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Let me be very idiotic for a minute and pretend that I alone can give you lovely people what MTV can’t: heart-warming, unique, creative music videos. Now I’m sure that most of the following videos are being played plenty enough, so that’s not the issue in this first ‘Music | TV’ post, but I think it’s rather interesting to also show who’s creating those rare few cool videos these days.

Shynola has been a collective of 4 creative folks from London and have worked together for almost 10 years. Not only have they created music videos, they’ve also worked on video graphics for tv, movies and commercials. The most recent product of these multi-talents is Coldplay’s video for Strawberry Swing, which brought a tear to my eye when I first watched it. It’s really stunning. You’ll find more Shynola familiar videos below:

After Bruce Parry’s award-winning BBC series Tribe there’s a follow-up: Amazon. This time he’s rounded up a couple of musicians to write and compose songs for a soundtrack, with its profits donated to Survival, an international organisation who supports tribal people all over the world.
The participating musicians are Mike Oldfield, Hot Chip, Yusuf Islam, KT Tunstall, Will.i.am and many more. Guy Berryman from Coldplay, Mew‘s Jonas and Magne F from A-ha even put together a brand new band especially for this occasion: Apparatjik. The music from Apparatjik will also be used for the show’s credits. I’ve heard a few tunes and it’s really gorgeous, very fitting, soaring melodies.
The soundtrack is digitally available already and a physical record will be released on October 6th. Check out Survival’s subsite for more information.