets: YouTube (who is on Ultra Records? It got Content ID’d by them, thankfully still there although blocked in some countries, grr) and Myspace so there is NO excuse if you are Vimeo-phobic.

You can also download an iPod-friendly file here or it’s in the feed so if you’re subscribed you might have it already. (It’s a .m4v file, which is basically a .mp4 that Apple strangely decided to invent it’s own suffix for – beats me. If you have probs try Quicktime/iTunes or renaming the suffix to .mp4 and playing in a far better player such as VLC).

Via boing boing…I love how this presents the camps in a different light and humorously (basically if you want our camps to go peacefully and without trouble then stay away! Yes police – especially the Metropolitan Police – do start riots regularly, for political and tactical reasons – as well as sheer bloody-minded alpha male nonsense). What are the police scared of? And why do they want to beat the crap out of mostly peaceful protesters?

Could it maybe that their way of life is threatened by these green anti-capitalists being all nice and community minded in ways that don’t need the police?

Really I don’t believe this ‘kinder and more sensitive’ police will work – they still reserve the right to ‘kettle’ despite it causing at least one death and a miscarriage and many injuries – some of the non-protesting public – and I’ve read recently that for this climate camp they are putting women officers in charge and setting up Twitter accounts (I kid you not) – it’s probably a good step, but I doubt 100s of years of antagonism and male violent culture will go away overnight. Or at all.

Here’s the audio(and video if you scroll down) of my International Mash Bash set (btw several inclusions of Lady Sov’s Love Me Or Hate Me means it is a bit sweary in places). The idea of the set was to combine audio and video – a new one for me – and in part represent Bastard and a theme runs through it commemorating 20 years since the Second Summer of Love (1989) – it seems piano house sound is coming back, so I wanted to mix old and new.

Also it includes Far Out – which was one of the first songs I DJ’d back in 1994 at Milk Laboratory (hence the Milk Lab mentions in the video which I also did) approriate as I said in my previous post, this is my last DJ set…at least for some time, might do VJing, might do online DJing, but probably the last one I’ll do in the flesh. Far too stressful, and far too many people ‘not getting it’ even when I try and make a floorfilling set like this one. Time to stop

EDIT: Safari users might want to download and play the MP3 below rather than click the player, looks like Soundcloud’s Flash has a problem with Safari going crashy crashy…

Tracklist:

• DJ Contaminations – Stand Up Against Bonkers Justice
• Funkytown Kiss (Art of Noise ft Tom Jones vs Lipps Inc)
• Ian Fondue – Edit!
• Instamatic – Burn Yr Radio (PE Edit – Leftfield vs Queen & Public Enemy)
• Skynet UK – Back to ‘89 (Calvertron remix)
• Black Box – Ride on Time (Dreamland remix)
• AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
• Sonz of Loop Da Loop Era – Far Out
• Juan Maclean – One Day (Surkin Remix)
• El Barto & Liam B – Charly the Cat (Prodigy vs Depeche Mode)
• Prodigy – Everybody in the Place (AC Slater remix)
• El Barto and Liam B – I Feel Out of Control (Donna Summer vs Chemical Brothers)
• Dunproofin – Electro Sandman (Metallica VS Deadmau5 VS F*kkk Off)
• DJ Lobsterdust – Put On The Red Light (Police vs. Coldplay vs. Thin White Duke)
• Soundhog – Dire Bass (Azzido da Bass vs Dire Straits)
• Dunproofin – FU2 (Lady Sovereign remix)
• La Roux – In For The Kill (Re-edit of Skream’s Remix by High Contrast)
• DJNoNo – Supercalibreaks (Julie Andrews vs Shy FX)
• DJNoNo – Do Re Mi Bombscare (short version – Julie Andrews vs 2 Bad Mice)

You can also download it here – or if you’re subscribed to this blog you’ve probably got it already

And drumroll – here’s the video. Yes I’ve combined the backing video for the Saarbruecken DJing with the set audio – most of it is synched, especially at the end. It is itself a mashup of films, found video, my own work, stop frame anim and animation. It includes video from:

• Unfinished works from 2002 – you might recognise a few people in there
• Hausu (strange 1977 Japanese film)
• My Milk Lab Tapes and TV Smash films
• Amiga demos new and old
• Architectural films
• 24 Hour Party People
• A Swiss documentary about Bastard
• Variety films from the turn of the last century
• Certain D*sney films starring Julie Andrew
• Various documentaries on the Second Summer of Love, rave culture
• Music videos (like, duh)
• UHF (Weird Al film) and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• My Printer Jam video (incidentally Fox has just removed that off YouTube! Boo!)
• Mistah Pok video for Burn Yr Radio with a new arty background which will make you go postal
• Wild Zero – another exceedingly odd Japanese movie

Medium res (you can share/embed by clicking on the icon in the right hand corner – feel free! – also for some strange reason you have to click play twice with this player – click the centre twice, or the two play buttons)

Higher res: