Luckily, SoundCloud and Beatport haven’t completely taken over the music world. On occasion, electronic dance music fans are still graced with music videos, some more head-scratching than others.
As electronic DJs continue on in entertaining behind the decks, some are still taking the initiative to entertain us in video format. Keep scrolling and take in some of the kookiest EDM music videos (in no particular order) circling the genre.
Major Lazer – “Original Don” ft. The Partysquad
Parties with grandma? Sign us up!
In the late-2011 release of this Major Lazer video via Mad Decent, your average all-American family proves they may not be so average, getting down on some quality time together with sick dance moves, bladed weapons, ninja moves, and even a Diplo cameo. Winning.
It makes sense if you don’t think about it.
Breach – “Jack”
If facial hair is your thing then this is your video.
A lip-synching Asian woman, a peculiar caveman-like character, and hair in all the wrong places comprises the recipe for Breach’s mind-clustering “Jack” video.
With his lifelike “Automatic” option for, what we believe to be, potential mates (bodily hair excluded), we’re setting an automatic replay on this track regardless of the potential WTF footage accompanying it.
Hot Since 82 – “Shadows” (ft. Alex Mills)
This one is enough to have you sleep with the light on… for the rest of your life.
Hot Since 82 (aka Daley Padley) sets the stage of the video with a Saw-looking backdrop featuring a man shackled by an angry doctor. The unstable doctor performs some kind of we-don’t-want-to-know surgery to slice skin and implant wires.
Flipping to the next scene, that very soldier takes an awkward joyride through a post-apocalyptic wasteland. To make it merrier, the soldier finds a place to stop and rest, but instead of resting she breaks into a building and bashes skulls with a hammer. No big deal.
Followed by a number of chaotic and disturbing events, Padley uses this video to take deep to a whole new level. Sleep tight.
Disclosure – “When A Fire Starts To Burn”
Disclosure holds a pretty solid record with releasing music gnarly videos.
In “When A Fire Starts To Burn”, the Bo Mirosseni-directed clip serves as a fitting video, starring an ardent, possessed TV preacher and his devoted parishioners getting overcome with the spirit of Disclosure.
The the power of electronic music compel you.
Modestep – “Sunlight”
Modstep’s mid-July 2011 music video features some, alcohol-thieving , bicycle-riding, dice-rolling, Modestep-listening senior citizens.
If we’ve got to save any more to convince you to give this video a watch, then there’s no hope for you.
Joris Voorn – “Ringo”
We hope you like nature and lots of it, because Moergestel-born Dutch DJ Joris Voorn may have a little knack for it as well.
While we can’t determind exactly what Voorn is going for in this production, we can infer that it has something to do with his love for House of Cards as well as his value of finding beauty in darkness. Yeah, let that one sink in for a while. Still… WTF?
Side Note: Voorn features his son in the starring role in “Ringo.”
David Guetta & Showtek ft. Vassy – “Bad”
World-famous David Guetta, Dutch production duo Showtek, and Australian vocalist Vassy teamed up in 2014 for an electro house banger with a comic-inspired lyric video to accompany the chaos.
In the colorful, Lichtenstein-inspired pop art style, were exposed to the cheeriest of zombie apocalypse possibilities. Um, what?
Dillon Francis & Diplo – “Que Que” (ft. Maluca)
Dillon Francis, Diplo, and Maluca surely used imaginative collaboration with this one. While putting this video into words may be an impossible task, we can offer a few unconventional details:
- Vintage phones, flames, $$$, and pizza
- Angrily-dancing (and adorable) kids
- Lots of crossed eyes
If those aren’t solid selling points, we don’t know what are.
Tommy Trash – Monkey See Monkey Do (Tommy Trash Re-Edit)
Adding puppet master to his resume, Australia’s Tommy Trash unveiled a eyebrow-raising video for his own edit of “Monkey See, Monkey Do.”
Throughout this video, a blue, stuffed monkey comes to life, stumbles upon some garbage, and makes his way to outer space in a makeshift rocket. Seems legit.
Dada Life – “Born To Rage”
Dada Life, the Swedish DJ duo from Stockholm, is surely all about ‘MURICA with this music video.
This video has got everything. With knife-spinning, belly-grabbing, gun-blasting, beard-lighting, football-throwing, drag racing, muscle-flexing, and pelvic-thrusting, we can proudly call ourselves American and we were BORN TO RAGE!
