Guest Curator : five videos selected and commented by Jensen Sportag :
1 – HBO 1983 Intro
“Be still our tiny beating hearts.”
2 – Fat Boys – “Sex Machine”
“This was the hottest thing our 5 year old eyes had seen. Many cassetteslater we would bore of these fat boys but eventually rediscover the genius of this video’s creator, Zbibniew Rabzcynsky. Steps!”
3 – 1994 JC Penney Catalog
“This is why we spent summers getting sun poisoning in the tobacco fields of cottontown, TN.”
4 – Sébastian Tellier – “Roche”
“A perfect video for Telliers gradiose oddboll lothario. He’s one of our favorite people.”
5 – Paul Bush – “While Darwin Sleeps” (2004)
“A favorite kaleidescopic demonstration of nature’s infinite variety and beauty.”
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About Jensen Sportag :
“Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of it’s own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Jensen Sportag are Austin Wilkinson and Elvis Craig from Nashville, Tennessee, warping memories and making tuneful parodies of ever changing moods.”
Read more about Jensen Sportag on The Guardian.
Listen/download “The Wet Mix” on The Fader.
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The Pure Wet EP is out now on Cascine.
Some great picks here. Well done!