This is one of the best briefing letters I’ve ever seen. Click on it to see it bigger.

Found here.

I love this music video by Yannick Plug for the French band Kwoon. You can see more information about it on a dedicated site here.

The use of music has always been an important part of my animations. On a number of occasions I’ve been able to create the sound effects and music myself and I always do this under the pseudonym of Handymartian. I also like to make my own music just for the pleasure of making songs. These are uploaded to the Handymartian Myspace and eventually I’d like to finish this and maybe put some EP’s or something up there.

Anyway, I’ve just finished a new song that I’m pretty proud of called “Last Forecast”. You can listen to it here or hopefully on the audio player below.

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As today is the Mercury Music Awards I thought I’d post a link to the radio show from the lead singer of last year’s winners, Elbow. Every Sunday night on BBC 6 Music Guy Garvey presents his ‘Finest Hour’ show. He has introduced me to some great music over the past year or two including The Acorn, Bon Iver and The Leisure Society.

Click the image above for Guy Garvey’s 6 Music web page. From here you can listen again on the BBC’s iPlayer to the latest show.

Over at Pitchfork they have started to compile their end of the decade lists of best albums and best tracks (the tracks are up now, albums are coming up later in the year). This is accompanied by a series of articles about various aspects of music in this decade. It’s worth a look even if it is just to violently disagree with their chosen top 100 lists.

Radiohead have made a new song available called “These Are My Twisted Words”. Above is the artwork that accompanies the download. You also get a pdf with a set of images and instructions to make your own printed artwork. Click on the image above to get it all for free.

Here is a link to Radiohead’s own blog with some more information about the release: Dead Air Space

I found a great TV theme music resource where you can download loads of different theme tunes from telly programmes new and old. Click on the picture above for one of my favourites.