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Hype Williams playing London show

- Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

Unclassifiable Hyperdub signees Hype Williams will, on 24 Nov, play a very rarefied live date at London's Tufnell Park Dome, also known as the Boston Arms. The duo look to be appearing minus any opening acts at the show, additional details of which are minimal/don't exist. £10 tickets will seemingly only be available on the door, rather than in advance.

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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week

- Source: Stereogum

If you need a quick crash-course in why music videos are not what they once were, have a look at Alex Pappademas's celebration of the great Hype Williams in Grantland.

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Jack White – “Freedom At 21″ Video

- Source: Stereogum

Last week, Hype Williams and Jack White posted up the trailer to "Freedom At 21s video. As a general rule, video content that is just over two minutes shouldn't be granted a trailer, but Hype and White are brands unto themselves, and if anything it was an indication that they were "going for it." And fair enough, because they did it: Jack's an outlaw on the run in a electric yellow hotrod, being chased down, cuffed, and incarcerated by unusually voluptuous police officers, and busting great guitar solos while wearing 10lbs of rings. As per Williams's style, the camera ticks and editing are stylized and great, and the coloring is remarkable. Enjoy the Josh Homme cameo at the end.

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LISTEN: Dean Blunt - 'Flaxen'

- Source: The Quietus

One half of the duo-sometimes-known-as-Hype Williams alongside Inga Copeland, Dean Blunt has also been releasing solo material as of late, with a disco-leaning 12" under the name Ramirez appearing recently alongside his mixtape The Narcissist II.

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Wreath Lectures 2011: Club Beats From The Digital Ether

- Source: The Quietus

As temporal distances between creation, distribution and consumption of music shorten to mere hours, the web's presence as the great leveler of time and space lends it the alchemical ability to smash together ostensibly separate sounds with all the force of Cern's finest 17 mile hunk of metal tubing.

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