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Telephone Helicopter Applause Gunshot is the name of a sweet electronic track by Lorenz Rhode, who says his music sounds like Rick James dating Chaka Khan, dancing to Daft Punk and Technotronic, making sweet love to a Stevie Wonder ballad, when suddenly a group of German robots and a Yellow Magic Orchestra come rushing into the hotel suite and… they all decide to go to France instead. But today it’s not about his music, but about Anne Lucht’s fantastic Space Invader-inspired Telephone Helicopter Applause Gunshot video, which is nominated for the German AAA (Academy Approved Art) Web-Video Award (which will be selected tomorrow) and was decorated with 13 Visual Music Awards 2011… ...

Projects, bringing together different arts are almost always my taste, especially when they combine spray-paint and modern technology. The official music video Who Cares by Symbiz Sound is such a project… In cooperation with students from Braunschweig University of Arts and the Institute for Comupter-graphics of TU Braunschweig, Symbiz Sound created this awesome video, combining Rasta hairstyles, exquisite dubstep sounds, live graffiti action, performance and paint with the latest digital production techniques (keyword: Virtual Video Camera). ...

After the top ten urban artists 2011 and this year’s most popular Urbanartcore posts here comes the third urban art recap of 2011: Top Urban Art Actions 2011! I tried to collect ten of the most inspiring urban art actions in 2011 and bring them together in one nice list, so that you have the chance to make sure you know all the great and extraordinary, subversive interventions and artworks… Explosion Wall Art by Vhils One of the most spectacular creational processes was the controlled demolition by Portuguese-born urban artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils - just beautiful! ...

Eurocultured is a series of street festivals and linked projects that celebrate the diversity of European Culture in all its forms. After its great success in Manchester back in 2010, it took place in the Finnish city of Turku earlier this year and again brought together urban dance, live music, DJ sets, hip hop theater, various action sports and graffiti artists from all over Europe, like Nychos, Mr. Jago, Elph and others! Recently, Spearfish published their Eurocultured Retrospective video documentary, exploring the festivals origins and unique delights featuring live performances from Balkan Beat Box, Sleeping Giants, Riot Jazz, Bad Ass Brass Band, KKC Orchestra and Dr Mahogany’s’ Goat Circus, as well as interviews with some of Europe’s top graffiti artists Aryz, Mr Kern, Bue, Turkesa and many more. ...

Berlin-based street artist Emess, who is well-known especially for his nice stencil collages, came up with a new project back in 2010 which is called City Music. This public art project is about acoustics in urban space, including beautiful sound-installations powered by urban wind power or even escalators! What I like about those street artworks is that although the used technique is quite simple, the results are great! Hope to see hear some more from Emess when he is back in town… ...

Urban Destruction Art | Almost a year ago I showed you my love for this kind of rough and energetic urban art by publishing a big fat interview with Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils! Now he’s back with a big bang-boom-bang and jumped in from zero to hero with these awesome exploding wall… I try focusing on the act of destruction to create; this is a notion I first came across in Graffiti, and it has been very influential in my work. I believe we are all formed of different sets of layers: personal, social, cultural, historical and so on. (Vhils) ...

Do you know “Eurocultured”? It’s a street festival with a lot of nice music and some of the most famous visual artists and performers from every corner of Europe, which is based in Manchester. I never had heard something about the “Eurocultured” street festival, but what I read now sounds very interesting: “We return for the seventh consecutive year to celebrate the diversity of European culture. Covering everything from traditional to current and cutting edge music. ...

I love it to listen to the various sounds, songs and voices of the often talented musicians in the subway-stations or trains. In my opinion they are part of the urban culture as well as the subway graffities or the tags on the ticket automates! Mike Kobal recently published his first subway music sample video, which shows really talented people from New York! When I watched it the first time, I got very impressed and a bit jealous, because here in Berlin, I often see people playing a didgeridoo or a accordion, but I can’t remember ever having seen an entire band or a saxophonist… ...