Thursday, August 24, 2006

Vocoder's 'What Happens Now': Truth funnier than fiction



I'm always suspicious of excessively funny YouTube clips, like this, which purports to be a music video by a band called Vocoder. It features a gang of the kind of bearded guys who might have trouble flying from Malaga, miming in a supermarket with an SH-101. It's all far too perfect - right down to the misspelt 'Waht Happens Now' subtitle and the way the guy who looks like Borat starts rapping in the second half, so I assumed it was a trail for a new BBC2 series, like this and most famously this. However, it seems to be real. Vocoder were a Spanish band whose other hits included 'Love of Robot', 'Mindanao' and something which roughly translates as "My girl has a mess with satan". They're also featured in this history of Spanish electronic music. (via Matrix and nelcast)

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