“a slkgha sovi[ro843 ligj alkfg jafu9vp984poij 4k34.gk kj ” murmurs a man named cosmosabravo to you. You’re soon under someone’s umbrella of glitch.Īnd then you’re here, like, following a glowing piñata down your own optic nerve. And so you dive in - and the vids with 300 counts turn out to be way more interesting. After all, YouTube’s “related” feature is only going to pull up more digital nonsense. Then you discover a visual wormhole full of datamosh. chairlift + ray tintori: evident utensil. Now it’s just a matter of who’ll do it well and which big company will soullessly made a campaign out of it “because the kids think it’s ‘dope.’”ĭatamoshing: kanye west + nabil elderkin: welcome to heartbreak.

As Jeremy Elder writes on his blog shape+colour:ĭatamoshing is the new tiltshift.

See the gold in its purest form at:īut don’t think for a second this is going to stay some obscure “Internet” thing. clink on “WATCH IN HD” to WATCH IN HD!!! HD stands for “HOLY DATAMOSH,” which is what G-D bestowed upon us in the form of a MASSIVE COMPUTER GLITCH that eats up INDIE MUSIC VIDEOS and turns them into INTERNET GOLD. Of course, because this is pieced together from compression artifacts, it looks even more horrible compressed, so you need the HD version. You’ve seen it before, and like many of us, were as fascinated by these digital artifacts as you were by the patterns your NES made when the carts got dusty and the VHS’s when you taped one few too many Cinemax feature presentations.

Chairlift’s “Evident Utensil” is a music video made of datamosh errors – a twisted visual special effect formed from an algorithmic anomaly. The music video getting the most blogosphere airplay comes from Chairlift. The man has his own compression-themed t-shirts. What, you thought crunchy blippy glitch sounds were cool, but that video could only look crap when over-compressed digitally? Too late: even Kanye West is doing it now.įirst up: the best of this genre seems to come from director David O’Reilly, pictured above. Compression Reel from David OReilly on Vimeo.Ĩ-bit chip music went mainstream in the last few years.

Computer datamoshes online videos