RFI: 90s video I remember from MTV's "AMP"

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All I remember is that the video involved a screen split (I think) four ways, each with a stationary camera shot, and the cameras were all set up in the same area so that you'd see someone walk out of one quadrant of the screen and into another. I think it might have been a Coldcut video, but really not sure.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

orbital - theme from the saint

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, thx. Not on youtube though : (

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

fsol - papua new guinea
underworld - push upstairs
grooverider - rainbows of color

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well if we want to turn this into more of a thread, we could go and mention other videos we remember from AMP. "Two Swords Technique" was a good one, as was the video for "Midnight In a Perfect World" - I think that was what turned me on to DJ Shadow. It used this great sort of visual drum machine trick.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers
Tranquility Bass?
LTJ Bukem?

can't remember as many as I thought I might

xpost oh yeah the Shadow one was good
I remember wondering if the little squares synced up to the Axelrod or whatever were actual footage

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

I just have a general memory of being a teenager and there being lots of stuff by people with names that had the word "orb" in them, and thinking that all music videos should be like the ones on that show.

The Daft Punk ones were good - I remember Around The World, but the Spike Jonze one with the dog is one I actually saw more recently and not on AMP.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, there were Chemical Brothers videos, but I only vaguely remember them. The Block Rockin' Beats one was really dark with a lot of blueish tones.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

'come on my selector' by squarepusher

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

2nd bad vilbel of course

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

Come to Daddy

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

the Spike Jonze one with the dog is Da Funk
I think the Around the World vid is Michel Gondry

they showed that Prodigy one with the big centipede a lot, Firestarter I guess. and Smack My Bitch Up.

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

BROWN PAPER BAG BY RONI SIZE DAMN I AHTE THAT SONG

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

some air video that was like a documentary about relationships with skateboarders? i might be wrong (about it being air).

i watched AMP a lot, but it's hard to remember everything i saw on it.

my brother and i used to listen to the first AMP comp a lot. introduced us to a lot of stuff!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

The one with the skateboarders is yes, Air - All I need. Directed by Mike Mills who did that OKish film Thumbsucker last year.

Some of the videos talked about here... and more are available here.

http://www.thedirectorsbureau.com/

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

the Orbital one with Tilda Swinton in it
the Autechre one with the Star Wars-looking aircraft
all the other ones that looked like expensive screensavers

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

was that really tilda swinton?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

in 'The Box' vid yes

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

all the other ones that looked like expensive screensavers

OTM

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've still never seen the "Come To Daddy" video.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

did they only play 90s stuff on AMP? they should've showed Party Zone over in the US. totally across the board playlist, top guests every week for a good 3 years.

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Party Zone was great, as was Chill Out Zone. The latter probably had the oddest videos ever on MTV Europe.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

don't forget those powerful Gabba compilations advertised during the breaks

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Where's the gabba thread around here?

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it's back in 1995.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I was gonna say, Air + skateboarders sounds like a Mike Mills production, even though I've never seen it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

the first AMP comp = the first cd i ever bought! and i still own it!

though yeah, i'm also having a hard time remembering certain vids. they played one by carl craig a good amount, though (one of the tracks on more songs about revolutionary art and food whose name escapes me). and vapourspace - "the gravitational arch of 10" ("expensive screensaver"). and outlander - "vamp" (ribald cartoon with strippers i think?). and atari teenage riot vids (handheld camera in poorly lit basement aesthetic).

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh, tons of coldcut and future sound of london stuff too. and and and the orb - "toxygene."

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

the first AMP comp = the first cd i ever bought! and i still own it!

Oh God. I think I had graduated from college when that came out.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

The carl craig video was "Televised Green Smoke"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwUQ5oKM-hE

What was that video that was made of nature footage looped in time with the beats? It had like a frog on a rock going back and forth or something....

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

tylero i think that was "3/10 of the population" by we(tm)? or a coldcut video? mid-90's electronic artists be lovin' their manipulated nature documentary footage

dan - hah, i was 12 i think. and didn't even own a cd player at the time.

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't the looped-nature-footage video Coldcut's "Timber?"

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

The one with the frog was Natural Rhythm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGsA-RZftys

― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Orbital - "The Saint" video (.rm):

http://www.loopz.co.uk/video2.html

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Three MTV2's Amp classics that instantly come to mind:

1. Etienne de Crecy - "Am I Wrong?" - mid-nineties computer animation of a burger joint manager getting turned into meat

2. Underworld - "Underneath the Radar" - they played this ONCE

3. All Daft Punk's Discovery clips

What was that one dance track where the two French guys are pretending to play rock-y instruments in a basement? It gets interrupted midway through by a guy who comes in and tells them that French people aren't allowed to sing in English.

I'm going to dig up my tapes one of these days.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh hell, who was that? that was a great video. one of them was wearing a cast on his arm?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Possibly... also, there were a couple girls swaying and watching them play.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

the video for massive attack's "teardrop" with the creepy baby in the womb really freaked me out, i recall.

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

2 Coldcut videos i can think of probably made the most impact on me. Coldcut/Hexstatic's "Natural Rhythm", which i found on Youtube here after not thinking about it till seeing this thread, and also "Revolution." which is probably also around if you look.

oh, and a zillion Fluke videos. :)

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Laurent Garnier's 'Flashback' iirc

― ;_; (blueski), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYSonbKqKhA

"I'm sorry, I just got carried away, I had a beer last night..."

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I've always liked Deep Dish's "The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold)".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4nxYv8wnwE&mode=related&search=

― turkey (turkey), Thursday, 19 October 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

did AMP ever play any X-Mix stuff?

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

AMP really was the fucking greatest.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

How about all those computer graphics videos they used to show for stuff that I guess didn't have videos? The one I really loved was the Marble Madness-esque clip for FSOL's "Max." A lot of Scanner and Sun Electric clips got the Max Headroom/2001 treatment too.

Hey, speaking of FSOL:

My Kingdom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWa_6ag0izc
We Have Explosive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3zDV5V3SPg

Whoa, actually there are a LOT of FSOL videos on youtube.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, those were great.
there was a feature in mtv music generator (for playstation) that let you make your own shitty dance track, then make your own crappy video. it was wonderful.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

did AMP ever play any X-Mix stuff?

i'm pretty sure they did. usually i'd change the channel.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

so many good tunes on the X-Mixes tho - but yeah the videos were all 'advanced' psychedelic CGI

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

I never found the video I was talking about -- could it have been something other than orbital? Was there, like, an alternate video for that song? Because it definitely wasn't this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdoRdK6_bsg

― mississippi delta law grad (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 July 2011 04:50 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

Found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8MqukXIiVQ

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 March 2016 16:05 (ten years ago)

And here I thought you might have been talking about the video for La Mouche by Cassius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lILskIUyQzw

― MarkoP, Friday, 4 March 2016 18:23 (ten years ago)

Man, I thought it was Photek but I guess I misremembered...

Does anyone remember a video where it was like animals in sync with the beat and the one beat was just something jumping off a rock over and over

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 4 March 2016 18:33 (ten years ago)

Found it upthread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhXp-Wemn3I

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 4 March 2016 18:35 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFTliOnoNSk

― nomar, Friday, 4 March 2016 18:35 (ten years ago)

Goddamn do I miss this show. It felt like such a hidden treasure when it was on. I've managed to track down a couple of episodes online but it isn't enough.

― Telephone Meatballs (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 March 2016 18:55 (ten years ago)

ok i've got one: saw it on AMP around 1998-1999: artist name was something like "tibetan gods of the universe". the video consisted of super bright CGI, lots of fractal-y stuff, 3D spherical mandalas with mystical-looking beings flying around.. the color pallette was mostly gold and red, iirc.

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 4 March 2016 23:42 (ten years ago)

Had a bunch of these on VHS (and probably still do, someplace). If i find 'em, will digitize!

― Wimmels, Saturday, 5 March 2016 00:17 (ten years ago)

xpost Fierce Tibetan Gods? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8E3igHemN0

― dc, Saturday, 5 March 2016 00:51 (ten years ago)

yess! wow, thanks.

― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 5 March 2016 01:25 (ten years ago)

The video for Da Funk was great. "Big city nights"

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 5 March 2016 04:34 (ten years ago)

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